Our Softness Revolution

As far back as 2018, we started to explore the idea of working together. At the time, we both worked with leaders in different industries from technology to entertainment to health. 

Although it seemed obvious for us to collaborate and do something together, what that was did not immediately become apparent!

 In 2019 our separate journeys with horses collided, and by 2021 we were training at the same stables.  This took us deeper into a journey of discovery to do our very best for the horses.

In 2023 that journey led us to Mark Rashid's 10-day intensive clinic in Colorado, lovingly called the 'softness boot camp'. This started us off on a beautiful journey of learning how to be softer with our horses and also softer in life. 

As Mark says, "You can't be hard in life and bring softness to your horses." 

We start started to notice how this deepening into softness was profoundly changing the way we experienced, and created in life.

In September 2024, at our second softness boot camp, we both had a moment sat on the mat in the dojo where we realised that softness wasn't only about horsemanship. This was for everyone. This was a new way of being in the world that can serve us to create success in a different paradigm. 

We realised that we were being called to create what we love and the life that we wanted in a way different way - a more fulfilling and joyous experience of life. A softer way to success.

 As we looked at each other across that mat, we smiled, as if we knew what each other was thinking; this was what we were going to do together.

Throughout that trip, we had conversations about the power of softness, and how it tapped into what we were doing with leaders. 

Through those conversations, we started speaking to Bernadette, who runs the Happy Dog Ranch horse Sanctuary; she invited us to come and deliver the evolution of our work at Happy Dog, and so the Way of the Spirit retreat was born. 

We ran our first retreat in May and our second in September of 2025.  Next to come was our Power of Softness online program -  an introduction into this new way of being.

Ws soon realised that we had to take this further and wider and broader, and this led us to start writing our book - The Softness Revolution, and starting this movement to bring more softness into the way we live, love, lead and succeed. 

We look forward to seeing you on the Journey.

- Ellen and Paula