Equine Assisted Coaching and Heart Centered Therapy supports you in creating a new way of being, one that emphasizes authenticity, collaboration, and exploration. The emphasis is on learning to embrace your fullest potential.
I offer a range of individual and group workshops, as well as a specialized Facilitator Training Program.
Why Horses?
Horses live in the present moment and are keenly aware of their environment and the beings around them. They accurately assess emotions as part of their survival.
“Horses are among the best teachers and guides for personal growth and development.”
Why Work with Horses?
Horses help us find what is true and authentic within ourselves and in community with others. When we partner with a horse, we are partnering with a being whose life depends on being sensitive to the difference between danger and safety. As soon as we enter in their space, they respond to what they sense in us. When we try to hide how we feel our words and actions don’t match how we feel on the inside. This incongruence creates inner tension which horses sense as a threat. Horses are not judgmental. Their honest reaction to us helps us recognize patterns that limit us from living authentically.
When we are aware of our patterns, we can make different choices. Horses’ sensitivity can see past protective barriers. They see our true nature and help us connect to ourselves and others more authentically.
Working with horses helps:
·To bring greater awareness to unconscious patterns and behaviors.
· Have an experience so your body learns and then your mind can release.
·To connect more deeply heart-to- heart with yourself and another being in a safe nonjudgmental space .
When we introduce horses into the process, learning and healing takes a leap forward. Their sensitivity is like a kind and loving radar for connection. Horses have acute senses that can penetrate beyond our mental concepts and therefore teach us heart opening connection and mutual respect. Because the body stores old stress and traumas, working in a Somatic or body inclusive process, learning becomes much more clear and understandable.
Horses are among the best teachers and guides for personal growth and development. Being sensitive to the environment for their survival, horses respond to both positive and negative changes in posture, stance and breathing with other animals and people. Horses provide constant feedback through their whole body to incongruence between feelings and behaviors. This allows them to respond honestly and to be guides and teachers of our conscious and unconscious feelings and behaviors. Individuals learn how to use emotional, mental and physical cues within themselves and others to support their personal development. This creates an opportunity for profound healing in all aspects of their lives.
The experiential nature of Equine Assisted Coaching (EAC) provides an opportunity for people to fully participate with their mind, body and spirit. EAC is based on the belief that people learn best through direct and purposeful contact with their learning experience allowing them to alter the way they feel, think and behave beyond habitual barriers and resistance accumulated through life.
Who Can Benefit?
Anyone who is interested in personal growth and learning can benefit from this powerful work; people who have never been near a horse before as well as novice riders and horse professionals.
No previous horse experience is necessary.
What you will Learn
In private sessions and workshops you will experience a safe and non-judgemental environment to develop and deepen aspects of your self:
Personal Presence
· Understand and utilize the messages of your emotions. Horses teach us how to translate emotion into useful messages that can guide our lives in positive ways.
· Develop your ability to use your body as information and access it's wisdom to become "present" and "grounded" in the moment.
· Learn to use all of your senses in gathering information and making decisions. Having access to multiple channels of information allows you to make new conscious choices.
·Uncover your own authentic expression and build authentic community.
· Heal and integrate habitual ineffective patterns. Recognizing and addressing incongruent patterns brings more presence and integrity in interactions with people and horses.
Expand and develop healthy relationships. Healthy relationships begins with mutual respect. Practice safe and loving interchanges with others.
Professional Presence
· Lead by example and explore consensual leadership through your interactions with the horse. You will gain an understanding of shifting from a dominance-based to collaboration-based model for living.
· Develop healthy options for stress management. A more balanced approach to circumstances allows a deeper motivation and commitment.
· Explore personal space and boundaries with sensitivity and responsiveness. You will be able to get a first hand experience of what people and horses need in order to invite and allow a healthy authentic communication.
Spiritual Presence
· Enjoy a sense of peace and calm. In the presence of peace and mindfulness you will feel a sense of aliveness and well-being.
· Experience a deep and pure connection with another being. Interchanges will feel more safe and loving as you connect from your deeper heart.
· Feel the profound and gentle power of your spirit within. When connected to your center you have access to your own inner strength and inner wisdom
· Expand your ability to live by heartfelt principles. Humans sometimes forget how to live from the Heart. If we listen and respect the way of the horse, they can show us the way back to what is truly meaningful.
Personal Presence
· Understand and use the messages behind your emotions.
· Become aware of your physical signals as information.
· Develop your own authentic expression.
· Heal and integrate habitual ineffective patterns.
· Expand and develop healthy relationships.
Professional Presence
· Learn authentic communication.
· Get in touch with a deeper motivation and commitment.
· Develop healthy options for stress management.
· Maintain and express respectful boundaries.
· Explore effective leadership
Spiritual Presence
· Enjoy a sense of peace and calm.
· Discover mindfulness and a sense of aliveness.
· Experience a deep and pure connection with another being.
· Practice safe and loving interchanges.
· Feel the profound and gentle power of your spirit within.
· Find your own inner strength and inner wisdom.
