The Circle Up Experience

The Circle Up Experience Circle Up’s Natural Leadership model & experiential learning with horses integrate human psychology.

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We love interacting with our community of amazing people! We partner people with horses to provide a unique approach to leadership training, team building, and personal development with hands-on activities and exercises with horses at a local ranch. We offer custom designed individual sessions and group workshops, which allow people to interact with the horses in order to hone relational skills, improve nonverbal communications, broaden perspectives of leadership roles, practice working as teams, challenge problematic thinking patterns, eliminate internal obstacles, and learn to influence and inspire others. By working with a herd of horses, people can experience the primitive and powerful world of natural leadership, practice effective trust building, and discover the innate leader within.

01/23/2026

Healthy systems don’t teach through force.
They teach through relationship.

Watch a mare with her foal and you’ll see it immediately. Leadership is steady, quiet, and unmistakable. There is attunement. Clear boundaries. A swift correction when needed—followed by release. Nothing is taken personally. Nothing lingers. The system stays regulated because leadership STAYS PRESENT.

This is the kind of leadership that becomes visible during the Lambing Leadership Retreat.

Executives and senior leaders begin to see how their state shapes the system. How boundaries create stability. How clarity rebuilds trust—without urgency, pressure, or over-functioning.

When leadership is clean, the system organizes itself.
When the system is healthy, growth doesn’t have to be forced.

🐑 Lambing Leadership Retreat
📍 Awake Ranch
🗓️ April 9–12
🔗 Details in link in bio

01/20/2026

Leadership is not a solo performance.
It’s a living system.

During lambing season, you step into a world where systems are impossible to ignore.
Birth, hierarchy, response, rhythm, repair — all happening in real time.

Nothing operates in isolation.
Every decision, tone, boundary, and reaction ripples through the whole field.

Horses, ewes, and lambs show us something modern organizations often forget:
healthy systems depend on clarity, regulation, and honest feedback — especially when pressure is high and stakes are real.

This retreat is for executives, senior leaders, and professional coaches who want more than new strategies.

It’s for those ready to see:
• How their internal state shapes team performance
• Where communication breaks down
• How over-functioning quietly erodes trust
• What actually restores balance without force
• How to lead systems instead of managing symptoms

You won’t leave with motivation.
You’ll leave with deeper awareness, cleaner signals, and a clearer system.

Lambing Leadership Retreat
📍 Awake Ranch
🗓️ April 9–12

Come learn what machines and metrics can’t teach.
Details via link in bio.

Finding Clarity and A Return to What Matters MostDuring lambing season, life arrives quietly and with intention. There i...
01/18/2026

Finding Clarity and A Return to What Matters Most

During lambing season, life arrives quietly and with intention. There is no rushing what is ready to be born—only presence, timing, and care. Lambs arrive, the herd responds, and leadership reveals itself as something embodied rather than imposed. Horses listen deeply. Lambs respond to steadiness.

This retreat is for leaders seeking clarity, individuals longing to reconnect with themselves, and couples wanting to strengthen how they listen, respond, and move together. In the stillness of nature, you’re invited to soften your pace, release what you’ve been carrying, and remember the wisdom that already lives within you.

You’ll leave grounded and resourced—carrying a quieter confidence back into your work, your relationships, and your life.

🐑 Lambing Retreat
📍April 13-16, 2026
🔗 Details in link in bio

01/16/2026

There may be no truer classroom for leadership than the moment new life arrives.

During lambing season, we get to witness something rare and quietly profound — the steady, instinctive leadership of a new life coming into the world. No rushing. No over-controlling. Nature takes its time.

We offer presence. Timing. Boundaries. Trust.

It’s leadership at its most natural.

In those early hours, the lambs and the land teach what no conference room can: how to regulate under pressure, how to read the field, how to respond instead of react, and how to guide with clarity instead of control.

This retreat is built around those living lessons.

You’ll practice slowing down enough to listen again.
Feeling your way back to clean communication.
Remembering how to make decisions from steadiness instead of strain.

The lambs and spring time remind us what grounded leadership looks like — responsive, attuned, alive and rooted in life itself.

🐑 Lambing Leadership Retreat
📍 April 9–12
🔗 Details in link in bio

The most enduring leadership doesn’t come from pushing harder.It comes from remembering how to listen — to yourself, to ...
01/14/2026

The most enduring leadership doesn’t come from pushing harder.
It comes from remembering how to listen — to yourself, to others, to the living systems you belong to.

This spring, we are gathering a small circle of founders, executives, and culture-shapers during lambing season — a sacred window of birth, instinct, and renewal.
Among horses, lambs, and the wide open breath of the land, we slow the nervous system.

We soften urgency.
We restore clarity.
We let the deeper intelligence of the body and the field recalibrate what leadership feels like from the inside out.

This is not about adding another method.
It’s about remembering your rhythm.
Your authority.
Your natural way of leading.
You’ll return resourced.
Clearer in your decisions.
More grounded in your presence.
More trustworthy to yourself and to those you lead.

📍 April 9–12
🐑 Lambing Leadership Retreat
🔗 Details in link in bio

Come as you are.
Leave more whole.

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18001 S Old Clarke Road
Mulino, OR
97042

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