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Salta Horses - Learning and Development

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Salta Horses - Learning and Development

Facilitated work with the Salta Horses herd will empower your team to take a creative approach to overcoming workplace challenges.

We provide unforgettable, horse assisted leadership, team-building, wellbeing and resilience programmes that will grow your team's ability to utilise their strengths, to lead from within and to achieve measurable results. You’ll interact with our horses in a safe, enclosed area and remain on the ground with no horse riding involved, no horse experience necessary. Our interactions with horses can

amplify what is happening in the workplace, allowing for safe and solutions-focused conversations. You will discover new ways of working with colleagues and learn how to think outside the square in order to problem-solve together. Horses are great equalisers because they respond to us honestly, regardless of our status in the workplace. Observing herd dynamics can help us to recognise patterns and behaviours in our own organisation that we may wish to change. Being around horses also encourages us to focus on the here and now - their sheer size and presence cannot be ignored. This encourages reflection, creativity and behaviour shifts. Managing Director Deirdre Ryan brings over 30 years of experience in senior leadership, coaching, and facilitation within central and local government, education, parks and recreation, and social services. With her first-hand experience of leadership through the response and recovery phases of the Canterbury and Hurunui earthquakes, Deirdre is a specialist in leading teams through uncertainty. For Deirdre, Salta Horses represents the culmination of a fulfilling and challenging leadership career, combined with her lifelong love of horsemanship - the willing communication between horse and human.

22/11/2025

Our Grand Duchess Peggy Sue had a shampoo and clip this morning. Isn't she looking fabulous!

27/10/2025

Besties

06/09/2025

Evidently it was breakfast in bed for Sassy this morning.

27/07/2025

It was a beautiful day for an outing.

Address

76 Eyredale Road
Rangiora

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 4pm
Friday	9am - 4pm
Saturday	9am - 4pm

Telephone

0212233925

Website

http://www.saltahorses.co.nz/

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How can horses help people?

What do horses have to do with building team trust, clarifying team purpose and optimising organisational performance?

Many organisational learning and development opportunities involve the experiential learning process, to teach us how to do better. In a nutshell, this process is based on the principle that people learn best by doing.

Essentially, this involves facilitating the five stages of experiencing, sharing, processing, generalising, then finally applying by bringing the combined learning from these stages to enable change.

The key difference with this particular experiential process is that horses are the catalysts for learning. Equine-assisted work is both hands-on and engaging through interaction with horses in a safe, enclosed area – there is no riding or horsemanship involved. Anyone can take part, even those who have never been near a horse before.

The horses provide us with immediate feedback as they read and respond to our non-verbal messages, making them great teachers.

Sometimes the horses can become metaphors, reflecting patterns of behaviour and situations that feel familiar to our everyday work and life experiences.

The individual’s experiences with the horses facilitate changes in skills, attitudes and behaviour.

This process can be particularly successful for people who find traditional learning environments difficult.

Some people compare this kind of work to outdoor survival programs, ropes courses, river rafting trips or other outdoor adventures (Graham, 2007). Unlike these other experiential programs, the equine partnered experiences go beyond overcoming fears in a period of stress to a deeper level of connection, engagement, and heartfelt learning and in a way that does not often present itself in traditional training environments (Rosak, Gomes, & Kanner 1995).

Connecting strongly to a horse through this learning process is profound for many participants. They often ask after certain horses a year or two after their interaction. They also retell a particular learning that emerged about themselves with a horse and how the experience has stuck with them.

Think horses for an out of the box, memorable learning and development experience for your team. What emerges may surprise you.