Why? As you and your team members observe horses relating to each other and as you engage with the horses, you cannot help but learn from them. No longer able to rely on your skills of verbal persuasion, your positions of power, or your reputations, you reconnect with your own innate “horse sense,” and become more acutely aware of yourselves and others, physically, emotionally, and psychically. This heightened awareness of “presence” – yours and others’ – paves the way for stronger relationships, better collaboration, and improved communication.

A typical HorseSense session engages you and your team in a combination of ground exercises with the horses and facilitated learning segments of theory and practical application, designed around one or more fundamental principles in how you lead, follow, communicate, and connect with others. The exercises allow you to experience at whole new levels of awareness the ways in which you comport yourselves and the messages you put out, intentional or otherwise. Debriefing sessions help you and your team recognize and internalize the lessons learned by exploring direct parallels between what happened in the arena and what happens in “real life,” whether individually, as a team, or as an organization.