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You Don't Have to Climb Everest to have a Peak Experience
Yesterday an acquaintance challenged me about why I would ask busy lawyers to take a day out of the office (home or otherwise) to come down to Somerville, on the Mornington Peninsula, and spend time with Core EQ and our horses to learn about leadership and personal effectiveness.
My friend, a retired successful law partner, who was also present, told us the story of how she had experienced a break through (Peak Experience) moment when participating in a half day equine experiential session with another provider. The details are hers to tell. Suffice to say that a simple equine exercise created a breakthrough reflection for her. And an immediate improvement in how colleagues related to her.
It's Worth the Drive
What have been those moments in your life when you have had a life altering peak experience? For some you might call these personal effectiveness experiences. We all have them as adults. When we find ourselves out of our comfort zone and in an unfamiliar context. And we can make unexpected discoveries about ourselves. Adult learning practitioners call this hot action.
Spending quality time with horses in a facilitated challenging, even uncomfortable, yet safe setting can provide Life Altering insights for people, even lawyers! It's worth the drive. And it's a lot less costly in time and money than climbing Mt Everest. An outdoor experiential learning setting. Without a plane ticket.
Horses Offer a Shortcut to Peak Experience
This is one key reason why equine facilitated sessions are in demand and are a proven means to explore your personal effectiveness. An Equine Experiential Educator, working with horses trained as co-facilitators, provides an interactive session and the opportunity for you to experience memorable life altering learning experiences.
Based on specific input from participants, about their personal effectiveness challenges, Core EQ will design a relevant suite of exercises. And guide you through the Kolb stages of Problem Solving, Inquiry and Reflection.
A well crafted Equine Experiential Education session provides a shortcut to experiencing a peak experience.
Creating Knowledge with a Transforming Experience
Your Leadership Development, or Personal Effectiveness, session is driven by process not content. We provide simple yet powerful interactions with prey animals whom we have domesticated. 500 kilo animals horses who have an extensive history of serving humans. Powerful and insightful creatures, horses' physical prowess exceeds our human capability. Many of us are captivated by their agility and power and drawn to their energy and grace.
We take people out of the classroom or workshop setting and place them into a setting where knowledge can be built through interaction away from the computer. An outdoor experiential learning setting. Without a plane ticket.
Learning Leadership and Personal Effectiveness
Leadership may be learned primarily through experience and the more one participates, the more one will benefit from the opportunities for leadership growth. This is why experiential learning theory provides a strong base for leadership education.
Equine experiences can make a person more sensitive to new ideas and behaviors and equine-assisted leadership development naturally integrates all levels of experience, the mind, emotions and spirit. It is also an embodied experience. Equine-assisted sessions find a basis in experiential learning in a very practical and easy to access sense. Without having to climb Everest.
Dr Deborah Hann
Monday 30 May 2024
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