Horse Assisted Education - Leadership, Teambuilding and Personal Development

 

 

Rediscover core skills – (in today’s hectic lifestyle, have they got lost?)

Experience how important trust, respect, honesty, humility, integrity and authenticity are in effective communication and in getting results – for yourself and for your organisation.

Experience a new world of learning.

Although we work with horses this programme is not about horses – it is about people

 

Leadership

                     We are all leaders, some lead themselves, some lead others

Congruent, inspirational leadership is the order of the day (for an easier and more meaningful life)

-          Being clear about what you want at any given moment and understanding what being congruent means for you

-          Understanding your peers and those you are leading, the way they think and communicate and......

-          Simultaneously focussing on both in order to ......

-          Take appropriate action

Horse Assisted Leadership Development is a powerful experiential approach for developing aligned personal skills by working in partnership with horses.  You try out your skills in action by working with a large powerful horse to do simple tasks.  Why horses? Because horses are extremely canny herd animals that only respond well to good congruent leadership and instinctively challenge weak leaders.  They don’t have a personal agenda.  They just respond to who you are and how you are at any moment.  Human to human communication is 93% nonverbal, yet most education and training concentrates on the remaining 7% - words. As you learn to lead a horse without words (and without force or eventually, any rope) you are developing the neglected 93%.

You will be amazed at how instant and accurate the feedback is.   Guaranteed.

Team

                                (don’t worry, you’ll be keeping your feet on the ground!)

Horse Assisted Team Building is a unique and powerful experiential team event working with horses. You will experience a positive change in your teams. On our team events your people will:

-          Understand and appreciate the unique skills of each team member.

-          Actually work together in challenging situations, not role play and pretend.

-          Know how to engage with the entire team more effectively.

-          Leave with a clear vision on how to work together.

-          Feel part of a cohesive, high performance team.

So much training focuses on what we do in the team.  This programme is different.  Working with the horses you focus on how and who you are in the team.  We work with the really important elements of teamwork:

-          clarity of purpose, awareness, belief in self and others, confidence and the importance and dynamics of leadership within the team.

Very new in Cyprus, but established and recognised internationally                                                     (European Association for Equine Assisted Education)                                                                                   Horses and man working together....the horses are the teachers.

 

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Some feedback:

There is no other way to test yourself without fear of failure.  Harry, Architect, London

Caroline and Lindsey are a double act, took us through a fascinating day of personal growth and leadership seen through the eyes of a horse. One of the encounters with ‘my’ horse reduced me to tears. In this case ones of happiness. If I tell more it will take away some of the magic for you! I can thoroughly recommend time spent with Caroline and Lindsey, you will not regret it.     Neil Rushton, Family doctor, Cullompton Devon

 

It was powerful learning, seeing the effect of your intent. Experiencing how quickly the team functioned better without words, was profound.  Christiana, Psychotherapist, Sweden

 

Articles

 

Connect with Horses – Connect with People

Three doctors, a mathematician, mum, architect and psycho the rapist, (better jointhosewordstogether!!), tried some leadership training with a difference last month. Saddled with their life’s experiences they partnered a herd of horses to help them explore outside their ‘comfort zone’ of ‘normal’ life and into a new zone of learning with the instant feedback you can only get from a horse!

The day began with watching the herd and learning about ‘herd dynamics’ with all the hilarious comments from the participants about people they knew being which horse! It was interesting to see what can be learned from the horses’ behaviour and how it can be transferred to our everyday lives. `Alogo’ is the Greek word for horse meaning `no words‘.  So appropriate that the ancient Greeks recognised the horse as having the innate ability to be able to communicate so completely and powerfully without words, (hence ‘SilentHorsePower’ as the company name!)  You know exactly where you are and who you are with a horse ...the feedback is instant ... they see right through to the heart of you – they respond to congruent leadership ... no need for  words ... no need for force.

