Feeling HORSE - Facilitatrice dell'evoluzione personale

31/01/2026

✅If you work in equine, animal, nature and/or horticulture assisted practice, being good at what you do matters but being recognised, credible, and accountable matters just as much.

🌟Joining Aahep: Association for Animals, Horticultural & Equine Practitioners is more than a badge. It’s about public protection, professional standing, and the future of our sector.

Here’s why practitioners from accross the market and disciplines are choosing to join 👇

✨ Independent credibility
AAHEP is the first and currently only UK national register for this field operating under independent oversight (or international equivalent). That means your practice is benchmarked against clear standards not self-declared claims.

🛡 Public protection & trust
Clients, funders, commissioners and referrers can see that you meet defined requirements around training, ethics, safeguarding, insurance, and ongoing professional development through use of the recognised PSA Quality Mark.

📍Trust isn’t assumed — it’s demonstrated.

📋 Clear professional standards
This accredited register sets out what “good practice” looks like across disciplines, helping protect both practitioners and the people (and animals) they work with.

🌍 Recognition beyond one training provider
AAHEP is practitioner focused, not course exclusive. Your place on this register reflects your competence and accountability, not just where you trained.

💬 A collective professional voice
By joining, you’re helping to shape a growing, internationally connected profession — one that can engage meaningfully with funders, policymakers, insurers and regulators.

🔄 Future-proofing your work
As scrutiny, commissioning requirements and funding expectations increase, being on an independently governed register puts you ahead of the curve.

This is about raising standards without gatekeeping, and protecting a field we all care deeply about.

If you believe in ethical, accountable, client-led practice — the AAHEP Accredited Register is where you belong.

👉 Find out more or apply to join via aahep.uk

27/01/2026

COSA ACCADE NEGLI INCONTRI DI CONSAPEVOLEZZA CON I CAVALLI?
Rispondo citando Robert Redford. Quando gli chiesero il perché avesse fatto un film sui cavalli,
la risposta è stata: "si tratta di trovare pace nella tempesta".
E' imparare a osservare, a stare, a ascoltare in silenzio.
E' riscoprire la pazienza, l'empatia, la gentilezza, il calmo potere della connessione tra umani e animali.

✅Datti una possibilità! Tutti i giorni, immersi nella natura, esperienze di consapevolezza e meditazione attiva nel campo energetico dei cavalli. Percorsi esperienziali di evoluzione personale per adulti e ragazzi.
Per informazioni: Stella Filippi - Horse coach, Facilitatrice in discipline evolutive
CONTATTI +39 3356838708 mail: info@feelinghorsecoach.com
www.feelinghorsecoach.com - Olgiate Comasco (Co)
⭐️Level 4 Equine Facilitated Practitioner Diploma Herd Foundation UK, riconosciuto da Professional Standard Authority UK AAHEP

31/12/2025

The importance of working with horses for humans in support of their personal, and emotional and social development, as well as its therapeutic benefit is being increasingly recognised.

It is wonderful to see this work getting coverage in The Times (The Times and The Sunday Times) this week with a great article written by Lucy Holden.

In our position as an independently accredited register supporting this work, it is good to see the discussion reaching a wider audience.

This widening of the narrative helps us to ensure that professional and ethical standards are maintained across the practice.

24/12/2025

Auguri 💚🌟
Stella
✅Datti una possibilità! Tutti i giorni, immersi nella natura, esperienze di consapevolezza e meditazione attiva nel campo energetico dei cavalli. Percorsi esperienziali di evoluzione personale per adulti e ragazzi.
Per informazioni: Stella Filippi - Horse coach, Facilitatrice in discipline evolutive®
CONTATTI +39 3356838708 mail: info@feelinghorsecoach.com
www.feelinghorsecoach.com -Olgiate Comasco (Co)
⭐️Level 4 Equine Facilitated Practitioner Diploma Herd Foundation UK, riconosciuto da Professional Standard Authority UK AAHEP

16/12/2025

Questa associazione professionale inglese riconosce il diploma professionale che ho conseguito.
Stella Filippi

🌿 Why Choose a Practitioner on a PSA-Accredited Register?

When you choose a practitioner on a Professional Standards Authority (PSA) accredited register – such as AAHEP’s Accredited Practitioner Register – you are choosing assurance, accountability, and professionalism.

Practitioners on a PSA-accredited register are required to demonstrate and maintain:

✔️ Recognised professional standards
✔️ Clear scope of practice and competence
✔️ Ongoing CPD and reflective practice
✔️ Robust ethical frameworks and codes of conduct
✔️ Safeguarding, insurance, and risk management
✔️ Independent complaints and accountability processes
✔️ Commitment to public protection and safe practice

AAHEP practitioners work across animal-assisted, equine-assisted, horticultural and nature-based practice, bringing evidence-informed, ethical and person-centred approaches to their work.

Being on a PSA-accredited register means practitioners are independently assessed, held to national standards, and supported to practise safely and professionally — giving the public confidence and trust.

