At EQuify, your team will learn emotional intelligence skills from the masters of EQ: horses. These majestic creatures possess the power to teach us how to become more conscious leaders through the critical skills of self-awareness, calm presence and non-predatorial communication .

Horses are able to read non-verbal communication and respond to fear or stress quickly and efficiently — and then shift back to their normal emotionally regulated state of calm, balanced grazing. An emotional regulation skill that when learned by humans, allows us to better cope with stress and manage teams under stress more effectively.

How do horses do this?

When humans are in the presence of horses, we naturally shift from our highly-cognitive thinking and analytical state to a more embodied state of presence. This happens out of sheer survival — it is unsafe not to be fully present around 1100 pound powerful animals. And when combined with coaching, this automatic shift into presence quiets the chatter of our brains, allowing us to be more open to receiving new information and see the biases and stories that hold us back. Through this reflection, we can discover new options for leading more conscious lives at work and at home.

Equine Facilitated Learning (EFL) combines nature immersion (one of four coping strategies that show the highest increases in well-being according to the 2022 Annual Global Wellbeing Report by lululemon), cardiac coherence (a study by HeartMath Institute showed that a human’s heart will sync or entrain to the heart rhythm of a horse’s heart – just by being near the horse) and executive coaching.

The world is evolving at an accelerated pace of change; stress, mental health issues and disconnection are all on the rise. EQ is the foundation to thriving in this new paradigm through connection based, authentic communication.