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About us

HorseDream is a German based global working company, founded in 1996 by Gerhard and Karin Krebs at the Lake of Constance. In 1999 we relocated to the middle of Odenwald, a low mountain range near Frankfurt. Since October 2008 we live and work at Gut Klein Nienhagen, close to the Baltic Sea.

With the assistance of our Friesian horses, we offer a regular schedule of open programs, private or corporate sessions can be booked at your convenience.

Karin, Durk,
and Gerhard
(for press photographer Bärbel Schmidt in the classroom)

Gerhard J. Krebs, born 1949, holds a university degree M.A. in contemporary German Literature and Political Science. He is working as an entrepreneur since 1983, started IT-Trainings in 1986 and founded G&K HorseDream GmbH in 1996 together with his wife Karin. They both started with Horse Assisted Leadership Seminars and team trainings in 1998 using Frisian horses as catalysts.

Karin C. Krebs, born 1955, has been working as an entrepreneur since 1985, as an Horse Assisted Educator since 1998. In the HorseDream concept she is especially responsible for reduction.

Gerhard & Karin initiated the EAHAE in August 2004 together with 8 founding members from Austria, Denmark, England, Germany and Switzerland. Besides leadership and team trainings for companies they provide national and international Train the Trainer Seminars addressing coaches and educators, who want to get into the Horse Assisted Education business, as well as HorseDream Partner License Workshops.

Licensed HorseDream Partners 2006-2008 in: Austria, Canada, Czech Republic,  Denmark, England, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal,  Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and the USA.

If you want to participate in our program, please contact us via email in English, French, Spanish, Swedish or German.

Email to: Gerhard@horsedream.net.

Or write to:  G&K HorseDream GmbH, Ahornallee 11, D-18236 Kröpelin (OT Klein Nienhagen), Germany
 

The HorseDream^® Brand

HorseDream is a registered trademark in Germany since 1997. Since 2007 HorseDream is also registered as a trademark in the following countries: Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Denmark, Sweden Norway, Finland, Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, USA, Mexico, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, Japan.

HorseDream has a certain meaning and is significant in education market:

G&K HorseDream GmbH is pioneer in the field of Horse Assisted Education, also known as Equine Guided Education.

In 1996 G&K HorseDream GmbH invented this special form of leadership training and team building. After having practiced for 8 years in Germany, the company started educating international trainers in using the HorseDream model.

Since 2006 there are 60 international Licensed HorseDream Partners (Europe, USA, Canada, Israel). G&K HorseDream GmbH is continuing to license partners worldwide. The name of this educational product HorseDream stands for two sides of leadership, management, and personal development:

The Horse is a very present being, very real, living always in the here and now. That makes people, working with horses in Horse Assisted Seminars, learn about 100 % presence, responsibility, self confidence, awareness, and all that is necessary to develop leadership skills.

But the Horse, with its historical and mystical background, is also a Dream. It opens horizons, changes belief systems, empowers people to step out of the box. 

So HorseDream means exactly what is needed in modern business life: reality and vision – both concepts are incorporated in this name.
 

Our horses
 

	Benny Benny is an 19 years old Irish Cob, but he looks like a little, strong Friesian with a white star. And because he's been living together with Friesian horses since  1994 when we got him, he knows very well how to handle them. By the way, he is the fastest of all our horses.
	Bosse Bosse is a 23 years old Friesian without certificate. He also has a white star on his forhead. We bought him in 1991 and since then he was carrying us, our children and a lot of seminar participants - especially in an execise called "Chaos Management".
	Durk Durk van de Weeme is a 9 years old Friesian from the Netherlands. He is the coolest of our horses. He is perfect in our so called picadero exercises and of course in "Chaos Management". Riding him through the forest is like meditating.
	Goody Goody's (8) original name is "Gueet", but that's very hard to pronounce, if you are not from Belgium, where he stems from. He has the fantastic Friesian "Haerke 254" in his lineage and thus he sometimes shows incredible movements - especially in the exercise "Meeting another I".
Photos Copyright © 2007 Anette Haug, England	Sir Piter Sir Piter was eight years old when he came to us in February 2006.  He also has a white star on his forhead and no Friesian certificate. He chose us when we already had decided on buying Durk. Don't forget to ask for his story, when you are at one of our seminars or workshops!

About our journey to HorseDream

Karin and I had been self-employed since 1983 in the IT-world, working around the clock. In 1989 we decided to go on a riding holiday. I was nearly 40 years old, when I climbed a horse for the first time, and since then, I have not looked back.

We bought our first horse three months later and then the second one. We went through the so called normal German riding education for one year and eventually left this scene because of the treatment of the horses. We continued learning on our own for the next two years.

We read Linda Tellington-Jones, Sally Swift and in 1993 Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling's „Dancing with Horses“. This book was the key to everything that happened afterwards. We bought two more horses (for our children) and learned more.

The priorities in our daily life had completely changed. Our IT-business- customers were interested in what we did with the horses, too, and instead of inviting them for dinner, we invited them to the horses.

At the end of 1995 one of our employees suffered from stress hormons and wanted to leave the company. We offered her a six months sabbatical, but asked her to come with us to the horses once a week. She agreed, worked with us once a week, without a concrete concept, and three months later she felt fine again to get back into IT-business. This experience was the reason to develop a horse assisted program for corporates.

We started with test seminars with our business friends and their families and went to open market in the beginning of 1998.

From the very first beginning we did nearly everything on our own - with the help of lots of books and with the help of the horses. We did not visit any of the established horse people, not Parelli, not Roberts, not Hempfling (after years of practice we met him twice at his workshops in Denmark, where he collaborated with our partners in Roskilde).

The name of our educational product HorseDream stands for two facets of leadership, management, and personal development:

The Horse is a very present being, very real, living always in the here and now. That makes people, working with horses in Horse Assisted Seminars, learn about 100 % presence, responsibility, self confidence, awareness, and all that is necessary to develop leadership skills.

But the Horse, with its historical and mystical background, is also a Dream. It opens horizons, changes belief systems, empowers people to step out of the box.

So HorseDream means exactly what is needed in modern business life: reality and vision – both concepts are incorporated in this name. Today we and our partners live this dream: to establish Horse Assisted Education as a normal way of further education in companies, organizations and for personal purpose.
 

If you want to participate in EAHAE European Association for Horse Assisted Education, please check http://www.eahae.org.
 

Recommended books and CDs:

K.F.Hempfling Dancing with Horses. Order

Fred Kofman Conscius Business (12 CDs) Order

Ariane Strozzi Horse Sense for  the leader within Order

Barbara K. Rector Adventures In Awareness Order

HorseDream Videos on YouTube^TM