Horse Sense and
Emotional Intelligence:

How to Offer Honest Feedback Without Alienating Colleagues and Clients

Dates: June 5th & Oct 2nd 2010

Time: 9am – 4:15pm

Place: Horse Sense of the Carolinas, Inc

Class size: 20

Cost: $145 Early Bird, $165 After

To Register: Registration is provided via MAHEC, the Mountain Area Health and Education Center.

Audience: Mental health professionals including substance abuse counselors, social workers, psychologists, marriage and family therapists, school counselors, and other health care professionals.

Description: Horse Sense of the Carolinas, Inc., in collaboration with author and consultant Bob Wall, is offering this one-day event to support you in the development of your Emotional Intelligence (EQ) and its application to your work.

Offering honest feedback to colleagues and clients is one of the most challenging conversations in the workplace…so much so that most of us have conversations that are dying to happen. Skillfully phrased and delivered, sharing perspectives is one of the most helpful ways that people can support each other in qualities of emotional intelligence that are so essential human service professions.

This workshop offers a blend of classroom presentations and working with our equine co-facilitators in a series of exercises designed to raise your self-awareness. Working in teams, you will have ample opportunities for self-discovery and to develop mastery of delivering and receiving feedback…skills that you can take back to fine tune your relationships with your colleagues and clients. If you want to learn how to deliver straight feedback while minimizing the risk of damaging essential relationships, you don’t want to miss this workshop.

Objectives:

Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Describe a four-stage model of emotional intelligence and how each component can be developed to enhance personal fulfillment and professional effectiveness.

• Describe how to use techniques to enhance self-awareness and develop self-regulation in developing EQ.

• Demonstrate how to provide feedback to fellow professionals and clients to enhance their self-awareness and develop aspects of EQ.

• Explain how horses can be utilized to address self-awareness & self-regulation for individuals

Faculty:

Bob Wall has been a specialist in leadership and team development for more than 30 years. He has ample experience working with both mental health professionals and health care providers. He completed all but his dissertation for a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. As a graduate student, he started leading workshops focusing on interpersonal skills development in all forms of health care and human service settings in the Midwest. He also served for three years as a unit psychologist and another three years as the Director of Staff Development and Training for a residential mental health center in the Midwest before moving on to start his consulting career in 1980. He is the author of four books, including Working Relationships: Using emotional intelligence to enhance your effectiveness with others and Coaching For Emotional Intelligence: The secret to developing the star potential in your employees. Bob has also been a certified interpreter of The Simmons EQ Profile for more than 20 years.

Shannon Knapp, MA, Equine Specialist, EAGALA  Advanced, Parelli Level I, is the founder and president of Horse Sense of the Carolinas, Inc and has worked with and taught horses and people for over 20 years. She received her MA in 1993 from the University of Florida and spent almost 10 years teaching in college, she left academia and began working with abused & neglected horses. She began pairing "rescued" horses with people in 2001, and Horse Sense was formed soon after.