Emotional Fitness Skills
This flagship program is intended to provide both basic and more nuanced tools for self management and attunement to others.
The Equus Effect mission is to provide essential tools that help build healthy, authentic relationships so this curriculum focuses on skills that build our capacity to manage our communication, boundaries and triggers through four key principles:
Resonance
Connection
Collaboration
Capacity
Rigid Beliefs about who we are and how we engage with others keep us stuck in patterns that block our attunement, spontaneity and aliveness. Horses on the other hand, always respond with how they take us to be in real time, right now. That’s how they operate.
Practicing ground-based horsemanship skills unlocks self-limiting patterns and frees up energy. We impact participants’ quality of life as well as their relationships with others - from the ground up. TEE is a multi-component curriculum. Along with sound horsemanship skills, we teach body-based practices and offer a didactic presentation that focuses on tools for triggers.
When I remembered how to trust myself on the inside, the outside got a whole lot easier.
– JD / FDNY