CHICKEN CODE: COMMUNICATE, LEARN, & GROW TOGETHER

At a Glance

• Number of people: 6–20 (customizable)    
• Duration: 3 hours or more (half-day or full-day format); 2 animal species in the full-day format    
• Location: ST . MARTINS Business Lodge    
• Requirements: No prior knowledge required. Please be sure to wear weather-appropriate clothing and sturdy shoes.    
• Features: Certified animal-assisted intervention, facilitated by biologists, trainers, and animal-assisted specialists.    
• Goal: High-performing teams emerge when communication, feedback, and continuous learning become second nature.    

Learning Experience
This program combines the latest insights from learning psychology, behavioral biology, and adult education to create an extraordinary team experience.

Among other things, participants will explore:

• Learning Agility
• Growth Mindset
• Culture of Feedback
• A Positive Culture of Learning from Mistakes
• Motivation and Reinforcement
• Communication with Clear Signals
• Collaboration in the Face of Change
• Trust and Mutual Support
• Team Dynamics and Understanding Roles

Working directly with the animals makes learning processes visible and understandable. Participants experience how behavior develops, how feedback works, and why sustainable learning is based on clarity, repetition, and positive reinforcement.

Program Following an introduction to animal behavior, perception, and learning abilities, participants learn the fundamentals of successful communication through practical exercises.
The program focuses on collaborative learning processes, observation, feedback, and continuous improvement. The animals provide immediate feedback on whether communication is clear and behavior is effective.

In the full-day format, the learning experience is supplemented by exercises with goats that focus on team coordination, cooperation, and collaborative action.
Following this, all insights are applied to everyday business life, and concrete strategies for collaboration and leadership are developed.

The Goal
Organizations are successful when people are willing to learn continuously, accept feedback, and develop solutions together. Chicken Code strengthens precisely these future-oriented skills. Participants experience how learning actually works, how motivation arises, and what role communication plays in successful collaboration. The animal-assisted learning experience creates lasting learning experiences that go far beyond traditional seminars and can be directly applied to everyday work.

Location
ST. MARTINS Business Lodge at ST. Martins Therme & Lodge, which is certified as a Greencare facility for animal-assisted intervention. The animals used are specially trained and are deployed in accordance with strict quality standards for animal-assisted intervention. All animals at ST. Martins Therme & Lodge are part of the ST. Martins team.

Facilitation & Expert Guidance
The animal-assisted learning experience is facilitated by Mag. Elke Schmelzer.

As a biologist, adult education instructor, certified animal-assisted intervention specialist, and resident manager at St. Martins Therme & Lodge, she combines scientific expertise with many years of experience working with people and animals.