Unlock Your Team’s Potential with Equine-Assisted Team-Building Retreats
Are you ready to take your team’s collaboration, communication, and problem-solving skills to the next level? Our Equine-Assisted Team-Building Retreats offer a unique and impactful way to strengthen team dynamics through experiential learning. Our serene retreat center is nestled in a beautiful, natural setting. It’s the perfect environment for your team to unplug, recharge, and reconnect.
UPCOMING TRAINING
EMDR Therapy Equine-Assisted Workshop April 12, 2025
EMDR Therapy: History and Preparation On-Demand Workshop
EMDR History and Preparation Workshop March 22, 2025
Using EMDR Therapy with Neurodivergent Clients Workshop April 19, 2025
Why Equine-Assisted Team-Building?
Horses are incredible partners in fostering growth and insight. As naturally intuitive and sensitive animals, they respond to human emotions and behaviors in real-time, offering powerful feedback on interpersonal dynamics. Unlike traditional team-building exercises, working with horses in a non-riding setting brings teams into the moment, encouraging mindfulness, trust, and adaptability.
Key Benefits:
Enhanced Communication
Horses require clear, consistent communication. Teams learn to collaborate more effectively as they navigate activities with their equine partners.Trust and Connection
Building trust is essential in horse-human interactions. Teams can strengthen mutual trust and deepen their connections with one another through guided activities.Problem-Solving and Adaptability
Facing challenges with a horse fosters creative thinking and adaptability, skills that translate directly to the workplace.Stress Reduction and Resilience
Spending time in nature with horses is inherently calming, promoting stress reduction and emotional resilience.
What to Expect
Our retreats are facilitated by certified equine-assisted learning professionals and tailored to your team’s unique goals. Activities may include:
- Leadership Challenges: Work together to lead a horse through obstacles.
- Nonverbal Communication Drills: Learn to “speak” through body language.
- Team Reflection Circles: Integrate lessons learned into actionable insights for your workplace.
No horse experience? No problem! These retreats are designed for everyone, regardless of familiarity with horses. All activities take place on the ground—no riding is involved.
The location offers beautiful 240 acres in West Houston with sunshine, a herd of 15 horses, and mindfulness outdoor exercises. This is a unique opportunity for a strength-based team-building approach for you and your team.
Team-building equine-assisted retreats can be booked in blocks of time ranging from 4 to 8 hours. Group sizes range from 4 to 20 people. This is an outdoor activity weather permitting.
- Call to schedule an initial intake interview is scheduled with the managers to identify goals and timeframe for the team-building retreat. These calls are scheduled for 1 hour.
- Schedule a date and time and review the safety rules for the training.
- Complete the team-building retreat on the scheduled day and block of time.
- Complete post-training evaluation forms to provide feedback.
- ½ day for a group of 4-10 participants is $3000.
- 1 full day for a group of 4-10 participants is $6000.
Additional EMDR trainings (Live webinars, In Person training, and On Demand webinars) are offered through CompassionWorks. Check out my new On Demand History and Preparation a Step-by-Step Guide for Preparing Clients for EMDR Therapy. The link for the workshops and registration is offered here.
Private group training is available for any of my Advanced EMDR training and for Basic EMDR Training. Contact the office today if interested in booking a private group training.
