September 7 – 9, 2012: Earthwalk, Shapeshifting for the 21st Century, Gaston, OR
July 16, 2012 by Kathleen
Featuring Kathleen Barry Ingram, Co-founder of the Epona Approach™ & Holli Lyons, Advanced Instructor
Spend 3 days surrounded by trees, nature, horses and the silence.
Some cultures believe every species was given Original Instructions; how to be what they are, not something else. Original Instructions on what it is to be a horse, rock, or plant. Horses know how to be a horse; they don’t try to be a rock or a plant.
Many human beings have forgotten what it is they are here to do, how to walk as a human. They have forgotten their Original Instructions.
Our time on Mother Earth is our Earthwalk™; our time to walk the human path, to remember what it is to be human and live a GOOD human story.
It was once common thought that we were our past and our future was predetermined by the experiences of that past. We now understand through the Science of Neuroplasticity that we can change, direct and intentionally create our future. We are no longer prisoners of our past.
Using Merging Epona™ basic and advanced material with nature based traditional wisdom, creative/somatic expression, the latest in neuroscience and the most ancient of animal behavior, Kathleen, Holli and the horses facilitate an opportunity for you to understand, experience, explore and integrate universal wisdom into your everyday life.
Horses facilitate awareness, change, growth, intentional creation, love, play and joy. Shapeshift Walk a Good Earthwalk™. Remember your Original Instructions.
9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Friday
10:00 a.m. – 5 p.m. Saturday & Sunday
Cost: $ 695.00 includes lunch, snacks & all materials
For information or to register, contact Holli Lyons 503-662-3213 or holliswarmblood@aol.com.
Workshop held at Lyons Gait, Gaston, Oregon.
September 17-21, 2012: Equine Assisted Qualifications: Facilitator Training Programme with Kathleen Ingram, United Kingdom
July 16, 2012 by Kathleen
IFEAL Qualifications and Facilitator Training Pathway
The IFEAL Qualifications Training Programme offers a new, cutting edge and exciting approach, challenging us all as aspiring educators and practitioners in this field to verify and ground our work in solid research and years of case experience.
The IFEAL training programmes are based upon ethical Authentic Horsemanship/Horse Management specific to horses who take part in Equine Facilitated Learning work. This is an important aspect because the horses are regarded as part of the Faculty at IFEAL.
The methodology of IFEAL incorporating Epona Approach™ ensures Horses and Humans work in non-coercive environments. The work is consensual in every aspect and, as such, the emotional, mental and welfare needs of the horse are fully taken into account.
If you have completed Step 1: Basic Training and Step 2: Advanced Training then you are ready for Step 3: Specialisms.
Step 3 Specialisms: IFEAL Specialist Training (FTP 03)
Training to continually innovate and adapt the horse-work in depth with your own professional background, such as:
• Business (FTP 03.1) e.g. coaching, mentoring, staff development
• Psychotherapy (FTP 03.2) e.g. using specific modalities
• Spirituality (FTP 03.3) e.g. spiritual growth and practice
• Healing Practices (FTP 03.4) e.g. bodywork, alternative approaches
• Transition Trauma (FTP 03.5) e.g. military and other specific trauma arenas
Step 3: Specialism is a pre-requisite for Step 4: IFEAL Master Facilitator and Programme Training.
For more information or to register, visit: www.IFEAL.me
September 22 – October 2, 2012: Connecting the Pieces: Private Sessions with Kathleen Barry Ingram and Sun Tui: United Kingdom
July 16, 2012 by Kathleen
The researched evidence is that in order for any therapeutic technique to be effective, it is essential that the person is fully present, empathetic and congruent.Private day/days Intensives affords the opportunity for an individual (or partnership; either personal relationship or professional) to deepen awareness of personal issues, core feelings and areas of bodily tension that inhibit the ability to reach your fullest true potential.
 Elemental horse related activities, that could include a sweat lodge set with in the IFEAL herd’s woodland environment and swimming, are designed to explore and integrate an expansive, yet grounded mind set, capable of endless compassion, innovation, energetic adaptability and creativity.Our work will include experiencing the spiritual and scientific biology of emotions to integrate them with the Mind and Body. Doing so elicits Working Relationship in all areas of personal and professional life.
Kathleen Barry Ingram, co-founder of The Epona Approach™ is a Tucson-based life coach, consultant, lecturer and educator specializing in Equine Facilitated Experiential Learning. Sun Tui is the founder and director of IFEAL and is an Advanced Epona Approach Instructor. She teaches Horse Way Tai Chi and Integral Body Mind Therapy. To book a private session: www.IFEAL.me |
September 25-27, 2012: The Zone of Intuitive Knowing; United Kingdom
May 18, 2012 by Kathleen
Exploring the Scientific, Psychological and Esoteric Dimensions of the IFEAL Approach with Kathleen Ingram and Sun Tui
The Zone of Intuitive Knowing is a radical program for people interested in the neural science, subtle energetic and physiological connections between all of life. It is thought that all beings exist as a unity, interdependent in relationship with all in the invisible web of the quantum field. Horses, as consummate teachers, can show us how to re-discover, connect and develop our ‘knowing’ selves. The Zone of Intuitive Knowing comes directly from aligning the ‘brain in the gut’ with the ‘brain in the heart’ and the Mind.
