What We Do

Our Equine Assisted training and coaching programmes use interaction with horses to help accelerate learning and performance for managers, teams and individuals.

When you come on one of our programmes, you'll find that the exercises we use are simple, but effective, and involve you interacting in with the horses who will react and respond instinctivly to your approach, providing honest and true feedback on your interpersonal and leadership skills.

It's a highly participative learning process and will allow you to learn from your own experiences and from each other and will give you a real opportunity to practice and receive feedback on your skills.

The Philosophy Behind It

When interacting with people, horses look for the following attributes:

honesty

trust

concentration on the goal

focus and purpose

energy and intention

confidence and inspiration

internal strength

Horses survive in the wild by choosing to follow the most effective herd leaders and by working co-operatively with each other. The herd hierarchy is established and maintained mainly by non-verbal communication and their survival depends on this being effective. They have perfected these skills over thousands of years.

For this reason, they make great teachers in the areas of leadership and interpersonal skills.

In the herd they fight for their position in the hierarchy but also willingly follow the horse who demonstrates strong leadership. The same is true of their interactions with humans.

Horses, like people, are all different. This means that delegates may need to adjust their approach and style for each individual horse, which in turn means they experience the need to change their approach in different situations to be successful.

Horse assisted education (and psychotherapy) is being widely used around the world as a very effective enhancement to traditional methods.

The learning process is safe, and there’s no horse riding involved or experience with horses necessary.