The Generous Horse Project
A Safe Haven for Horse–Human Trauma Recovery.
Our Team.
Practice, Not Performance
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Lindsey Bussey and Elisa Lumbers have practiced together for over fifteen years.
Our herd has lived together continuously for nearly a decade.
This continuity matters.
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A long-standing relationship among facilitators, horses, and land creates familiarity, trust, and a steady relational field that supports both human and equine nervous systems.
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We have completed training through established equine-assisted and trauma-informed models. Those trainings offered shared language and foundations.
What has shaped our work most deeply, however, is practice.
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Living alongside a herd over time reveals social cognition, attachment, rupture, repair, and growth as they unfold — not as theory, but as lived experience.
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Our horses are not static examples.
They are living beings in recovery.
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This is the ground our work grows from.
A Protected Sanctuary
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This is not a busy facility or an event-based space.
This is the horses’ home — and it is protected as such.
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There is no rotation of staff.
No constant flow of people.
No interchangeable energy.
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What we offer is a deliberately held sanctuary, shaped by rhythm, continuity, and care.
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By safeguarding the ecology of this place, we create conditions where nervous systems can settle, and relationships can unfold.
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Why This Model Exists
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This model exists because too many trauma survivors have learned to survive by overriding their bodies, their boundaries, and their instincts.
And too many horses have been asked to tolerate interactions that overlook their nervous systems entirely.
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This approach grew over years of clinical practice and lived relationship with a herd—by watching attachment, rupture, repair, and regulation unfold in real time.
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The horses taught us what safety actually looks like.
Not compliance.
Not performance.
Not pushing through.
But pause, choice, and steady presence.
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Our horses come to us with histories shaped by stress, loss, separation, and change—experiences that ask any nervous system to adapt. Some have known hardship or pain; all have had to learn how to find safety again.
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They are not rotated through sessions or asked to perform.
They live here.
This is their home.
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By safeguarding herd bonds, predictability, and choice, we support their ongoing recovery alongside the humans they work with.
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What heals people here also protects the horses.
