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Horses for courses: exploring the limits of leadership development through equine-assisted learning
Kelly, Simon
Kelly, Simon
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2014-04
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Management Education, vol 38/issue 2, by SAGE Publications Ltd, All rights reserved. © 2013
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Abstract
This essay draws on insights taken from Lacanian psychoanalysis to rethink and resituate
notions of the self and subjectivity within the theory and practice of experiential leadership
development. Adopting an auto-ethnographic approach, it describes the author’s own
experience as a participant in a programme of equine assisted learning or ‘horse whispering’
and considers the consequences of human-animal interactions as a tool for self-development
and improvement. Through an analysis of this human/animal interaction, the essay presents
and applies three Lacanian concepts of subjectivity, desire and fantasy and considers their
form and function in determining the often fractured relationship between self and other that
characterises leader-follower relations.
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Kelly, S (2014) Horses for courses: exploring the limits of leadership development
through equine-assisted learning. Journal of Management Education. 38(2): 216-233.
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