by Britta | Being Herd 🐎 | Jul 28, 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 🐎 | 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 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 🐎 | May 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
That the dominance theory is outdated should not come as news to most horse or dog people. However, why is it still the foundation for most training methods in the equestrian world today? The problem, as I see it, is that pure science rarely changes behavior on its...
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