About Time
The tears are falling down my face, not pouring, just drizzling gently. And yet I feel a warm glow in my stomach and the beginnings of a smile creeping onto my lips. The words are really resonating. I am feeling…
A Felt Sense
I have just had the privilege of delivering a 2-day “Coach and Horses Programme” – using equine experiential learning techniques to enhance and develop coaching skills – to a group of experienced coaches. During the programme, we were exploring what…
In An Instant
In an instant we can fall in love, buy a new shirt and salivate at the smell of our favourite dish. We live in a world of instant gratification, snapchat and superfast broadband speeds. We want everything now and, with…
I want what you’ve got
“You have got to come and see this” I call to my husband. “Your cat – Astro is definitely his cat – has managed to ensconce himself in the cat basket.” Nothing too remarkable about that I hear you say.…
That Sense of Adventure
I nearly fell off Zodiac, my horse, laughing as my youngster Hookey Hoo insisted on exploring my neighbour’s courtyard and then her barn. Ella, who works with me, is a very accomplished horsewoman and yet she was being “taken” on…
What an encounter with rhinoceros taught me about followership
“Keep close, no, keep really close behind me – ok now climb up the rock and do it quickly!” shouted my South African safari guide in a low tone. Finding myself lying half way up a large boulder, I finally…
Appreciation
“We were both sobbing with the kind of tears that you know wont quickly pass; mine had started gently trickling down the side of my cheek pretty much immediately, my husband’s were more muffled about 40 minutes in to the…