22862 Dover Bridge Road, Preston, Maryland
Innovative Leader Development
The horses - and how you interact with them - boost your potential to become an effective leader.
"A leader is a person who must take responsibility for what's going on inside him/herself, inside his or her consciousness, lest the act of leadership create more harm than good."
~ Parker Palmer
Develop your leadership talents by …
- Building relationships that create high-performing teams.
- Enhancing your emotional intelligence.
- Acquiring knowledge and skills that leverage your strengths.
- Learning how to develop and implement strategic solutions.
The Innovative Leader Development Experience
Research shows that classroom training fades quickly while lessons acquired through interactive learning continue to offer insights.
Anne Altvater, Jennifer Fox and their team of horses are your guides as you move beyond traditional leadership training into graduate level experiences. For decades Anne and Jennifer have witnessed the results that adults and children experience when they interact with a horse.
In a casual, relaxed setting you dress down and step up to learn more effective ways to see familiar situations with new eyes. No riding is involved and you get as close to a horse as you like with guidance from Anne and Jenn.
Innovative Leader Development is custom-made for individuals and for groups. With respect and curiosity Anne and Jenn invite you to examine your perceptions and how you react to them. The horses, and how you interact with them, lead you to insights that boost your potential to become an effective leader.
The Innovative Leader Development Team
Anne Altvater grew up in an Eastern Shore farm family committed to innovation, community service and education. These inherited values and her love of horses shaped who she has become – a skilled horse trainer, a successful business owner, a Brennan Healing Science energy healer, and an intuitive equine therapy practitioner. Anne is a graduate of Shore Leadership and serves on the board.
Jennifer Fox, who grew up with horses, is recognized as a creative, open-hearted riding teacher and coach. Her love of children and her experience as a nanny led her to earn a degree in early childhood development. She uses farm tasks and horse tending to help her students feel accomplished as they overcome struggles in everyday life.
The Horses on the team offer authentic responses to the people around them. Through millions of years of evolution horses have developed instincts that empower them to act in their best interest. Horses see behind the masks human wear, uncovering inner wisdom and provoking life-changing insights.
BOOK YOUR SESSION...
Individual and group sessions can be held at Campbell's Land Farm in Preston, Maryland. The Innovative Leader Development team will also travel to other locations. The cost of Insightful Leader Development will be set for each client depending on location, time and content.
Move beyond traditional training into graduate level leader development experiences .
PRIVATE SESSIONS
A private session of Insight Equine Therapy focuses on an issue that you bring for insight, clarification and action. For some issues you may want to invite one or two other people (e.g., spouse, child, parent) for whom the same issue is relevant.
- One-hour session with one client: $125.
- One-hour session with two clients: $150.
Prices quoted are for private sessions held at Campbell's Lane Farm in Preston, Maryland. Additional fees may apply for sessions at other locations.
SEMINARS and RETREATS
Insight Equine Therapy experiential seminars and retreats are designed for groups of people who are interested in learning about and experiencing the gifts of the process together.
Outside of the four walls of a classroom participants come heart-to-heart with horse healers. With Anne’s guidance they get to know themselves and one another through candid conversation, hands-on exercises and light-hearted interactions.
Topics for these group events include:
- Leadership: Learn techniques that enhance performance of the leader and of the team.
- Team work: Build more effective and satisfying work groups by learning how to set shared goals, offer encouragement and communicate about areas for improvement.
- Communication: Identify ways to convey information, feelings and requests that build more satisfying relationships and produce desired results.
- Compassion fatigue: Recover a sense of well-being for caregivers, health care providers and others who dedicate their time and energy to the care of others.
- Grief: Use experiences of loss as gateways to personal transformation and spiritual awakening.
- Self-discovery: Clarify values, dreams and goals through heightened awareness and mindfulness.
- Healthy Boundaries: Practice setting boundaries to benefit your well-being and to enhance personal and professional relationships.
Seminar and retreat design, location and fees reflect the needs of groups and the time invested by the Insight Equine Therapy team.
Participants experience candid conversation, hands-on exercises and light-hearted interactions.
PARTNERSHIPS
The Insight Equine Therapy team is available to collaborate with therapists, counselors, coaches, health care providers and other practitioners to help their clients try on new perspectives in a natural healing environment.
Process and fees will be customized to meet the needs of each practitioner and the clients invited to experience Insight Equine Therapy.
"Watching Anne work with one of my clients validated for me the limits at times of talk therapy and the need for other modalities to maximize treatment benefits. The farm itself is therapeutic by nature and the horses and Anne just enhance that feeling. Campbell’s Lane Farm is a true retreat where, in a safe and nurturing environment, healing can happen." ~ Aarti Kishen, LCSW-C
With the Insight Equine Therapy team practitioners help their clients try on new perspectives.