Hope for Hearts Horse Farm
Horses have the power to change somebody’s lifetime and to help them boost in their self-assurance.
MORGANTOWN, Ind. — You can wager Lisa Bowman will be observing the Kentucky Derby this weekend on WTHR.
“Certainly!” stated Bowman, the founder and president of Hope for Hearts Horse Farm in Morgantown.
While Bowman is aware how bodily dominant the Derby horses can be, she sees a distinct aspect of these animals each individual day.
“Those people horses are really highly effective and have a ton of velocity, but I also believe about the electric power that my horses here have since they have the electric power to improve life,” Bowman said. “And which is genuinely what we’re listed here for. You can’t place a price tag on that power to renovate somebody’s daily life and to help them strengthen in their assurance.”
Bowman is qualified as an equine experiential schooling facilitator, and she thinks there has hardly ever been a better time for people to occur to her Brown County farm off State Highway 45, west of Bean Blossom, to see how her horses can increase your general nicely-getting.
“With the earth we live in currently, obtaining that feeling of serene is not a thing we have pretty frequently, so it is a good issue for persons to be able to just be in the instant,” explained the Ball State graduate. “I assume that is the biggest factor that horses can teach us, to just to be in the instant, not stressing about what we are heading to do tomorrow, or what we need to do as before long as we get dwelling, but just be current with them.”
Bowman is in the procedure of composing her 1st book for the equine assisted finding out planet.
“Horses are incredible creatures,” Bowman stated. “They have just as many personalities, moods and behaviors as we do as humans. Simply because they’re prey animals in the wild, they’re incredibly intuitive, so they choose up on what someone’s sensation inside of, not what they are displaying on the outdoors. There is no faking it with a horse, and they are good to aid you really recognize what your limiting views, beliefs and patterns are, and to aid you be capable to modify these so that you can obtain the outcome you want.”
The Hope for Hearts Horse Farm was started in 2012 to provide a peaceful spot of restoration and renewal as a result of unique chances with horses that can bolster and further more produce lives.
“We say rhythm delivers leisure, and grooming a horse is pretty rhythmic, and it can be also a time to link,” Bowman stated. “It really can help people to serene down.”
Amy Poynter has been a component of Hope for Hearts given that the commencing, and she’s noticed the transformation these horses can impact.
“When you start acquiring folks in listed here to encounter the software, they’re incredibly bewildered at initial and really don’t actually fully grasp what they are about to working experience,” Poynter said. “Then, you watch them via the working day undertaking these programs, and you see how they improve. They depart just a completely unique human being due to the fact they comprehend how impressive the horses are and what they can reflect back again to you about yourself.”
There are seven horses on the Hope for Hearts farm, which is 7 extra than when they begun virtually a 10 years ago. But Bowman knew from her own individual working experience that proudly owning and managing a horse farm would be a wonderful concept.
“I was encouraging at a farm that my daughter was riding at, and I experienced went as a result of a time that entirely shattered my self esteem,” Bowman explained. “The Lord just showed me how he utilized those horses to assist me obtain my self-assurance again in a truly limited time, and He laid it on my heart to share that with other folks. So we basically piloted the plan at that farm. We failed to have a horse. We failed to have a area. We put our home on the current market and ended up right here in Brown County, and we received our initial horse considerably less than six months later. We developed this barn, and then, we opened the adhering to April. It really is been a fantastic 9 decades to see how it can be seriously grown.”
Bowman provides the two personal and group classes for persons who want to shell out time with her horses.
“Our main system is our ‘Hope for Hearts’ application, and that’s our 1-on-one particular plan,” Bowman said. “We see persons, grownups and children who are battling or emotion disconnected in their personalized or perform lifetime, so they operate 1-on-1 with a horse and a licensed facilitator to assist fortify and grow and acquire whichever area they’re concentrating on.
“And then, we also have a ‘Journey to Leadership’ software, which is our system for organizational groups. We basically do an evaluation of all the team customers coming, and then, we personalize a workshop for them with certain course pursuits for the regions that they want to function on,” Bowman stated. “We also have accredited facilitators that debrief each a person of all those functions. When the group leaves, they actually depart with an action plan to carry out back in the place of work. Then, we abide by up with them 60 days later on to see what kind of results are found from that function program — the points that they uncovered from the horses and how they applied them.”
And the responses from these teams and men and women have been exceptionally good.
“We truly evaluate results, and we had 100% improvement in people’s level of self esteem,” Bowman mentioned. “A person of our most current teams explained that their workforce will be for good changed by the workshop that they experienced here at the farm, doing work with the horses due to the fact of the insights they gained.”