Power Of Choice Retreat

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A retreat that outfits you with 
the power of choice 
to lead your life 
versus it leading you…

Say goodbye to stale hotel rooms and common approaches.  Come visit our gorgeous Montana ranch to experience a development retreat where nature is your classroom, horses are your teachers, and you learn more than you might expect—about yourself and others—by experiencing what happens when you examine the powerful choices you make, moment to moment, in your life. Most of us are unaware of the choices we make because we’re on auto-pilot, reacting to life unconsciously instead of intentionally.  

"The Power of Choice retreat was one of the most profound and extraordinary experiences of my life!  In beautiful surroundings, I rediscovered my authentic self, powerful and purposeful. I learned how to let go of my story that prevented me from stepping into greatness! I left energized and excited about new possibilities in my work and relationships!  I’ll never look at a horse the same way again!"

-Documentary Producer

What Can You Expect?

In the Power of Choice retreat, we help you achieve breakthroughs that increase the depth of your emotional intelligence, transforming not only work, but your personal and family life as well. Attending a Power of Choice retreat enables you to find and cultivate your personal power, helping you to more effectively lead and constructively influence others.

It’s about your power—how to use it, how to manage it, and how to be clear about the choices you make with it.

Whether you are a leader, a follower, or some of both, the Power of Choice retreat will give you an improved ability to:

• Know if your emotional reactions are ruling your decisions and shift
• Better manage your negative self talk
• Manage your emotions by understanding how to use emotions as information
• Learn how vulnerability can lead to connection, trust, and intimacy
• Communicate more openly and tell people what’s really going on with you
• Not take mistakes and upsets so hard
• Listen deeply behind the words for feelings that may not be communicated
• Take more personal responsibility for your behavior and how you affect others instead of blaming them or becoming a victim
• Resolve conflict more quickly—in hours instead of days or weeks
• State your concerns and feelings without being angry or resigned
• Stand in the face of someone being upset and not take it personally
• Understand other people’s feelings and concerns and get curious about their perspective

For those of you profoundly curious and committed to personal or professional growth, this retreat will take you beyond where you’ve been before.  
 
You will love the results.  So will your board of directors, peers, team members, direct reports, friends, spouse, and family.

“I came away knowing and experiencing the personal power of discovering how changing on the inside so dramatically impacted how I functioned in my business and personal life.”

 -Senior Vice President

Why Horses? 

It’s not about the horse, it’s about you!
Some programs teach you through rocks and ropes, games and role-plays.  We don’t.  We use horses to help us teach at our retreats, harnessing your awareness of emotion over intellect, and intuition over reason.  

What can a horse teach you? Plenty.

Horses are consummate facilitators in the work of human development, acting as 1,100-pound biofeedback agents offering constant and instant feedback.  Because horses see through the slightest incongruities of emotion and intention, they help you re-examine habits and patterns that keep you from connecting with certain people, situations, and results.  Real time, right now!

"The way you read horses and tie it back to us as people is phenomenal!"

-Executive Director

Your growth comes from being able to make better decisions in the moment by better understanding what keeps you from making powerful, life and relationship enhancing choices. Your insights don’t come from trying to ride a horse. Rather they come from trying to read a horse—by tuning into the feedback you get from them based on your own ability to connect. Through working with a horse, without a halter, reins, or saddle in a round pen, you will deepen your awareness of personal issues, core feelings, and areas of body tension that may inhibit your ability to reach your full potential.  Your time with a horse in the round pen becomes a powerful adjunct to traditional development tools.

“After 5 months I can now say with assurance, your program worked with me! It gave me some new tools to use, and experiences to reflect on, in leading people to accomplish great things. If “big energy” will work with horses, it will work with people and I prove it everyday!”

-Senior Vice President

Lasting Results

Our participants have told us the Power of Choice retreat is a life-changing experience.  During the retreat you will feel re-energized, have a profound sense of purpose, and step more fully into your personal power. 

To help you sustain the enhanced level of self-awareness you achieve during The Power of Choice, we provide each participant with three one-hour, one-on-one coaching sessions after graduating from one of our retreats.  This important benefit comes at no extra charge—it’s included in your retreat fee.  In addition, we set up ways for you to integrate the practices you learn into your workplace and personal life.

“This workshop provided me with great insight at a time in my life when I needed it.”

-Retired Dentist and new Business Owner

When you have graduated from a Power of Choice retreat, you may elect to have further personalized coaching from one of the Leadership Outfitter guides.  We call this our Lasting Results program and offer it in 6-month segments.  This dynamic follow-up program enables you to build on what you accomplished during the Power of Choice retreat as you continue to make progress.