Team Building
and Wellness
Herds are to horses
As teams are to humans
It is becoming increasingly apparent that the mental wellbeing of individuals is inextricably linked to life skills and general health.
The Team Building and Wellness program fosters the development of life-skills and wellbeing, which may serve as the foundation for improved performance and satisfaction, inside and outside the workplace.
Experiential Learning
Through experiential learning with horses, our programs empower people to grow as individuals and develop a wide range of life and leadership skills.
Strengthening Relationships
The horses are the teachers, while our facilitators are there to provide guidance to participants who work with their horse and team through a series of non-mounted exercises; challenging them to observe and engage in new ways, as they work towards a specific goal.
Producing Results
Equine Discovery provides organizations team-building or team-bonding programs with new insights to team interactions that increase connections and improve team culture.
Horses, like humans, are social animals living and working within a community- a herd. Working with horses requires participants to make a connection, to form relationship based on trust, and to communicate clearly and with understanding, much like working in teams.
Weekly sessions include specifically designed exercises with horses to focus on effective communication, trust, negotiation, and teamwork. Learning to interact with horses will help you enhance:
* No experience is necessary
Relationships and connection
Communication skills
Recognizing and enforcing healthy boundaries
Problem solving and conflict resolution
Goal setting
Time management
Building trust with peers and colleagues
Build leadership skills and showing confidence
Your horse will move you forward with new insights, empowering you to develop personal and professional life-skills, and supporting individual wellness.
PROGRAM DETAILS
Programs are comprised of weekly sessions for eight, ten, or twelve weeks.
Each weekly session is approximately 75 minutes.
Sessions are in group of 10 - 12 participants.
The learning objective for the week is clearly defined in a group briefing.
This is followed by the hands-on experiential learning exercises with horses
in the arena. This occurs for approximately 45 minutes and is designed to focus on the specific skills related to that week’s learning objective.
This is followed by a group de-briefing where the knowledge and experiences in the arena are discussed and explored within the context of the learning objective and paralleled to the outside world.
Many Canadian organizations have embraced Equine Assisted Learning, using the BuildingBlock curriculum, as part of their investment in team building, leadership training, and wellness.
