Equine-assisted Team Building Days

Located on the outskirts of North London, our team building days offer a powerful, hands-on experience where your team can strengthen communication, collaboration, and trust through working with horses.
Unforgettable and effective, these sessions benefit your team and make a real difference. Every booking helps fund equine-assisted therapy and education for vulnerable young Londoners.

What happens in a team building day at our equine therapy centre

Combining horses' unique qualities with the knowledge and experience of clinical psychologists, we bring out the best in your employees by helping you create a happy, harmonious, and hardworking team.

Leadership and team-building days designed to challenge and engage your team while helping vulnerable young people across London. Horse trainers and psychologists help the team reflect on how it is functioning and identify relevant lessons to take back to the office.

We work with horses to reflect on team dynamics and the individual role in that team, involving team building tasks which require the team to collectively influence the behaviour of horses in order to complete a series of teamwork tasks. ‘Crystal Maze’ but with horses! 

Horses rely on their ability to forge relationships with each other for survival. Horses pick up on the energy and emotions of teams and reflect this in their behaviour giving immediate experiential feedback on the functioning of the team.

Prices start from £350 per person. Contact us through our referrals form, and we will create your bespoke programme. 

All activities are on the ground and non-ridden, no prior experience is required

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Your corporate team day will:

  • Boost confidence

  • Improve body language

  • Heighten empathy

  • Draw out leadership qualities

  • Improve colleague respect and team values 

  • Enable engagement and reconnecting with each other

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Your corporate team day involves:

  • Consultant session to understand key challenges and team objectives

  • Bespoke team building sessions combine horse training and loosely structured teamwork tasks. Work together as a team with a herd of horses to influence the horse’s behaviour using the team’s energy and problem-solving abilities to complete tasks

  •  Post workshop session exploring roles and team dynamics during the tasks and relating this to what happens in the work environment

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Each session directly funds eight of London’s most disadvantaged young people to access our life changing service for 4-12 weeks. When the young people finish their programme of therapy or education you’ll be sent a report outlining the impact of the programme of the service on their lives, including personal quotes, testimonials and thanks. 


You will be offered the opportunity to engage with further mentoring with the students that you have helped through the team building day. 

CSR & Social Impact

What we do (and why your support matters)

We are a charity partnership run by senior Clinical Psychologists and nationally respected horse trainers. We work with London’s most vulnerable young people who are excluded from education or at risk of exclusion. Typical young people we work with have multiple mental health diagnoses and have experienced childhood abuse and/or neglect. Many have a learning difficulty diagnosis, and over 30% have been diagnosed with autism.

The young people we work with have lost all trust in humans and are typically living very isolated lives. Our horses break down the barriers that young people put up because they react honestly to the emotions and behaviours they show. As prey animals 99% of a horse’s communication is via body language. This means they pick up on human emotions and mirror them in their own behaviour. A horse will run away from an angry young person, ignore an unsure young person, relax around a calm young person, etc. Through working with these natural reactions, the young people learn to identify and manage their emotions to build relationships with our horses. 

As young people learn to trust the horses, they begin to rebuild trust in humans, starting with our staff and extending to the other education and mental health support professionals in other support organisations. This newfound trust, along with the confidence and interpersonal skills developed with us, enables young people to turn their lives around and reengage with education and society more generally.

Ready to strengthen your team - and support us in helping young Londoners in improving their life chances?

Get in touch today for an informal chat about our team building day offer.

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