The German’s have a word “Umwelt” which according to the Microsoft online dictionary means “the world as it is experienced by a particular organism.” A lot of meaning for so few letters. Let’s unpack that a little. We can look at a horse, a pig or any other animal, and […]
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So what is choosing EI all about? I have often written about how Mindfulness lies at the heart of my work, well at the heart of the heart is Emotional Intelligence (EI). There is a great quote from Victor Frankl which outlines the intrinsic benefit within EI, “in between the […]
This is a copy of a Facebook post from my "The Mindful Horse" page during the days of Covid-19. I received so many messages of thanks and gratitude for the share that I decided after deliberation to share it here too. I hope that it is equally appreciated. A FEW […]
Outside-in or Inside-out is a reflection on how we see ourselves and our mind. And further, our relationship with what goes on there within. As someone delivering regularly around the topic of mindfulness I am frequently expressing the idea that we are not our thoughts, any more than we are […]
What is Keeping Einstein in the moment? Well the idea here is curiosity, let me explain..... There is more to mind than The Mind and learning transcends being taught. The idea that learning is not simply an exercise in logic or linguistics has always seemed intuitively appropriate, even if we […]
What did I do? This week I wanted to get back to my roots - blog-wise. I wanted to reflect on emotional intelligence (EI). Not the theory, but the practical. The learning and the lived experience. I have been an advocate of Daniel Goleman’s work for many years. I am […]
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 […]
The Cycle of Somatic Presence is all about being. A constantly shifting and redefining of being, but essentially still being. As we enter the third decade of this century I see an age that could well be defined as the age of persistent distraction. A time of increasing and ever […]
A few years ago somebody asked me to explain the embodied and somatic training and coaching that I do - with and without horses. And so I wrote this piece, originally as a LinkedIn article. I have revisited it and expanded here some of the ideas. So let me introduce you […]