Fear and Pain
I have been reading a lot of Anna Blake lately (https://annablake.com/relaxed-forward-blog/). She is a trainer who teaches humans...
Grief
My white horse died in April. I learned a lot about grief. From my own feelings, and also from witnessing the brown horse, his stable...
On Giving Up
We all know situations in which we are drawn into a struggle over something fairly minor. The issue in question begins to recede behind...
Awareness
As the weather gets colder and wetter, the client work quieter, the horse work busier, it is a good time for reflection. Horse work, for...
My Horse Colleagues
I work with horses and people wherever I find some that are interested in the work, and I enjoy this adventure enormously. There is...
Connection
Recently I had the great privilege of working with a teenage client dealing with severe illness. He had told me that he often feels...
Insecurity
Feeling "not good enough", feeling we have to do something extra to be accepted or loved, is common for many of us. Recently, a teenage...
Horses as "facilitators"
Recently, LEAP and other organisations have changed the name of the game from Equine Assisted Learning (or Equine Assisted Therapy) to...
Listening
In this work I am often reminded how important it is to listen to the horses, to forget about my session plan and be as aware as they are....
One of my trainers, Mike Delaney, talking about Equine Facilitated Learning
Mike has over 25 years of experience with EFL/P. He has worked with a huge variety of client groups, corporate managers, people...
