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EAPD (Equine Assisted Professional Development)

Horse Sense Our HorseSense program provides a safe, open environment for exploring, through experiential learning with horses, many of the behaviors, attitudes and responses that influence the quality of our personal and professional lives.

It is based on the relatively new field of Equine Assisted Professional Development (EAPD).

As we observe horses interacting with each other and as we enter into our own interactions with horses, we learn from them. No longer able to rely on our skills of verbal persuasion, our positions of power, or our reputations, we reconnect with our own innate “horse sense,” and become more acutely aware of ourselves and others, physically, emotionally, and psychically. This heightened awareness of “presence” – ours and others’ – paves the way for stronger relationships, better collaboration, and improved communication.

Through non-mounted, hands-on exercises with horses, participants in our HorseSense program experience at whole new levels of awareness the ways in which we comport ourselves and the messages we put out, intentional or otherwise. Each program is designed around one or more fundamental principles in how we lead, follow, communicate, and connect with others. Debriefing sessions with the group help participants recognize and internalize the lessons learned by exploring direct parallels between what happened in the arena and what happens to them in "real life," whether on an individual basis, as a team, or as an organization.

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Leslie Kagan is a certified trainer of the HorseDream International Partner Program® and has participated in AIA coursework, including The Equine Perspective and Relationship Energetics.

Leslie is a member of The European Association for Horse Assisted Education (EAHAE), a non-profit platform for information, communication, education, certification, research and publication of every kind of Horse Assisted Education". Kagan Associates is an affiliate of HorseSense-Israel, and is part of a world-wide network of experience practitioners who have been licensed to work with a wide array of proven equine-facilitated methodologies.