Your biography becomes your biology.
This program includes experiential opportunities with the horses that engage our innate abilities to use the body as a tool for self-knowledge and perception for health and wellbeing.
Most psychologists treat the mind as disembodied, a phenomenon with little or no connection to the physical body. Conversely physicians treat the body with no regard to the mind or the emotions. But the body and mind are not separate and we cannot treat one without the other. Research has shown that the body can and must be healed through the mind and that the mind can and must be healed through the body.
Neuroscientist, Candace B Pert, Ph.D
Direct, spontaneous healing happens easily when we understand our pain and illness from the perspective of The Present. The focus is primarily on what the feelings or body sensations are in the moment, in the NOW. This way we effortlessly let go of the limiting beliefs and stories of the past and re-script new life enriching pathways to a future of other possibilities and potentials.
The Zone of Intuitive Knowing explores:
- Developing courage and confidence to choose health and well being
- Increases presence and effectiveness in life
- Collaborative relationships with sentient beings with mutual respect for accessing deeper wisdoms
- Communication and connection with clarity whilst in movement and flow of life
IFEAL Experiences take place with horses working on the ground in their natural environment. No riding is involved and no experience of horses is required.
*Follow up individual coaching sessions are available in conjunction with this workshop.
April 26-29, 2012: FEEL Certification Program, Toronto, Canada
March 13, 2012 by Kathleen
In April, I will once again be joining with Horse Spirit Connections and the students in Toronto, Canada. I teach what I call the “foundational pieces” from psychotherapy, science, and spirituality in this exciting and thorough program. Below is a short description of the program. To find out more about the program and to register contact Wendy@HorseSpiritConnections.com
Horse Spirit Connections founded the FEEL (Facilitated Equine Experiential Learning) Certification Program in 2008. FEEL is a leading-edge modality for developing human potential. Participants learn to create a horse-centered, experiential learning environment that supports personal growth. Throughout the training, prospective FEEL facilitators gain self-knowledge and acquire skills and experience to develop their own FEEL programs where horses are valued for their roles as teachers and therapists.
This comprehensive training program is suitable for coaches, educators, facilitators, equine professionals, wellness practitioners, and other individuals who are looking for practical training and experience in developing Facilitated Equine Experiential Learning programs in the expanding field of Equine guided healing.
The FEEL Certification Program is six months in duration. It consists of sixteen days of on-site instruction spread over three sessions. Many dynamic teachers, with an incredible array of knowledge, are present to support the journey.
During the six months, there will be individual and group assignments integral to a deeper understanding and first hand experience of this new modality. In between program sessions the participants are required to practice and complete assigned horse related activities and log their experiences. A program mentor is assigned to each participant for the duration of their training.
June 5-7, 2012: A Master’s Course – The Art, The Heart, & The Science of Deep Listening through Team Coaching and Group Process: Corrales, NM
March 13, 2012 by Kathleen
A 3 day Intensive training in Group Process and Dynamics in Corrales, New Mexico with Kathleen Barry Ingram and Lisa Murrell, Susan Castaneda, and the Ranch DuBois herd.
Lisa and Kathleen, leaders in the field of Equine Facilitated Learning, Team Coaching, Coaching and Psychotherapy, will use their expertise, combined 30+ years of experience, and the latest scientific research to teach and encourage participants in the effective use of team coaching and group process.
As a therapist, counselor, coach or personal growth teacher you understand the “double edge” power of human groups. Groups can create a transformative container for growth and self-discovery, but when groups go wrong they can destroy trust and leave participants more defensive than before. This is even more true for groups organized around EFL/EFC experiences, where the horses create moments of great transformative potential. Masterful group facilitation is critical to successful and safe Equine Facilitated Learning and Coaching.
This dynamic and intimate intensive will help you learn to masterfully facilitate the challenge of fully engaging both individuals and the group. Through dynamic teaching and learning techniques you will discover powerful ways to get out of the ‘story’ and into the heart of the matter. These tools will enable you to use the energy of the “difficult” client as a tool for monitoring the emotional safety of each group member.
This training is for counselors, therapists, coaches, health care practitioners, and anyone currently teaching and facilitating Equine Facilitated Coaching/Learning and psychotherapy in groups. Whether you work with adults or youth, closed or open groups, or whether your scope of practice includes Psychotherapy/Learning or Coaching-this training will give you valuable information and increase your confidence and skills in facilitating group process and understanding group dynamics.
