Retreats and Training Programs
Professional Development Opportunities
Partnering with Horses for a Better World
Leadership Round Table
"A Herd is inclusive:
Leadership belongs to everyone
And is expected of all"
Join fellow leaders to explore your leadership strengths, challenges and
potential through experiences with horses, nature, personal and engaging
dialogue.
Meets monthly on Monday evenings 7:00 -9:00, June 7, July 12, August 8, September 13
Dialogue Series
Horses, The Nature of Business and Biomimicry
Join us for a dinner snack and a thought provoking experience
with horses, nature and biomimicry.
- June 4 : Entrepreneurship: The process of Bringing ideas to Life
- June 24 : Diversity and Inclusion: The Courage to Be Our Best
- July 15 : Leadership Live : Leadership Belongs to Every One
- September 23: Innovation and Engagement the Keys to Success
(These programs can be custom designed as a one or two day program for your business,organization or institution)
Spirit of Leadership and Lake Erie College Speaker Series
Advanced registration required
Adventures of the Heart
Learn Barbara Rector’s approach to Equine Guided Education
Join us for an adventure of the heart with horses
Getting to know oneself and others through the heart lens of the horse.
Join us at one or all of the following:
Thursday, May 20, 2010
5:30pm – 9:00pm
Lake Erie College, Painesville OH.
May 22: Train the Trainer seminar
(professional development)
May 23 Personal Development
Coming in October Leadership and Horses
Ariana Strozzi
from California internationally recognized author , horsewoman and Equine Guided Educator
Custom Designed Organization and Business Retreats & Training Opportunities for
Leadership,Teams, Staff,
Boards
Innovating, Engaging, Sustaining Positive Change
Experiential Learning with Horses, Nature and Biomimicry
- Building Team Performance
- Developing Leadership Excellence
- Engaging Organizational Spirit
- Inspiring Human Potential
We Deliver powerful action learning experiences with horses and nature for leadership development, team building and communication. The immediacy of the learning will help you to quickly internalize new insights and skills.
Our Approach is grounded in solid business principles, knowledge of human behavior, understanding of team dynamics and creative approaches to conflict and change.
We Provide strength based learning experiences and activities relevant to real world, real-time work situations.
Corporate, Organizational and Group Retreats
Engage your staff in a one or two day retreat
- Leadership Live: Expanding Leadership Potential
- Finding the Herd Within Your Team: Building Team Culture and Potential
- Position Yourself Strategically: Managing Conflict and Change
Personal Discovery Group Opportunities
Horses, Heart
and Spirit
A mini retreat offering the opportunity to be in relationship with a herd of seven gentle hearted horses within the beautiful realm of nature.
A circle of people and horses gather to learn about relationship, fear, courage, matters of the heart and care of the spirit.
What might it be like to take time for yourself, to find quiet moments in nature, to spend peaceful time alone or with other women, to join a herd of gentle hearted horses, to sit by a campfire or listen to the creek, to stretch your muscles climbing or nap underneath a tree, to write or draw, or to enjoy the simple luxury of slowing down and doing absolutely nothing. How might your life be different?
- Wednesday mornings 9:30-11:30 am (women's group)
Begins March 17 Ongoing
- Evening sessions 7:00-9:00 pm (for men and women)
June 2, 16, 30 July 7, 21 August 4, 18, Sept 1 - The fee is $40.00 per week
Veterans and Horses
Uncommon Heroes for the Common Good
Healing and Well Being Through Experiential Learning with Horses
The intention of this strength based program is to build the capacity of veterans and their families to heal their wounds, find positive meaning in the present and move toward a well lived life. As we understand and face trauma better we understand our lives. By speaking and listening to one another with courage, care and compassion we can heal life wounds and manage difficult to treat disorders.
All sessions facilitated by a a veteran, a licensed social worker and/ or
psychologist a horse specialist and a herd of gentle hearted horses.
(Eight session group or two day format)
"Coming Home"
Veterans group (Eight session group or two day format)
- Discover Personal Strengths
- Grieve, Release, Accept and Detach from the Past
- Identify and Access Support
- Build Trust
- Focus on Present Life Purpose and Meaning
- Move Toward Opportunity and a Positive Future
“We Are Family”
Veterans and their families group
Uncommon Heroes for the Common Good
Healing and Well Being Through Experiential Learning with Horses
The intention of this strength based program is to build the capacity of veterans and their families to heal their wounds, find positive meaning in the present and move toward a well lived life.
As we understand and face trauma better we understand our lives. By speaking and listening to one another with courage, care and compassion we can heal life wounds and manage difficult to treat disorders.
The Heart of the Horse:
Helping People Heal
A group for survivors of abuse and other life trauma. The healing and well being discovered through compassion, courage and community.
