Fantastic!

Those words have been with me all week! Following a one on one session with a young person this week I asked how they felt when the session finished and these were their words "Fantastic"!

When this young person had first arrived at Way of the Horse Coaching they were not very enthusiastic showing lots of signs that they didn't want to be there. So what had changed for them? Meeting the horses and interacting with them really lit up this young person world. In their everyday world they had difficulties communicating what they wanted, they often got overlooked and struggled with friendships at times making them feel worthless.

How did the horses make this person feel fantastic? An exercise we start with with all our clients in personal space and boundaries, both theirs and the horses. Our horses illustrate this well Chance, our once wild pony, personal space is huge, Cookies personal space changes depending on her mood and Winston has no personal space as he loves people! Winston is always entering peoples personal space. We have to teach the young people right at the beginning of the programme how to protect their personal space and its quite challenging when you have a 160cm, 1200 pound horse walking straight at you!

Students draw a circle around them which indicate their person space and then they have to keep the horse out by stepping towards the horse, using a firm voice and putting their hands up in the air. This student had to work hard to get all these different movements and commands working together, it took a good few times and then the student was stopping Winston entering his personal space every time.

And that is what made him feel Fantastic!!

Call Jo 0434201106 or email jo@wayofthehorsecoaching.com for further information