2025 Integral Coaching with Horses
Introduction to Equine Facilitated Leadership Learning Group
Dates: Initial meeting is virtual - March 3, 2025
Time: Noon - 1:00pm MT
Location: ICF-CO Zoom Meeting Room
Minimum: 5; Maximum: 7
CCEs: TBD
This learning group series offers an introduction to equine-facilitated coaching, a powerful somatic coaching practice that takes place on the ground in partnership with horses.
Through groundwork exercises, participants will explore presence, self-inquiry, deep listening, boundaries, collaborative leadership, non-predatory uses of power, and more. As individuals and as a group, participants will examine how these areas manifest in their personal leadership and in their coaching practices with clients.
Participants will engage in one-on-one and group groundwork exercises in the round pen with the horses, allowing each person to explore their leadership strengths and challenges. Immediate and actionable feedback from the horses facilitates the integration of new leadership styles and behaviors in real time.
This approach utilizes various forms of groundwork exercises that unite horse and human in a collaborative co-learning process. This process reveals how participants relate to themselves and others, creating new understandings of personal leadership and deepening participants abilities to work with their clients in somatic and relational ways.
Key Learning Points / Experiential Learning:
- Experiential exercises grounded in natural horsemanship techniques explore connection, boundaries, nervous system regulation, energetic impact, and individual and collective dynamics.
- Identifying personal leadership strengths and challenges and, aided by feedback from the horses, and working with these dynamics in real time.
- Opportunities for individual and group interpersonal exploration and feedback around translating these skills into client contexts.
- Deepening somatic awareness and presence, and understanding the place of these qualities in participant experiences and in work with clients.
Facilitator:
Bridgit Wald is an integral coach (PCC), organizational development consultant, and equine facilitated learning specialist. She is passionate about supporting individuals and teams in moving towards greater awareness, collaboration, and performance. Bridgit is skilled in working with senior leaders and their teams in addressing the tangible and intangible personnel and organizational opportunities and challenges at hand, and focuses on the ways that management and leadership informs and impacts the health and functionality of entire organizational systems. She also holds an active practice in equine facilitated coaching through EquusLibere, serving leadership teams in on the ground team development in partnership with horses. She serves clients from a wide range of sectors, from non-profits and educational institutions to Fortune 100 and across all areas is a passionate facilitator of holistic, sustainable human and organizational systems transformation. Beyond human development work, she can be found at the horse barn, making music, and volunteering with her non-profit project, Bridging Unicorns. She holds a B.A from McGill University in Montreal, QC.