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Belonging Can’t Be Trained – It Can Only Be Invited

Belonging Can’t Be Trained – It Can Only Be Invited

by Britta | Being Herd 🐎 | Aug 15, 2025 | Uncategorized

Many of us try to create connection through gentle training. And that has it’s place. But wild horses don’t use methods or exercises to train each other into trust. They don’t ‘schedule’ connection or earn it through performance. They simply live together,...
Challenging Old Ways: When Others Criticize You For Being Gentle

Challenging Old Ways: When Others Criticize You For Being Gentle

by Britta | Being Herd 🐎 | Aug 3, 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....
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but we’re not meant to live like this.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but we’re not meant to live like this.

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...
From Insecurity to Connection: Lessons From My Mustang Mare Cinder

From Insecurity to Connection: Lessons From My Mustang Mare Cinder

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...
How We Unintentionally Desensitize Our Horse to Wild Horse Signals: The Join-Up

How We Unintentionally Desensitize Our Horse to Wild Horse Signals: The Join-Up

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...
The Rise of Dominance: What Fear-Based Leadership Means for Horses – and for Us

The Rise of Dominance: What Fear-Based Leadership Means for Horses – and for Us

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...
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