Welcome
Equine Facilitated Executive Coaching is a discipline of personal and professional development whose time has come. For centuries horses have served humankind as an essential servant for transportation, agriculture, for waging war, and as a food source. In more recent times horses have been used for sport as well as physio and psychotherapists to the mentally and physically challenged. In the last few decades, it has become apparent that all people can benefit and learn profound lessons from these majestic creatures - specifically in the areas of expanding inner awareness, enhancing interpersonal communication, building high-performing teams, and developing leadership potential.
In the 21st century we humans, particularly in western societies, are losing our connections to the natural world as we evolve technologically, displacing inner knowing and intuition with a reliance on mechanical conveniences and electronic devices. As we devote more and more time to intellectual and visual pursuits our intuitive and sensory faculties atrophy like unused muscles. We erode our consciousness of the 80% of communication that is non-verbal and we increase reliance on verbal and written language. Being with horses offers an opportunity to reawaken other ways of being, bring sensory awareness more into our conscious experience, and heighten our abiity to be present in The Now.
Horses are prey animals who share space with us predators under precarious terms. They communicate primarily through body language and read our bodies as though we speak the same language. Equine survival is based upon highly developed abilities to maintain near-constant surveillance of the environment and to accurately anticipate the intentions of predators such as ourselves. As a result horses have a keenly developed ability to interpret our behaviour. This offers a unique opportunity for us to learn about ourselves from their feedback.
