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Re-Framing Failure, Building Resilience and Managing Stress

  • The Hughes-Jones Centre 775 Highland Park Road Nine Mile Creek, PE, C0A 1H2 Canada (map)
There are no failures, only feedback.
— Richard Bandor

Talking about failure, resilience and stress in one 3 hour workshop is a tall order, but all three are inextricably linked. We need resilience to manage failure and stressors and we only build resilience through overcoming failure and stress!

This workshop (like all HJC workshops) has two components. The first explores failure, stress and resilience by engaging with a living metaphor: the horse. Participants will learn the horsemanship approach to failure while building a respectful relationship with one of our HJC horses and be coached as they discover their individual pain points.

Participants will deepen their awareness and understanding of what failure means to them and how that has fed stress, through learning horsemanship principles in our safe collaborative environment.

All participants will have the opportunity to engage with and learn from Ellen and the HJC herd.

The second component will take place in the HJC indoor facility with a warm drink in hand! Participants will take a facilitated deeper dive into the experience they had with the horses and use what they learned in the arena to re-frame their thinking and develop strategies which they can implement in their lives.

Program will include a light snack and warm beverage.

All programs adhere to Public Health Guidelines in regard to Covid-19.

Horse portion of the program is in our horse facility. Please dress for the weather.

Please take your own mask.

*All programs at HJC operate with the strictest of confidentiality at heart. Emotional and physical safety are a high values for our programming and our facility. We ask all participants to hold the confidentiality of each individual in high regard. Photographs of the facility and the presenter are welcomed however please only post or take photos which have been requested and approved by participants. Tell stories of what takes place but do not identify individuals as you recount events. Thank-you for helping us create a safe environment for learning.*

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