REFINING HEARTS PROGRAMS
EVERY CHANGE IS NOT AN IMPROVEMENT, BUT EVERY IMPROVEMENT IS BY CHANGE.
— Unknown
Refining Women
What women can learn from horses:
- Reconnect with true self and be all God intended her to be.
- Learn non-verbal and verbal communication skills.
- Experience emotional fitness free of anxiety.
- Create healthy boundaries with others.
- Be in good relationship with themselves and others.
- Improve self-esteem and self-awareness.
- Improve concentration and focus.
- Develop trust and respect.
Refining Marriage
What couples can learn from horses:
- Quality time that leaves a lasting impression.
- Learning as unique and personal as each couple.
- Inspiring and supporting core values that lead to a strong partnership.
- Learning that challenges couples to be authentic and enhance communication.
- Experiencing the power behind attitude and intent and how it affects your spouse.
- Learning to read the messages behind emotions.
- Exploring forgiveness & reconnect.
- Acquiring insight to nonverbal cues and the affect on marriage.
- Learn each others tendencies while at the same time improving emotional health, behaviour and communication.
Refining Youth
What youth can learn from horses:
- Effective techniques to strengthen relationships.
- Not every relationship is painful.
- What it means to be present and listen.
- Patience and love.
- Honesty and trust.
- How important each role is in the family.
- How body language is often more powerful than words.
- The art of giving, not just taking.
Emotional Intelligence
Horses Refining Heart’s approach teaches women and families to develop sensory awareness in order to read the intention of others and ask powerful questions in order to understand self and relationships coherently. The real value of Emotional Intelligence is that it allows us to more accurately portray the love of Jesus.
Horses are masters of awareness and they can help us become more aware of our emotions. Fear of feeling, blocks self knowledge and true connection. This feeling will leave if you treat emotions as information. To horses, emotion is simply information. These lessons translate directly in our relationships in the human world. Once we’re aware of our emotions, we get better at understanding others.
“Emotional Intelligence describes the ability to understand one’s own feelings, and that of groups, and how these emotions can influence motivation and behavior.”
Emotional Intelligence has four parts:
- Self-Awareness involves being aware of your emotions and your self. When and how do your emotions affect you? What are your strengths and weaknesses? How self-confident are you?
- Self-Management is all about managing those emotions. When they surface, how do you handle them? Do they help you or hinder you? How good are you at using or changing destuctive emotion into something that will benefit you?
- Social Awareness is the third compnent of EI. How empathetic are you? How long does it take you to figure out that someone’s had a bad day? How well do you navigate through family dynamics?
- Relationship Management deals with how you manage relationships with others. Can you inspire a shared vision for a project or improvement? How well do you resolve conflict? How do you develop a team? Collaboration or competition?
“We human beings are extremely complex. Our emotions are only one aspect of our being, but they are a very important one. Actually, it has been said that emotions are the Christians number one enemy because they can easily prevent us from following the will of God. I think emotions have been a mystery for most of us Frequently we simply just don’t know why we feel the way we feel. We let emotions confuse us, and later that often leads us to making decisions we later regret.” — J.Meyer
