Together with Anette Haug, Equinox Coaching at their Oakhurst Farm in East Sussex / South of England, we assisted the London management team of an international film production company to optimize their leadership skills. They had booked the team coaching with horses in order to improve internal communication, to develop new strategies and to take on more responsibility as a team.

Start-ups today are committed to socially and ecologically sustainable intentions besides their economic goals quite naturally. The familiar image of business people is changing.

The new motto for coaching, training and seminars by HORSE & SOUL Natural Leaders is "Growing for the Sake of All". It means that our mission is to activate the potentials from the very essence of people and organizations to provide integral growth and sustainable development: People + Planet + Profit are enabled to grow at the same rate.

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At the turn of the year the HORSE & SOUL horses Nikita and Tanea moved to the Quellentalhof (www.quellentalhof.de) of Rita Schodder and Klaus Pfetzing, the No. 1 address for livestock-friendly horse breeding, natural horsemanship, trail and therapeutic riding in the center of Germany ( Kassel - Göttingen area ). They live there in an open stable with 13 Fjord / Norwegian / Highland and draft horses, are in contact with goats, ducks, chickens and dogs and enjoy the unspoiled nature in the Meissner-Kaufunger-Woodland area.

For the numerous clients, who had booked an entrepreneurial coaching with HORSE & SOUL in very different stages of their business growth, 2010 has been a good year. New business ideas have been launched successfully, outdated concepts could be adopted and new customers are welcomed. Some of the clients had extended their management skills face-to-face with the horses, others had fucused their energies in coaching conversations and made important decisions.

From January 2011 HORSE & SOUL provides exclusively individually designed coachings and trainings with horses as a mirror and a catalyst for individuals, groups and open teams. This represents a further logical step towards premium quality, which can, from the perspective of the owner Stephan Gerd Meyer, not be provided in standard seminars and large-scale partner networks, but primarily in a precise custom work, in personal fine-tuning, in the cooperation with selected partners and in a warm and open communication with customers.

It took us some time to come to this decision - we simply are true to our core values in the centre of our projects and contracts. Integrity, open and straightforward communication, quality, synergy and cordiality with our clients and partners are the basics of all HORSE & SOUL coachings, trainings and seminars with horses as mirrors and catalysts.

Economy these days is affected more and more by the desire for responsibility in freedom, balance with passion and the quality of being instead of doing. „Growth for the sake of all“ is the primal intend of the entrepreneurs who book our integral coachings for start-ups, growth or change situations in their businesses.

In our latest seminar „The Art of Leading“ an entrepreneur was first irritated and then fascinated by the horses´feedback to his powerful impact in leadership situations that take place in confined spaces: Our Irish Tinker mare Shannon was so put off by his appearance that she broke through the fences twice to seek shelter.

No. Coaching is a process of clarification, help to help yourself, that anticipates future professional or personal tasks notionally and emotionally.

Two women participated in our latest seminar „The Art of Leading“, both are responsible for teams in several management levels in a medium-sized enterprise respectively in a corporate group. They demonstrated natural leadership skills, extended souvereignty and great boldness already in the first practical exercise with the horses where they had to handle new and challenging situations. They never had made an application for professional advancement, but had been approached by others if they wouldn´t have liked to step up into a new position in the company.