There are few opportunities to practice leadership skills and attributes in a natural way that allows for embodied learning. Using models from the herd and from relational horsemanship, you will have a chance to deeply experience lessons that are at the centre of equine leadership. This program takes leadership out of the classroom and the theoretical and into experience.
In the world of horses, the one that can move the others around becomes a leader. How that happens, affects the quality of relationship and cooperation from the herd. Horses will willingly choose to follow a leader that has good relationship skills and exercises collaborative leadership. The qualities that enable a horse to follow are the same ones that allow you to lead. Horse Wisdom opens a deeper way to connect with yourself, in your environment, and with others. As you form these relationships, you move into leadership in a genuine way. Through a series of carefully developed experiences with horses, you can explore leadership in this natural environment. Each horse, like each person, has some wisdom to share with us. The amount of direct horse contact is individual. No horse experience is necessary. There will be no riding.
Who Should Attend?
- Leaders, managers, HR professionals and aspiring leaders
- Those with an interest in the Equine Way of Leadership
Topics:
- Finding your centre and being present in your environment
- Learn to listen to your body’s information and sensing
- Knowing when to step back to create room for choice in relationship
- Seeing and experiencing relational boundaries in action in the herd
- Working with flow and leading in partnership with others
- Saying what you mean and meaning what you say
- Finding the existing centre of your leadership potential
- Understanding behaviour as a form of communication
Learning Outcomes:
- Take back the Horse Wisdom principles of leadership to your community, workplace and family
- Understand the principles of leadership beyond technique
- Learn to slow down and connect with your natural self
- Become aware of choice versus reaction when your ego is threatened
- Take with you an experience in your body that will connect you to your leadership centre
Facilitators: Deborah Marshall, M.A. Registered Clinical Counselor is a life-long horse owner. She works with individuals and organizations in her private counseling practice Marshall and Associates (1988) in Nanaimo and added horses to her practice in 2000. Deborah now owns
Generation Farms and is an Epona Approved Instructor (Tucson AZ), having studied with Linda Kohanov, author of Tao of Equus and Riding Between the Worlds. Deborah will be assisted by
Kate Burns, a Registered Social Worker, who has devoted over 30 years to working in relationship with others. Kate has delivered residential recovery programs, designed and facilitated adult education and career planning courses, skills training, and personal development workshops and has several years experience in organizational leadership. Kate is committed to the work that deepens each person’s connection to self, others and the earth and works from an ecological perspective that values natural systems as our primary teachers. Through Generation Farms Kate has learned that our equine partners are wise guides who call forth the relationship wisdom held within each of us.