“The more I spend time with them [horses], the more I feel the music of total integration rumbling from the depths.  They’re tuning me to sing a new song, gently wishing me toward an expanded view of what’s possible.”     Linda Kohanov  Riding Between Worlds

Equine Guide Life Coaching and Personal Growth is a unique opportunity for you to experience the natural gifts of horses as you go for the high notes in your life. It can be integrated into a series of individual or group coaching sessions or the featured component of a personal growth retreat.

Equine Guided Professional Development and Training is a dynamic, even powerful, approach to executive coaching, leadership training, team building, or addressing challenges facing organizations of all kinds. This should be music to your ears.


Why Horses?

You can learn a lot about being human from a horse.

Equine Guided Training  (EGT), an approach for personal growth and professional development by bringing horses and humans together, has been gaining momentum in recent years, world-wide. Its value lies within the scope of experiential learning, environmental learning, and social intelligence, to name just three.

Learn Best by Experience

  • The old adage of “you learn best from experience” is true indeed, and with good reason.

    • A distinct advantage in using experiential methods is the engagement of all of the senses. Participants are in a different environment with different sights, sounds, smells, and sensations.

    • The impact of what is learned from an experience can be greater because there are emotional and physical sensations added to the intellectual aspects of the learning. It is more complete.

    • There is more clarity in the recall of learning associated with an experience; there is a visual related to the recall. The recall can be more powerful because both mind and body and are fully engaged in the learning.

    • This experience, bringing horses and humans together, is successful because of its defining feature of self-discovery.

    • Teams benefit from EGT experiences because they come away with a common language for relating to the experience.

Learn Better in the Natural Environment

There is a growing collection of research pointing to clear advantages when experiences occur in the natural environment.  Learning with horses in their natural environment can have benefits.

  • Greater creativity and better problem solving

  • Enhanced cognitive ability

  • Improved social relationships

  • Reduced stress

Greater Social Intelligence Equals More Success

Social (or Emotional) Intelligence refers to skill in the areas of self and social awareness and management and has been shown to be a critical component of success in the workplace and in life.

And There’s More 

Being with horses is an experience in the natural environment with sentient beings whose very survival depends on their social intelligence. 

  • Horses and humans share a similar societal structure --- both have their herds, they can relate.

  • Horses rely on their senses, humans do as well when not relying so much on verbal communication.

  • Horses are curious, intuitive and responsive to humans.

  • Horses often mirror what they sense in humans – providing an opportunity for humans to self-examine.

  • Horses respond to authenticity – it’s hard to fool a horse.

  • Horses don’t judge, they just are – humans learn best when there is no judgment attached, it allows for powerful self-discovery.

  • Horses, by virtue of their size and power, command respect, humans can’t help but pay attention.


Why Choose an Experience?

  • A distinct advantage to learning by doing (a basic definition of Experiential Learning) is the engagement of all of the senses. Your are in a different environment with different sights, sounds, smells, sensations.

  • The impact of what is learned from an experience can be greater because there are emotional and physical sensations added to the intellectual learning. The learning is more complete.

  • There is more clarity in the recall of the learning associated with an experience. The recall can be more powerful because both mind and body are engaged in the learning.

  • This experience, which brings horses and humans together, is successful because of its defining feature of self-discovery.


Contact me about Equine Guided Coaching, I would love to tell you more.