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Real Leadership Lessons From Horses

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Feb 17, 2026
Real Leadership Lessons From Horses
“…life is not about fixing others, but about embodying coherence so others feel safe enough to embody the same.”

— Jennifer Schramm

Real Leadership Lessons From Horses

Jennifer Schramm engaged with horses to lead behavior change. Along the way, horses led Jennifer to coherence. “Humans are predators by design. We focus, plan, and act. Horses are prey animals. They survive by sensing, attuning, and reading the field around them.” After failed attempts to control them led to frustration and anxiety, Jennifer realized the horses were mirroring her feelings. She did not need to change the horse’s behavior. She needed to change her own to coherence – to be present, aligning body, mind, and intention. “Presence is invitation enough. When we release the need to control outcomes, trust becomes possible.” The horses taught me, “Real leadership is not about control; it is about connection. It is about creating a field where others feel safe enough to be themselves,” whether horse or human.

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The next time you are called to lead, perhaps feeling fear or anxiety, pause, take a deep breath, let go of the need to control outcomes, and let your body lead through presence and coherence.

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To Remember This Dance, We Woke

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Weekly Reading Feb 16, 2026

To Remember This Dance, We Woke

–Ayla Nereo

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6993b2d6d196c-2542.jpgOnce you free your sight
once you be for life

We are…

When I dream, I dream in white, of
bells and birdcage, boat dock sun and the
cargo spice of what’s to come
like the images come one after one

But this time, it was night
the moon it lilted brightways sharp and the
words to sleeping drifters dance as
though to fall from page alive…

When the
light fell down was a wild burn
like the night said, it could be learned
with the journey you took a chance
to forget when you start the dance…

Did the hairs on the neck of time
stand straight with me speaking their name
and the pride that can make us blind
does it simply fear being shamed
oh the branch, is it known by seed
how it comes to be… and
do the blooms know their righteous power
the beauty of being Seen

Oh the pride that can make us blind!
does it simply fear being shamed
and the tide in it’s ever-pulling
would naught but by breathing be tamed
oh the thought is it known by speech
how it comes to be…
and do the colored blooms know their righteous power
the beauty of being Seen…

When I dream I dream in flight
the swells and stills of all that’s come and the
setting forth our kindred sum
a point in a constellation

When the light fell down was a wild burn
your mission forming with every turn
to assemble and piece it whole
to remember this dance we woke

The beauty of being Seen…

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What does the notion ‘to remember this dance we woke’ mean to you? Can you share a personal story that illustrates a moment of wild burn that led to your mission forming with every turn? What helps you take a chance to forget time and just be with your dance?

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