Great Leadership Experience
Hertha and Paprika
I had one of the best, most insightful leadership workshop experiences of my life this Wednesday. My friend and Fabulous Women’s Networking colleague Hetha Wolff-Arend, a Life Coach, lead a workshop on leadership and emotional intellegence with the help of Paprika, a beautiful Mustang.
Now Paprika is a flight animal. Their is no judgement or conflict in her personality. But she is a smart cookie. She connects to a person emotionally. We were asked to lead Paprika around and see if she would actually follow us. This required us to bring some type of bond and connection to Paprika. But, you had to be confident, assertive (not aggressive), happy (not down or angry) and with a light step.
Paprika stopped a few times when I was leading and I had to stop too. I had to discribe how I was feeling and then make the connection again with the horse. I learned more from that one hour exercise of how I communicate with people that was eye opening, humbling and so valuable. I loved that horse!! That horse ripped me right open without criticism or judgement.
I am such an advocate of this type of teaching, there is plenty to be learned from my four-legged friend. Hertha is an excellent teacher. She questions your feelings, approach and offers solutions. I highly recommend this workshop/seminar to anyone who owns a business, is managing employees and even employees to learn to be better at relationships with fellow employees and customers.
If you want to learn more about this, go visit Hertha’s Website at http://www.hwa-coaching.com
