Mindfulness and Strength with Horses (Educational Leave, Including Lodging and Full Board)

Become more mindful. Discover your own strength. Deal with stress more calmly.

A packed schedule, lack of exercise, long periods of sitting, and intense concentration characterize our daily professional and personal lives. Especially in professions with a social focus, interacting with a variety of personalities presents an additional challenge. Navigating the balance between setting boundaries and empathic interaction can quickly make you feel like you’re reaching your limits.

In this course, you’ll consciously focus on your physical, emotional, and mental balance. Working with horses allows you to directly experience your own patterns and helps you become more aware of your resources and tap into your inner strength. By combining theoretical knowledge with practical experience, you’ll develop new strategies for treating yourself with mindfulness and respect—even in challenging situations.

What you’ll take away:

- Greater mindfulness of your own physical, emotional, and mental patterns
- A more conscious approach to your own resources and capacities
- Greater inner strength and composure in stressful situations
- new ways to respond appropriately and respectfully

Mindfulness & Self-Awareness:

Interacting with the horses makes your own behavioral and reaction patterns more tangible. The animals help you become more aware of how you treat yourself and others.

Resources & Inner Strength:

Practical work with the horses challenges you to maintain a clear perspective, tap into your own resources, and act mindfully and respectfully even in challenging situations.

Stress Management & New Ways of Responding:

Current findings in learning theory and the relationship between the central nervous system, learning, and behavior form the theoretical foundation. In addition, you’ll learn stress management techniques and try out new strategies directly during the hands-on sessions.

Activities After the Course:

The educational leave program is designed so that additional riding lessons can be booked outside of the seminar. Your previous riding experience doesn’t matter—beginners, those returning to riding with basic knowledge, and advanced riders are all welcome.