by Britta | Being Herd 🐎 | May 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
You love your horse. You care. You try to be kind, fair, and respectful.And yet—your horse keeps stepping into your space. 1. When Boundaries Feel Personal Maybe they lean into you while standing still. Maybe they nudge your arm, sniff your pockets, or brush right...
by Britta | Being Herd 🐎 | Apr 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
1. The Paradox: When Words Sound Gentle but Actions Say Otherwise Warwick Schiller has built a wide audience by repositioning himself—from a former natural horsemanship trainer to someone now often associated with softness, presence, and consent in horse training. His...
by Britta | Being Herd 🐎 | Mar 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
🔹 Introduction: 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 toward a leadership model based on trust and collaboration. More and more people began using...
by Britta | Being Herd 🐎 | Mar 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
You might have experienced this too: You’re at the barn, chatting with other horse people, or you post something about your gentle approach online – how you let your horse make choices, how you focus on trust, how you don’t believe in dominance-based training....
by Britta | Being Herd 🐎 | Feb 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
Let’s talk about something that’s easy to overlook when we think about our horses at home: Who’s actually leading your herd? In domestic herds, there’s always at least one horse that steps up to take on the role of leader. It could be a confident gelding or a...
by Britta | Being Herd 🐎 | Feb 7, 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...
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