Riding and Teaching Leadership

Next dates:

26.09 - 28.09.2008
24.10 - 26.10.2008

Registration >>

This Workshop addresses everybody who is interested in riding a horse without a bit. It also addresses those who are HorseAssistedEducation Trainers with a lot of experience as business coaches but less experience as horse holders. The workshop is combining exercises from management trainings with exercises from training and riding horses. Riding a horse without a bit demands some kind of deeper understanding about how to relate to them without using force and also a deeper understanding about how the reigns are supposed to be used. As they are not supposed to be used to give direction ! But if the reigns do not give direction, how can I then give direction to the horse ?

Basically we will look at this topic from two points of view:

  1. How can I partner with a horse using it’s language and creating a bond through playing with distance and nearness. Inside this work we will find all there is about trust and respect, when to communicate boundaries and when to question ourselves if things don’t work out the way we want them to.
  2. How to guide a horse through having a very clear feel of balance within our self and together with the horse. This balance is as much a matter of the physical body as it is a matter of understanding the meaning of balance in a much greater spectrum.

Your outcome from this workshop will be:

  • A deeper understanding about the language of trust-respect and distance –nearness inside the horses world.
  • Some tools how to interact with horses in every days life such that they get the opportunity to grow more and more self-confident.
  • Some tools how to interact with horses in every days life such that you get more and more self confident.
  • An understanding about bit less riding.
  • An understanding about how working from the ground connects to riding a horse.
  • To not use the reigns for giving direction.
  • To use balance to give direction.

The workshop starts at 15.00 pm on Fridays and ends at 16.00 pm on Sundays.

The horses worked with are 3 Andalusians. As every participant will have his/her horse for the duration of the workshop the number of possible participants is 3.

Beginners are welcome. You do not need any riding experience.

Your investment would be 490€ including food, excluding hotel costs. There is a very comfortable hotel nearby which charges between 37€ and 55€ for bed and breakfast per night.

For EAHAE members the price is reduced by 10%.