Welcome to my blog on Business HorsePower – the business and life lessons we can learn from horses. My inspiration for this blog comes from my own life experiences and the lessons that horses have taught me. When I got my first horse I never dreamed that I was about to embark on a journey of personal discovery where my horse taught me more about who I was as a person and what type of leader I was than any classroom training and coaching that I have ever experienced.
So how come horses can be such great teachers and what life lessons can they share with us? Well it all comes down to experiential or as I like to call it action learning. We all have different learning styles but research shows that by actually getting involved in something helps you understand that activity. This was summed up in c450BC by Confucius who said:
“I hear, and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand”
For many hundreds of years man and horse have worked together, however in recent times many people have come to realise that horses are not just good working partners and pets, but also great TEACHERS. We are learning that horses can teach us about many highly valued core skills that can get lost in today’s hectic lifestyle.
Given the current social and economic climate it is now more important than ever to rediscover these core skills. Horses are the perfect teachers to help reconnect us to these skills as they provide immediate and honest feedback. They act as a mirror of our soul revealing insights through eureka moments that hours and hours of classroom theory can simply never achieve.
Horse Assisted Coaching (HAC) a new field of experiential learning in which individuals develop their own style of leadership through a variety of interactive exercises with horses. Today a diverse number of corporations use Horse Assisted Coaching as an integral part of their management development and leadership programmes.
I hope you will join me as I explore the lessons that horses can teach us about life.
Julia Felton (aka The Business Wrangler) is the founder of Business HorsePower. Business leaders, entrepreneurs and executives hire her to accelerate their business performance by harnessing the energy of their people to work more collaboratively together. By aligning purpose with actions the team achieves exponential results as everyone starts pulling in the same direction.
Julia believes that business is a force for good and through designing purpose-driven businesses that leverage the laws of nature, and the herd, you can create businesses founded on the principles of connection, collaboration and community that make a significant impact in the world.