All sessions facilitated by a licensed social worker and/ or psychologist, a horse specialist and a herd of gentle hearted horses
Starting date to be announced
Personal or Professional Retreats at Pebble Ledge Ranch
Pebble Ledge Ranch is a wonderful choice for your individual, group or organizations retreat, seminar, or training program. Pebble Ledge Ranch is situated on eighty acres of private conservancy protected land and is surrounded by 500 acres of Geauga County Park forest, rookery and wetlands. The ranch is conveniently located within an hour drive of downtown Cleveland, Ohio the popular University Circle cultural center, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Cleveland Hopkins airport, while quietly nestled in the heart of the pastoral Great Western Reserve of northeast Ohio.
Several ecosystems thrive on this land. Rolling pasture and grass land, a mature woods, ancient hemlock forest, rocks and river invite, observation, hiking and exploration on Pebble Ledge Ranch. The beautiful Chagrin River borders the east boundary, the Canadian Glacier Rock Ledges filled with quartz pebbles border the south boundary, a primorial bog of birds and water creatures extends along the north boarder. Fox, deer, hawk and heron are among the wildlife that are often seen and make this their home.
Pebble Ledge Ranch has several structures including a pre civil war bank barn, a yurt (mongolian tent) a guest cottage and farm house which can be made available for activities and meeting space. The horse facility is home to a gentle herd of eight horses with a dry sand paddock work space and picturesque rolling pasture. Give us a call or better yet come for a visit to explore how we might serve you in planning and delivering an experience that will make a difference in your work and life.
Contact Jackie for registration or information at 440-338-1752 or by e-mail at jls82347@aol.com
Equine Guided Experiential Learning Practitioner
Training and Certification Program
Lake Erie College Certificate Program
Summer 2010
2010 4-Day Weekend Level I (22.5 CEU) Workshops start May 13-16 or August 26-29
** The State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker & Marriage and Family Therapist Board has approved this activity for 22.5 continuing education hours for social workers, counselors and marriage and family therapists. Approval Nos. MCS80906 and MST080901.
Are you interested in developing your leadership and entrepreneurial skills?
Are you interested in integrating horses into your professional work as a coach, therapist, consultant or educator?
If your answer is yes to one or both questions:
CHOOSE
Lake Erie College
for premier professional and continuing education training and certification.
*Not for LEC academic or degree college credit
Who should attend? Professionals interested in:
- Furthering leadership and entrepreneurial skills.
- Expanding clinical, coaching or educational facilitation abilities
- Incorporating horses into current or future work
- Exploring transitions in careers, or engaging in personal discovery
- or for college students or adult high school graduates furthering their learning and career
Five -fold Focus
- Experiential Learning with horses exercises & facilitation and relational horsemanship
- Human Growth, Development and Potential as applied to Education, Therapy, Counseling, Creative Arts
- Organizational Change, Development and Potential as applied to Leadership, Executive Management, Teamwork, Consulting, Coaching
- Personal Development, Professional Growth, Career Opportunity and Business Start Up
- Ethical Responsibility, Ecological Awareness, Cultural Diversity
WHY HORSES?
Horses respond to our behavioral patterns, providing us with honest and clear feedback about our current strengths and areas for improvement. 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.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Each of the five modules will provide essential theories, practical skills, relevant techniques, self awareness opportunities and practice facilitation with people and horses..
The program provides real time, action oriented experience to apply what you learn and to receive immediate feedback from the trainers, the group participants, and from the herd of horses.
You will practice in a real client sessions.
PROGRAM MODULES
Level I
Module I Entering the World of Horse, Human and Herd-
Basic Preparation
*required before going forward to level 2
Level II
* Modules 2-5
Module II Leadership and Relationship
Working with the individuals
Module III Herd, Team & Group Dynamics
Working With Dyads, Families, Teams and Organizational level of system
Module IV Position Yourself Strategically
Working with Conflict, Collaboration, Resistance and Change
Module V Integration, Practice and Completion
Integration, doing the work, creating a business. Practice work with “real” clients.
The format of the Training and Certification Program is five modules of four days each over a time period of five months.
Our commitment to You
- Honor and respect the way of the horse and the natural world
- Provide a personalized program that builds on your strengths and interests
- Challenge you to develop to the next level of your skill and creative capacity
- Give you the tools and experience that move you and your business towards success.
- Introduce cutting edge theory and innovative approaches that will take you to the top level of your work.
- Provide optimal time for hands on practice partnering with horses to learn and expand your facilitation skills.
- Offer personal discovery opportunities to maximize your presence in your work
Lake Erie College Painsville, Ohio For information Contact Jackie Stevenson
440-338-1752 or e-mail Jls82347@aol.com
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.
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.