Why Horses?
Because "horse sense" means "common sense". It's about developing your leadership consciousness. It's about true willingness versus compliance: Leadership isn't just about getting people from one place to another. Leadership is about how we lead, how we are perceived, and how we are received - are we aware of our body language, attitude and tone of voice? Our approach reflects those qualities, the language a horse understands. A horse shows us what we must do to inspire and lead people.
It's about understanding how to inspire people: Everything means something, and nothing means nothing. Communication is not only about what we say but also how we say it. A horse cares nothing about your title or position, only how much you care. Power is not an option, earn the authority to lead, and your effort is rewarded.
It's about finding comfort in being able to face each other with trust and respect: The exercise "Face to Face with Horses" has an immediate impact on your awareness. The horse will react to you exactly as you present yourself, reflecting your leadership style and how it's perceived and received.
It's about creating the desire to be partners: Looking at communication from another's perspective can initiate a profound change in one day. Looking at processes and process management from an integral perspective will open horizons.
It's about focus, acting and reacting with total awareness: The exercise "Distance and Nearness" is about the importance of integrity and trust through open, honest communication. It's about team spirit, collaboration, joy, fun, and self-development in your place of business. It's about experiencing success as well as "success behind success", as Fred Kofman puts it in "Conscious Business".
It's about understanding how to inspire people: Everything means something, and nothing means nothing. Communication is not only about what we say but also how we say it. A horse cares nothing about your title or position, only how much you care. Power is not an option, earn the authority to lead, and your effort is rewarded.
It's about finding comfort in being able to face each other with trust and respect: The exercise "Face to Face with Horses" has an immediate impact on your awareness. The horse will react to you exactly as you present yourself, reflecting your leadership style and how it's perceived and received.
It's about creating the desire to be partners: Looking at communication from another's perspective can initiate a profound change in one day. Looking at processes and process management from an integral perspective will open horizons.
It's about focus, acting and reacting with total awareness: The exercise "Distance and Nearness" is about the importance of integrity and trust through open, honest communication. It's about team spirit, collaboration, joy, fun, and self-development in your place of business. It's about experiencing success as well as "success behind success", as Fred Kofman puts it in "Conscious Business".
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The Corporate Approach.
Horse Assisted Education
Team Building
Corporate Leadership & Development With Horses
Systemic Breakthrough with Horses
Gerhard Jes Krebs: Our Journey to HorseDream & EAHAE
Karin and I had been self-employed since 1983 in the IT-world, working around the clock. In 1989 we decided to go on a riding holiday. I was nearly 40 years old, when I climbed a horse for the first time, and since then, I have not looked back.
We bought our first horse three months later and then the second one. We went through the so called normal German riding education for one year and eventually left this scene because of the treatment of the horses. We continued learning on our own for the next two years.
The priorities in our daily life had completely changed. Our IT-business- customers were interested in what we did with the horses, too, and instead of inviting them for dinner, we invited them to the horses.
At the end of 1995 one of our employees suffered from stress hormons and wanted to leave the company. We offered her a six months sabbatical, but asked her to come with us to the horses once a week. She agreed, worked with us once a week, without a concrete concept, and three months later she felt fine again to get back into IT-business. This experience was the reason to develop a horse assisted program for corporates.
We started with test seminars with our business friends and their families and went to open market in the beginning of 1998. From the very first beginning we did nearly everything on our own - with the help of lots of books and with the help of the horses. The name of our educational product HorseDream stands for two facets of leadership, management, and personal development:
The Horse is a very present being, very real, living always in the here and now. That makes people, working with horses in Horse Assisted Seminars, learn about 100 % presence, responsibility, self confidence, awareness, and all that is necessary to develop leadership skills.
But the Horse, with its historical and mystical background, is also a Dream. It opens horizons, changes belief systems, empowers people to step out of the box.
So HorseDream means exactly what is needed in modern business life: reality and vision – both concepts are incorporated in this name. Today we and our partners live this dream: to establish Horse Assisted Education as a normal way of further education in companies, organizations and for personal purposes.
In August 2004 we founded the EAHAE, the "European" Association for Horse Assisted Education. The vision was to establish and develop Horse Assisted Education (HAE) as a general form of personal and professional development in enterprises, organisations, institutions, societies, and for personal purpose. Therefore we collected all sorts of trainers and people who were interested in HAE without looking for any quality standard. The tasks just were to connect all, to publish the activities on the internet platform, and to organize a yearly conference.
