Monty and Pat Roberts offer an enriching experience for your team building exercise, incentive trip, or corporate assembly. In the beautiful Santa Ynez Valley with its year-round fair weather, your team will experience a 45 minute demonstration of Monty Roberts’ force-free training methods called Join-Up®. You will see that with horses, these methods are physical; with humans, these methods are psychological. Your team will witness a unique lesson in the value of trust-based relationships and communication. A delicious ranch style barbecue follows, offering the perfect opportunity to discuss the application of these philosophies in your workplace. Contact us for more information on reserving a demonstration by Monty for your corporate event. Marsha St, Claire speaks about her experience at Flag Is Up Farms.

Experience the management and relationship paradigm that companies such as General Motors, AT&T, Ford Motor Company and more, are sharing with their management teams: "What a glorious day that was for me....I can't tell you how many people REALLY benefited from Monty's demo....thank you so much!"  - Dana Drobny, Americorps Manager

A Join-Up Story: Excerpt from Clive Warrilow's speech to the 1998 graduating class of the Business School of Oakland University.

"I became acquainted with Monty Roberts shortly after coming to Volkswagen of America in 1994, and was truly inspired by the techniques he used—kindness and respect for the horses he trained rather than the traditional method of breaking an animal’s spirit.

His basic philosophy was that the teacher must create an environment in which the student can learn—which is simple, direct and honest. A true life learning. “You can’t push information into an unwilling brain,” says Monty, “There’s no such thing as teaching, only learning.”

The experience was so powerful to me . . . It fits perfectly with the style of leadership that I had been experimenting with since the early eighties.

After our [Volkswagen’s] reorganization, I took our remaining executives back to Santa Barbara so they could experience Monty’s techniques and philosophy first hand. As we all walked single file around the training corral, I remember haring more than a few remarks and some mumbling under the breath about “What are we doing here?” and “Where are the cocktails?”

And then, people began to experience what Monty Roberts could achieve with a horse that had never before had a bridle, saddle and rider. This was not just about a horse. It was a metaphor for a style of management that says people will be better employees if you treat them with dignity, respect and honesty. Trust goes a lot further toward winning people over than ordering them around.”

- Clive Warrilow, CEO Volkswagen

Special Gifts are also available. Greet your guests in their hotel room with a signed copy of Horse Sense for People. For more information or to check availability for your preferred date, email us or call Kerry Lee at: 1-888-826-6689, extension 112.