44/ FEBRUARY 2011 THE RIDER Learning leadership from horses: What can Equine Assisted Education do for you and your business?
If you are a horse lover, chances are that at one time or another you have picked up a horse- training book or magazine to learn the latest and greatest techniques of how to train your horse. We all want to be the best horse people we can be and have our horses be pleasant and responsive towards our leadership cues. In spend- ing time with our equine friends, however, many
have come to the conclu- sion that horses can teach us a great deal themselves. In particular, you can learn more about leadership from working with horses than just about anywhere else. Equine Assisted Edu- cation (EAE) has emerged in the last 15 or more years as a new and insightful way to help human beings excel as leaders in their daily lives. Equine Assisted Education operates from
the idea that the nature of horses and herds can teach us a lot about leadership, teamwork, communicating effectively, setting goals and achieving them.
Learning leadership from horses
Have you ever watched a herd of horses in the field? The nature of herds means that horses know when to lead and be led from the most subtle
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body language cues. Ger- hard Krebs, founder of HorseDream International, a world-leader in Equine Assisted Education, points out that horses are excel- lent mirrors of our own strengths and weaknesses as leaders. They are able to read and react to our behaviour and thoughts instantly. They make us earn their devotion and respect as their leader. This is also the kind of respect we would like to receive from our boss, partner, friends, and our family. At HorseDream International workshops, you experience how horses are able to look behind all of our masks to see us more clearly than we may even see ourselves. Working with horses in EAE workshops such as those provided by Horse- Dream, you can learn about essential teamwork, com-
munication and leadership skills.
Building your own Equine Assisted Educa- tion business
As the phenomenon of Equine Assisted Educa- tion grows, more and more people are grasping the opportunity to expand their traditional horse businesses into the centers for Equine Assisted Education. This move diversifies horse sta- bles from being dependent on lessons, training and boarding for an income to the opportunity to train CEOs, business managers, non-profit groups and indi- viduals in leadership skills as well as run their tradi- tional business.
ing to Woodville Ontario’s Wilson H2 Ranch in April 2011 to train people to become HorseDream Licensed Partners. People attending this training will have the rare opportunity to learn from the best in the business about how to take their prior horse and people knowledge to expand their business. People with pre- vious Equine Assisted Edu- cation knowledge and those who are absolutely new to the concept can both gain from this once- in-a-lifetime training opportunity.
Equine Assisted Edu- cation transformed the lives of HorseDream Inter- national founders Gerhard and Karin Krebs. In 1996 they started to work with their horses in management seminars, not realizing that their concept would be of international interest one day. They developed the methodology and philoso- phy of HorseDream Inter-
national using these experi- ences and strong business background. Now there are about 60 licensed Horse- Dream partners around the world, and Gerhard found- ed the European Associa- tion for Horse Assisted Education (EAHAE) in 2004 to support further development and research on how horses can help people become better lead- ers in their work and per- sonal lives.
HorseDream Licensed Partners have trained CEOs, psychotherapists, business managers and non-profits around the world to be more success- ful leaders, team players and communicators.
To learn more about how you can attend Horse- Dream Partner Licensing Workshops in Canada, April 2011, visit http://www.wilsonh2ranch. ca or http://www.horse-
dream-international.com
HorseDream Interna- tional, a pioneer in the field of Equine Assisted Educa- tion for management and leadership training, is com-
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