Equine Leadership
HORSES, HUMANITY AND HEART The simplicity of ‘being’ through the eyes of our children By: Eleni Argy, Australia
Our children and young people are the soulful artists of the colourful canvas of humanity’s future. These young minds and hearts hold the capability to move forward with strength in today’s uncertain realm. Navigating the current ambiguity of our present, has bubbled up a deep sense of grief for our past and future - so how can the children of today’s world feel hopeful, and see themselves with vibrancy, walking through it all with courage, when their parents and teachers and leaders are delicately crumbling?
CANVAS OF CURRENT HUMANITY The burdens faced by our children and youth today seem like mountains to climb, but it is within the liberation of that breath of fresh air, and in the simplicity of the equine kingdom, that they might find their clarity. Our kids and teens have been largely misunderstood, undervalued and de-voiced. Have we forgotten how to lead them with kindness, how to parent with compassion, how February 2021
to teach them with empathy, so that they may grow into the kind, compassionate and empathetic leaders, parents and teachers we expect them to become? Are we so lost in the discolouration of humanity and too busy grieving the world we have known, that we have forgotten how to teach our children to fingerpaint, to play in the dirt, to unapologetically make a giant mess, and to run barefoot on the grass yelling jibberish and laughing at the top of their lungs? How can we re-remind them to be
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