Leadership workshops
Confidence building experiences for women in business
Learning through experiencing
Horses meet you where you are and provide opportunities to move you where you want to be
Embodied Leadership workshop
A one-day confidence building workshop for women in business
Imposter thoughts, self-doubt, and lack of confidence, are key reasons why so many women don’t realize their full potential in the workplace. If this resonates with you, you’re not alone. A YouGov-commissioned survey for HSBC UK in 2025 found that 37% of female business owners said that self-doubt was holding them back from growing their business.
Our Embodied Leadership Workshop is designed to change that. This is a one-day transformational leadership experience for women who want to stop feeling less than and start leading with embodied confidence. The workshop will help you uncover and address the internal blocks, limiting beliefs, or default behaviours that are holding you back and give you the capabilities to embody your full potential.
You’re not blocked. You’ve just never been supported to lead from your whole self.
Whether you’re a small business owner, solo entrepreneur, or corporate leader, you can lead in a way that’s both authentic and sustainable and which inspires others to follow.
A completely different approach to leadership development
Inspired by how wild horses lead their herds, we incorporate facilitated interactions with horses into the workshop. This takes the experience beyond conventional leadership development models. By partnering with horses, we create a powerful and dynamic environment for you to explore what it truly means to lead your business or your team with confidence, clear boundaries, authentic presence, and sustainable use of your energy. And in case you’re thinking you know nothing about horses, you don’t need to. No experience of horses is necessary and all interactions are on the ground.
Why we partner with horses
Simply put, horses make the invisible, visible. They reveal patterns of behaviour and quickly. This makes horses powerful catalysts for professional development. As prey animals, they are exceptionally attuned to the energy, intention, and congruence of others around them. When you interact with them their response is immediate and honest, revealing what you can’t see in yourself. This shows you blind spots and limiting beliefs and presents a reflection of how you show up in the world. The honest feedback from the horses offers deep insights into how you may unconsciously self-limit, how your presence influences others, and how you come across as a leader.
Through facilitated, ground based interactions with the horses you can experience and develop healthy boundaries, clear communication, embodied confidence, and authentic leadership capabilities. Our approach takes leadership from something head based into something you feel, that’s grounded, embodied, and truly aligned with who you are.
Leadership isn’t something you think your way into. It’s something you embody.
Learning outcomes
We explore what it feels like to lead with embodied confidence. You will see and experience in real time how your energy, intention, and authenticity influence the way others respond to you. Through experiential exercises with the horses, expert facilitation, and reflective discussion, you’ll learn to:
- Release imposter thoughts and lead with natural, authentic presence
- Develop clear boundaries and embodied confidence
- Communicate with clarity and congruence
- Strengthen your somatic knowing and inner wisdom
- Remain grounded under pressure
- Relate to others based on integrity and collaboration
- Connect and share with like-minded women
The learning offered by the horses will change the way you decide, relate, and show up in your business and leadership role. As facilitators, we consistently see physical and mental shifts for example, in participant’s body posture and breathing, and witness profound ‘ah ha’ realizations through their experience with the horses.
Are you ready to lead with confidence?
If you’re feeling called to step into a more authentic, grounded, and confident way of leading yourself and others, this workshop is for you. Allow yourself the space to slow down, tune in, and experience leadership in a completely new way. If you feel the pull. Your next level of leadership begins here.
👉 Book here Places are limited to ensure a high level of personal support.
Dates: 20th April 2026 (10.00am – 3.00pm). June and September dates TBC
Venue: The Drum RDA, 155 Drum St, Edinburgh EH17 8RX.
Cost: £297 – early bird discount price for the April workshop of £197 if booked before end of February.
The Facilitators
Midi Fairgrieve
Until my early 30s I worked in both small companies and large corporations. When I changed direction to become self-employed I experienced an uncomfortable and exponential learning curve. I built a business which combined my passion for health and wellness with personal transformation. It was hard doing it on my own, coming at business on my own and from a female perspective.
There were struggles and challenges at every stage of growth, but one of the most important things I learned is that your business needs to reflect who you are. It’s not about doing business in a particular way; it’s about doing business your way. Most of my challenges came when I lost confidence, doubted myself and disconnected from my core values and authentic self.
Fast forward to 2020, and facing uncertainty when my company had to close, I needed to find a different work direction. I had already qualified in Equine Assisted Facilitation in 2017, and new opportunities opened up with horses placed in the centre of my work. Now, along with co-facilitator, Alex Worsley, together we lead personal development retreats in Spain and leadership development workshops Scotland.
Alexandra Worsley
As a Coach and Mentor for over 20 years she loves supporting people with Self – Leadership, Energy and Mindset that support you to bring your soul purpose to life. Alexandra brings experience and training in wellness and personal development alongside a passion as an entrepreneur for building and growing successful award winning businesses with love and purpose. She helps you find what lights you up as you uncover your unique strengths, create more energy, drive, enthusiasm and confidence, to face change and fear with more ease. (For more info about Alex, click here)
