WE PROMISE YOU HAVE
NEVER TRIED THIS BEFORE
Equine Assisted Team Development is an approach to building leadership awareness and improve Team Dynamics mixing ancient knowledge to modern needs.
We use the horses to help provide insights in the individual and the team through the unique program developed with a promise to add value to any team, new or existing teams and any group of people basically.
The base for the elements is a creative, safe and fun setting.The horses provide an understanding of personal impact by creating symbiotic mobilisation of knowledge and power.
Come join a safe and enthusiatic atmosphere where there are many laughs and lots of insights. It's suitable for any organisation and any level.
From a horse herd we learn that all members are equally important. Horses have a perfect understanding of the importance each member makes, for the entire herds survival. In other words, they know they are stronger and smarter together. Horse dynamics have changed the game for those who visited us. Will you be the next?
We only use highly trained and safe horses, who will both give instant and honest feedback, as well as help show new ways to reflect and impact others.
Clips from a Founding Herd workshop focused on psycological safety
Founding Herd Workshop
- the essential one
This is our founding program where the fundamental elements for all our work is at play. We work with the horses to show the Natural Herd effects and Natural Leadership elements. Horses bring awareness to each participants personal energy and how they all function as a Team.
Good social relations are not only crucial to what makes humans feel safe, but also a key to improving creativity and strengthening any team or organisation. The better we know each others skills and weaknesses, the better we can help eachother and become a trusting herd - The trusting Team.
Implementing the "survival skills" of a herd of horses to our team performance, makes us able to understand how and why we are all equally important, and only by working together are we all able to succeed.
This workshop can stand alone but is also the first step on the path of using horses to strengthen teams and individuals.
WHAT OUR (RETURNING) CLIENTS SAY
GAME CHANGER
“We have changed the way we organize our meetings, and the way we work together. The workshops give us fundamental knowledge about the teams, that have already increased our efficiency but more importantly made our team happier and more connected"
Jo Verstappen
- CEO Open Line NL
Founding herd Workshops
TEAM SPIRIT
“We needed to bring a new team together and chose the Founding Herd Workshop because we wanted to go out of the box and get an efficient, positive change to our team spirit. It did not disappoint! Our group of people became closer, stronger and overall felt safer together”
Ane Mette Lysbech-Kleis
- Vattenfall
Founding Herd Workshops
EFFICIENT & CREATIVE
“I was so annoyed with one task as we were doing it, and it was only after completing it I understood that what I was annoyed about was excatly intented to annoy me. It was briliant and reavealing of the weaknesses a team can have without knowing it.”
Chris Macdonald
- Chris Macdonald
Founding Herd Workshop
HOW DOES IT WORK?
The full MBIB programme consist of the base, our Founding Herd Workshop, where the key elements are introduced and put into pracsis. It is designed so it is very effective on its own, but is also the base for a series of add-on modules where we elaborate on the different elements and skills.
Modules can be added as they fit each organisation or team best.
We are specialized in creating the right sequence for different needs, and can adapt to special requirements.
The Founding Herd and Modules 1-4 can be 1/2 day or full day workshops, depending on needs and number of participants. We do every workshop costumized to each team, so get in touch and we will find the right solution for you.
Ready to meet the horses?
Give your Team an experience of a lifetime
Before each workshop we adapt certain elements to what the team needs. Get in touch and tell me about your team, and I will make the workshop work towards your goals for your team. It's not magic, or complicated. It's just a matter of energy and intention. Feel welcome to get in touch no strings attached. I know it sounds a bit strange and "out there" but I promise it works. Catch me by phone or email and I'll be thrilled to tell you more about what our programme can do for you.
The basics on why to work with horses in Team Building
We use horses to assist us in developing the team, because it is a fact that a horse cannot lie. A horse can only be honest and when interacting with humans a horse will reflect how we make him feel based on our body language, nervous system and the intention he can detect.
Horses are highly developed when it comes to switching through the functions of the autonomous nervous system, which basically means they can switch between "stressed" and "relaxed" in seconds. This ability is what helps them detect danger, but avoid spending exessive amounts of energy being stressed or in "alert mode". This ability is in all mammals. Our nervous system functions in the same way - but horses use it everyday, and we humans have a tendency to stay in the "stressed" mode. Being regulated by horses is one beneficial side to having them join the sessions, but their ability to guide, help, care and teach us is something that on paper sounds really weird, but in real life is really real.
