The Collaboration Partners

03/03/2026

Facilitating is an art. Sitting or standing at the front of a room isn't facilitating. This article by Women Facilitating is a great description of all that goes into facilitation of a powerful conversation - regardless of the facilitator's gender. Add horses to the mix and the complexity increases 10 fold! 😁🐴

A love letter to the craft 💌

01/28/2026

I stopped setting "new year's resolutions" many years ago because I ended up disappointing myself, which was never good for my self-esteem.

With the advent of social media, and the increase in people who call themselves personal coaches, we are inundated with messages in the months leading up to the new year that if we want to be successful, we have to set clear goals.

I'm certainly not against setting goals - I do that for myself and my business all the time.

In early 2025, I set a goal to participate in my first dog agility trial in May of that year. My dog and I had been taking agility lessons for 2 years - but hadn't planned to compete. My new instructor in Colorado, encouraged me to compete to see what it's like.

Setting that goal pushed me to practice so I wouldn't feel like a complete idiot at the agility trial. That first competition wasn't pretty - but we did it. And that pushed me to sign up for the next one in July, and another in November, and another last weekend. I set small goals for each competition to just improve on at least one thing and each competition we achieved that. What I didn't do was set a goal of achieving an agility championship in 2025 - that wasn't going to happen.

Progress is often quieter and more meaningful than we expect.

In our recent episode of the Leading With Instinct podcast, Katie Bradley, ACC and I discuss the challenges of setting goals and how to do it in a way that allows for course correction when unexpected things try to block progress.

If you struggle to set goals because you don't want to disappoint yourself or others, I encourage you to listen to our conversation and learn from horses on how to still get to your destination when things in the environment shift.

https://youtu.be/dY8Jj4yzDgA?si=o5HDRQUH9nkyayIX

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Setting goals in the New Year? Good for you, but be careful. Beating yourself up for goals you didn’t hit is too easy. The hard work comes in setting clear...

12/16/2025

Are you an Equine-Assisted Learning facilitator feeling like you want to take your business and facilitation to the next level in 2026? Get a head start on your business goals for 2026 so you are ready to go in January!

Many experienced EAL practitioners reach a point where technique alone isn’t enough. Clients are showing up with more complexity leading to deeper feedback from the horses—and you can feel there’s another level of mastery available.

This Friday, December 19, 2025 at 3:00 pm Eastern time, join me for a free webinar exploring the nuanced art of attunement in facilitating EAL work —the capacity to read subtle shifts in clients and horses—and how developing this skill elevates BOTH your client outcomes AND your business success.

We’ll be in conversation about:
✨ Gaining clarity on where you currently stand through targeted self-assessment
✨ Advanced facilitation techniques that deepen client transformation
✨ Practical business strategies that honor both your calling and your financial needs

If you know you’re ready for your next level, this is the place to begin.

Register here:

An introduction to developing advanced EAL facilitation presence to provide transformational experiences for clients and grow a sustainable EAL business.

12/09/2025

Ginny Telego

12/08/2025

And we're off and running in CO! Thank you to the Colorado Springs Chamber & EDC for helping my business get going here to support talent development in the Pikes Peak Region!

11/22/2025

🌿 It’s here. Just in time for the upcoming Year of the Horse in 2026.

I’m thrilled to announce the launch of my new learning opportunity: The Art of Attunement: Advanced EAL Practitioner Masterclass, opening November 23, 2025.

This advanced training is designed specifically for EAL practitioners who are already certified in an equine-assisted learning modality and are ready to fine-tune their ability to create truly transformational experiences for their clients.

If you’ve mastered the fundamentals but want to deepen your presence, sharpen your awareness, and elevate your facilitation to the next level, this masterclass is your next step.

You’ll be learning from someone actively facilitating equine-assisted leadership and team development with global companies, using the same advanced attunement and observational skills required in high-stakes organizational environments.

This isn’t about adding more activities and it's not another certification.

It’s about building on your skills and becoming the facilitator who can read subtle energy shifts, recognize emotional thresholds, and translate equine feedback into profound, actionable human insight — with clarity, compassion, and confidence.

If you’re ready to expand your impact, registration opens November 23, 2025.

✨ The horses are waiting.

EAL Professionals develop their capabilities as facilitators to provide powerful, transformational experiences for their clients which leads to business growth and sustainability.

11/04/2025

When leaders bring humanity back to the center of their work, everything changes.

Trust grows. Hope returns. Teams align.

In our newest Leading with Instinct episode, "Building Hope and Trust: What Horses Can Teach Us About Human-Centric Leadership," Katie Navarra-Bradley of KatieTheCoach.com and I explore the intersection of research and real-world experience — from Gallup’s findings to the lessons learned in the arena.

It’s a conversation about leading with instinct, compassion, and courage in a world that needs it more than ever.

🎧 Available wherever you get your podcasts.

https://youtu.be/RKjRlVm6HIo?si=LcYiyCU4ltgak7Jv

Sometimes the simplest truths hit the hardest. A new Gallup study has revealed that what followers crave most from their leaders isn’t strategy or pay—it’s h...

07/30/2025

Speaking at the Leadership Pikes Peak Community Leadership Conference today! Creating the world we want means engaging in community building and I'm excited to make new connections here today!

06/20/2025

Ginny Telego, CEO of The Collaboration Partners will be a featured speaker at the Leadership Pikes Peak Community Leadership Conference next month taking place in Colorado Springs!

Ginny will present on "Scaling Community Change Through Shared Leadership."

Building on her extensive experience facilitating equine experiential leadership and team development throughout the world, her presentation will introduce leaders to the TeachingHorse, LLC Diamond Model of Shared Leadership as the way forward to work collaboratively to create health, harmony, and unity in communities and organizations.

🐴 Change IS possible!

04/15/2025

We’ve all had those moments where we “just knew”. We had a feeling, perhaps a “gut feeling” that one direction was right and another was not. There’s no proof or evidence that can help you know for sure. But there is a a tug toward action that gets acted upon, or ignored. Looking back on these moments leads us to understand that is often true that those instincts were valid.

In this episode of the Leading With Instinct podcast, Ginny & Katie explore the concept of intuitive intelligence and its significance in leadership and decision-making.

They discuss how intuition can complement rational and emotional intelligence, the challenges leaders face in decision-making, and share personal experiences that highlight the importance of listening to one's gut feelings.

The conversation also delves into the lessons learned from horses about intuition and instinct and offers practical strategies for leaders to enhance their intuitive intelligence.

🎧 Tune into the full episode on YouTube, Apple or Spotify.

Apple https://bit.ly/3EzamUK
Spotify: https://lnkd.in/dUazNt3u
YouTube: https://bit.ly/4jw3aYr

We’ve all had those moments where we “just knew”. We had a feeling, perhaps a “gut feeling” that one direction was right and another was not. There’s no pr...

03/13/2025

Change. What did you feel in your body when you read the word? If you are like many of us right now, it created a sense of discomfort.

In episode 2 of the Leading With Instinct podcast, Ginny Telego and Katie Navarra Bradley have an authentic conversation about what people are experiencing right now with change happening at a mind-boggling pace. We also talk about what we've learned from horses about navigating change and how we can build change resilience from learning to be in a state of "relaxed readiness."

Check it out here:

Quickly and easily listen to Leading With Instinct for free!