While humans experience deep bonds with many animals, horses actively mirror the nuances of our behavior. It’s a distinction that founder of Eponaquest, Linda Kohanov recognized, saw potential in, and developed into a process of immersive learning through experiences with horses. An award winning author, international lecturer, and trainer, Linda has brought her innovative equine facilitated learning program to a global audience.
Whether you’re interested in horses or human development—or both—Linda Kohanov’s Eponaquest approach allows people to engage with horses or observe them and learn how to thrive in life through these experiences. Linda shares with us how her equine facilitated learning program offers tools that open creativity, insight, and empowerment. She explains that these experiences can further expand personal vision, help you reconnect to nature, to the herd and to your own community.
Linda observed early on, how horses respond to people in their presence, highlighting their hidden gifts, wounds, vulnerabilities, or unhealthy social habits. And yet, the horses manage to be discerning without a hint of judgment, communicating instead that you are beautiful, powerful, wise, and capable of endless renewal. Linda tells us how she harnessed this unique relationship between humans and horses to help people embrace a fresh perspective and new approach to everyday life or even manage trauma.
Her program employs horses in teaching people leadership, personal empowerment, intuition, and emotional fitness skills. Through exercises in non verbal communication, Linda’s human/horse engagements help people develop assertiveness and leadership presence, learn to enhance their relationships, create strong teams, and build paths to better conflict resolution.
