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.
Gerhard: 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.
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 over 80 international Licensed HorseDream Partners (Europe, USA,
Canada, Israel). G&K HorseDream GmbH continues licensing
partners worldwide.
If you want to
participate in our program, please contact us via E-mail in
English, French, Spanish, Swedish or German.
Karin, Durk,
and Gerhard for press photo-grapher
Bärbel
Schmidt(stern) in the classroom
(Dec 2008).
Short Bios
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 on the market in 1998 with 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.
HorseDream Horses
Benny
Benny is an 20 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 24 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
10 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 Manage-ment". Riding him through
the forest is like meditating.
Goody
Goody's (9) 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.
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!
April 2009: Our five boys meet
Lotte, the new HorseDream trainer, for the first time in the pasture. From now
on there is a mare in HorseDream's trainer team.
