Insights and Inspiration: Wild Horses & Leadership
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Discover valuable insights about wild horses and their natural way of life. Wild horses embody the balance we’ve lost, showing us how to live in harmony. By learning from them, we can restore inner balance and build a true partnership with our horse – based on trust and guided by natural leadership. If you enjoy the blog posts, I warmly invite you to explore the Being Herd Community!
The Rise of Dominance: What Fear-Based Leadership Means for Horses—and for Us
🔹 Introduction: The Return of Fear-Based Leadership We’ve come so far. For years, the tide was shifting—away from fear-based leadership and dominance, away from control, and toward a leadership model based on trust and collaboration. More and more people began using...
The Backfire Effect: When Other Horse People Challenge You for Being Gentle.
You might have experienced this too: You’re at the barn, chatting with other horse people, or you post something about your gentle approach online - how you let your horse make choices, how you focus on trust, how you don’t believe in dominance-based training. Maybe...
Who’s Really Leading Your Herd at Home? And Are They Meant to Lead?
Let’s talk about something that’s easy to overlook when we think about our horses at home: Who’s actually leading your herd? In domestic herds, there’s always at least one horse that steps up to take on the role of leader. It could be a confident gelding or a...
How We Unintentionally Desensitize Our Horse to Wild Horse Signals: The Join-Up
Many people who practice natural horsemanship believe that working a horse in a round pen, particularly using the 'join-up' method, establishes trust and leadership. But is that really true? Let me take you into the world of wild horses and see, if we can find a...
Horses Don’t Play Power Games – So Why Do We? Wild Horses Meet Politics.
Our problem in today’s society: We have forgotten what true leadership means. Politicians like Donald Trump thrive on power games. Their leadership is built on threats, intimidation, and the idea that to win, someone else has to lose. In today’s society, dominance is...
The 5 Elements: Understanding your Horse’s Character and what they need most
Have you ever felt like your horse has its own unique personality, almost like a character that shapes how it reacts to the world? You’re not imagining things. Every horse is different, and understanding their personality can help us connect with them on a much deeper...
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Hi, I’m Britta
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Natural Leadership Coach | Evolutionary Psychologist | Wild Horse Advocate | Neurodivergent Perspective
I believe our Horses tell Stories about us and our Relationship and that it’s our unique Ability to read and guide each other that will allow us to create a Bond beyond what we’ve ever hoped for. Let me inspire you to learn from wild Horses how we can establish a more natural communication with each other – without conditioning and conflicts.
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