More work joy, less stress: leaders and teams with horsepower!
Good leadership is about more than authority, status, or subject-matter expertise. Effective leadership means being able to shift fluidly between situations that each demand something entirely different from you.
One moment you're articulating a strong and inspiring vision. The next, you're negotiating, delegating, evaluating, building trust—both within your team and with stakeholders.
Your most important and valuable instrument? YOU.
Circumstances rarely work in your favor by default. Understanding the unconscious factors that strengthen your leadership helps you excel—even in the face of major challenges.
To lead with power and resilience under stress, we need more than just IQ and knowledge; we also need to strengthen our EQ through emotional and social intelligence skills. These form the “X-factor” that determines whether human interactions achieve the desired results.
The natural herd behavior of horses is our source of inspiration for the subtle, intangible influence that makes a crucial difference—especially in times of tension or uncertainty. Our unique combination of experiential learning with horses and a practical toolkit aligned with that experience unlocks deep insight, applicability, and transformation—leading to a significant positive impact in a relatively short time.
EQMPower offers training and coaching that empowers international professionals in leadership roles to tap into their full strength and potential. We help teams integrate sustainable, positive behavioral transformation—preventing downward spirals and fostering growth and flourishing.
Our innovative, experiential approach has proven its value in practice for over 20 years.
Three core training areas
Our programs focus on three pillars of leadership growth:
Why training and coaching with horses?
Horses are natural leaders and collaborators.
As herd animals, they rely 90% on nonverbal communication to lead, follow, and collaborate.
They respond to us as members of their herd and connect without prejudice. This provides deep and lasting insights. Even years after a shared team experience with horses, teams still refer back to it. In our trainings:
- Strengthen your authentic leadership power and skills for effective situational leadership
- Experience the impact of non-verbal communication. About 90% of our personal effectiveness is determined by this - and not by words!
- Receive feedback in "horse language", without prejudice. Horses, just like people, respond best to leadership that is conscious and congruent.
- Practice new verbal and nonverbal communication skills that streamline team dynamics and collaboration.
- Learn stress management techniques that help you function better in stressful times. Horses are masters at quickly and effectively releasing tension, and we can learn from them!
All exercises are ground work. Experience with horses is not necessary.
There will be no riding on the horses.
What customers say
The horses you use are the mirrors, but, Josselien, you are the horsepower that leads to the transformation.
~Irma Pouw, Pouw HR Advisors
During a coaching session, I encountered a deep block.
The connection with the pony, and Josselien’s coaching, marked the beginning of a new life: I now am able to set boundaries and continue to get better at it.
~ Tin Willaeys, Resilience in Motion (BE)
The experiential training with horses was an innovative and highly effective approach to team building for our team.
Thanks to Josselien Janssens' outstanding guidance, our team was able to immediately translate the insights into our professional reality.
~ Domenico Vulcano, Vice President of Global Innovation, Corbion N.V.
Thanks to Josselien and horse Pearl Jam, I realized how natural and easy it is to work from your gut feeling.
~ Walter Kort, Kort door de Boch Drone Technology
Free introduction
About the Eponaquest Approach
The Eponaquest experiential learning approach with horses was founded 25 years ago by pioneer and bestseller-author Linda Kohanov. Nowadays professionals offering this approach are active in various countries in Europe, the US and Latin America.
Eponaquest combines the latest developments in human psychological science with the wisdom of proven Eastern meditation techniques and the increasingly documented effect of the natural presence of horses on our well-being and stress levels. The result is a unique and powerfully effective coaching approach.
The approach is constantly updated where new scientific insights become available on the human psyche, the nervous system, the energetic connection between sentient beings, and stress-resiliency.
Due to the interactions with horses, our trainings and coaching trajectories provide profound and lasting insights. Even years after a training, teams continue to reference their shared insights from these sessions.
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