Horse Power: Step Out of Drama, Into Direction

The Horse Power: Step Out of Drama Into Direction Workshop:

This workshop is for mission-driven leaders who are starting to see the patterns that keep you stuck—but don’t yet have the tools to shift.

You’re capable, compassionate, and committed to your people. But that same care can turn into over-responsibility, blurred boundaries, or subtle reactivity. You may be:

  • Taking on too much of the work yourself

  • Frustrated by team dynamics or turnover

  • Hesitant to be direct for fear of not being "kind enough"

You’re not flailing—you’re high-functioning—but you know something isn’t working.

You’re craving a leadership model that allows you to bring both heart and direction.

This is a workshop for the leader who wants to stop reacting—and start choosing.

I Get You: It's Just Not That Easy

You’re leading with care—but underneath the surface, you’re holding too much.

Whatever the specifics, the pattern is the same:

  • You’re not getting the results you want

  • You’re spending too much energy managing other people’s energy

  • And you can feel that something has to shift

And here’s the thing:

  • Being a compassionate leader doesn’t mean softening your edges until you disappear.

  • And being a visionary leader doesn’t require you to control or over-function.

By slowing down, listening, and getting curious with the horses, you’ll learn another way to lead—with clarity, creativity, and direction.

There is another way.

That’s Where the Horses Come In.

They don’t respond to roles, titles, or words. They respond to energy, presence, and clarity of intention. In partnership with them, you’ll experience—viscerally—how you show up and how you can shift. Without judgment. Without performance. Just truth in real time.

You’ll also have the chance to practice holding your energy differently while in motion—and receive immediate, non-verbal feedback from your equine partners. These moments create powerful reference experiences you can draw on in day-to-day leadership, especially when the stakes are high and the room is watching..

Your Guide

Janet Schieferdecker is a masterful coach with over 25 years of experience—and more than 1,000 hours coaching with the help of horses. She is a Certified Equine Interaction Professional (CBEIP-Ed) and a licensed HorseDream partner through EAHAE.

With an MBA from London Business School and a background in international corporate management, Janet has spent the last 15 years supporting mission-driven leaders across nonprofits and social ventures. She also serves as People Operations Manager at Criterion Institute, giving her a front-row seat to the real-world complexities of leading systemic change. (read more on LinkedIn)

Janet will guide you with clarity, compassion, and respect—for both your humanity and your leadership.

What to Expect

You’ll move through a 5-step process designed to shift you out of drama and into direction—guided by horses and grounded coaching:

  1. See What’s True


    With the horses as your mirror, you’ll see clearly where reactivity is showing up—whether that’s rescuing, controlling, or avoiding. They’ll respond to how you hold yourself, not what you say.

  2. Discover New Possibilities


    We’ll draw from The Empowerment Dynamic, HorseDream, and The Leadership Circle to help you shift into a creative stance. The horses will reflect the moment your energy and intention shift—even subtly.

  3. Test the Waters


    Try new ways of leading, relating, or holding boundaries—with horses offering immediate, embodied feedback. These experiments help you build trust in yourself and in the process of change.

  4. Take Aligned Action


    When you shift from reactivity to creativity, aligned direction becomes possible. You’ll craft meaningful next steps based on what you’ve felt—not just what you’ve thought.

  5. Live into Alignment


    You’ll leave with reference experiences you can return to. When you feel yourself slipping back into reaction, you’ll have a somatic memory of what it’s like to choose something else.

Your Invitation

📍 Location: Stable Acres, Petaluma, CA


🗓 Next 2025 Date:

  • Saturday, October 11, 2025

👥 Limited to 6 participants per session


💲 $395 per person (includes all facilitation, horse-partnered experiences, and materials).


Please bring your own lunch, wear close-toed shoes and dress in layers for comfort and weather.

After this workshop, you won’t just understand the shift from reactivity to creativity—you’ll have practiced it, felt it, and anchored it in your body.

You’ll leave with:

  • A deeper awareness of the energetic patterns that derail your leadership

  • Embodied experience of what it feels like to lead from presence and direction

  • Tools to pause, choose, and shift—even in challenging dynamics

  • A felt-sense memory of holding your ground, setting clear boundaries, and moving with purpose

Most importantly, you’ll carry this work into your everyday leadership. Whether it’s a team meeting, a hard conversation, or a moment of self-doubt, you’ll have a new level of awareness—and a trusted inner reference point to return to.

Why Bother?

If you don’t interrupt the pattern, it will keep running the show.

  • You’ll keep doing more than your share.

  • Your team will keep underperforming or turning over.

  • You’ll keep leading from effort instead of clarity—managing instead of creating.

And over time, it adds up: frustration, burnout, and the quiet erosion of your own sense of power.

  • You don’t need more information.

  • You need a new experience of yourself.

This workshop gives you that shift—from the inside out.

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