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Making the Wrong Thing Hard and the Right Thing Easy w/ Warwick Schiller @ Warwick Schiller Performance Horsemanship
Making the Wrong Thing Hard and the Right Thing Easy. Understanding “making the wrong thing hard and the right thing easy”, is often hard for us as people, as it is all about allowing the horse to have control. In a sense, as people, we’re control freaks. We want to...
How Does Mindset & Connection Play a Role In Horse Welfare? w/ Jane Pike @ Confident Rider
How Does Mindset & Connection Play a Role In Horse Welfare? We had the great honour of chatting with Jane Pike, from Confident Rider, a global figure in transformational horsemanship, helping horse riders, as well as non-horse riders get their head in the right space to do what they want...
Equine Welfare – Why Is It So Important?
Equine Welfare - Why Is It SO Important? Horses and equines are the superstars of our livelihoods, whether they be our companions, our workmates, or our business partners! This makes it so entirely important to make sure that they have the best welfare, and this includes in their daily lives,...
”They may take our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom!”
”They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!”(Braveheart, 1995) Freedom is one of those things that means more to people than they even know. We have heard the term micro-managing in the leadership circles many many times, but ultimately, micromanaging should be called smothering. Look at the...
“In 18 years I’ve never heard my daughter.”
✨We were in Texas, and a mother daughter team came in to experience one of our programs, Push Me Pull You, working with horses. This particular day was all about communication.✨They had come in, sat down beside each other, not saying much. We briefed the program and what it was...
Simple can sometimes be the most profound
The first course that people take when coming to the Equine Connection is the Orientation. It is a way for clients to familiarize themselves with the horses and how the horses will "speak" as their teachers. A group of women came into the program. Some fearful of the horses, others...
Carolyn’s Story
If you would have told me ten years ago that one day I would be working with horses facilitating life skills, I would have called you a liar. I’m a little different than most of the people that have done this course in the fact that I had no horse...
Susan’s Story
Every once in awhile we have a person who comes in who is simply petrified of horses! Susan was one of those few. We watched her face as her team was left with only one horse left to choose from, a hanoverian thoroughbred (a tall black horse) named Kokanee. Her...
Aaron
Equine Assisted Learning: How Horses Can Transform Lives Equine Assisted Learning, also known as partnering with horses in therapeutic and educational settings, has gained recognition and popularity in recent years. This unique approach to personal growth and development has been proven to be effective in various populations, including individuals who...
Tanya & Todd
Why do we do what we do? Whether you believe it or not, horses talk to you all the time. More than you could ever imagine. In this program, you are presented with many different obstacles. These obstacles are representations of our own lives and the different obstacles that we...
Ricki & Jonah
Ricki and Jonah and realizing we have choice! Two young boys came to our program with no desire to participate or even give the program a try. Their facial expressions and attitudes were clear that they wanted nothing to do with the program or the horses. It is clear in...
Gloria’s Story
An example of true change. 💖 🐴A little girl from one of our 8-week anti-bullying curriculums had come with 7 other youth from her school. All of the kids attending had been to the principal’s office several times with issues either from being a bully or from being bullied themselves....