We work with horses because they show us our conscious and unconscious behavior. We call it Mind-Body-Intention-Balance (MBIB), because these are what we need to be aware of and understand to take the impact we have on others under our own control. Equine Assisted Development incorporates the knowledge and power of the natural survival skills we all have, which horses are Mastersminds at portraying and even teaching. The very same skills horses use to survive, we can adapt and use to develop and strengthen ourselves, our organisation and become more balanced in our social relations.
Horses depend on relations with others, which makes them extremely giving, forgiving and always seeking to find an friendly solution. You will be very surprised at how good they are at reading all the stuff we are trying to hide.
I have trained my "assistants" for more than a decade and trust them to work safely with people that have no experience with horses. You and your team will be perfectly safe in all aspects, and to be honest, those who are most afraid are the ones they take the best care of. Contrary to popular belief fear doesn't always worry them. If we are nervous they can sense if its them, or something "strange from outside" that worries us. And they know when to do what. The horses I work with in these programmes are wise older horses with big hearts. Feel safe and welcome with us.
Can we go further after the first workshop?
Check out the modules you can add to your development plan for you
- and your team
Module 1: Personal Impact
The Natural Leader
Take your personal presence and impact to a new level through this practical workshop where we focus on the natural leadership. You will get a Personal MBI Profile, that helps you understand and balance your bodylanguage and mental intention to any current task. Making you able to create a following Team by the power of good relations.
Learn to balance all social relations and interactions with a strong personal knowledge of your own capabilities and find out how you can transform from being a transactional manager to a leader. Mobilising ideas, power and knowledge and getting everyone to work in the same direction.
Open up to the power of your personal Mind Body Intention Balance profile that will be completed with Equine Guidance.
Module 2: Team Leader Impact
Team Leader Training
Open up to the power of your personal Mind Body Intention profile that will be completed with Equine Guidance.
Take your personal presence and impact to a new level through this practical workshop where we focus on the Team leadership. Learn to balance your leadership so you make the most selfcarrying team. You will learn and understand how you can motivate and mobillise your team, and how and when you need to step in - and especially step out again in the most optimal way.
This module is useful for new team leaders and as developing and further educating existing Team Leaders. Level of intensity can be individually adapted to specifik needs and intent.
Module 3: MBIB Ambassador
Safespace 360 Training
Strengthen your organisation with Mind Body Intentional Balance Ambassadors. This module is created with The Polyvagal Equine Institute and is designed to help your organisation become a safe workspace.
Ambassadors are taught how to recognise imbalance and inconsistencies in the wellbeing of collegues. We use the horses to show and tell how the autonomous nervous system, designed to help us survive as hunter-gathers long ago, comes into action, and understand the whole person.
MBIB Ambassadors will know how to approach and assist in a caring matter, help regulate and balance challenges and be a Safespace 360 guide and take the best possible care of the individual human being.
Trainings can be closed for one organisation or company as well as individuals attending open cross-company trainings.
Module 4: Organisational Growth & Change
Get your herd together
Any change in an organisation can cause nervousness and it's a normal human response to question change. This module will get your Leaders dressed to effortlessly roll out any change and have their teams understand and step behind the new direction or change of road.
Equine assisted practical trainings will teach and develop a profound understanding of what makes a change or shift become a natural and welcomed new adventure.
Deepening the understanding of human behaviour and responses to change, and creating a personal perceptance of how to create the motivational factors that is key to making changes, or organisational restructuring a succes.
Let's work together!
The programs have a frame that allows us to adapt our programs around your team and specific wants or needs. In working with live animals we get unexpected input that can take us further than planned and as a whole your team, and me and my team of horses, will finish on a note that leaves none of us indefifferent.
Our workshops at standard suits maximum 12 people.
For larger groups please inquire as we can make almost anything happen.
The workshops we have been through have helped us implement changes that not only made everyone more present, but also more effecient and aware.
These workshops are the best our Company havde invested in.
JO VERSTAPPEN
CEO OPEN LINE
"Nadjas words were not the easy and usual one-liners, but linking in a very precise, concrete and lived-through manner, what was happening to us in our business lives, and interaction with others in general, with what needed change.
At age 59 I had not expected to get such a new experience."
MICHAEL
OPEN LINE
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