Team Building

Soar Development offers unique, experiential team building experiences through horse-led learning and paddleboarding, designed to strengthen communication, collaboration, and wellbeing in an inspiring outdoor setting.

  • Choice of innovative team building activities
  • Experienced and qualified facilitators
  • Bespoke sessions tailored to your team
  • Improve communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills
  • A refreshing day in nature

Team Building with Horses – Pegasus Horse-Led Learning

Step outside the office and into an inspiring outdoor setting with our horse-led learning sessions. Working alongside horses from the ground (no riding required), teams experience powerful, real-time feedback that highlights communication styles, leadership approaches, and team dynamics. Horses respond instantly to our behaviour, offering unique insights that traditional training can’t replicate. This experiential approach helps teams reflect, adapt, and strengthen collaboration, while enjoying an innovative and memorable team day.

Paddleboarding for Teams

Set against the stunning backdrop of Yoke Hill lakes in Northamptonshire, our paddleboarding sessions combine fun, challenge, and teamwork. Whether you’re a beginner or looking to improve your skills, our qualified instructors guide you through a safe and enjoyable experience. These sessions encourage communication, trust, and support among team members while offering the chance to try something new together. Mindfulness or group coaching elements can be added, and facilities are available if you’d like to integrate your own strategy session into the day.

Retreats

Our retreats bring together the benefits of horse-led learning and paddleboarding to create truly immersive experiences focused on wellbeing, awareness, and personal growth. We design bespoke retreats to suit your theme—whether here in the UK or further afield. From reflective equine sessions in Ibiza to paddleboarding retreats at our Northamptonshire base, we create memorable opportunities for teams and groups to step away from daily pressures, connect with each other, and return with renewed clarity and energy.

Community Groups

We also design workshops for community groups looking to build confidence, self-esteem, and resilience. These sessions, which can run for two hours, half a day, or a full day, provide a safe and supportive space for individuals who may be seeking work, rebuilding after domestic abuse, or managing stress. While not therapy, these experiential activities complement other forms of support and offer participants the chance to reconnect with themselves, grow in confidence, and enjoy the benefits of being outdoors.

Our Reviews

Dipali P

Great working with other women, loved the focus of the course as women have different barriers to progression, so this environment made it much easier to share and be honest, so outcomes were more realistic and actually helpful.

Kay T

Refreshing in every sense: A chance to reflect on the whats, whys, and hows of your career; done in an environment where you are supported and challenged. This course is like nothing else I have ever done - inspirational.

Andrew Willis

Claire is a knowledgeable and insightful Learning and Development professional who quickly cultivates positive relationships with peers and senior manager colleagues. She has an innate ability to quickly identify the exact learning need and then develop creative solutions to address. I have found that she is trusted by those she works with, works to a very high standard and possesses great integrity. A pleasure to work with.

Activate Learning

CEO

"The whole day was an inspiration, hearing other people's aspirations and goal setting. Positivity was 'soaring'.

CEO

Coaching Client

Thank you for all your support and listening ear which I have felt has contributed to getting me to where I am now. I would have no hesitation in recommending you to colleagues.

Career Development

Project Leader for Women in Diplomacy

I have worked with Claire on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's flagship Women in Diplomacy project: a career development programme for female diplomats from the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain and Poland. I have been impressed by Claire's ability to quickly grasp the learning needs of a diverse international cohort and to understand how her training fits in with the project's wider objectives in a complex political environment. Claire has been responsive, flexible, open to challenge, enthusiastic and dedicated. It's been a pleasure!

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Head of Manufacturing

Claire has enabled me, coached me and given me confidence throughout my journey as a senior leader, resulting in a promotion sooner than expected. Claire's style is supportive, questioning and she has the ability to summarise in such a way that it makes me teel listened too and understood. I have been able to apply this to my own team with some excellent results building a strong team around me. / highly recommend Claire to anyone, especially as a female in a male dominated environment.

Stannah

Joanne Lord

Claire is an excellent trainer and motivator, she enables people to realise their potential through aspirational thinking and workshops designed to harness individual strengths for positives outcomes for onward progression.

Senior Head of Department

Nicola Fraser

I had the pleasure of working alongside Claire on a project for DMU delivering Constructive Conversation Workshops and evaluating a forward thinking strategy for the Organisational Development team. I found Claire to be professional, creative and committed to producing high quality work through active listening and teamwork. I look forward to working with her again in the future.

Dragonfly HR Ltd

Aly King-Smith

Claire is a joy to collaborate with. Straight and true, Claire is full of integrity and authenticity. She's committed, highly qualified, experienced - and importantly, very committed to the benefits of positive psychology. l've enjoyed watching her be brave in her business and you will find a highly competent trainer and coach.

Director at Clearworks

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