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“I was stunned by how the horses responded to me. . . absolutely amazing how the horses communicate with individuals.”
Lynn W. / Vermont
Lucinda
Founder & Lead Coach
Place
Central Vermont
Herd
Inra, Cam, and Charlie
Inra
Paint (quarter horse) Gelding
Cam
Standardbred Mare
Charlie-Chico
Standardbred Gelding
Lucinda founded Horses and Pathfinders, LLC in 2005 by blending her practical knowledge in Organizational Development and Business Consulting with her training and certification in Equine Guided Education. With extensive experience in business growth and leadership development, she is also a forerunner in the Equine Guided Education professional field for 2 decades.
Utilizing her teaching, consulting and coaching skills, Lucinda guides and supports others to break through perceived barriers to realize their professional, personal and horse-related goals. She and her horses have empowered hundreds of individuals and groups to make a difference in their lives, their work and the world by following her step-by-step methods.
Lucinda earned a Master’s degree from Vermont Law School and holds various training certificates in HeartCore Leadership, Business Development, Professional Coaching, Conflict Resolution, Nonviolent Communication and Women’s Empowerment. In addition to owning and operating Horses and Pathfinders, LLC, she has been faculty to SkyHorse Ranch, Holistic School of Business and Vermont Technical College Equine Studies Bachelor’s program.
Lucinda’s path into horsemanship itself was through a specialty blend of Native style and Somatic-Bareback Horsemanship and Riding, thorugh which the horse is the teacher and guide to riding. She has a focus on key leadership ingredients and somatic sensibilities that markedly translate to improved work, business, relationships and results. Her leadership-centered work has been acclaimed in Living the Vermont Way, The Montpelier Bridge and profiled in the Times Argus and The World newspapers.
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EQUINE GUIDES
INRA
‘Inra’, translated from Apache First Nation language, means ‘Apache Chief’s Horse’. It was not uncommon for the chief of a tribe to choose a horse marked with a medicine hat, blanket and shield because it was believed that this horse had superior strength, stamina, courage and speed. Inra also exhibits a moon eye – one blue eye that is thought to be mystical – we sometimes feel Inra’s moon eye to be the stuff of alchemy. For almost his entire life, Inra has been immersed in Somatic Horsemanship learning and Equine Guided Education. He is highly attuned to boundary work, setting limits and making light work of heavy challenges; he responds to a person’s energy and inner state with special attention and candor.
CAM
Registered as “Came To Succeed” when this big mare was retired from the Trotting and Pacing industry she was fortunate enough to land at the Standardbred Retirement Foundation in Cream Ridge, New Jersey. Residing there for a few years, she decompressed and was trained for ‘civilian life’. Lucinda was seeking a lead mare for Pathfinders and Cam fit the bill so to Vermont she came! Her resiliency, bright spirit and steady demeanor have shone through as she has gently stepped into guiding people of all ages and experience here at Horses & Pathfinders. We believe she came to help others succeed on their journey of leadership.
CHARLIE-CHICO
Without registered status and very little information about his past, Charlie-Chico has surprised us all as a true diamond in the rough. What we do know is that he likely had a hard life. To his great fortune the Standardbred Retirement Foundation rescued him and rehabilitated him from emaciation and dire health issues. From the day he landed at Horses & Pathfinders, he has transformed from having had health issues, anxiety, neuroses and insecurities to a trusting, secure and dependable best friend. Good Chi. Chico has much to show and guide others in high sensitivity, trauma-recovery, resiliency, and empowerment.
Our Place
Located in Moretown, Washington County, Vermont, United States, our property resides on the First Nations, traditional, ancestral territory of the Wabanaki (Dawnland Confederacy) and N’dakina (Abenaki / Abénaquis). Eventually, this land became home to a large, working, merino sheep farm owned by the Cobb family in the 1700s-1800’s. Then part of the land transitioned to a dairy cow farm operation, c.1940. Today, we steward 10 acres specially designed with horses in mind. Adjacent to a 40-acre cornfield and with sweeping views, our place overlooks the confluence of the Mad and Winooski Rivers.
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