LeadershipCooperation, Communication

Dorota SoidaSoida Management Consulting & Coaching

HORSE ASSISTED EDUCATION

Horse Assisted Education - what’s so special in the method?

You have your personal trainer - a horse!

Being with a horse requires courage, flexibility and openness

Method introduced in the USA 16 years ago

Adopted in Europe 12 years ago In Poland implemented in 2006

How does it work?

• Horse reveals your strengths and weaknesses – confront image of yourself and your effectiveness with the horse’s reactions

• The key factors are: awareness, trust, respect, determination to change and to rediscover your true nature

• Experience out of your comfort zone - it opens a space where, you can try out alternative behaviours to be established later as a norm

Why Horse-assisted Training is so powerful?

• While interacting with a horse you are given the immediate and clear feedback – the horse is like a mirror, in which you can see yourself

• Working with a horse helps you to understand the importance of internal integrity and clarity - the horse reacts not only to your behaviour but also to your hidden intentions and thoughts

• Experience is build on emotions that gives motivation to change later.

Cognitive process – experience, analysis, and practical findingsWorking with a horse is a metafor for challenges from business

and life reality, reflects the different aspects of problem solving – emotional, behavioral and cognitive ones.

Horses are able to feel the intentions, they are masters at non-verbal communication, they are delivering immediate feedback – they adapt behaviours to human attitudes and behaviours.

The participants can find parallel - discover their attitudes, patterns and strategies of behaviour in business and private

life, and assess their effectiveness.

Experiences from the workshops may serve as a hint which solutions are most effective for a particular individual and they can

provide directions for creating a plan of personal development.

What can you gain?• You are given the chance to find out your leadership qualities, see

and understand your attitude to goals and relations, experience the power of internal motivation

• Cooperation with the horses contributes to the improvement of social leadership skills that are indispensable to be successful in the bussiness environment

Building relations Communication competencies Planning and analysing Cooperation Problem solving Defining goals precisely Adaptation competencies Building trust Constant growth

How to transfer this to business

• The strengthening of managerial qualities contribute to the development of a credible leadership culture.

• The training makes it clear just what it means to win people over in a responsible manner and to pursue the goals and visions of an organization.

• The effects of the trainings can be strengthened through further development activities – for example individual or team coaching

References

International corporations use and highly appreciate HAE method of training

BP, Skandia, Siemens, Procter & Gamble, Ernst & Young, Hewlett Packard, IBM

and many others.

Dorota Soida - trainer profile

• Trainer, coach and independent consultant• Experienced in projects changing the

company culture and management styles.• Competencies – creating new proeffective

company culture, change management, communication and coaching.

• Qualifications and membership in training organisations, e.g: the member of EAHAE, CoachWise Programme; GRID Power for Change, Leadership & Management (London / Stavanger / Harrare); Change Management (Milton Keynes/London); Behavioural Management DNV; Mediation Training (Centre of Mediation)

Additional information

• No experience with horses needed (there is no horse riding)• One or two days workshops • Workshops for managers – max 8 persons • Teambuilding sessions – 8 to 12 persons• Practical exercises at a manage, than analyzing photos, films

and discussion on behaviours to transfer experience into real life

• The participants are given additional, theoretical materials (manual), photos and films from the workshop

• Place: Stadnina na Dębinie (www.stadnina.org)

The participants’ opinions – what’s the value of the workshop?

• The possibility of experimenting and self-discovering• Rich and sincere feedback. Indications on the possible ways of

problem solving.• The complete sincerity of the partner – the horse.• Interactive form, feedback, working in a group – the possibility of

observing others’ behaviours.• Getting to know your decision-making mechanism. Your attitude

to relations and task execution. Discovering your leadership qualities.

• Reflection on your motivation, effectiveness.

What do the participants want to convey to others… ?

• I’d encourage everybody who wants to confront his own idea of his leadership style, patterns of behaviour with a „different reality” shown through the relation with a horse. Interesting method, a lot of surprises and very effective feedback.

• Working with horses reflects our interpersonal relations with others. It shows our strenghts and weaknesses. If you want to get to know whether you are manage your life or your life manages you, you should attend the workshop.

• You may know yourself better in an extremely sincere relation, without any pretentions. You learn to be flexible and accept the fact that different solutions may work.

Applied in business and private life...

Once again I’d like to thank for the possibility of taking part in the workshops – after those several days I can see its effectiveness and different ways to apply the experience in life and at work. The power of intention is my greatest discovery! Now I know that without a clear vision you are bound to lose – no matter how hard you try.

I tested my power of intention yesterday in court and a miracle occurred – a very complicated and difficult case, where there was no good will to reach agreement, ended in a settlement. It worked because I approached the matter with a strong intention to conclude the case successfully !!!!

. Zuzanna – a layer

For more information contact:

Dorota Soidadorota.soida@soida.pl