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Mentalitatea de campion și spiritul de echipă se construiesc și la manej

By on September 25th, 2021 in Article | Tags: • • • •

In premieră pentru România în domeniul educației asiste de cai, organizam un program de dezvoltare a echipei de cățărători cu deficiențe fizice.

Comunicat de presa

București, 14 septembrie Horse Touch, parte a Asociației Asociației Internaționale de Educație Asistată de Cai, și sportivii Lotului Național de Paraclimbing înregistrează o premieră pentru România în domeniul educației asiste de cai, organizând un program de dezvoltare a echipei de cățărători cu deficiențe fizice, care ne reprezintă cu succes țara la nivel mondial. Horse Touch crează și livrează programe educaționale de leadership cu ajutorul cailor. Conform Asociației Internaționale de Educație Asistată de Cai (EAHAE), o asociație cu peste 200 de parteneri, în toată lumea, partenerul român Horse Touch organizează în premieră și în perfectă stare de siguranță,  un program dedicat persoanelor cu dizabilități, cu un număr atât de mare de participanți simultan – 3 persoane cu deficiențe de vedere și 3 persoane cu deficiențe de mișcare.

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I met Courage

By on August 19th, 2021 in Article | Tags: • • •

This is my story about the time when I felt most strongly somebody else’s fear.

I arrived at Potcoava on a quiet Thursday afternoon, a typical summer day. I crossed a couple of the free ranging horses on the hills right next to the Hideaway. In the golden sunset light, these horses seem like supernatural creatures roaming on a piece of land straight out of a fairy tale. I thought to myself “if there is Heaven, horses for sure inhabit it.”

They (a team of top managers) were still in the workshop, so I just greeted the staff and joined Ionut, my business partner, for a snack and a chat about the weekend this team would spend with us and the horses. The program we had put together was tailored  for the team and their objectives and at the time we were both curious to see how it will unfold. 

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Leadership skills in time of Crisis – interview with horse assisted coaches Sanny Cassani and Luis Praxmarer (Austria)

By on May 31st, 2020 in Article | Tags: • • • • • • •

Crisis management happens on a continuum: we need to be good at managing the crisis through good hazard and risk management upfront, then during the actual crisis and also create value when coming out of it

Sanny and I were part of the same certification group for the Horse Dream horse assisted education concept. I was thrilled to discover such a powerful presence and I later on invited her to join our team in Romania.

I’ve met Luis the next year and since then I never get tired of listening to how he puts things in perspective from micro to macro, from local to global, from the business world to the horse arena.

Both their professional lives and their personal experiences recommend this team for the topic of Crisis Management so I am grateful that they agreed to this interview. Thank you both!

Madalina: What makes this leadership competency of crisis management so complex?

Sanny: First of all, it’s the fact that systematically and especially in times like the ones we are currently experiencing, the ability to manage crises is particularly challenged. When in the middle of things, we usually have energy to display the competency but not to develop it. The development must happen prior to the need .

Secondly, crisis management happens on a continuum: we need to be good at managing the crisis through good hazard and risk management upfront, then during the actual crisis and also create value when coming out of it. 

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