What about a UNIQUE seminar,
with a classical singer coaching you on
stress management, listening, leadership, lateral thinking,
with a one lifetime experience with horses?
You are a curious entrepreneur, leader, manager, student interested in leading towards renewed creativity in your team & projects?
I invite you to join us for 3 days in picturesque Cantal, where May-Stroh (left) & Prince (right) will be welcoming you.
“This self-awareness class has definitively changed my life and I could not be more grateful.” Delphine Combastet, Fall 2020
Two years I had been willing to launch my Self-awareness, Leadership and Creativity Management signature seminar with horses. And now Covid seemed to give us some freedom back, we eventually could! Our pilot took place in November 2022 and was an utter success, both for CEOs and students/juniors alike.
“Il s’agit pour moi d’un séminaire innovant et efficace pour guider et soutenir le changement personnel et global.” Charlotte Bourg, Fall 2020
The equicoaching component
To help participants further, during the leadership phase of the seminar, I make use of the help of my two big brothers back home, namely May-Stroh (left) & Prince (right), our two French trotteurs.
This part of the seminar borrows from equicoaching exercices, which are priceless in terms of team experience. It allows for enhanced team communication and strengthened team bonds.
Sessions are video recorded for analysis and reflection as a team at a later stage in the seminar.
Equicoaching also helps face one’s fears, from fear of horses per se or more generally speaking. Building a relationship with the animal helps overcome one’s fear of him but more intrinsically helps develop self-confidence to face other fears. It is indeed important to accompany and help teammates get more self-confident so they enjoy their mission and can eventually unleash their full potential.
The inter-generational dimension
This is another unique feature of the Signature Seminar Soprano & Horses. I indeed always have invited students and junior professionals to join alongside senior executives. This inter-generational approach works wonders in terms of leadership and creativity challenges.
Creative thinking
Once the team feels confident, participants embark on a creative journey, from individual exercices and challenges to group work on business cases. The intergenerational teams work at finding creative solutions to issues using lateral thinking.
What do you take away?
- efficient stress management tricks
- enhanced self-confidence
- more trust in yourself
- more trust in your team
- more trust from your team
- enhanced listening skills
- to get heard
- to get listened to
- to approach ‘problems’ differently
- to unleash your creativity
- to unleash the creativity of your team
- TO FEEL BETTER
- TO BECOME AN EVEN BETTER LEADER
“The first time we met Ms Cussac, I didn’t really understand what was happening to me. But retrospectively, this experience was inestimable.”
Eros Giovanetto, Spring 2022
The genesis of Soprano & Horses’ seminar
My signature seminar has been transforming people’s lives since 2015, when I was asked to share my own experience to help others (Sophia-Antipolis). Already when communications manager in EU affairs in Brussels (2002-2010) had I been begged by Communication consultant colleagues to share my way of doing public speaking (European Commission, European Parliament, etc.), being a… soprano. (Here singing at the EP in 2008 and addressing Nick Clegg at the French Embassy during Brexit, 2017). Then a radio journalist friend pushed me to write: Sing to Better Communicate (2013).
“I step out of it having grown and learned more that I even realized.”
Céline Aoun, Fall 2019
My signature seminar was originally labelled Creativity Management. When offering it in Paris, it was renamed Self-Awareness by the client. That reflects the essence of the seminar but the ultimate goal is to unleash creativity: your own and that of your team. Now, it is called: Self-awareness, Leadership & Creativity Management.
“I must admit that at first, I was slightly skeptical about this seminar, though now I strongly believe that it should be mandatory.”
Luca Pipoli, Fall 2021
In the press
“Cantal: un séminaire sur le leadership et la gestion de la créativité avec des chevaux, késako ?” online in La Montagne, 26 November 2022
“A la (re)découverte de soi”, in La Montagne (paper edition), 25 November 2022
Next edition:
8 – 11 June 2023
embark on an unforgettable experience
offering you
- enhanced confidence in your self, team and creativity
- an avant-garde & unique training mixing classical singing techniques & equicoaching
- an inter-generational experience for outstanding experiences
- 3 days
- 17 hours of personalised coaching
- in a dream-like location in the beautiful French mountains of Cantal
- with first-class accommodation and food included
with
Prince & May-Stroh
Groundbreaking experience
SPECIAL EARLY-BIRD OFFER
€2,900
£2,600
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Shall I ride a horse?
No stress! No need to ride to do the exercises. No prior horse-riding experience is necessary.
Which language is the seminar in?
You speak English or French, according to how you feel on the spur of the moment. What is important is to feel comfortable to speak. Sometimes, we constantly switch languages. If all participants however wish to opt for one of the two languages, it is fine too. Language is therefore not to worry about.
What should I pack/bring ?
Corporate outfits are not necessarily needed 🙂 since the experience is taking place in pretty much the French version of the Highlands. Take outfits in which you will feel comfy and warm. Re the day with horses, take a pair of boots (or good trainers) in case the field is wet & an old jacket, just in case you get a horse hug (!) For our last dinner, enjoy a casual chic note.
