The Experience
Half a day, outside, with a horse and no agenda but yours. No riding. You will not learn anything about horses, and that is fine, because the horse is not the subject. You are.
What you leave with
You leave knowing how you actually come across, and what to do with it. That is the aim every time. It is not a promise. What surfaces depends on what you bring into the arena, and the honest read is sometimes uncomfortable before it is useful.
What happens
You stand in a field with an animal that has no interest in your job title and no reason to be polite. People who have done it tend to describe the same thing afterwards: it was not about the horse, it was about presence, and it brought them back to something they had stopped noticing. You cannot talk your way through it. A horse does not respond to the version of calm you can perform; it responds to the one you actually have.
Why the horse
A horse is a prey animal. It survives by reading posture, breathing and muscular tension, and it reacts to what is present in you at once, without social cost and without flattery. It does not reflect your inner state, it reacts to it: if you arrive tense, it moves away; if you are grounded, it follows. The mechanism is visible, repeatable, and immune to charm. That makes it the most direct feedback instrument a leader can stand in front of.
What this is not
Not therapy. Not a wellness retreat. Not team-building entertainment. Not riding, and not an equestrian course. It is leadership development built on behavioural observation: nothing to believe in, just what the horse does and what it means.
Welfare and safety
The horses' wellbeing and your own psychological and physical safety are conditions, not footnotes. Sessions are built around the horses' rhythm, and nobody is put on display.
Who runs it
Equine Leadership is the practice of Dorothee Berg: ICF-accredited coach, certified in sports psychology, with twenty years inside executive leadership. She watches what happens with the horse and names it precisely, in French, English or German, so you walk out with a usable read on your presence rather than a metaphor. One shift in how you carry yourself compounds across every room you enter afterwards.