What We Do: Experiential Learning
All of our programs are built around a three-stage process that harnesses the potential of collaboration to change individuals and organizations so they can realize their full potential.
Awareness
The immediate and unbiased feedback we receive from working with horses creates a highly unique awareness of how we appear to others. This helps to establish a starting point to begin moving from where we are today to where we want to be in the future.
Understanding
Our facilitators are experts in understanding equine behavior and they bring meaning and rich insight to how we present ourselves and the impact we have on others. This provides the opportunity to rethink and reset our own behaviours in line with the outcomes we are seeking.
Change
With new levels of awareness and understanding we create exciting opportunities for positive change, both as individuals and organizations. We learn the power of embracing change to help rid ourselves of the burdens that hold us back while identifying new pathways for growth and development.
Awareness
The immediate and unbiased feedback we receive from working with horses creates a highly unique awareness of how we appear to others. This helps to establish a starting point to begin moving from where we are today to where we want to be in the future.
Understanding
Our facilitators are experts in understanding equine behavior and they bring meaning and rich insight to how we present ourselves and the impact we have on others. This provides the opportunity to rethink and reset our own behaviours in line with the outcomes we are seeking.
Change
With new levels of awareness and understanding we create exciting opportunities for positive change, both as individuals and organizations. We learn the power of embracing change to help rid ourselves of the burdens that hold us back while identifying new pathways for growth and development.
OUR PROGRAMS
Addressing Diversity
Aligning actions with organizational values to make businesses as powerful as humanly possible.
AddressingDiversity
Aligning actions with organizational values to make businesses as powerful as humanly possible.
Team Development
Rebuilding connection and rapport takes pressure off the team unit and places focus on the business strategy
TeamDevelopment
Rebuilding connection and rapport takes pressure off the team unit and places focus on the business strategy
Coaching & Consulting
Professional coaching and facilitation to make any internal transformation process more rewarding and effective.
Coaching &Consulting
Professional coaching and facilitation to make any internal transformation process more rewarding and effective.
Emerging Leaders
Ensuring emerging leaders are equipped to transform their organizations for the future.
EmergingLeaders
Ensuring emerging leaders are equipped to transform their organizations for the future.
Explore Frequently Asked Questions:
5/20/21: Setting Direction (SHRM Cert: 1.75 PDCs)
Experience the result of having clarity in setting and communicating direction for yourself, your team, and your organization
6/24/21: Moving to Your Goal (SHRM Cert: 1.75 PDCs)
Understand and practice influencing others to move them to a goal –identifying barriers to influencing others
08/19/21: Influencing for Outcomes (SHRM Cert: 1.75 PDCs)
Practice applying different levels of pressure to influence others to understand why what you’ve been doing has been working or not working
9/23/21: Gaining Confidence to Go Forward (SHRM Cert: 1.75 PDCs)
Practice the leadership capabilities of setting direction, moving others toward a goal, and influencing others to get to the strategic outcome you need
THE POWER OF EQUINE ASSISTED LEARNING
Once we fully understand the relationship between how we present ourselves and how others react to us, we are then able to make the changes necessary to realize our full potential.
The Impact of Perception
Beliefs, perceptions, and assumptions drive our actions and our interactions with others. Often we are not aware of our pre-conceived perceptions or how much they actually…
impact our way of working and the effect it has on others.
Horses help us to better understand this as they quickly engage with how we enter any interaction with them. Then guided debriefing conversations led by experienced facilitators help participants practice shifting their perceptions from the outset to achieve more rewarding and impactful outcomes. In the process becoming more intimately aware of their own individual strengths and weaknesses.
Natural and Genuine Feedback
Horses have no agenda and none of our cultural baggage or assumptions. They don’t understand corporate titles or how we identify ourselves in gender, race or…
culture. What they offer instead is genuine unfiltered honesty about how we present ourselves, and this sort of honest feedback when coming from our equine coaches is generally easier for people to respond to.
