From a highly perceptive author, equestrian, teacher, and horse trainer comes a treatise on the healing properties of horses -- a follow-up to the groundbreaking "The Tao of Equus." Be they personal relationships with equine friends, fears being overcome in the saddle, or intimate experiences between rider and horse, the ways a horse can be a healer are many. Drawn from years of personally experiencing the intuitive connection between human and horse, Kohanov's insights into equine wisdom are taken from real stories of those healed by horses. Kohanov's own experiences of a deep connection to...

Linda Kohanov is beloved for her groundbreaking articulation of the way of the horse, an experiential wisdom known to riders for centuries but little studied or adapted to off-horse use. Now Kohanov takes those horse-inspired insights on exceptional communication and leadership into the realms of our workplaces and relationships. Here we explore the benefits of nonpredatory power in developing assertiveness, fostering creativity, dealing with conflict, and heightening mind-body awareness.
In the first part of this far-reaching book, Kohanov profiles cultural innovators who employed...

Across several bestselling books, author and teacher Linda Kohanov has explored "the way of the horse," an experiential wisdom gained by studying the nonpredatory power of horses. In The Five Roles of a Master Herder, she adapts these horse-inspired insights into useful tools for developing collaborative leadership and managing change.

Over thousands of years, Kohanov writes, "master herders" of nomadic herding cultures developed a multifaceted, socially intelligent form of leadership combining the five roles of Dominant, Leader, Sentinel, Nurturer /...