Leadership Coaching with Horses offers a transformative approach to leadership development, combining the intuitive power of equine-assisted learning with the precision of biometric technology and psychometric profiling. This book introduces a pioneering method that harnesses the unique sensitivities of horses alongside advanced biofeedback mechanisms like heart-rate variability (HRV), providing a comprehensive pathway to enhance personal and professional growth. Delving into the synergistic relationship between humans and horses, this guide details how such interactions foster heightened self-awareness and emotional intelligence. It presents a structured framework for leadership sessions that merge feedback from horses with robust data from biometric and psychometric assessments, enabling a detailed exploration of leadership traits and behaviours and offering measurable outcomes for development. Distinguished by its novel integration of biometrics and psychometrics into leadership coaching with horses, this book is designed to deepen understanding and enable leaders to make real-time, impactful enhancements to their leadership styles. With practical applications, case studies, and a clear articulation of benefits, it is an essential resource for coaches, HR professionals, and leaders seeking innovative, evidence-based tools for advancement.

The Clinical Practice of Equine-Assisted Therapy bridges theory, research, and practical methods to fill a rapidly developing gap for physical, occupational, speech, and mental health professionals interested in incorporating horses in therapy. Extensively researched and citing over 300 peer-reviewed journal articles, it examines core issues such as terminology, scope of practice, competency recommendations, horse care ethics, and clinical practice considerations. This book is an essential resource for professionals who wish to use a best-practices approach to equine-assisted therapy.

Equine assisted coaching is a powerful tool for conflict resolution in Doth professional and private life. Learn the magical role of animals and nature in helping us find answers and our place in life and relationships. We live in a society where technology overshadows the human values of empathy development, and connection with nature and ourselves. In her practice as an international mediator in various cultures, the author was always looking for universal elements of conflicts. This book is a result of this study and highlights interesting aspects that have been neglected for far too long, but could offer structural solutions to the problems of our society today; by the development of emotional intelligence and felt sense, as well as emphasizing the importance of the authentic power of every human being. Nature and especially horses help us in this personal development.

This book takes into consideration training the gaited horse for the trail or the rail for a show horse. The book is a detailed look at the gaits of the Tennessee Walking Horse, Missouri Fox Trotter, and the Rocky Mountain Horse. More importantly the book teaches you a training program that is easy to follow for a smooth easy gaited horse. You will have a complete understanding of the gaits and problem solving at your fingertips. No matter what your training goal are, trail riding or showing. This book will help you understand gaits, training and retraining for a great gaited horse. Consider your horse natural ability and train to a sound standard that matches that ability. Teaching your horse to flat foot walk is fun and easy following the method described in this book. Enjoy the journey be safe and have fun.

Since time eternal horses have walked beside us, helping to shape our destinies, taking us on journeys of the soul, and offering as a gift their power, mystique, and beauty. While it has taken some time, mental health professionals and educators alike have begun to formally acknowledge the emotional, mental and physical benefits that humans can receive by spending time with horses. In the U.S. alone, there are already more than 900 programs that offer therapeutic or educational programming provided in partnership with horses. Leif Hallberg has extensively researched the field of Equine Facilitated Mental Health and Educational Services, and this book reveals the many ways horses can help humans. Become familiar with: Key definitions Historical information about working with horses in therapeutic and educational settings Ethical considerations Practical applications Learn more about the healing power of horses and their rich history of working together with humans in Walking the Way of the Horse. For additional information about this book, and Leif Hallberg visit www.walkingthewayofthehorse.com

