Uma - Horse Facilitated Coaching
UMA, "horse" in Japanese. The symbolism of the horse in cultures is multiple: majesty, determination, personal momentum, freedom, connection to spirituality, surpassing oneself... It is often associated with adventure and embodies power, and sensitivity. By teaming up with horses, I want to highlight the qualities and lessons that horses can bring us and offer a unique, deep and powerful experience.
An experience, out of time and the constraints of everyday life, to go and discover, in depth, who you are.
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What is Horse facilitated coaching?
Equicoaching - or Horse facilitated coaching - offers you, through an innovative experience:
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To explore how you interact with others
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To establish a map of your relational functioning.
In addition, in the case of a team, the approach allows:
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A step back to reflect on how the members of the team work together
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The identification of the strengths and points of progress of the team.
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For whom?
Horse facilitated coaching is for those who:
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are eager to get to know themselves better and develop their interpersonal skills.
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believe in the power of experimentation as a source of sustainable learning and who are open to testing innovative and disruptive development methods.
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Who is with you?
In the first place, the horse ...
The horse is a fascinating animal that has a long evolutionary history of more than 55 million years. This exceptional longevity and adaptability can be explained by characteristics specific to the species: great sensitivity, relational requirements, temporality inscribed in the present, atypical societal organization, etc.
These specificities make it an interesting source of inspiration for managerial and relational practices.
With him, you experience the efficient relationship based on shared trust, mutual respect, a reassuring environment, sound authority, clear communication and authentic adherence.
It helps you to put into perspective, immediately and without judgment, your behaviors and their consequences on yourself and on the group.
… accompanied by the equicoach
The equicoach is a professional in equine-assisted accompaniment, duly trained and certified by recognized professionals/organizations.
Their role is to support and guide you throughout your session, and will ensure your follow-up after the session.
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In practice
Horse assisted coaching is offered in individual or group sessions. The method I practice is the one that Guillaume Antoine developed in 1998 and registered under the label "Horses and Coaching ©".
The concept states that the human-horse relationship can be seen as a metaphor for the human-human relationship, applied to the business world, and to the managerial relationship in particular.
Imagine yourself, with your feet in the sand, in a delimited and secure space, with a horse in freedom, with the sole project of creating a relationship of shared trust.
Your equicoach stands outside the space, and guides you through the structured and dynamic experimentation process, which is based on how horses behave in their natural state.
You are invited to mobilize your body, heart and mind and listen to and analyze your feelings and emotions through the relationship created with the horse.
The experience with the horse is systematically followed by a debriefing with the equi-coach.
Together, we will highlight your feelings, your awareness and draw your courses of action towards your transformation.
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What are the benefits?
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Cultivate harmonious personal and professional relationships
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Becoming aware of your emotions, their impact on others, and managing them better
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Develop your listening skills, your sense of observation, your creativity, your agility
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Trust you, and trust others
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Become a more conscious and effective communicator
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Elevate your leadership
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Understand group dynamics and activate them for better performance
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Creating the optimal conditions for cooperation and buy-in to carry out a project
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Take a step back from yourself and/or your team
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(Re)connect with yourself and get to know yourself better
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(Re)find your alignment
How Horse facilitated coaching is a different approach?
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The atypical nature of this approach. Getting out of the box and conventions allows reconnection and opening up to new perspectives.
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The power to accelerate transformation through immediate and profound awareness.
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The body-heart-mind alliance to anchor this transformation in the long term
Practical information
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Horse facilitated coaching is not therapy. The topics covered in horse facilitated coaching remain exclusively connected to the fields of well-being and personal and professional development. Requests in the field of therapy (e.g. mental disorders and pathologies) will be redirected to a competent professional.
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You don't have to be a rider to practice. We don't ride horses, everything takes place on foot, on the ground.
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Different formulas can be proposed to you: "a la carte" sessions (to establish a diagnosis, a mapping, work on a very specific problem) or a program of several sessions. Equicoaching is also integrated into our individual and group coaching programs.
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The price varies according whether the program is supported by an individual or their company. The price always includes the service of the speakers, the rental of the premises and the cavalry, the snack and/or meal service depending on the format of the service.
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As the follow-up of my clients is at the heart of my concerns, I offer a 45-minute post-session appointment (without horses, by video or face-to-face) a few weeks after the end of the support, regardless of the formula you have received.
