Services Offered at HOPE Ranch
Equine Facilitated Staff Development - Life Lessons Enhanced Through Horses
Equine facilitated staff development workshops, retreats, and corporate trainings utilize structured activities to promote team building and leadership, stimulate creativity, and enhance problem solving.
HOPE Ranch offers customized workshops and retreats specifically designed to enhance personal and professional performance through team building and leadership. Working with the horses as facilitators has been shown to reduce stress by lowering blood pressure and heart rate, relieving tension and anxiety. Our sessions help participants identify and work through communication, trust, respect, and self confidence issues to come up with new and creative ways of dealing with problems and changing behaviors.
Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP)
EAP is an emerging field in which horses are used as tools for emotional growth and learning. EAP is a collaborative effort between a licensed therapist and a horse professional. Another comparable modality are ropes courses used by therapists, treatment facilities and human development programs around the world. EAP has the added advantage of being a hands-on approach utilizing horses - dynamic and powerful living beings.
EAP can help develop these skills:
- Learning about self and others
- Processing feelings, behaviors and patterns
- Enhancing the process of growth and healing
- Developing and internalizing learning on multiple levels
- Strengthening verbal and non-verbal communication
- Assertiveness
- Creative thinking
- Problem-solving skills
