✨ Since 2008, Field Essays has partnered with @onomatopeenet for creative advice, promotion, and distribution. An exhilarating, at times bumpy road. I learnt so much about editing, (crowd)funding, printing, interviewing, proofreading, book fairs, book talks, you name it! To all those who crossed my journey, in particular to Freek Lomme @setmargins and authors, thank you.

🔥 From here on, Field Essays continues with @eleonoor_jap_sam @japsambooks and @inedition_. Exited about this new collaboration: a trilogy is in the making!

✉️ To order past issues of Field Essays go to link in bio or PM @onomatopeenet

Archives
1. Analog cover try-out, Andreas Tscholl 2008
2. Ex-centric tactics (sketch), Professorship of Art & Public Space @rietveldacademie 2007
3. Field Essays film still @roel_van_tour, Still Making Sense @onomatopeenet 2011
4. Field Essays exhibition Homo Universalis @tentrotterdam 2011
5. Pick of Sticks Embodied photo @ericandmarie 2008
6. Every Image contains an Object photo @ericandmarie 2012
7. Things that Happened photo @ericandmarie 2015
8. Éloj Kréyol photo @onomatopeenet 2019
9. Q. photo @onomatopeenet 2022
10. Q. circle reading @documentafifteen @lumbung.space @davracollective 2022

📚Pick of Sticks Embodied, 2008 #marekpokropski @lucymcrae @barthess #reneput #andreastscholl @lecturis #fondsbkvb @rietveldacademie @alvinhoko @tentrotterdam

📚Every Image Contains an Object, 2012 (sold out) @jonathanmuecke & #basprincen @rietveldacademie @immediatespaces @sandberginstituut Utrecht Manifest No.4 @studiomakkinkbey @cbkrotterdam @grahamfoundation @ericandmarie @labadievantour

📚Things that Happened, 2015 @brynjarsigurdarson @studiobrynjarandveronika #timingold @lidewijedelkoort @citedesartsparis @ecal_ch @mudamlux @anna_loporcaro @villanoailles @ericandmarie

📚Éloj Kréyol. Meanderings in Decolonial Design, 2019 (sold out) @dach.zephir #lucycotter #thomasgolsenne #andrelucrece @stimuleringsfonds @ecoleartsdecoparis @annabernagozzi @provincienoordbrabant @inedition_

📚Q. Meanderings in Worlds of Mourning, 2022 @saodatismailova #rolandovazquez @mondriaanfonds @stroom_den_haag #newalphabetschool @hkw_berlin @documentafifteen @rijksakademie ...

Still a couple of spots open to tend to your inner wisdom – with H O R S E S 🐴 ✨

Coming spring and summer I will host sessions in Equine Facilitated Learning again. This somatic approach focusses on lived experience. It creates a ‘sacred space of possibility’ in which you can experience here and now what it takes to function more fluidly in your life. By letting you practice the art of being present and holding space, the work can deepen your relationships, both with humans and more than humans. And I can tell you from my own experience that it can also give insight into patterns of behaviour that limit you 🫣! Which in turn, can help to recalibrate boundaries 🔥 and take up the space you need to feel connected at any given moment.

“ I remember going from feeling lonely and small in the paddock to relaxed and more conscious towards the end. “ – Seb

“ The horse was already responding to me in his behaviour before I realised what I was feeling myself. “ - Céleste

Are you curious what you can learn from horses in relation to (recurrent) issues you are facing? Send me PM and I’ll get back to you.

FAQ
- coaching sessions take place outdoors in The Hague
- no previous experience with horses is required, no riding takes place
- committing to a journey means appr. 3-6 sessions of 2 hours
- a single/introduction session is possible on request
- I offer the sessions in français, English or nederlands
- the sessions are designed for 18+
- to ensure a bias-free process i don’t do sessions with close friends. But I’m be more than happy to redirect you to fellow instructors of the Epona Quest 🐴 network.

Are you thinking of someone near you who would be into this kind of work? Feel free to share this post.

Be well!

Book cover art work #franzmarc
Photo of Belle and Igor drinking sky water by @danaebphotography

#learningwithhorses #equinefacilitatedlearning #eponaquestworldwide #interbeing #sentientcommunication #naturalhorsemanship #verticality #presence #theartofbeingpresent #medicinehorseway #emotionalagility ...

💫 Just released by @luciababina

Right to the Soul, Episode 08 - Horses: Learning to Be Present

In this conversation hosted by Lucia Babina we explore EFEL (Equine Facilitated Experiential Learning), a coaching method I have been learning and practicing the past years - out of interest for alternative pedagogies and interspecies communication. Lucia: « This method entails being present with the horse, guiding us through a process, I would say, of self-healing and self-care. Midway our conversation, Sophie generously provides a practical example of how, as a facilitator, she prepares clients before entering the paddock and encountering these amazing beings.” The last phrase of the podcast, “What wants to be known, right now?” is borrowed from Focusing guide Natasha Lythgoe (The Art of Rewilding). I came in contact with her centering work through dear soulmate İlke Ercan @ilkeercan.

This fall, I completed Level 1 of Medecine Horse Way (Carol Roush) / Equine Facilitated Learning method - Epona Quest (Linda Kohanov). Gratitude to instructors Josselien Janssens (NL), Cécile Gilbert Kiwano (FR), and Rosey Withey (UK) who supervised my training!

LINK IN BIO to listen

@eponaquestworldwide
@eponaquestfrance
@lindakohanov
@carol.roush
@josselien_rayamedicine
@cgk_developments
@rosiewitheycoach
@the_art_of_rewilding

Images captions
1. Audiogram made with clip from Right to Soul @luciababina 2023
2. My elder sister 🤎 Isabelle @krierisa holding my horse on the Belgian coast where we spent our Easter holidays as kids. Photo Marc Krier early 80’ies
3. Training natural horsemanship through groundwork with @marine_hrblt @harasdelacense 2023
4. Outdoor coaching setting – a hidden gem of The Hague 2023
5. Listening to ‘what wants to be known’, together @kioer_steiermark For Open Fields project. Photo Nicolas Gabriel 2023

#learningwithhorses #equinefacilitatedlearning #eponaquestworldwide #interbeing #sentientcommunication #naturalhorsemanship #verticality #presence #theartofbeingpresent #medicinehorseway #righttothesoul l ...