Team Building & Leadership
Not Just Another Team Building Event!
Investing in your team will make happier and more productive employees. Not just a fun day out - this is team building with purpose!
Whether you need to refresh and rebuild relationships, plan for your next project or achieve greater communication between your team members, our team building workshops provide a unique opportunity to ignite your team. We can tailor an experience to meet your objectives as a half-day workshop. Combine innovative equine assisted learning sessions with getting out of the office into the country air and you have all the ingredients for a meaningful and memorable day.
Workshop promotes cohesion and communication among team members, who collaborate to achieve common goals. Participants recognise individual strengths & how they contribute to team dynamics. Everything you need to know about your team’s communication & dynamics!
So what makes this team building program so different? Having honest, immediate and totally non-judgmental feedback, horses are a leveller that no human can match. They have no agenda, and know nothing about the office politics – they don’t know if you are a CEO or the intern. Horses react to the real person.
As prey animals, horses have incredibly astute senses and are highly sensitive to the energy, intention, actions and body language of humans. As such, horses can serve as a barometer for non-verbal communication, therefore helping the individual recognise how their non- verbal cues may be affecting their relationships with others.
Through a series of group based activities with the horses, participants build greater awareness of themselves and their colleagues. As a result they improve communication and leadership skills, focus and motivation. Further developing emotional intelligence, self-confidence and self-awareness that lays the foundation for truly authentic leadership and effective teamwork.
This can be run as a full day or half day program.
Team members soon realize that when they shift their attitudes, intentions, and reactions, the horses shift, and the dynamic changes in the arena, creating immediate accountability.
Because the experience with the horses is so unique, and the feedback in non-judgmental, people are willing to engage in conversations and actionable next steps that pave the way to a more connected, meaningful, and efficient work environment.
Why Choose Experiential Learning?
Every experiential training session ensures effective skill development that is fun and memorable. Experiential learning has been termed "the natural way of learning” and is defined as ‘the process by which the experience of the learner is reflected upon’, from which new insights emerge.
Fun and Hands-On
Your learning experience is not just in that moment but paralleled back to everyday life at the office. With experiential learning, all senses and learning styles are stimulated to allow this transfer of learning.
Collaborative vs. Competitive
Many team events are based on competition, but don’t you want your teams to work TOGETHER like a well-oiled machine? You don’t have to like every member of your team, but if you can COMMUNICATE and understand how to communicate with one another effectively, your team can be unstoppable.
Irrefutable Results
A day that is fun and provides strong skills for your team? Get outta here! It’s true! All programs are bespoke to your team to ensure you are getting the results that you want and need! Improve camaraderie, trust and enforce your company vision to get you to where your company wants to be.
Quite simply – we make the invisible visible.
What distinguishes a great leader from a good leader? How is it that some leaders inspire and empower their people to be the best possible? Taking leadership to that next level means not only making the individual leader aware of their unconscious behaviours and biases and the impact these have on the people around them, but how to use this self-awareness to nurture what is working and change what is not.
Authentic leadership development is our area of expertise and our passion. Our programs develop intelligent leadership skills necessary to enhance the effectiveness of teamwork required to achieve company goals. What makes our programs more effective than other leadership programs? We can guarantee to meet your objective through our experiential sessions where horses are your teachers. Yes, horses! Horses are the ultimate addition to a team. They do not know or care about office politics – they simply provide honest, immediate and unbiased responses to individual and group energy, intention, actions and body language. Our experienced leadership coaches guide you through the session ensuring that you understand the interactions and how they apply to your leadership style when paralleled back to the office environment.
Leadership Development Programs
As a leader, it can be almost impossible to remove yourself from your management role and see your leadership style objectively – this makes it difficult to pinpoint how to best develop your skills.
Our leadership development courses give participants a unique opportunity to understand and develop their own leadership style. Horses require clear, authentic leadership. We work alongside you with our horses to elevate your leadership skills for building confidence and inspiring your teams!
Leadership workshop is designed for top performers undertaking the responsibilities of leadership. Focuses on developing management and supervisory skills, as well as cross-functional relationships.
Conferences
Include a workshop with these magnificent horse teachers as a breakout activity for your business retreat, meeting or conference. Our beautiful country based facilities offer a tranquil environment for your team to focus and reconnect away from the hustle and bustle of the office.
Obstacles are developed tailored specifically to your business or organisation’s needs.
Special Events
Reconnect with your team at an off-site venue with a difference! Whether you are celebrating a seasonal event such as Christmas or farewelling a colleague, our beautiful country facility is perfect to reconnect with your colleagues. It is an escape to the country but only 45 minutes to the CBD.
We can provide a beautifully styled grazing table and drinks for your event as well.
Objective based experiential programs:
Socialisation
Self-Esteem & Self Confidence
Matching Internal Dialogue To Actions
Trust, Respect & Personal Integrity
Emotional Regulation
Embracing & Finding Change
Responsibility & Accountability
Decision Making Skills
Force doesn’t equal movement
Negotiation, Problem Solving & Communication Teamwork