Equine Interactive

08/07/2025

Horses are so smart, this little fellow is so on board with this sport. No brakes

08/06/2025

Signing up for developing some team coaching skills. Utilizing these tools in the arena with the horses is truly powerful.

I Just registered for the Team Coaching Masterclass with Professor Peter Hawkins and Dr. Catherine Carr! Why join? To master the essential skills for navigating complex team dynamics as companies shift coaching in-house. You'll learn proven frameworks for addressing collective challenges that intern...

16/04/2025

A few highlights from our Horse Powered Reading programme which ends this week.

19/03/2025

Horse Powered Reading. We did the "Reading River" today. It was challenging because of the weather. Much fun was had in our second activity relating to "reading with expression".

20/01/2025

Learning to read is charged with emotion. We forget how hard it is, how daunting, to decode the meaning locked in combinations of letters. We forget there are words that sound the same but mean different things and how many there are that we must master. Sow and sew.
What does sow mean? Context matters. Are we talking seeds or pigs?
Feeling daunted. Feeling overwhelmed. Feeling frustrated. Feeling amazed. Feeling elated.
Mastering basic reading is a challenge. Like learning to ride a bicycle, no one can do it for you. Training wheels help but are not the whole answer.
At Equine Interactive our horses accompany young readers in their journey, providing emotional support.
Horse Powered Reading - learning literacy basics while engaging with reading buddies.

25/12/2024

Merry Christmas from Anne and the herd

22/11/2024

What's the challenge here? Is this a boundary? Is it an obstacle? Is it a gate?
How do we behave in the face of challenges?

Do we jump over? Do we crash through? Do we walk around? Do we figure it's a gate and open up?

Everyone has their own way of doing things. Sometimes it's a challenge to change our habits so we don't end up knocked over.

19/11/2024

We may feel stuck and tangled in knots, yet simply shifting perspective by releasing the pool noodle from the twisted lead rope was enough. Who or what is each cone? What does the hoop represent? What is the pool noodle? Who is the rope? What was the significance of the horse touching the smallest cone with it's nose?
If you see a metaphor in this scenario, comment below

13/11/2024

What's important about boundaries? What are the consequences when we don't respect them? What happens when others don't respect our boundaries?

Teen issues often arise around boundaries. This teenager (the horse) doesn't respect some boundaries, does what she wants (crosses into tomorrow's grazing) when she wants and with no regard for her herd mates or her health (too much green grass makes her jumpy).

The consequences: there are some boundaries that aren't so easy to cross. Now she's on her own watching her herd mates over the fence. They are having fun with people and chilling. She's on her own feeling like a victim. No one cares about her. (Actually , I do, but I also can't give in, or there's no learning). She can't go out. She can't do what she wants, which is to be with the fun crowd. Life is unfair.

Note: the boundary on the other side of her is still there. It's the one she crossed earlier. It's the one she couldn't negotiate when the others went out. She can still do her own thing on that side. But she doesn't. Now she wants to be with the herd.

Shift in focus. Shift in perspective. Shift in how she feels about herself in the moment. Shift in control.

17/10/2024

We've had our first session in the new arena area. It's not quite complete yet but sufficiently functional to enable success.

02/10/2024

Unraveling complexity

The construct is a metaphor for a complex project. The hoops, frizbee and cone represent the sorting of the project into its separate components.
The horse came and moved the cloth frizbee into a hoop, while leisurely grazing.
A second horse knocked three hoops together so that they overlapped.
The context of the conversation shifted to explore what aspects of the project were interdependent and could not be completed individually but had to occur as a whole. (Three overlapped hoops). And what part of the project was a single entity that superficially might look like two separate things? (The frizbee inside the hoop)
Finally, the end point of the project was contained as the finished product in a compact and well defined package.

25/08/2024

Looking forward to the next round of Horse Powered Reading starting in September