More work joy, less stress: leaders and teams with horsepower!
Good leadership isn’t just about control or specialist expertise — it’s about finding the right mix of flexibility, self-awareness, and the ability to stay on course, especially when things get tough.
One moment calls for clear vision and direction, the next for negotiation, listening, adjusting, or a "hands-off" approach.
Your most important instrument?
You — fully present.
Conditions are rarely ideal. That’s why it helps not only to know what you’re doing, but to understand what’s happening beneath the surface — in yourself, in your team, and in the wider system. How you deal with the undercurrents determines whether your leadership lands — or slips away.
Resilient, stress-savvy leadership takes more than knowledge. It calls for emotional clarity, social intelligence, and the courage to truly show up. That’s the X-factor that decides whether collaboration flows — or falters.
In our trainings and coaching, we use the natural behavior of horse herds as a powerful mirror and source of insight. Horses don’t respond to words or titles — they respond to presence, clarity, and intent. That’s exactly what makes them such a unique force in leadership development.
Our approach is experiential, deep, and highly practical. No long theoretical programs, but experiential insight to inform real behavioral shifts. The results become tangible quickly: in yourself, your team, and your outcomes.
EQMPower supports international professionals in deepening their leadership, amplifying their impact, and redirecting their energy toward what truly matters. The aim is to move away from merely surviving and to start leading from strength.
Three core training areas
Our programs focus on three pillars of leadership growth:
Why training and coaching with horses?
Horses are leadership and collaboration experts by nature.
As herd animals, they rely mostly on non-verbal communication to lead, follow, and team up.
They respond to us as members of their herd and connect without prejudice.
This provides deep and lasting insights. Even years after a shared team experience with horses, teams still refer back to it.
Our aim is to create a dynamic, safe space where you can experiment, practice, and discover what truly works for you — a living leadership lab where the insights you take away are the ones you need most.
In our trainings and coaching programs you will:
- Strengthen your authentic leadership power and skills for effective situational leadership
- Experience the impact of non-verbal communication. About 90% of our personal effectiveness is determined by this - and not by words!
- Receive feedback in "horse language", without prejudice. Horses, just like people, respond best to leadership that is conscious and congruent.
- Practice new verbal and nonverbal communication skills that streamline team dynamics and collaboration.
- Learn stress management techniques that help you function better in stressful times. Horses are masters at quickly and effectively releasing tension, and we can learn from them!
Experience with horses is not necessary. This approach does not involve horse riding.
What customers say
The horses you use are the mirrors, but, Josselien, you are the horsepower that leads to the transformation.
~Irma Pouw, Pouw HR Advisors
During a coaching session, I encountered a deep block.
The connection with the pony, and Josselien’s coaching, marked the beginning of a new life: I now am able to set boundaries and continue to get better at it.
~ Tin Willaeys, Resilience in Motion (BE)
The experiential training with horses was an innovative and highly effective approach to team building for our team.
Thanks to Josselien Janssens' outstanding guidance, our team was able to immediately translate the insights into our professional reality.
~ Domenico Vulcano, Vice President of Global Innovation, Corbion N.V.
Thanks to Josselien and horse Pearl Jam, I realized how natural and easy it is to work from your gut feeling.
~ Walter Kort, Kort door de Boch Drone Technology
Free introduction
About the Eponaquest Approach
The Eponaquest experiential learning approach with horses was founded 25 years ago by pioneer and bestseller-author Linda Kohanov. Nowadays professionals offering this approach are active in various countries in Europe, the US and Latin America.
Eponaquest combines the latest developments in human psychological science with the wisdom of proven Eastern meditation techniques and the increasingly documented effect of the natural presence of horses on our well-being and stress levels. The result is a unique and powerfully effective coaching approach.
The approach is constantly updated where new scientific insights become available on the human psyche, the nervous system, the energetic connection between sentient beings, and stress-resiliency.
Due to the interactions with horses, our trainings and coaching trajectories provide profound and lasting insights. Even years after a training, teams continue to reference their shared insights from these sessions.
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