Equine Leadership
EVOLVING SELF AND HUMANITY We choose what makes us strong By: Pat Hutchinson, Canada
We need to be fully present, place our trust in the horse, allow and honor their trust in us
Horses have been showing up for humanity for eons. Now, they are teaching us that in order to not just survive but also thrive, we need to: slow down; practice authenticity and just ‘be’. Perhaps we need to embrace these 3 teachings in order to raise our awareness and our consciousness, which in turn will change the way we live. Horses give us a glimpse of the proverbial Shangri-La.
CHANGE AND AWARENESS Five years ago I created a huge change in my life by making the decision to follow an inner prompting and begin Equine Facilitated Learning training. The logistics were concerning as it meant navigating through a very different type of life then I had experienced previously. I had taken early retirement a few years earlier from a
February 2021
completely different kind of work as a Civil Servant. I stepped onto a path that was foreign to me and I have never looked back. I went to see, not bring home, a few horses a friend was re-homing due to an upcoming move out of the province. One of the horses, a 17 yr. old Appaloosa gelding, would not be going as he would not do well in the new, extremely cold
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