Wild Horse Stories
and Insights.
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Observing Wild Herds. Understanding Our Horses.
Wild. Honest. Real.
This blog invites you to question old ideas, clear up common myths, and see horses through the honest lens of wild herds. Find real insights and clear examples you can use every day to live and lead in a way that makes sense to your horse.
Belonging Can’t Be Trained – It Can Only Be Invited
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, every hour...
Challenging Old Ways: When Others Criticize You For Being Gentle
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. Maybe...
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but we’re not meant to live like this.
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
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 wanted...
How We Unintentionally Desensitize Our Horse to Wild Horse Signals: The Join-Up
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 find a...
The Rise of Dominance: What Fear-Based Leadership Means for Horses – and for Us
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 trust-based...
Beyond Behavior
A Video Series on Horse Character · $7
Three horses. Same field. Same afternoon. Three completely different experiences – and I hadn’t done anything differently with any of them.
That question led me to Beyond Behavior – a short video series on horse character through the Five Elements. Six videos, two guides, one meditation. The lens that changes what you see.
My Story
Relational Leadership | Evolutionary Psychology | Wild Horses
I always felt there had to be a quieter, more cooperative way of being with horses. So I decided the only place where I could truly see how horses naturally interact is where they make all their decisions without us: in the wild.
So I spent years observing wild herds – how they communicate, how they make decisions, how they organize their social world. And then I connected what I saw with my background in evolutionary psychology. What emerged is Being Herd: a framework where these two worlds meet.
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Your Message
If something in the blog made you curious, or you’d like to share your own story – just send me a quick email. I always enjoy hearing from you: britta(at)being-herd.com.