What If World Leaders Spent a Day With Horses?
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The leadership program I’d offer if I had a seat at the world’s most powerful table
I sometimes wonder…
If I were given one day -just one uninterrupted, sacred day- with the world’s most influential leaders, what would I do?
Not as a policy advisor.
Not as a strategist.
But as a facilitator of leadership transformation.
Would I walk them through a systems change framework?
Teach them polarity mapping or narrative influence?
No, I don't think so....
More than anything, I’d invite them to listen.
Not just with their ears.
But with their whole body.
With their heart.
With their feet in the grass, standing beside a horse.
LEADERSHIP TODAY: SO MUCH DOING, SO LITTLE BEING
Our political leadership systems are on overdrive:
Strategy. Soundbites. Headlines. Debates. Speeches. Economy, Wars.
So much control. So little connection.
We’ve mistaken dominance for influence,
certainty for wisdom,
and performative strength for real power.
And in that confusion, we, in our global system, forgotten how to simply be. With one another, with the Earth, with ourselves.
This is not a political statement.
It’s a human one.
The world doesn’t need more plans.
It needs more presence.
More humility.
More embodied leadership rooted in purpose that serves not some, but all.
A LEADERSHIP CONSTELLATION WITH HORSES
If I had one day, I’d skip the podium and take world leaders to a quiet field.
No microphones.
No teleprompters.
No policies to defend.
Just a ring. A horse. And the truth.
There are no mirrors more honest, or ancient, than horses.
They don’t care about titles.
They don’t read reports.
They feel energy.
They respond to presence.
When a leader enters the ring with a horse, the truth walks in with them.
Horses don’t manipulate.
They don’t flatter.
They reflect. Purely. Instantly.
WHAT HORSES REVEAL
How your energy impacts the space
Whether you're leading through control or through connection
If your leadership is coherent or performative
Whether you’re aligned… or just pretending
There is no space for ego when a 500-kilo being is watching you with calm, unwavering awareness.
This is not weakness. This is essence.
THE WISDOM OF THE HERD
In horse herds, the leader is not the biggest, fastest, or loudest.
Leadership is earned through:
Calm presence
Sensitivity to the needs of the group
Emotional regulation
Clarity without aggression
The ability to sense danger and protect the herd - not control it
The herd follows the one who feels most connected to the field - the one who listens, senses, and stays grounded in chaos.
This is the kind of leadership the world is aching for.
THREE “FROM–TO” TRANSFORMATIONS I IMAGINE AFTER A DAY LIKE THIS
1. From: Political Agenda….. To: Positive Purpose
A horse doesn’t serve ego. It serves the harmony of the herd.
True leadership does the same.
2. From: One Truth and Policy… To: Embracing Diversity of Thought and Being
In a herd, there is space for all types of horses.
Big or small. Fast or slow. Every shade. Every style.
Difference isn’t a threat - it’s a strength.
3. From: Building Borders and Barriers… To: Leaping Over Them Like a Free Spirit
A horse doesn’t build walls. It runs with the wind.
Leaders, too, must learn to rise beyond fear and constraint -
not to escape, but to liberate.
ARE HORSES THE REAL FACILITATORS?
That realization humbles me.
They don’t teach through slides or speeches.
They don’t explain frameworks.
They lead by being.
They listen with their whole body.
They reflect with zero judgment, and full truth.
They are the anti-politics.
The free.
The ancient.
The unscripted.
They are just the best mirroring tools in leadership development.
WHAT IF OUR LEADERS LED FROM THAT PLACE?
What if peace wasn’t negotiated…. but remembered, from within?
What if leaders stopped playing into people’s fear and anger… and started tapping into collective wisdom?
What if they stopped clinging to prepared statements… and stood, open-hearted, unscripted, in service of the whole?
What if they embodied the energy of the honorable horse: rooted, clear, attuned, and connected to the herd?
Would we finally become a world ready to move as one?
A FINAL REFLECTION
If horses can lead without force…
mirror without judgment…
and hold presence without ego…
then maybe they are not the ones who need to change.
Maybe we are.
Maybe the horses are just waiting for us to finally listen.
For centuries, we brought horses onto our battlefields to be our partners in conflict, power and dominance.
But perhaps now, in this pivotal moment of leadership and humanity, it’s time to walk with them into a different kind of field.
A peace-field.
Not as weapons. Not as warriors.
But as mirrors.
As guides.
As reminders that true leadership isn’t about conquest - but about connection, coherence, and courage without armor.
The horse no longer carries us to war.
They carry us back to ourselves.
