This month we have been featured in Equestrian Magazine A six page article on Learning to Listens work & how Sarah came to do what she does. Sarah is looking to raise as much awareness as she can around her work with Autism & Equine Facilitation. If you would like to see the article we can send it to you via e-mail in a PDF format. We have 2 dates coming up, 22nd March for Equine Facilitated Coaching taster afternoon & 23rd March for people who are interested in Autism. Both events are free.

If you would like any more information on features or upcoming events please don’t hesitate to get in contact with us. Have a great day!

If you want to work with people, love the outdoors & horses then this programme might be just what you are looking for. 

Our accredited Equine Facilitated Coaching Programme is starting this April. Running over 12 months with over 130 hours of facilitated experiential learning, theory & case study coaching sessions it is full of rich learning opportunities for eveyone attending. This programme focusses on personal development of the coach, giving you a tool kit to help others aswell as learning how to understand what the horses are teaching us about our behaviours.   

We have 3 Accredited Equine Facilitated Coaching Programmes & the first is starting this April.

Level 1 ~ Equine Facilitated Coach. Able to coach 1:1 equine facilitated coaching sessions

Level 2 ~ Advanced Equine Facilitated Coach. Able to coach 1:1 EFC sessions & deliver corporate leadership & teambuilding equine facilitated sessions

Level 3 ~ Master Equine Facilitated Coach. Able to deliver the above & work with children on the Equine Facilitated Mentoring Programme, including camps.

We are looking to develop high quality EFC who want to work either for themselves or alongside the LTL Team.

Taster Days: We are hosting 2 taster sessions for people who are interested in the programme, want to come and meet us & meet the horses.

Saturday 25th Febuary 10am – 12pm & Thursday 22nd March 2pm – 4pm. Please contact us to register for these sessions.

Early bird offer until 3rd March 2012. Limited spaces available.

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The team were great, getting into the swing of things with the cane exercise. This is a fun exercises that can help you understand how important communication, listening and delegating a leader is to achieve a task.

They all met the horses and experienced that if their goals weren’t the same, or implemented well, how the horses would go off and do their own thing. The teams of two were then left to ponder on how to work together to achieve the same goal but using their different skills. Lots to talk about!

Then the whole team was put together to achieve the task of getting the horse to walk in between two cones. This started off well but then Black Jack had other ideas and went off to see his friends. This then allowed the team to learn about nominating a leader, positioning people in their strengths zones, having a plan, and most of all having a back up plan! When they got all this sorted you can see the results…… and all done in a 5 acre field, amazing!

Well done Your Horse Team. The article comes out next year in the Your Horse Magazine

I knew I was stretching it a bit to get people to leave their desks and venture onto a farm and play with the horses, but I was willing to take a risk and give it a go. I started everyone off gently by making sure they had some delicious cakes & a hot drink.

Then I thought a nice stroll across the fields would start to re-balance people’s energies, before letting them meet the horses later on. When we reached the woods I could show everyone my kind of training room; a log cabin surrounded by trees with a roaring fire to keep you warm. Bushcraft Phil then did a short demonstration of how many ‘tools’ we are putting around ourselves today & how stripping things back to the basics can enhance our qualities as leaders.

Back to the indoor arena where the horses were waiting to show everyone their leadership skills. Who would dare go in the pen and get some feedback straight from the horses mouth?…..Watch this video to find out.

It was an amazing day and a big thank you goes out to all the businesses that supported us and the team who helped make it possible.

I look forward to seeing you all again soon

FEEDBACK:

‘Wow, awesome!’, ‘Fantastic, inspiring day’, Can’t wait to work with you’, ‘I didn’t want to leave’, ‘Unique and interesting, I can see many applications’, ‘Just fascinating’.

Mathew and Paige can both catch their horses now, brush them off, pick out feet and tack up ready for riding. Just need to work on getting the girths tighter!

The smiles we see and the laughter we hear melts our hearts. What a great way to spend our time.

If you would like to know more about our autism programmes please contact Sarah on 07764277146 also see more photos here

There will be hot drinks and cakes to eat and even the chance to have a go! So come prepared, with wellies and winter woolies and see how your learning can be brought to life.

Follow this link more more photo’s of the farm and we look forward to seeing you all .

When you start a programme like this it’s hard to help people understand the journey they are about to undertake. Having this precious time to really explore how you work and see things, is a life changing experience. These amazing people have not only been on their own journeys but also one as a whole group. We had one of our final days together last week and I found it quite emotional seeing everyone off.

Sarah Readings, lead coach, has this incredible way of bringing a room to life and a group together. She has ‘stretched’ us all, knowing there was more to discover. I mean how can you have a whole room in dispute about a drawing of a square and a squiggle?! I still am laughing about it now. Sarah’s programme is full of rich teachings and real life discussions, life will never be the same again. 

We have a few more days to go, and of course watching Sarah & her hubby doing the Tango for charity to fit in! We wish them all well with their final assessments.

Our next programme is the ILM Level 7 Coaching & Mentoring programme which is going to be held at Learning To Listen and we will be working with the horses. Really looking forward to that and we still have 2 places left.

Teachers ventured out of the classroom recently for their Teambuilding day and headed to Carlshead Farm, near Wetherby, where Learning to Listen is based. And what a day they had. The day started with an informative walk through the willow which is used as an environmentally friendly way of heating the farm. See more at this link Biomass 

Whilst wondering down the rolling hills they were met by the Alpacas and their youngsters before having well earned refreshments and heading off to see the Equine Facilitated demonstration. Black Jack, a pony, Learning To Listens star demonstrator, was a perfect example of how disengaged children can become in a static classroom environment. He looked out of the window, ignored his teacher when they entered the room and was generally disengaged with the lesson. This allowed Sarah Kreutzer, founded of Learning to Listen, to show how her concepts to engaging people really work and how the horses are a good mirror to how well we are using them. It wasn’t long before Black Jack was motivated, engaged and even a willing partner in the relationship.

‘The fascinating thing,’ says Sarah, ‘Is that you can’t train the horses to behave in a certain way with each person. They just do different things with different people, which points out where we can improve our communication skills, verbal and non-verbal.’ ‘It’s so accurate that it’s like someone is reading your mind!’

Phil Pemberton, the Bushcraft expert was on next with his fire lighting skills from just making embers. ‘Taking people right back to basics,’ Phil says, ‘Can unnerve people to start with, but by the time they leave they are walking ten feet tall, able to problem solve and deal more effectively with adversity’

The teachers were so impressed with what they had learnt from the day that they have already booked programmes for their students so they can all carry on learning together.

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Then they both met the farrier for the first time and held their ponies so Richard could trim their feet. A wonderful day was had by all and the weather was just beautiful too.

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I’m not sure if you’ve heard much about coaching yet or maybe you are a coach or have had some coaching, but I just wanted to let you know about our NEW programme that’s coming up.

Sarah Readings and I wanted to bring you something NEW and exciting that we know you could use to enrich not only your personal life but also your professional life. So we put our heads together and have come up with an accredited ILM Level 7 Coaching & Mentoring programme that we know is going to blow your socks off. And the great thing for me is that we are going to be working with the horses to give you a whole new level of feedback.

The horses are going to be able to feedback to you every moment you are working with them, letting you know how you’re doing every step of the way. This feedback is second to none, honest and immediate so it can advance your skills at a very fast rate. You’ll become even more alert to how other peoples body language is communicating with you and how to respond to this effectively.

If you think you are ready to talk to the horses then give us a call and we can talk you through the details of the programme or you could come and meet us on our Taster day