Challenge-U Blog

I just returned from a 4 day Leadership workshop using horses to support people in understanding the importance of emotional intelligence in the workplace and how horses can support in teaching us how to be consensual leaders. The program I attended was at The Epona Center in Tucson, under the expert guidance of Linda Kohanov, founder of the Epona Center.

Linda says:

“The true pioneers of the 21st Century are those who figure out how to tap the vast resources of all three brains—those interconnected sensory/ intelligence centers in the head, the heart and the gut. In this respect, horses provide the ultimate shortcut– as they always have. For thousands of years these sensitive yet powerful beings carried our bodies around the world, allowing us to explore terrain we would have struggled to traverse on foot. But there was something more profound happening in these interspecies associations. Learning to form effective, working partnerships with those horses provided the most elusive yet important education a human leader could acquire—- that “other 90 percent” exercised at a wholly non verbal level”

As I practiced the nonverbal skills of leadership with the horses, I tapped into a whole new way of being that would have me be a much better leader. This cutting edge format will be the way of developing leaders in the future as I see it.