There is a particular quality of ground that Dartmoor offers; ancient, barren in part, elemental, uncompromising - raw and honest in a way that managed landscapes are not. This is where the work happens.
One day on the moor with the horses, as we prepare to cross the threshold again into Winter, working at the level that strategy, coaching and conventional advisory do not reach. The inherited patterns running beneath leadership, personal power and ease. The instructions encoded in the nervous system before there was anything to build.
The horses surface what is actually present - not necessarily what is being presented.
The horses I work with are direct descendants of the semi-wild Dartmoor Hill Pony lineage; a species with a 50,000-year heritage on these ancient lands. What makes them extraordinary diagnostic tools is inseparable from that lineage and it cannot be trained! It lives in the herd, transmitted across generations, in exactly the way the survival knowledge of the moorland passes through the herd grandmothers.
Agenda Outline
9am - arrivals on the ancient moorland site of Haytor Rocks, deliciously placed upon an outcrop from which you can see the sea to the South and East as well as the high moorlands to the North
Opening systemic work as a group. The landscape as context for everything that follows.
Morning - equine-led diagnostic sessions
Individual, dyad and group systemic work.
Midday - lunch on the moor
Time and space to connect with peers, share synergies and business cards.
Afternoon - integration and closing
The pattern named and your next chapter visible.
5pm - departures
This is for you if
You have already built something significant, but the issue is no longer strategic - and you know that. You are ready to look at the layer underneath it, precisely, with skilled support, in a landscape that does not allow performance.