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Every aspiring leader needs more confidence, needs more focus, and needs a follower (it’s hard to lead if no one is following.)

Every team needs trust, an end to inner-office b.s. and accountability.

You can take the easy road.

You can buy another binder, sit through another meeting and put that binder beside the last one up on your shelf.  

Or you can choose a new path.

One that provides real-time practice, an in the moment look at strengths and weak spots and chances to adapt to unexpected situations. 

Make accurate decisions faster.

Gain time, energy and confidence.

Unite your team.

EXPERIENCE is the magic elixir that transforms someone who calls themself a leader into someone who has the presence, the awareness and the powerful skills to unite teams, ideas and actions.

I AM READY FOR AN EXPERIENCE

Experiential learning simplified is to “learn by doing” (shout out to my favorite youth development organization 4-H.) It’s hands-on learning amplified by limited guidance and direction, room for screw ups and trial and error, required reviewing and redoing, and typically a “successful” outcome – but that may look nothing like the original “idea” because in learning through experience the openness to ideas, trials and input allows for multiple solutions, not just one right answer.

Hey, even discovering how to not do it as bad as the first time is a win and sharpens the skills of:
● More accurate evaluation of a challenge
● Less hesitation to act on bold ideas and innovation
● Quicker, targeted decision making
● Strong leaders with expanded awareness, adaptable skills, and the confidence to take action
more than easy success ever could.

Yet we continue to fear mistakes and manage our decisions and actions like there is only one right answer.

The practice of creating multiple ‘right answers’ gives us the power and freedom to choose the best one at that time.
That is real-life, in real-time and it’s a really needed skill in this time of adapting to all sorts of lifestyle and workplace unknowns (aka Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 aka COVID-19, zoom meetings, extreme reliance on tech., more communication access and less skill to communicate…)

In experiential learning trials instead of being told the “answer” we are supposed to get to from one perspective, aspiring leaders are given a situation, a problem, question or challenge and are supported to examine all possible outcomes, and then encouraged to make a decision and test drive the ideas to get to that solution.
Not working? Then stop mid-experiment and try something new or take a whole new path, just reflect and find a way to start again.
And you will do that with confidence when you’ve got options, intuitive sense, and fearless initiative that comes from knowing you can adapt to whatever comes up next.

There are all kinds of ways to experience a leadership experience – blindfolded rock climbing, even blindfolded drawing, brainstorming better product ideas, building towers, role playing, etc. but the one that shows me something new every time, the one that stops me in my tracks, silences even me, and moves me to new action, is Equine Guided Education (EGE).

10 years ago I experienced my first EGE class, held by the founder of Equine Guided Education, Ariana Strozzi-Mazzuchi and it was revealed to me how to recreate all that I had innately learned from horses and about leadership in a more compact and accessible form that I could share with others. But I had really had my first equine guided experience closer to 30 years ago.

What is Equine Guided Education?

Equine Guided Education is a method of coaching with its primary inspiration and influence coming from ground exercises completed within a group of horses.
Horses have long held influence with humans in history and even now still represent such ideals as: freedom, power, wisdom, and gentleness.
The word, “Guide” was carefully chosen because it means, “one who can find a path through unknown or unexplored territory.” This describes the profound and magical aspect of horses in the learning process. The horse serves as a respected ‘guide’ in human growth, learning and development.

There are many ways in which this process presents it’s lessons.
Simplifying to focus on change and impact as leaders here is an example of how EGE may be incorporated to allow us to witness our own impact and experience the power we have when we are aware of our influence and open to adaptability:

Horse herds have a similar social structure to human “herds”. Horses in the wild need each other to survive, just like humans, in the wild, would have needed each other for survival. (We still do need each other to survive but it’s just not as obvious now with food and shelter at our fingertips as long as cash is in our hand.)
Like humans, horses have different roles within their herds, different strengths that make them more valuable in one role than another. They pick up on energetic communication very quickly, and as we work with them in these specially designed exercises they mirror back to us either the same energy we are putting out there, or often the energy and reactions we are stimulating in others. But they are much more open and honest, they aren’t worried about being P.C. or propper, they aren’t worried about what anyone is going to think of them, they are reacting to what your energy and actions are communicating to them at that moment.

For example, with a group of people who work together as well as in our personal relationships there are different personality types:
The one who does too much, they are hustling and don’t ask for help - so every just stays out of the way.
The pushover or the wallflower.
The person who thinks they run the whole show, whether they do or not.

Imagine your own reactions when working with the different personalities in your life.

No, seriously think of 5 people at work:
● 3 that make you eye roll or give you some reaction
● 1 you wish you were more like
● Yourself

Be honest, do you move towards, away from or out of the room? What other responses do you have with these colleagues?

The horses, as well, will have a different reaction to each of us and we can witness in a whole new way the power and impact we have on those around us.

And the coolest part, the part you can’t replicate by just listening to a lecture, is if we don’t like what we see - the response we are getting from what WE are putting out there - we can change it.
We can change us.
Try a new approach, and see and feel in real-time the change in response from the horse.

EXPERIENCE EGE

What is Equine Guided Education?

Equine Guided Education is a method of coaching with its primary inspiration and influence coming from ground exercises completed within a group of horses.
Horses have long held influence with humans in history and even now still represent such ideals as: freedom, power, wisdom, and gentleness.
The word, “Guide” was carefully chosen because it means, “one who can find a path through unknown or unexplored territory.” This describes the profound and magical aspect of horses in the learning process. The horse serves as a respected ‘guide’ in human growth, learning and development.

There are many ways in which this process presents it’s lessons.
Simplifying to focus on change and impact as leaders here is an example of how EGE may be incorporated to allow us to witness our own impact and experience the power we have when we are aware of our influence and open to adaptability:

Horse herds have a similar social structure to human “herds”. Horses in the wild need each other to survive, just like humans, in the wild, would have needed each other for survival. (We still do need each other to survive but it’s just not as obvious now with food and shelter at our fingertips as long as cash is in our hand.)
Like humans, horses have different roles within their herds, different strengths that make them more valuable in one role than another. They pick up on energetic communication very quickly, and as we work with them in these specially designed exercises they mirror back to us either the same energy we are putting out there, or often the energy and reactions we are stimulating in others. But they are much more open and honest, they aren’t worried about being P.C. or propper, they aren’t worried about what anyone is going to think of them, they are reacting to what your energy and actions are communicating to them at that moment.

For example, with a group of people who work together as well as in our personal relationships there are different personality types:
The one who does too much, they are hustling and don’t ask for help - so every just stays out of the way.
The pushover or the wallflower.
The person who thinks they run the whole show, whether they do or not.

Imagine your own reactions when working with the different personalities in your life.

No, seriously think of 5 people at work:
● 3 that make you eye roll or give you some reaction
● 1 you wish you were more like
● Yourself

Be honest, do you move towards, away from or out of the room? What other responses do you have with these colleagues?

The horses, as well, will have a different reaction to each of us and we can witness in a whole new way the power and impact we have on those around us.

And the coolest part, the part you can’t replicate by just listening to a lecture, is if we don’t like what we see - the response we are getting from what WE are putting out there - we can change it.
We can change us.
Try a new approach, and see and feel in real-time the change in response from the horse.

EXPERIENCE EGE

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Amanda Kumiko Kent
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Pocatello, ID  83202

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