Why horses?

Horses always ask: Who is leading?

They help us understand that leadership begins with who we are being.  Horses help us close the gap between how we actually present ourselves to others, and how we think we are being.

Horses mirror the essential qualities of leadership – trust, authenticity, honesty, intuition, listening, a willingness of spirit and perseverance.  They have no agenda with us.  They simply reflect our strength of character, our heart, our internal incongruence and our self-limiting perceptions.

Different to humans they don’t follow blindly yet they are looking to be led.  They cannot be coerced or influenced, they choose to follow.

Horses provide us with immediate, 100% non-judgemental, observable feedback, mirroring our internal reality.  Living in the 93% of the non-verbal world of communication, they are not impressed by position, status or power.  As a prey animal, they live in the present moment, with their acute perception and survival instincts perfected over millennia.  They rely on and look to the Alpha horse to protect them and make the right decisions whenever the herd is in danger and requires leadership.