Private Programs
What Are Private Programs?
Private Programs can be booked for participants who are looking for a specific program, wanting a certain date and/or time, or wanting a more personal and/or customized experience with our horse teachers.
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Are Private Programs For Individual Participants Only?
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Our Private Programs are ideal for those who are looking for a personal or customized program for family, friends, co-workers, teammates, students, employees, etc. Individual Participant Programs are available, as well.
When Can Private Programs Be Booked?
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Private Programs are run during days or evenings that are not filled with Public Programs or other previously scheduled Private Programs. Bookings can be made for weekdays or weekends. 48 hours in advance to your desired start time is required for Registration. In order to receive a full refund, cancellations must be made 24 hours in advance to program start time.
Cancellations made less than 24 hours may be subject to the program price as a cancellation fee.
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How Are They Personal?
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A Private Program is run for just you and the participants that you bring along with you. Open Programs are open to the public to register for. Having just your party/group during a program means more personal interaction with both the staff and the
horses. Private Programs are especially beneficial to those with behavioural or emotional disorders/issues.
How Are They Customizable?
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Some of our programs are customizable to hit the objectives you and/or your team needs to find success! Particularly of interest to corporations, organizations, schools, and other large groups who are interested in developing certain skills to attain their desired goals. However, other workshops and events can be customized to meet your needs.
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What Programs Can Be Booked Privately?
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All of our programs can be booked privately on a date and time that is most convenient for you and your team.
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How Do I Book?
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Just fill out the Private Programs Registration Form and this will get us started on booking and creating a personal and/or customized Private Program Experience. Online Registration is available for our Private Programs
Individual Participant Programs
Although we love to see our participants working in teams, our program is easily adaptable to a single participant and can be customized to meet your goals, your family's goals, or a client's goals. With huge success, we have developed a single participant program that still includes tons of life and social skills development, while also allowing for one-on-one time with our horse teachers! While a Certified Facilitator will be present to help guide the program, the single participant will be working with just the horse as a team member.
Below are some frequently asked questions regarding individual participant programs.
Do single participants see the same life skills development in the program?
Absolutely. Although they do not have another human team member, their horse team member is just as important and interactive as a team member. Due to the nature of horses, they are very sensitive to our emotional response to what is happening around us. Just as we may feel that a human being is upset, a horse has the same emotional language and can feel the emotion in the same way. As prey animals, horses are able to distinguish between an aggressive approach and a calm approach. By reacting to the stimuli around them, horses tell the participant how they are feeling. The participant is able than able to self-reflect on what they are brining to the horse's environment that is making them react in that way. By working with horses in this way, we can also see how important body language is to communicate with all sorts of different species, and most importantly, how we can read body language of other humans in social situations. We may think we are proficient in a skill, such as communication. However, until a horse tells us so, there is always room for development. Although teamwork with other humans is ideal, working with a horse can help us develop essential life skills.
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What are the benefits of a single participant program?
There are certainly benefits to single participant programs, especially during this time, including, but are not limited to:
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Goal Setting: If there is a personal goal that the participant is hoping to achieve, single participant programs can be beneficial, as we can customize the objectives of the program to help meet those goals. A participant may feel as though their goal is too personal to share in a group setting and would feel safer in a single participant setting.
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Ability: A participant may have a disability or condition that a single participant program would allow for a safer learning environment. This disability or condition may be mobility-, learning-, emotional-, behavioural-based, etc.
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Time Restraints: Because we can customize a single participant program to the individual's goals, we can create a program that hits just the right objectives to move them forward with their goals. Most of our programs are 75-90-minutes in length. However, with the one-on-one environment of a single participant program, the length of program is reduced slightly to 60-75-minutes. For those who have time restraints, single participant programs may be a better option. The length of time is sometimes shorter due the participant having one-on-one horse/human interaction and discussion is based solely on what the single participant and their horse teacher are working on. The reduced length of time does not represent less of a learning opportunity.
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One-On-One: Single participant programs allow for one-on-one time with the horse teacher. Of course our horse teachers love to work with groups, the unique environment that a one-on-one session has, can be just as rewarding. Although there may be more than one human being in the arena (for safety purposes, if necessary depending on disability or condition), there so only one horse teacher!
Are all programs available as single participant programs?
Other than our corporate professional development programs and our team building workshops, the rest of our programs are available to be run as individual participant programs.
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How do I register for an individual participant program?
Contact us
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* Payment is due at time of registration. Credit/Debit can be used at the end of the registration process *
(please contact us if you wish to pay through Debit/Credit at a future time).
Please contact us if you wish to pay via e-Transfer, cash or cheque.
Cancellations must be made 24 hours in advance. The program price becomes non-refundable or program may not be eligible to be rescheduled. Programs begin no later that 15-minutes after start time. Private programs, if 15-minutes late, program is cancelled (without refund), but may be eligible to be rescheduled.
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