So how do horses make us human? There is a question. I was recently asked to do a talk on empathy. More specifically about empathy in the relationship between horses and humans. And that was where the question arose for me. Empathy is generally described as the ability to put […]
Emotional intelligence
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The literacy of feedback involves an understanding of the conscious and unconscious language within exchange. The workshops I have been running over the last year or so, whether in board rooms or stables, consistently return to one topic. That is, developing a meaningful level of self awareness. Even if not […]
Emotions as motion - really? Well, somebody asked me recently “how horses react to human emotion?” My flippant response was, “well they move". Notwithstanding my initial understatement, it got me thinking..... (As an aside, recent research by Léa Lansade in France certainly supports the direct effect of human emotions on […]