Working with horses and more…
Our equine assisted leadership development programmes aren’t just about working with horses. They are about returning to simplicity - outdoors and close to nature - where the noise of the workplace falls quickly away. This is not just about having a nice time, or enjoying the beautiful scenery. It is about creating a perfect environment for learning. The space to explore, to relate to yourself and to your colleagues, to explore new ideas and a new way of being. To engage your innate creativity and resourcefulness.
We don’t subscribe to any particular leadership model, or theory, and we don’t do jargon. We help you to be your best self as leader, to discover or re-discover your true nature.
And to develop the courage and resilience to hold steadfastly to sustain that. This means forgetting, however briefly, the trappings and pressures of role, status, career and hierarchy. Becoming clear about who you are and what you stand for.
We don’t subscribe to any particular leadership model, or theory, and we don’t do jargon. We help you to be your best self as leader, to discover or re-discover your true nature.
And to develop the courage and resilience to hold steadfastly to sustain that. This means forgetting, however briefly, the trappings and pressures of role, status, career and hierarchy. Becoming clear about who you are and what you stand for.
Embodied Leadership
With every emotion comes a physical feeling – a felt sense in our body. And the more aware we become of our somatic experience, the better we can learn to master our emotions. And the easier it becomes to be present. This is when horses respond most positively to us. Equine assisted learning helps us to engage our bodies, before our mind. Thus we are also able to lower our anxiety level, let go of fear and find an embodied, courageous leadership.
Find out about one client’s experience of our work in their own words...
Find out about one client’s experience of our work in their own words...
Emotional Intelligence
Our embodied approach to equine assisted leadership development centres around mastering our emotions as a positive force for change. Very often we become afraid of our emotions in case they overwhelm or betray us. Yet they can help us build self awareness, make decisions and become empowered. They give us information about our environment, about relationships and about our internal world. Casting light on our self-beliefs, our values, our undiscovered potential, our dreams and our fears. By learning to interpret and respect our emotions we build profound self awareness.
Horses reveal the subtle changes in our intention, our confidence, our purpose, our way of relating. All clues as to what is really going on in our hearts and minds.
Equine assisted learning gives us the opportunity to practise building emotional intelligence in real-time. Each step of the way the horses give us instant feedback – they are never too polite to tell us what they really feel. This immediate feedback loop reinforces our learning and because the experiential nature of the process involves mind, body and spirit (the fundamental essence of what is each of us) it gives us a powerful felt sense of the new way of being. We embody it. We never forget it.
Horses reveal the subtle changes in our intention, our confidence, our purpose, our way of relating. All clues as to what is really going on in our hearts and minds.
Equine assisted learning gives us the opportunity to practise building emotional intelligence in real-time. Each step of the way the horses give us instant feedback – they are never too polite to tell us what they really feel. This immediate feedback loop reinforces our learning and because the experiential nature of the process involves mind, body and spirit (the fundamental essence of what is each of us) it gives us a powerful felt sense of the new way of being. We embody it. We never forget it.
Along the way, many leaders have forgotten they are there to serve and lead fellow human beings…and how to properly connect with others in the work setting. The work that Pam and her extraordinary team of two and four legged colleagues do is to teach us, once again, how to really be present with each other.
Will Tasho | Group Head of Talent Development Hays PLC