Most of the group had never touched a horse before, but quickly learned that there was no need for fear either – they found that a horse will love you unconditionally, so long as you are authentic!  Harry, the architect exclaimed, “There is no other way to test yourself without fear of failure.”   So empowering, so inspiring, so interesting!  And what we all enjoy about working with the horses is that you find out for yourself, there’s no finger pointing, no `I told you so!!!‘  Just lots of `Cor blimey, what about that!!!‘

To introduce our group to the horses, everyone learned how to approach, touch, ‘breathe with’ and lead a horse in safety and so without fear. Those who began by saying “It will never come with me” found that to be true ... but by simply stating their positive intent and saying, “I am going to lead this horse around those cones” found it to be delightfully easy ... and with a loose rein!  After a lively lunch flowing with discussion, questions and exchanges, the group again chose which horse they wanted to work with to explore more situations, finding more and more that they could change their leadership style to suit what they were doing and together with any of the horses, find their own solutions.

 One particular exercise involved individuals ‘joining up’ with their chosen horse.  Neil, one of the doctors who is studying ‘Wilderness therapy’ and working with disadvantaged adolescents, chose to join up with Bobby, who was a rescue horse and the new boy to the herd.  Neil said he identified with Bobby and found it disarmingly powerful when the horse came to him and unquestioningly followed him wherever he went; he was surprised to be deeply moved to tears of happiness.  It is unbelievable how you feel when you discover how stunningly you can communicate without words!  Everyone went away having developed at least some of “the neglected 93%” which all the leadership training in the world will tell you is the missing and vital and most effective ... non verbal communication percentage!

The course is about people, not horses - the horses are the teachers – they work with people so they can experience the magnificence which is within them. Working outside helps people reconnect with natural elements – it is “rediscovery” work.  It is about trust and openness.

Caroline Grossmith             silenthorsepower.com           rideincyprus.com                (+357) 99 777 624

 

SOUL COACHING AND AWAKENING DEVELOPMENT

2012!!  Be the Avatar! 

I found my inspiration in this innovative horse drawn Journey

Traditionally the New Year is a time for ‘reSolutions’ – throwing out the clutter and starting afresh.  So where better to start than by throwing out the clutter in my mind?

I decided to take a guided journey from my mind to my heart and was amazed how I quickly became aware which of my own beliefs were limiting me. Inspired, I began to learn how simple it was to release them and begin to discover my inner power.  I soon found myself relearning to trust my intuition! I was tapping into what I already had, but until now I had not been able to feel it, because my mind was always ...... making too much noise!

 As 2012 is the year of enlightenment – I chose to step onto that springy, sunny path to discover my purpose –and find my own Vision’s Quest!  So I signed up with Andara Shekina, firstly on her ‘33 day Soul Coaching course’ and then her ‘Vision Quest’ weekend, where we also discovered the gentle power of self discovery when working with horses.

Andara Shekina’s uncanny guidance lifts you out of the confusions of tradition, convention and conformism and allows you to reconnect with the YOU that you were born with ..... unleashing your power within.

If, like I did, you have periods of frustration or not knowing what to do; if you feel a need to fill that internal vacuum and find out your life’s purpose; if you want to set yourself on a road of purpose and enlightenment which will enable you to unveil and achieve your dreams..... This is for you!

‘Alogo’,  Greek for ‘horse’ appropriately means ‘no words’ – I was stilled by the gentle, fearless connection we all found with these huge, beautiful, powerful, silent beings.  How they connect with our emotions to give gentle feedback without judgement.  How they can teach us about the vital core skills often forgotten in today’s hectic lifestyle.  Skills we’ll need to rediscover if we heed all these warnings about social and economic collapse.

This powerful and very practical learning experience out in beautiful nature had many ‘Aha’ moments for participants.  It can be enjoyed by anyone at any age and any level!

For your ‘Journey to Inspire’ choose from Internet courses, Weekend Retreats and there are some places left for the sought after week “Spring Retreat in Nature”.