Everybody who was providing HAE in Europe could become full member. Associated member could become, who was providing HAE outside Europe or who was not yet providing Horse Assisted Education but wanted to cooperate with a full member or to support the work of the association.
The yearly membership fee included for both kinds of members: a personal profile on the EAHAE website, linked to the own website, the right to use the EAHAE database with press articles, videos, radio and TV performances, to use internal EAHAE documents, information, and presentations, to apply to attend the annual conference and EAHAE seminars and trainings, and to participate in the EAHAE website award.
With the 4th Annual Conference which was held 14 – 16 November 2008 at Sielanka Farm, near Warsaw, Poland, development of the organisation was brought to a new level. Stepping into the next period meant to focus on quality. Since 2009 new member can only become, who first attended an EAHAE authorized Train The Trainer seminar. Before having attended this seminar, new members are associated as "Friends".
At the qualifying seminar participants experience five categories of hands-on exercises:
- watching
- leading
- communication at distance and nearness
- goal orientation
- teamwork
They learn about three fundamental categories of transfer models:
- leading positions
- team atmosphere and company's culture
- personal development
Participants get a one-day and a two-day concept, hand-outs for participants included. An EAHAE member is allowed to use these concepts and adapt them to own opportunities as number of horses, number of participants, facility etc.
We bought our first horse three months later and then the second one. We went through the so called normal German riding education for one year and eventually left this scene because of the treatment of the horses. We continued learning on our own for the next two years.
The priorities in our daily life had completely changed. Our IT-business- customers were interested in what we did with the horses, too, and instead of inviting them for dinner, we invited them to the horses.
At the end of 1995 one of our employees suffered from stress hormons and wanted to leave the company. We offered her a six months sabbatical, but asked her to come with us to the horses once a week. She agreed, worked with us once a week, without a concrete concept, and three months later she felt fine again to get back into IT-business. This experience was the reason to develop a horse assisted program for corporates.
We started with test seminars with our business friends and their families and went to open market in the beginning of 1998. From the very first beginning we did nearly everything on our own - with the help of lots of books and with the help of the horses. The name of our educational product HorseDream stands for two facets of leadership, management, and personal development:
The Horse is a very present being, very real, living always in the here and now. That makes people, working with horses in Horse Assisted Seminars, learn about 100 % presence, responsibility, self confidence, awareness, and all that is necessary to develop leadership skills.
But the Horse, with its historical and mystical background, is also a Dream. It opens horizons, changes belief systems, empowers people to step out of the box.
So HorseDream means exactly what is needed in modern business life: reality and vision – both concepts are incorporated in this name. Today we and our partners live this dream: to establish Horse Assisted Education as a normal way of further education in companies, organizations and for personal purposes.
In August 2004 we founded the EAHAE, the "European" Association for Horse Assisted Education. The vision was to establish and develop Horse Assisted Education (HAE) as a general form of personal and professional development in enterprises, organisations, institutions, societies, and for personal purpose. Therefore we collected all sorts of trainers and people who were interested in HAE without looking for any quality standard. The tasks just were to connect all, to publish the activities on the internet platform, and to organize a yearly conference.
Everybody who was providing HAE in Europe could become full member. Associated member could become, who was providing HAE outside Europe or who was not yet providing Horse Assisted Education but wanted to cooperate with a full member or to support the work of the association.
The yearly membership fee included for both kinds of members: a personal profile on the EAHAE website, linked to the own website, the right to use the EAHAE database with press articles, videos, radio and TV performances, to use internal EAHAE documents, information, and presentations, to apply to attend the annual conference and EAHAE seminars and trainings, and to participate in the EAHAE website award.
With the 4th Annual Conference which was held 14 – 16 November 2008 at Sielanka Farm, near Warsaw, Poland, development of the organisation was brought to a new level. Stepping into the next period meant to focus on quality. Since 2009 new member can only become, who first attended an EAHAE authorized Train The Trainer seminar. Before having attended this seminar, new members are associated as "Friends".
At the qualifying seminar participants experience five categories of hands-on exercises:
- watching
- leading
- communication at distance and nearness
- goal orientation
- teamwork
They learn about three fundamental categories of transfer models:
- leading positions
- team atmosphere and company's culture
- personal development
Participants get a one-day and a two-day concept, hand-outs for participants included. An EAHAE member is allowed to use these concepts and adapt them to own opportunities as number of horses, number of participants, facility etc.
