Corporate Team-Building Days with sheepdogs in Surrey
New for Summer 2026
Why Choose Sheepdog Handling for Team-Building?
Banham Sheepdogs and Kuchi Solutions now offers dedicated corporate team-building days at our Shabden Park Farm in Surrey. Your team will engage in hands-on sheepdog handling exercises that emphasize communication, leadership, and trust.
Under expert supervision (led by champion trainer Mark Banham and ISDS Judge), participants learn to give commands and guide a trained collie to herd sheep.
Highlighting the bonds made between team players and the subtle commands that give autonomy to the dogs who can work with or without constant guidance.
This unique farm-based activity is fun and memorable, building soft skills through practical teamwork.
What’s Included in the Corporate Day
Sheepdog herding activities
A Corporate Sheepdog & Shepherding Day is a structured rural team-building experience where participants learn the fundamentals of sheepdog handling, flock movement, and shepherd communication under professional guidance.
Our corporate sheepdog herding activities are fully customisable to suit your organisation’s objectives, whether you are planning a leadership development day, staff reward experience, client entertainment event, or team cohesion workshop.
Sessions can be tailored for your preferred group size and scheduled on weekdays or weekends.
What Happens During the Corporate Herding Session?
Each experience typically runs for 3–4 hours, allowing enough time for learning, practice, and team challenge integration.
Your corporate shepherding day includes:
Introduction to Working Sheepdogs
Understand how trained sheepdogs respond to whistle and voice commands, how they read sheep behaviour, and how handler positioning influences flock movement.Foundations of Sheep Handling
Learn the principles of livestock movement, pressure and release, body language, and safe sheep management techniques.Practical Sheepdog Handling Experience
Every participant takes an active role using both the shepherd’s crook and trained sheepdog to guide sheep through gates, around obstacles, and into controlled enclosures.Team Herding Challenges
Groups work together on timed herding courses and problem-solving exercises that encourage communication, leadership, delegation, and strategy under light competitive pressure.
Why Sheepdog Herding Works for Corporate Teams
Sheepdog herding is a natural leadership simulation.
Unlike classroom-based workshops, it requires:
Clear communication
Calm decision-making
Adaptive leadership
Team coordination
Situational awareness
Sheep respond only to consistent direction and controlled energy — making this an authentic, practical metaphor for workplace leadership and collaboration.
Is Experience or Fitness Required?
No prior sheepdog handling experience is necessary.
Our corporate sheepdog days are designed for:
Complete beginners
Mixed-ability groups
All fitness levels
The environment is relaxed, professionally supervised, and safety-led. Participants work at a comfortable pace while still engaging in meaningful, hands-on activity.
A Unique Rural Corporate Experience
A Corporate Sheepdog & Shepherding Day offers:
An outdoor countryside setting
Genuine interaction with trained working dogs
Structured yet enjoyable team challenges
Memorable shared experiences that strengthen team bonds
If you are looking for a distinctive corporate team-building activity that combines learning, fun, leadership development, and rural heritage, our sheepdog herding experience delivers an engaging and unforgettable day.
Who is the Corporate Day for?
This corporate team-building session is intended for business and professional groups of all sizes. It’s ideal for companies seeking an outdoor team-building experience, and for participants with any level of prior experience.
- Corporate teams and companies: Organizations planning a unique team-building event or away day
- Conference or business groups: Teams on a conference break or corporate day
- Management and executive teams: Leadership groups organizing offsite retreats
- Staff and department teams: Sales, marketing, or project teams looking for an engaging training activity
Join the dogs and sheep for a corporate day
Watching the dogs works and seeing how they move sheep through fields and around a course.
Book Your Corporate Day
Flexible Packages & Pricing
Pricing is determined by numbers and the selected package, which is tailored to each client.
Options include:
A sessions on the farm watching and working the dogs on the farm with our large flocks of sheep.
Classroom session talking about sheepdogs trials.
NLP/coach facilitator lead session.
Lunch in house or local country pub.
- £enquire – our packages are tailored to the needs of the client