Praise for Executive Coaching with Backbone and Heart "In this book, O'Neill brings form and structure to the art of executive coaching. Novices are provided a path while seasoned practitioners will find affirmation." —Daryl R. Conner, CEO and president, ODR-USA, Inc. "Mary Beth O'Neill's executive coaching gave me the tools and clarity to become a far more effective leader and change agent. The bottom line was that we succeeded with a monumental organizational turnaround that had seemed impossible to accomplish." —Eric Stevens, former CEO, Courage Center "O'Neill writes in a way that allows you to see this experienced coach in action. What a wonderful way to learn!" —Geoff Bellman, consultant and author, The Consultant's Calling "Mary Beth brings a keen business focus to coaching by not just contributing insights but through helping me and my team gain the insights that we need to solve our own problems. She has the ability to see through the sometimes chaotic dialogue and personalities in order to help a team focus on the real issues and dynamics that can impede organizations from achieving their goals." —John C. Nicol, general manager, MSN Media Network "Effective leaders require courage, compassion, and initiative. O'Neill's systems-based coaching serves as a guide for both coaches and executives to better enable good decisions and good decision-makers." —Paul D. Purcell, president, Beacon Development Group "With Mary Beth O'Neill's coaching, I've become the kind of leader who balances both the needs to get results and to develop great working relationships. Since I started working with her, I've won accolades as the Top Innovator for my company, and as Professional of the Year for my industry. More important, I've been able to scope my job in a way that allows me to learn and contribute at the same time, all the while delivering great results to the bottom line." —Lynann Bradbury, vice president, Waggener Edstrom

Just as climate change and environmental sustainability have become growing concerns in public discourse, so too have they become a persistent focus in business and organization studies. It is increasingly acknowledged that humans and animals do not dwell in separate spheres; rather, they are entangled in a number of commercial or organizational settings, and organization theory needs to respond more comprehensively to this more-than-human shift in outlook. Important questions continue to arise about the nature of contemporary organization and organizing practices: who are these for? Who benefits from the operation of increasingly globalized capital markets? What place is there for the nonhuman animals in all this organization? What place is there for multispecies companionship, solidarity, and mutual value creation today and in the future, if any? This volume brings together interdisciplinary work on human-animal relationships within business, management, and organization for the first time. It maps the contours of an emerging new discipline, here termed 'Animal Organization Studies', touching on the politics, theory, and empirical experience of multispecies life-worlds. Spanning a number of disciplinary approaches including critical geography, critical management studies, social studies of science, and human-animal studies, the volume highlights the contact points as well as the tensions in humanity's relationship with a range of animal species and habitats. It holds relevance for those investigating debates around humanism and its futures; environmental and sustainability matters; the experience of working with and on animals, and the future of animal consumption and production.

There is a balance to every aspect of horsemanship. This book identifies and explains many of these different areas. In order for a person to reach their goals with horses, it helps to approach the process in a holistic fashion. Everything a person does with or around a horsefrom going to catch it to putting it away at the end of the dayhas an effect on their relationship and on their progress toward their goal. This book will help encourage the horse person to understand the different balances and think through the processes of training in a logical way that makes sense to them. This book will give you ideas and show you how to acquire tools to use in your training. Hopefully you will be encouraged to continue the learning process. A good rule to follow is to seek information from reliable sources using fact-based research.

"This book is a welcome addition to the literature in the field of horse training and should be in the library of any serious, caring horseperson." --Gincy Self Bucklin Author of What Your Horse Wants You to Know and How Your Horse Wants You to Ride: Starting Out, Starting Over With unique insight based on years of experience, author Sarah Blanchard describes horse training based on positive motivation and cooperation instead of subservience and domination. The Power of Positive Horse Training: Saying Yes to Your Horse helps you understand your horse's agenda and explains rewards-based training. It goes beyond theory and: * Helps trainers and riders create a logical, consistent system of requests, responses, and rewards * Teaches communication skills and methods that build respect and a rewarding relationship * Describes nine specific, progressive exercises designed to improve communication and cooperation between horse and rider * Explains how to use positive training techniques to solve six common behavioral problems This book helps you forge a bond of understanding and trust with your horse that leads to enhanced responsiveness and teamwork. . . . and make riding a pure joy.

Assembling Consumption marks a definitive step in the institutionalisation of qualitative business research. By gathering leading scholars and educators who study markets, marketing and consumption through the lenses of philosophy, sociology and anthropology, this book clarifies and applies the investigative tools offered by assemblage theory, actor-network theory and non-representational theory. Clear theoretical explanation and methodological innovation, alongside empirical applications of these emerging frameworks will offer readers new and refreshing perspectives on consumer culture and market societies. This is an essential reading for both seasoned scholars and advanced students of markets, economies and social forms of consumption.