There’s no better teacher of human potential than a horse.
Lead, Team, and Solve
through the wisdom of wild mustangs and the grasslands on which they rely.
The Learning Tracks
Human and horse. A partnership that goes back 4,000 years. Why? They take us places we cannot journey to alone, at speeds we could never achieve without them.
Let them do the same for you and your team.
Leading through Uncertainty
Log out of HBR, lay down the latest hardcover, and learn leadership from a different kind of teacher: horses. As you engage with equines, we’ll help you uncover your leadership excellence and opportunities through five critical trust virtues: Noticing + Feeling, Communicating + Cooperating, Visioning + Adapting, and Modeling + Motivating. Polarities are used as a guiding framework for our time.
Pre-learning: Hogan Assessment & facilitated 1:1 discussion
The stops along the trail we’ll travel
Stop One: Gather courage in the unfamiliar
Stop Two: Seek understanding for the unalike
Stop Three: Create connection with those you lead
Stop Four: Influence others into action
Stop Five: Welcome feedback from setbacks & opportunity
The Day’s Destination: The Watering Hole. You earned it.
Teaming through Challenge
Reach beyond standard sports and military metaphors to investigate the meaning of teamwork through the natural world. Alongside a herd of formerly wild mustangs guides, you’ll unwind the complexities of teaming using the six pillars of high performing teams: diversity, communication, progress toward goals, recognition, productive feedback, and trust. Herd dynamics are used as a guiding framework for our time.
Pre-learning: Hogan Assessment & facilitated team discussion
The stops along the trail we’ll travel
Stop One: Gather courage in the unfamiliar
Stop Two: Seek understanding for the unalike
Stop Three: Re-learn the meaning of teaming
Step Four: Find your leadership within the group
Stop Five: Create team norms that are fixed but freeing
The Day’s Destination: The Watering Hole. You earned it.
Solving in Complexity
Through the history, heartbreak, and hopefulness of the wild mustang story, you will learn to explore issues through systems thinking. Consider thorny problems through their outcomes and their inputs, through their causal points of origin and intersection. Approach the complex like a horse: one step at time with eyes on the past, present, and future. Your intuition and curiosity are guiding ‘frameworks’ for our time.
Pre-learning: Hogan Assessment & facilitated 1:1 discussion
The stops along the trail we’ll travel
Stop One: Gather courage in the unfamiliar
Stop Two: Seek understanding for the unalike
Stop Three: Create connection with those you lead
Stop Four: Influence others into action
Stop Five: Find opportunity in failure and excitement in effort
The Day’s Destination: The Watering Hole. You earned it.
Custom Retreats & Learning Series
We design custom 1-, 2-, and 3-day experiences in partnership with your challenges, insights, institutional knowledge. We’ll bring our organizational behavior & development expertise against nature’s backdrop to deliver precisely the experience that will shift thinking, feeling, and doing toward your organization’s potential.
Your needs guide the design: Your guided adventure can happen with horses, in the classroom, in the grasslands, on the river. Toward strategic insight, team dynamics, leadership evolution, service innovation, cultural transformation. Whatever you face or imagine.
Pre-learning: Hogan Assessment & facilitated team discussion
The stops along the trail we’ll travel aren’t yet known. Let’s find them together.
“The flow of the day was perfect. The setting, the tone of the presentation, the exercises were unique, thought provoking and extremely helpful for the team.”
Reggie Gordon, CEO of Richmond Memorial Health Foundation
Meet Your Trail Guides
Tomorrow
I’m an eleven-year-old mare from the dusty, rocky hills of a place they call Devil’s Garden, in Northern California.For ten years I ran wild and free, before I was rounded up. I’ve had many children, but only one who still lives at home. My favorite pastimes are eating and bounding about. I love gentle pets down my nose.
Seminal
I’m a three-year-old mare also from Devil’s Garden. (Tomorrow and I were in the same herd back home.) I was rounded up when I was only two years old – I’ve lived with humans nearly as long as I lived without them. I love affection. I’m curious about, well…everything. And when I’m not eating, I’m hanging with Becky.
Lacuna
I’m a yearling colt, born in a holding facility after my mom, Tomorrow, was rounded up from the wild West. I’m still new to the world, so I spend a lot of my time looking to Semi and Mom to tell me what to do. My favorite games are to pick up tack Becky leaves laying around with my mouth, or muck buckets after she’s filled them with manure.
“I don’t think I can put into words how meaningful Saturday was. What an incredible experience for all of us. I walked away not only feeling a sense of rooted healing, but surprisingly a profound connection to those magnificent creatures. I felt a sense of peace I haven’t felt in a very long time.”
Andrea Starr, Executive Director of the Forward Foundation
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Joining Together
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Seeking Understanding
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Checking In
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Establishing Safety
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Inviting Connection
FAQs
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Full-day program (7-8 hours)
Hosted at our riverside ranch in historic Varina, Virginia
Breakfast, lunch, snacks and refreshments provided, from a vegetarian-based menu
Carpooling required if possible
Mandatory safety waivers included in your introductory packet
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Water
Sunscreen
Your authentic self
Plenty of vulnerability
Courageous curiosity
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No! The entire experience happens on the ground with your horse and human guide.
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Let’s talk! Custom workshops and offsite experiences are entirely possible. becky@thegivingwall.org
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We welcome groups ranging from 3 to 20.
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We love this question! Email us at becky@tomorrowco.org and we’ll schedule an exploratory conversation, after which we’ll both decide if equine learning is the right adventure for you and your team.
“Our potential becomes possible when we live honestly two unavoidable truths:
We are of the Earth, and for each other.”