TeamBuilding
Corporate team building programs that use the world’s most powerful ocean environment as a classroom. Trust, communication and performance under pressure, built through real experience, not conference room exercises.
The Ocean Builds Teams That Conference Rooms Cannot
Nazaré is home to the biggest waves ever surfed. It is also one of the most powerful environments on earth for developing the qualities that high-performing teams actually need: real trust, communication under pressure, and the ability to perform when conditions are unpredictable.
When your team stands on the cliff at Praia do Norte and watches a professional big wave crew operate in the lineup, something shifts. The Freddy Olander team building program takes that moment and builds an entire experience around it, translating the principles of big wave surfing into lasting team behaviours.
Real Trust
Trust built through shared challenge in a real environment, not a trust fall exercise. It lasts longer and runs deeper.
Pressure Performance
Learn how professional big wave teams make fast, accurate decisions under extreme pressure and take those frameworks back to work.
Unforgettable Setting
Nazaré creates a shared reference point that your team will talk about for years. The experience becomes part of your team’s story.
Practical Tools
Every session translates directly into leadership and communication tools your team can apply immediately back at the office.
Program Elements
Big Wave Experience
The centrepiece of the program. Your team heads out to Praia do Norte by jet ski and experiences the raw power of Nazaré’s Atlantic swells from the water.
- Guided jet ski tour at Praia do Norte
- Optional: tow-in surfing on flat water
- Safety briefing and rescue training
- Operated by active professional big wave team
Leadership Workshop
Freddy leads an interactive workshop session that draws directly from the big wave environment. Frameworks for trust, communication and decision-making under pressure.
- Big wave keynote and debrief session
- Team communication frameworks
- Decision-making under uncertainty
- Leadership presence and resilience tools
Body and Mind Performance
Ocean-based physical and mental performance sessions. Breathwork, cold exposure and movement practices that bring the team together and build individual resilience.
- Breathwork and Oxygen Advantage methods
- Cold water exposure and ice bath therapy
- Movement and functional training
- Apnea training and mental focus sessions
Big Wave Center Nazaré
All programs are based at the Big Wave Center in Nazaré harbour, the professional operations base of Freddy Olander’s big wave surfing team. The 270m² venue provides a unique space for workshops, briefings and group sessions, steps from the ocean.
From here your team accesses the jet ski tours, the big wave zone at Praia do Norte, and the full range of ocean experiences. The venue can be fully configured for your program and accommodates groups of all sizes.
It only responds to who you truly are under pressure.”
Choose Your Format
- Big wave keynote at the Big Wave Center
- Guided jet ski tour at Praia do Norte
- Team debrief and takeaways
- Ideal for groups short on time
- Breathwork and morning activation
- Big Wave Experience on the water
- Leadership workshop and team session
- Ice bath and evening debrief
- Full use of the Big Wave Center venue
- 2 to 3 day immersive team retreat
- All program elements combined
- Fully bespoke content and schedule
- Accommodation coordination on request
- Combined with Resilience Leadership Workshop
Bring Your Team to Nazaré
Tell us about your team and goals and we will put together the right program for you. Every team building program is tailored to your group size, objectives and available time.
All programs are based at the Big Wave Center in Nazaré harbour and operated by the active professional big wave team. English and German available.
Request a Program
Tell us about your team and we will get back within 24 hours.