The Journal of Research for Innovative Teaching (2009) notes that participants in equine assisted leadership workshops were able to see how their actions were impacting others and they were highly motivated to change how they behaved in achieving the outcomes they desired.
Emotional Intelligence
Self-awareness. Self-regulation. Social awareness. Empathy. These components of emotional intelligence are inherent in horses and this makes them excellent…
coaches for the development of these capabilities in today’s business leaders. Emotions are simply information. It’s what we do with that information that makes emotions helpful or unhelpful. Because emotional intelligence is based on our responses, working with horses helps us to develop deeper emotional intelligence when we physically experience self-awareness and self-regulation during the programs.
Recognizing and Assessing Threats
In a constantly shifting business environment leaders need to develop the ability to quickly identify potential risks, while simultaneously deciding how to navigate them…
without creating significant disruption or panic within their organization.
Horses are masterful at quickly adapting to disorienting situations, often because their lives may literally depend on it. On encountering a challenge, they quickly discern whether it is a threat and respond accordingly. Participants in an equine assisted learning workshop will learn this valuable leadership skill and carry it back to their organizations.
Creating More Lasting Change
Experiential learning with horses creates a unique opportunity for participants to reflect on how they are perceived by others, both as a member of a team and also as a leader.
A journal article by Ellen Gehrke (2009) notes, “Unlike other training programs in which a participant may need to go away to work on things learned about themselves, horses allow people to make immediate and lasting changes.” She cites the work of Dawson Church (2007) in explaining that “this [work with the horses] aligns with the emerging neuropathway research, suggesting that present moment experiences can lead to permanent cognitive and `emotional changes.”
The Impact of Perception
Beliefs, perceptions, and assumptions drive our actions and our interactions with others. Often we are not aware of our pre-conceived perceptions or how much they actually…
impact our way of working and the effect it has on others.
Horses help us to better understand this as they quickly engage with how we enter any interaction with them. Then guided debriefing conversations led by experienced facilitators help participants practice shifting their perceptions from the outset to achieve more rewarding and impactful outcomes. In the process becoming more intimately aware of their own individual strengths and weaknesses.
Natural and Genuine Feedback
Horses have no agenda and none of our cultural baggage or assumptions. They don’t understand corporate titles or how we identify ourselves in gender, race or…
culture. What they offer instead is genuine unfiltered honesty about how we present ourselves, and this sort of honest feedback when coming from our equine coaches is generally easier for people to react to.
The Journal of Research for Innovating Teaching (2009) notes that participants in equine assisted leadership workshops were able to see how their actions were impacting others and they were highly motivated to change how they behaved in achieve the outcomes they desired.
Emotional Intelligence
Self-awareness. Self-regulation. Social awareness. Empathy. These components of emotional intelligence are inherent in horses and this makes them excellent…
coaches for the development of these capabilities in today’s business leaders. Emotions are simply information. It’s what we do with that information that makes emotions helpful or unhelpful. Because emotional intelligence is based on our responses, working with horses helps us to develop deeper emotional intelligence when we physically experience self-awareness and self-regulation during the programs.
Recognizing and Assessing Threats
In a constantly shifting business environment leaders need to develop the ability to quickly identify potential risks, while simultaneously deciding how to navigate them…
without creating significant disruption or panic within their organization.
Horses are masterful at quickly adapting to disorienting situations, often because their lives may literally depend on it. On encountering a challenge, they quickly discern whether it is a threat and respond accordingly. Participants in an equine assisted learning workshop will learn this valuable leadership skill and carry it back to their organizations.
Creating More Lasting Change
Experiential learning with horses creates a unique opportunity for participants to reflect on how they are perceived by others, both as a member of a team and also as a leader.
LEARNING BY DOING
“Experiential learning theory is the process where knowledge is created through transformation of experience.” David Kolb
Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle. Guiding the development of experiential learning activities
