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 busy schedule, little physical activity, long periods of sitting, and intense concentration characterize our daily professional and personal lives. Especially in social service professions, interacting with a wide variety of personalities presents an additional challenge. Navigating the balance between setting boundaries and showing empathy 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 experience your own patterns firsthand 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:

As you interact with the horses, your own behavioral and reaction patterns become more apparent. 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 from learning theory and the connection 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 practical 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.