blog | reclaim connection

Oct 25, 2020
1 min

How to Explain Equine Facilitated Learning?

It is sometimes difficult to explain what EFL is all about when people ask. How to put into words the sense of going inside your body dur...

reclaimconnection

Oct 3, 2020
2 min

Well Hello, Holly!

Meet Holly, the latest addition to my herd. Holly, a 21 year old Welsh Pony mare, is a been-there-done-that horse, and has taught many ch...

reclaimconnection

Jul 5, 2020
5 min

Working Through Trauma – Equine Style

Working Through Trauma – Equine Style The aspect of Equine Facilitated Learning that has fascinated me the most is its use in trauma ther...

reclaimconnection

Jun 13, 2020
4 min

React or Respond?

A fundamental framework often used in coaching is that of The Four States of Consciousness – To Me, By Me, Through Me, As Me. The Conscio...

Barb Ganske

Jun 3, 2020
4 min

Ella Comes Home

It is every amateur dressage rider’s dream to have a ‘schoolmaster’ horse to learn on. That dream came true for me 5 ½ years ago, when We...

Barb Ganske

May 4, 2020
5 min

When the Good Ones Go

Some of us horse lovers are fortunate enough that, perhaps once in our lifetime, a horse comes to us that manages to find their way into ...

Barb Ganske

Apr 30, 2020
3 min

My Covid Crazy Quilt

Today I took part in a Zoom coaching session titled Circle of Presence,with Nicholas Janni. Janni is a world-renowned teacher and transfo...

Barb Ganske

Apr 19, 2020
4 min

Embodied

What does it mean to be ‘embodied’? My sense is that it is when we are consciously aware of the feelings, sensations, and movements that...

Barb Ganske

Apr 8, 2020
3 min

Who Do I Want to Be During Covid 19?

It seems like Spring will never come to Alberta. There is more snow in my yard than I can ever remember for this late in April. I am im...

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