First, I will describe the type of experience, then ask (you) my readers a question, and then tell you of an example of this type of experience.

Everybody hopefully is able to speak of the following type of experience: a positive, very particular experience–which one never tires of encountering. My emphasis is on those kinds of moments that both come up again and again, yet, when it does, it always is inspiring or galvanizing.

Spend a moment and sort between your favored experiences and highlight the kinds that are always fresh and really nifty and also common enough to fit my criteria. So, what you come up with is: an experience that never grows old.

For me, my engagement with groups of learners conjoined with the fantastic horses of Pebble Ledge Ranch, and facilitator Jackie Lowe Stevenson, never grows old. The initial  feeling each other out, when person and horse first meet one another, is always inspiring.

I’ve supported a variety of projects with the horses and team at Pebble Ledge Ranch. These projects have been aimed successfully at a variety of goals. Still, for me, the best part is diving right down into the soul of learning and consciousness.

In a deeply personal sense, it’s an honor to participate and bear witness to a process which often seems to transcend its everyday objectives, whether these are focused on strength building, teamwork, leadership competencies, or any number of other possible results.

By transcend I mean: bringing the whole person into contact with the whole nature of horse and place strikes at a much bigger integration of values, awareness and experience. This is abundantly clear at the end, when the uniqueness of the day’s events and learning settles in, and finds a home in each participant’s understanding.

What experience do you never get tired of–that is in the main about depth and really big stuff?

For the first time, September 26th to the 29th The European Association for Horse Assisted Education is holding its annual international conference at Pebble Ledge Ranch. I appreciate being invited to present to the group Saturday afternoon, (Marketing from an EI Perspective,) but the main activity will be, as Jackie puts it, about honoring the horse.

Especially because this group is so experienced and wise about learning from the nature of horses and from nature herself, I look forward to another iteration of a moment which never grows old and that I will never tire of.

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