The Power of the Herd (83 page)

benefits of,
345

case studies,
344–45

consensual leadership and,
386

emotional-strength training for increasing,
344
,
345–48
,
365

strategizing for future responses,
348–50

vulnerability-averse behavior

author's experience,
332–39

case studies,
330–32
,
339–40
,
344–45

ego and,
352

with horses,
337–39

at workplace,
332–37

Waal, Frans de,
77
,
78
,
275–76
,
282

Waking the Tiger
(Levine),
241

Wall, Bob,
256
,
372–75

Walters, Lisa,
408

Wanless, Mary,
165

War of
1812,
189–90
,
194

Warren, James,
66

war stallions,
27

Washington
(Chernow),
66
,
86–87

Washington, Augustine,
61
,
62

Washington, George,
23

emotional stamina of,
68
,
207–8
,
412

Fabian strategy of,
88–89

during French and Indian War,
63–65
,
67
,
204
,
215
,
388

horse-riding skills of,
53

as horse trainer,
52–55
,
62–63
,
71
,
226
,
412

humanistic philosophy of,
56–59
,
65
,
87
,
198
,
208
,
214

intellectual ability/horse sense of,
50

leadership skills of,
55–56
,
59
,
62
,
65–68
,
71
,
78
,
86–89
,
93

“melancholy Truths,”
88

at Monmouth Court House (1778),
57
,
58

mother of,
61–63

nonpredatory wisdom of,
98

objectified populations and,
213
,
214–15

personal attacks against,
189–91
,
215

personality of,
54

as revolutionary,
93

at Trenton (1777),
52–53

at Valley Forge (1777),
65–67
,
68
,
70–71
,
192

wife of,
68–71

Washington, Lawrence,
61–62

Washington, Martha,
68–71

Washington, Mary Ball,
61–63

Washington's Secret War
(Fleming),
69

Way of the Horse
(Kohanov),
264–66

weaning,
134

West, Harry,
200–201

What Got You Here Won't Get You There
(Goldsmith),
97–98
,
343

Whitley, David S.,
401
,
403
,
407

Wild
(Griffiths),
232

Wild about Horses
(Scanlan),
43

wilderness,
113
,
154–55

Wilkinson, Barbara (pseud.),
325–29
,
396

Wilson, Edward O.,
402

Winchell, Walter,
13

winning, obsession with,
97–98
,
197
,
198

wolves,
115
,
404–5

women

anger as expressed by,
246–47

emancipation of,
84–85

feminine wisdom,
359

“glass ceiling” preventing upward movement for,
96

grudge holding by,
207

life-affirming rituals of,
392

nonpredatory wisdom of,
158

objectification of,
209–10

objectification/projection by,
211–12

oxytocin and,
119–20
,
140–41
,
158

as pleasure riders,
85

professional, as aggressive,
392–93
,
394

sharo
tradition as viewed by,
391

women's liberation,
2

wonder, sense of,
410
,
413

Woodman, Marion,
355

workaholism,
411–12

workplace

anger at,
243–44

boundary setting at,
306–7
,
312–15
,
386

consensual leadership at,
335–37
,
386

depression symptoms caused by,
261

grudge holding at,
207

inequities at,
255–56

interpersonal strife at,
301–2
,
332–39
,
341–42
,
397–400

nonpredatory power needed at,
369

shaming statements at,
216–18
,
220
,
252

vulnerability-averse behavior at,
332–37

World of the Scythians, The
(Rolle),
90

World War II,
60

wu-wei
(not doing),
174–77
,
178
,
182–84
,
208

Yasodhara (Indian princess),
170–71

yin/yang duality,
84–86
,
159–60
,
164

YouTube,
367

Zamel, Pamela,
220–21

L
inda Kohanov
is an internationally recognized author, speaker, riding instructor, and horse trainer. In 1997, she founded Epona Equestrian Services, an Arizona-based collective of horse professionals, educators, coaches, and counselors exploring the potential of the horse-human bond. Due to increasing international interest, the business expanded, becoming Eponaquest Worldwide as she and her colleagues trained instructors who now practice on five continents.

Linda is the author of the bestseller
The Tao of Equus, Riding between the Worlds,
and
The Way of the Horse
(with artist Kim McElroy). Linda's books have been translated into French, German, and Dutch, and are used as texts at universities throughout the United States.

Linda lectures and conducts workshops at conferences and retreat centers throughout the world, and since 2002, she and her colleagues have trained thousands of people. Seminars at her home base in Amado, Arizona, attract business leaders, entrepreneurs, educators, scientists, mental health professionals, artists, and coaches from around the world. Linda has developed innovative, highly effective approaches to leadership training and team building that have been embraced by executive coaches, sales managers, and major players in the aerospace industry. Starting in 2003, Linda and her colleagues began training instructors capable of leading their own seminars in the Eponaquest approach to equine-facilitated learning. By 2012, close to two hundred Eponaquest Instructors from the United States, Canada, Europe, England, Ireland,
Australia, and South Africa had graduated from an apprenticeship program covering the most beneficial practices for enhancing the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being of their clients.

Linda's main website is
www.eponaquest.com
. A web symposium with in-depth conversations on the material and practical skills presented in
The Power of the Herd
is available at
www.poweroftheherd.com
.

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