✨ AAHEP is proud to be part of the UK’s PSA Accredited Registers programme.

15/12/2025

È grazie al buio che vedo luci bianche luccicare e luci oro risplendere.🌟

✅Datti una possibilità! Tutti i giorni, immersi nella natura, esperienze di consapevolezza e meditazione attiva nel campo energetico dei cavalli. Percorsi esperienziali di evoluzione personale per adulti e ragazzi.
Per informazioni: Stella Filippi - Horse coach, Facilitatrice in discipline evolutive®
CONTATTI +39 3356838708 mail: info@feelinghorsecoach.com
www.feelinghorsecoach.com -Olgiate Comasco (Co)
⭐️Level 4 Equine Facilitated Practitioner Diploma Herd Foundation UK, riconosciuto da Professional Standard Authority UK AAHEP

15/12/2025

26/11/2025

Di fronte ai cavalli che non vivono secondo una morale e semplicemente "sono", non possiamo fare altro che abbandonare tutti i "si", "no" e "ma" per osservarci, ascoltarci, vederci così come siamo, ed "essere" nella nostra infinita, misteriosa e delicata umanità.

✅Datti una possibilità! Tutti i giorni, immersi nella natura, esperienze di consapevolezza e meditazione attiva nel campo energetico dei cavalli. Percorsi esperienziali di evoluzione personale per adulti e ragazzi.
Per informazioni: Stella Filippi - Horse coach, Facilitatrice in discipline evolutive®
CONTATTI +39 3356838708 mail: info@feelinghorsecoach.com
www.feelinghorsecoach.com -Olgiate Comasco (Co)
⭐️Level 4 Equine Facilitated Practitioner Diploma Herd Foundation UK, riconosciuto da Professional Standard Authority UK AAHEP

16/11/2025

This is the time to be slow,
Lie low to the wall
Until the bitter weather passes.

Try, as best you can, not to let
The wire brush of doubt
Scrape from your heart
All sense of yourself
And your hesitant light.

If you remain generous,
Time will come good;
And you will find your feet
Again on fresh pastures of promise,
Where the air will be kind
And blushed with beginning.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

From his books, Benedictus (Europe) / To Bless the Space Between Us (US)
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/store

County Clare, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

05/11/2025

"You're no one, going nowhere
We're all nothing in the end
We're weightless, floating endlessly" cit. In the end. Depeche Mode

26/09/2025

È importante riconoscere la libertà di ciascun essere vivente di entrare in relazione con noi seguendo la propria natura e i propri bisogni. È anche dal confronto con la nostra frustrazione che impariamo la libertà della relazione.

DO HORSES REALLY ENJOY BEING TOUCHED, OR JUST TOLERATE IT?

Touch is part of almost every interaction we have with horses – grooming, routine handling, tacking-up, vet visits, even a pat after a ride. Touch is also a routine feature of equine-assisted services, yet surprisingly little is known about how horses themselves experience it. Do they actually enjoy it, or does their experience depend on having the choice to engage – the freedom to say yes, or no?

A recent study compared two situations using therapy horses who were regularly involved in equine-assisted services. In the ‘forced touch’ condition, horses were tied up and touched continuously on different body areas (neck/shoulder, body, hindquarters) using patting, stroking, or scratching. In the ‘free-choice’ condition, horses were loose in a round pen and could only be touched if they chose to come close enough.

The results showed clear differences. Horses showed more stress-linked behaviours – oral movements, restlessness, and tail swishing – when touched without the option to move away. When free to choose, they often carried their heads lower (a sign of relaxation) and spent over half of the session out of arm’s reach. Stroking was more often linked with relaxed, low head carriage than scratching or patting, and touches on the hindquarters produced fewer stress responses than touches on the neck or body.

The researchers also looked at how the horses responded to different kinds of people. Around experienced handlers, horses were more likely to hold their heads high and showed lower heart-rate variability – signs of vigilance or anticipation, perhaps expecting work. In contrast, their responses with less experienced people were generally more relaxed.

Touches on the hindquarters were linked with fewer stress behaviours, while touches on the neck and body produced more tail swishing and less relaxed postures. Horses were also more likely to lower their heads – a calmer signal – when touched on the body or hindquarters than on the neck.

Why does this matter? Horses in all kinds of contexts – riding schools, competition yards, therapy programmes, or leisure homes – are routinely touched and handled. These findings show that the manner of touch, the part of the body involved, and above all the horse’s ability to choose whether to participate all shape how she/he/they experience the interaction.

The welfare implications are clear: allowing horses more agency in how and when we touch them may reduce stress, strengthen trust, and make interactions safer and more positive for everyone.

For me, the sad part of these findings is that horses are rarely given a choice about when or how they are touched. And many people don’t recognise when touch is causing the horse stress.

Study: Sarrafchi, A., Lassallette, E., & Merkies, K. (2025). The effect of choice on horse behaviour, heart rate and heart rate variability during human–horse touch interactions. Applied Animal Behaviour Science