Equine Guided Leadership Development

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

Being a congruent leader makes life easier and more meaningful. This programme is designed to help everybody lead the life they want to lead in the way they want to lead it.

Now that people are educated and think for themselves, we need a paradigm shift in their development. Congruent, inspirational leadership by example is the order of the day. This harmonious leadership is about four things: 1) being clear about what you want at any given moment and understanding what is congruent for you, 2) understanding your peers and those you are leading, the way they think and communicate and 3) simultaneously focusing on both 1 and 2 in order to 4) take appropriate and effective action. This brings huge benefits to yourself and everybody around you.

Equine Guided Leadership Development is a powerful experiential approach for developing aligned personal skills in action by working in partnership with horses. You try out your skills 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 and how you are at any moment. Believe it or not, human-to-human communication is 93% non-verbal yet most education and training concentrates on the remaining 7%,words. The remaining 93% is largely neglected. This means there is enormous scope to achieve a lot even with just a little work on that 93%.

This is what makes horses so useful - 100% of a horse’s communication is non-verbal. They don’t understand words, so you can’t smooth-talk them or hoodwink them. They’re experts in non-verbal communication. And they’re big and powerful, so intimidation is not an option. As you learn to lead a horse without words (and without force), you are developing the neglected 93%. You will be amazed at how instant and accurate the feedback is. Guaranteed.

During the programme the horse's behaviour gives you constant feedback on your own skills. You immediately get to find out what in your style doesn't work and get every encouragement to stop doing it. Even better, you get to find out and practice what does work, you get the huge buzz of seeing it work there and then. It's an experience that's guaranteed at the very least to make you more effective. And in our experience, most people get much more out of it than they imagined.

Horses are natural team players. Working with the horses, and with others, you will develop new interpersonal skills that you can put into practice.

If you would like to develop a congruent, effective way of being, then  contact us now and book a programme.

Testimonials

“Very good day, fantastic environment to learn” Richard Southwood – Nat West

“I did an experience today that I wouldn’t have chosen fro myself and enjoyed it immensely and found it of use for the group” Martin O’Leary - RBS

 “Fun, developmental and has brought the team together” Joanne Shoane – Nat West

“A fantastic learning experience” Paul Wehren – Cisco

“Excellent for me as an individual but also for building the connections between the team members, The better, deeper you know someone the easier it is to understand their motivations and realities.” Patricia Fiztgerald – Cisco