Wild Dreams Ranch

08/15/2024

It has been a joy to partner with Autumnwood Farm for summer camps this year!

08/09/2024

We are proud to feed our herd with Hay Chix nets!

Amen. 🙌🏼

08/04/2024

A reminder, you are perfect just the way you are ❤️

07/30/2024

07/27/2024

We had a wonderful week at the Eau Claire County Fair!

07/23/2024

This is one of the main themes in our camps…. Approaching horses with empathy, kindness, and mutual respect.

Witnessing how horses behave around children really puts a spotlight on their gentle nature.

Many horses seem to have this innate knowing of the gentleness required in interactions with small humans.

Even the more nervous and standoffish types of horses often have an affinity with kids, where they express a level of interest and kindness that may not be shown to the adults regularly handling them.

My thought is that it has something to do with perceiving children as innocent and unthreatening, with an understanding that they’re more fragile than fully grown people.

The anxiety learned from unpleasant experiences with adults dissipates around the youngsters because they don’t exude the same type of harshness that grown ups may have been taught to approach horses with.

It makes me sad to think about how many horse loving kids enter the horse world with an immense love for horses and an inherent softness in their handling of them.

With horses who generally reciprocate and send forth the same energy.

But, overtime, kids learn from role models to be harsher and harsher, under the guise of it being a requirement for achieving safety around horses.

Jumping to physical punishment doesn’t come naturally to children — it’s learned by their teachers.

How different the horse world would be if we approached things differently from day one.

If children learned from the start of their riding careers to approach things with an empathetic energy and more patience.

They would grow into very different people in the long run, with an approach to horses that would stay with them into maturity.

How we role model horsemanship to young people absolutely matters and is likely the ticket to changing the horse world in a very positive way.

07/15/2024

Would you like to explore the world of Equine Assisted Learning? We have limited openings for individual sessions. These sessions focus on “learning to speak the language of the horse” and developing valuable life skills in the process. Send us a message if you would like to learn more!

07/14/2024

It was a great day to partner with Verity Farm for Horsemanship Camp! We enjoyed brushing, designing obstacle courses, leading, painting with the horses, and riding. Our campers focused on being steady and confident leaders ❤️

07/11/2024

We LOVE partnering with Autumnwood Farm to give kids a safe, memorable, and FUN camp experience!!!

06/29/2024

We had another great day partnering with Autumnwood Farm for horse camp!

06/28/2024

I had the privilege of speaking at a Get Jesus Fit event last night! We talked about authentic connection, holding space, and embracing the journey. Take a moment to check out this awesome community ministry!

06/21/2024

Our first camp of the summer was so much fun! We are so thankful for our wonderful partnership with Autumnwood Farm!

06/14/2024

Grounding…breathing…authentic connection…

We are so grateful for the peace that comes with being in the presence of a horse.

✨ We are currently booking both single sessions and packages. Send us a message to learn more ✨

06/09/2024

ALL are welcome here.

06/07/2024

Our “toddler goats” love our toddler human 😂

06/06/2024

Magic over our pasture ✨

06/03/2024

Summer is here! Our June and July horsemanship camps are full, but we do have openings in August:

✨August 12-15 from 9-12 at Autumnwood Farm

✨August 17 from 1-4 at Verity Farm

Spread the word, bring your friends, and send us a message to sign up today!

06/01/2024

This is beautiful and so true ❤️

Wise Words from Ray Hunt

05/22/2024

We love when the horses look like super heroes in their fly masks 😂🤩😎

05/21/2024

04/26/2024

Louder for the folks in the back!

It’s amazing what horses allow us to do with them.

I used to take it so for granted but my perspective has shifted and I’m continuously in awe of how much these animals will do for us.

Every time they load into a trailer, they’re going against their nature and following us into a situation that feels scary and dangerous.

Being in a small, dark, enclosed space while cars whiz by them. Appearing somewhere new and scary.

Every time we sit on their backs, in the position a predator would attack them from, they’re going against their nature and yet they pack us around and choose to keep us safe.

Every time we tie them up, we’re effectively “trapping” them and putting them in a scenario that would render them less able to escape from danger.

And they let us.

They jump big jumps for us.

They’ll cover many miles for us.

They’ll leave their herd, walking into the discomfort of isolation, to work with us.

They’ll do what we ask, even in times that they shouldn’t.

And they do so with a level of benevolence that humans have yet to learn as a collective species.

There are so many little daily things that we ask of horses that we often take for granted.

Pause a moment and consider how incredible it is that these flight animals have allowed humans, a predator species, to exist alongside them and have performed so many incredible feats for us.

What horses have done for the human race and what they do for us on a daily basis absolutely pales in comparison to any behaviours that they offer that we feel inconvenience or endanger us.

Thank your horse for following you into the darkness, walking away from their innate instincts and doing what you ask instead.

It is incredible what they have done and continue to do for humans.

04/25/2024

I am so excited to share that I’ve joined the Horsework faculty at Strides To Success! It is such a privilege to work alongside leaders in the field of Equine Assisted Learning and help guide other students in their journey.

04/10/2024

Keep chasing your dreams…. ✨

04/09/2024

Be kind. Love big. ✨

04/05/2024

I am very excited to share that I have completed another step in my education journey!

Now I am in the process of completing my portfolio, lesson plans, and teaching videos for my micro-credential as an EAL Facilitator in Education. I am working hard to be able to provide services for schools using proven research and best practices in this industry ❤️

03/27/2024

I am nearly finished with the my PATH International micro-credential in Education. I had the privilege of watching this amazing video today… take a moment to watch! This is why we do what we do in EAL ❤️

Rita Pierson, a teacher for 40 years, once heard a colleague say, "They don't pay me to like the kids." Her response: "Kids don't learn from people they don't like.'" A rousing call to educators to believe in their students and actually connect with them on a real, human, personal level.

03/16/2024

We are proud to use Hay Chix nets to feed our herd ❤️

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