by Britta | Being Herd 🐎 | Jun 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
And neither are our Horses! Like us, domesticated horses no longer live the way they were designed for by evolution for hundreds of thousands – even millions of years. This disconnect leads to anxiety, overwhelm, loneliness, or repressed anger. For both of us, humans...
by Britta | Being Herd 🐎 | Apr 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
Like many young girls, I rode horses in my youth. But by the time I was sixteen, I stopped. I couldn’t stand how they were treated – obedience was always put before relationship. Years later, in my mid-thirties, I rediscovered my love for horses. This time, I...
by Britta | Being Herd 🐎 | Apr 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
Many people who practice natural horsemanship believe that working a horse in a round pen, particularly using the ‘join-up’ method, establishes trust and leadership. But is that really true? Let me take you into the world of wild horses and see, if we can...
by Britta | Being Herd 🐎 | Apr 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Return of Fear-Based Leadership We’ve come so far. For years, the tide was shifting – away from fear-based leadership and dominance, away from control, and towards a leadership model based on trust and collaboration. More and more people began using...
by Britta | Being Herd 🐎 | Feb 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
When people talk about herd behavior, the first thing you often hear is “the lead mare leads the band.” Or “the stallion is always in charge”. It sounds logical. Someone must be the leader. One horse must make the decisions. That belief is so common that we often look...
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