Experiential Learning with Horses
and Nature
• LEADERSHIP EXCELLENCE
• TEAM PERFORMANCE
• ORGANIZATIONAL SPIRIT
• PERSONAL DISCOVERY
Lake Erie College And Spirit of Leadership "Experiential Learning with Horses" Professional Practitioner Certificate
Developing Human Potential
for Positive Change
A professional educational, training and practitioner certification program for those interested in integrating and facilitating relational work with horses in their careers and personal lives.
Why Should You Attend
The professional competencies you will develop as an Equine Guided Experiential Learning Practitioner can be applied in a variety of business, coaching, counseling and educational settings with broad range applications including working with individuals, families, groups, or organizations. This certification program is designed to prepare you in your work with people within the age spectrum of children to senior adults.
Horses change our lives. The relationship with horses challenges us to expand into our potential, to be authentic in our human relationships, to live a meaningful life and to contribute with choice to the well being of the world.
Who Should Attend
- Professionals interested in incorporating horses into their current work or future careers
- Horse specialists who want to expand their opportunities within the equine field.
- College students who would like add this into their educational training in preparation for a career which includes horses.
Our Vision
- To honor the horse and respectfully partner with this amazing being, the horse and herd in service of human development.
- To offer a premier training and certification program furthering the work of this unfolding professional field and preparing its emerging practitioners.
- To be of service to communities by accessing what we know about horse and human relationship and bring those resources into peoples daily work and life.
- To raise consciousness of ecological responsibility.
How It Works
The format of the Training and Certification Program for the Equine Guided Experiential Learning Practitioner will be five modules of four days each over a time period of five months.
Each session will provide essential theories, practical skills, relevant techniques, self awareness opportunities and practice facilitation with horses and with people to develop your competencies as an equine guided experiential learning practitioner.
The program provides real time, action oriented experience with hands on opportunities to apply what you learn and to receive immediate feedback from the trainers and the group participants, and, most directly from the herd of horses.
We will be working with a natural herd of six horses and with the horses individually. You will have the opportunity in the final weeks of the training to practice what you learned with the horses within a real client session.
The focus is not on riding or traditional horsemanship and the work takes place on the ground.
Sevenfold Focus
The focus of this dynamic training provides knowledge, practice and competency in the following seven focus areas.
- Relational Horsemanship
- Equine Experiential Learning exercises, facilitation and process
- Human Growth, Development and Potential which can be applied to Education, Therapy, Counseling, Spiritual Advisor, Creative Arts
- Organizational Change, Development and Potential which can be applied to Leadership, Executive Management, Teamwork, Consulting, Coaching
- Personal Development, Professional Growth and Career Opportunity
- Ethical and Ecological Consciousness
- Core values, Personal responsibility, Environmental Awareness, Cultural Diversity
Special Features
An evaluative program component designed for you to document, track, and assess your goals and objectives for yourself and outcomes from the program.
- Personal consulting/ coaching session with faculty
- Pre program consultation/coaching session
- Consultation/coaching four sessions between each module
- Two post program followup coaching sessions
- Personal Awareness opportunity with select assessment tools
- Optional (fee extra)seminars with internationally recognized professional trainers in Equine
- Guided learning and Natural Horsemanship
- Individual time and space for quiet reflection and inner learning.
- A beautiful natural setting inviting your inspiration and well being.
Professional Direction and Opportunity
As a specially educated and trained practitioner we will help to prepare you to facilitate a relationship between horse and person to support the individual, family, group, team or organization to expand its potential for learning, sustainable change and success. This modality involves a collaborative effort between you-the facilitator, your horse partner- the guide and your client.
Clients can learn about themselves and their relationship to others by being in relationship to the horses, participating in activities with the horses and then by processing their own thoughts, feelings, behaviors and patterns. It is an experiential learning modality within the natural world.
Why Horses
Horses respond to our behavioral patterns, providing us with honest and clear feedback about our current strengths and areas for improvement. They reflect back to us the congruity and incongruity between what we say and what we are actually are doing. Interactions with horses provides learning opportunities with immediate direct feedback relevant to skills critical to success in everyday life and work. Horses lead us into new insights and reveal to us new ways of interacting with others and ourselves.
Experiential Action Learning with Horses
- Challenges us mentally and physically and engages us emotionally
- Provides opportunities to move toward our fears and build self confidence
- Offers personal insight and learning to manage life dilemmas and transitions
- Increases our range of life choice in crisis and day to day decision making
- Supports embodied awareness for changing behavioral patterns and enhancing emotional flexibility and creating healthy boundaries
- Develops leadership potential and team performance
- Expands our capacity to be in good relationship with ourselves and with others
Location: Pebble Ledge Ranch
Novelty, Ohio 44072 Overnight lodging available at the Ranch
Fees and Financial Commitment: $5,500.00 for the training program. One half to be paid two weeks before program begins and one half at the third session. Some scholarship available.
Dates for 2012: Five 4 day Sessions
Module 1 will be offered June 28-July 1 and August 16-19
Module 2: September 6-8
Module 3: October 11-14
Module 4: November 8-11
Module 5: December 6-9
Program Times: Each session will meet Thursday 6:00-9:30 pm, Friday 9:00 am -8:30 pm, Saturday 9:30 am -8:30 pm , and Sunday 8:30 am - 1:00pm.
Application Process: Completed application form. A $200.00 non refundable deposit is requested with you application. An interview either by telephone or in person before acceptance to the training program.
Faculty: Primary faculty: Jackie Lowe Stevenson
Guest faculty: There may be guest faculty from the horse, organizational and human development world.
Module I Entering the World of Horse and Herd
Working with your Relationship to Horses, What Horses Reveal About Being Human and Exploring the work through a Mind/ Body Spirit Perspective
Module II Leadership and Relationship
Working with Individuals for Self Development and Professional Growth
Module III Herd and Group Dynamics
Working With Dyads, Families, Teams and Organizations
Module IV Position Yourself Strategically
Working with Conflict, Collaboration, Resistance and Change
Module V Integration, Practice and Completion
Doing the work, creating a business. Practice work with “real” clients