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No Arena, No Problem!
Welcome to the vibrant world of Equine Assisted Learning, where the majestic beauty of horses blends seamlessly with helping human beings build life skills! In this blog, we'll delve into the fascinating insights from a recent podcast, to share top tips and heartwarming stories that resonate with anyone passionate about...
We are breaking our promise.
We made a promise. To never forget. To be grateful for their sacrifice. To appreciate all of our freedoms and our rights that they so gallantly fought for. But we may have broken our promise. Entitlement, unkindness, connecting with our phones more than our fellow humans, not appreciating the gifts...
The Problem With Waiting For The Right Time? It May Never Come
We have heard all of the sayings; "it was the right time", "such serendipity", "the stars aligned". But let's be honest. Sometimes these things happen because we have done the ground work first for them to happen. The problem in waiting for the right time is we are expecting it...
Your Community Needs You
The only horse certification course you'll ever need! Career with horses? If you love working with horses and helping people then this is the career for you! Having a career you love with horses...and finding happiness helping humans along the way! We’re here for the long haul, for the life...
Word of the Year…What’s Yours?
"Word of the Year…What’s Yours?"by Jane Hemingway Mohr | Feb 6, 2023 | Leadership, Teamwork, Women in Leadership Mine is Kindness Those of you who read my blog will know that I regularly publish a ‘Word of the Week’. It is usually tied to an anecdote from our work and my hope is that it is a...
Part 1: Driving to Williams Lake – The LONG way
The journey started before we even left. Knowing that Canada has two seasons, winter and construction, we checked all of our roads and routes to make sure our driving trip to Williams lake would be seamless. As it turns out, the internet is not always 100% reliable. The trip started...
If you are not throwing kindness around like confetti, you are doing it wrong.
Kindness is such a simple word - and it is simple to be as well, as long as we make it a priority. The world is in a weird place. A place that seemingly has left kindness by the wayside. But what we can learn from horses on how kindness...
Does horse health = horse welfare?
Does horse health = horse welfare? Cause you don’t know, what you don’t know, until you do know. Horse welfare is something here at Equine Connection that we pride ourselves in. That is what our certification is all about. Partnering vs. using the horse, meaning that we are going to...
It’s Time To Release!
Releasing is an important part of life for us to move forward and let go of those things we carry heavily around. It is not only important for ourselves, but for our horses too. We need to find ways that work for us because we are all different and therefore,...
Excuses 101
Excuses 101: What's Yours? Are you one to constantly make excuses for yourself? Today they stop. They stop us from doing what we are called to do. In life, we come across many different situations, in which we often come up with excuses because of fear. One of the biggest...
“I’m reliving the same day over and over.”
A few months, then things will get back to normal. No? Ok… a few more. Nope. Still not. Mandatory what? WHAT DO YOU MEAN CHRISTMAS IS CANCELLED! 2020 quickly gave us some serious empathy for Bill Murray's character in Groundhog Day. Mondays, Thursdays, Sundays… it was all the same. Working...
Chatting with Emily Bertrand
Keeping a business alive during this COVID craziness has been nothing but challenging to say the least.For many companies this has been a time of a big shift, and unfortunately in some cases has led to being shut down.However, there are people on the other side of the table who...