"Connection" LIFE SKILLS and PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

 What Can A Horse Teach us that a Human Can't? 

• Horses consistently model assertiveness and teach us how.
• Horses can't lie or overthink a participant's motive.
• Horses' feedback is honest and instant.
• Nature provides them with instincts and senses that are very astute.
• Help to instill empathy and kindness in the participants.
• Horses have natural "herd behaviors" that require trust, respect, and teamwork from all members of the team.
• Horses automatically respond to stimuli.
• Confusion and frustration in a participant bring awareness to the horse that there may be a danger.
• Horses lead through confident and decisive actions - not brute force.

Horses have distinct personalities, and through this, they all have different methods of bringing to light solutions.

They are a prey animal. 

Their senses are highly in tune with their surroundings. They can hear and feel our heartbeat from twelve feet away, and they will react the slightest changes within a team - allowing facilitators to find those “teachable moments.” 

By their intuitive nature and innate sensitivity, horses can provide facilitators with a window into the participant's personality. As a prey animal, they are sensitive to the stimulus of each participant. They react to the stimulus through body language, and participants must adjust their feelings and behavior to work successfully with the horses. 

Herds to horses are just like teams to people. Horses require a leader that they trust and respect in their herd, just like we need in life. Thus giving us the ability to parallel the responses of the horse when subjected to stimuli back to what happens in real life, so the learning sticks! 

The more senses that are engaged, the higher the likelihood that new learning sticks. The more we involve learners, the more senses are engaged, thereby increasing the probability that they will learn, retain, and apply what they have learned.

Each of our exercises is custom designed to maximize learning potential and focus on developing individual skills as they work through each fun interactive group challenge. The objectives in the LIFE SKILLS Connection Program facilitate the building of new skills in the following areas, relationship building, responsibility, accountability, overcome barriers, creativity, innovation, teamwork, communication, trust, respect, and integrity. 

All while they are having fun!