Our mission is to provide an organization for donors, volunteers and staff to promote wellness for people with personal challenges who can benefit from Equine Assisted Activities and Therapies in a safe and supportive environment.
Equine-Assisted Leadership Development
Healing Strides is proud to present these exciting corporate programs at our facility near Roanoke, Virginia. We partner with Leadership Adventures to certify our coaches for this Gallup approved training that helps unlock the full potential of your people and organization. Our unique partnership provides experiential, equine-based leadership training. The benefits of our approach include higher learning retention rates with upon return impact, results-driven teams with increased engagement, reduced employee turnover, and managers performing to their true potential. Human Resource professionals certified through the Society for Human Resource Management also earn valuable continuing education credits.
Experiential learning increases learning and retention by 50% or more. We leverage parallels between leading horses and leading people to help you increase retention of the leadership concepts while getting some fresh air. That means your team gets to learn and practice leadership skills by learning from and working with horses! This allows them to get safely out of their comfort zone in a low-risk environment. Since these workshops focus on working with horses in small teams versus riding horses, everyone can participate! By partnering with Healing Strides to develop your organization’s potential, you also inspire hope and give back to the local community by financially supporting the services we offer to people with personal challenges.
Strengths-Based Leadership
This one-day course uses the CliftonStrengths® (formerly Clifton StrengthsFinder®) concepts to help you master proven leadership principles to know your own strengths, know the strengths of others, and empower effective teams. Participants will leave with tools, strategies, and application experience to effectively leverage their strengths and the strengths of others.
Trust-Based Leadership
A one-day course that uses Maister’s Trust Equation to help you master proven leadership principles to understand and build trusted relationships. Participants will leave with tools, strategies, and application experience to effectively increase their trustworthiness.
Strengths and Trust-Based Leadership
This two day course combines the two courses above into two consecutive days, adding more experiential time to learn from the horses. Combining the Strengths and Trust allows the best from both courses to build on each other.
If you, or a business you know, could use the help of our equines to skyrocket leadership skills, please contact us for more information!
Internship Opportunities
Healing Strides offers internships from High School to PhD levels. We work with numerous colleges and universities to allow the opportunity to learn first-hand about the Equine Assisted Activities and Therapies Industry, as well as the business side of how a non-profit is organized and managed.
We can tailor any internship to what is needed or required for the student, allowing them to have a personalized experience while they are here! Please be sure to reach out to us, so we can better understand what your needs are and how we can help you reach your internship goals!
For more information please call 540.334.5825 and ask to speak with Kathleen about internship opportunities!
MENTORING- PATH INT'L INSTRUCTORS AND EAGALA MODEL TEAMS OR TEAM MEMBERS
PATH International
Healing Strides will mentor you to prepare you for the CTRI or Advanced PATH Int’l Instructor Certification. This is an intensive program that is specific to your personal skill level. You will have an evaluation of your knowledge with a Certified Mentor to decide where you should start the process. This is a 6 month to 2 year program based on the evaluation.
Here is an example of one of our Mentee's Part III Teaching Test for their CTRI:
EAGALA
Healing Strides will mentor you to learn and give you practice opportunities for the Eagala Model for both the Mental Health Professional and the Equine Specialist. You can come here prior to your certification or to practice the model after you have been to a training.
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