Cost: Early Bird Price $797 (Before March 30, 2012)
Price after March 30: $1297
To register: www.EquineAlchemy.com
Questions? Contact Lisa: Lisa@EquineAlchemy.com
Fast Action Bonuses (Act before March 30, 2012):
*The first 2 participants to register will receive a private coaching session with Lisa or Kathleen!
*The first 4 participants to register can bring a friend for 25% off!
***International Coaching Federation CCEU’s available
***CEU’s available
Wednesday, January 25, 2012: Coaching From the Heart a FREE Internet ‘Salon’
January 22, 2012 by Kathleen
Coaching From the Heart: A FREE Internet ‘Salon’
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 1:00 PM EST
Are You A Coach Who Wants to Create Transformation, then join Lisa Murrell and Kathleen Ingram on for a FREE live streaming internet “salon” called “Coaching From the Heart” on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 1:00 PM EST
What is coaching from the heart? A way of connecting with ourselves and our clients that is based upon relationships and recognizes the value of emotions and energy in supporting and guiding those who come to us for coaching –concepts that are inherent horse wisdom and difficult to learn in traditional coaching programs.
Equine Coaches, Simon, Tibor and Spanky will join us as we go deeply into a conversation about:
- The 5 critical elements for transformational coaching
- How the ‘Shadow Self; (those unrecognized and unaccepted aspects of ourselves) hold important wisdom for our coaching and clients.
- Why emotional and energetic agility is THE future of coaching.
- How you can take your coaching to the next level through Equine Assisted coaching!
Your first Salon? A Salon is a gathering of like-minded people under the roof of an inspiring host, held partly to amuse one another and partly to refine taste and increase the knowledge of the participants through conversation and connection.
What is Live Streaming? A very nifty piece of internet technology that will let us interact and engage live- almost like we were together in person – ala ‘salon’. (Don’t worry, if you can open a URL in your web browser, you’ll be able to participate easily and with grace.)
To register for this call visit Lisa’s site: www.EquineAlchemy.com
February 3-5, 2012: “Launching Your Coaching Journey,” A 3 day Learning Intensive with Lisa Murrell and Kathleen Barry Ingram, Albuquerque, New Mexico
January 22, 2012 by Kathleen
This experience can, and most likely will, change your life!!
Are you ready to step into your greatness and share your gifts? Do you want to wake up each day excited and full of gratitude because you are living your life with a clear purpose? Would you like to live in a like-hearted community of learning and support? Then you have arrived! “Launching your Coaching Journey” is about launching your life as you intend it to be from now on…. Coaching is not a ‘job,’ it is a way of being.
Relationship building is at the heart of coaching! The experience of working with horses requires a relationship with another being. It requires an acute awareness of boundaries -yours and theirs- as well as skill in interpreting body language. Interacting with horses requires obtaining permission to lead and demonstrating a willingness to follow. Such a relationship demands courage as well as vulnerability. Most importantly, the horse requires authentic communication. Twenty minutes in the round pen with a horse will take these powerful, insightful concepts off the page, out of your head, and anchor them into your entire being. You will also experience a tremendous boost in self-esteem and confidence from learning how to connect and establish boundaries with a thousand pound creature through a mind/body connection, presence and clarity of intent and connecting with your ‘heart’s desire’.
Virtual Classroom Work before the in-person learning intensive to prepare for our time with the horses will include:
Introduction to Coaching
-The ICF competencies and standards
-Distinctions between therapy and coaching
-Setting the coaching foundation
-Co-Creating the relationship, Part 1
On-site Equine and Experiential Components – Creating Awareness of Self and Others:
Through a series of specially designed activities with horses on the ground (no riding), you will deepen awareness of your personal challenges, core feelings and areas of bodily tension that inhibit your ability to reach your true potential.
Launching your Coaching Journey Workshop includes:
-Pre-site work
-3 day on-site learning intensives with the horses
-1 private coaching session with Lisa
-1 90 min content session with group
-1 90 min peer coaching call
This is an ICF Approved Coach Training Workshop
Cost: $2000 per person
For more information, or to register, visit: www.EquineAlchemy.com
March 19-21, 2012: The Zone of Intuitive Knowing, an Intensive with Kathleen Barry Ingram and Sun Tui, United Kingdom
January 22, 2012 by Kathleen
The Zone of Intuitive Knowing led by Kathleen Barry Ingram MA co-creator of The Epona Approach ™
Exploring the Scientific, Psychological and Spiritual Dimensions of Equine Facilitated Learning and Psychotherapy
If you are interested in the subtle energetic connections between all of life then this workshop is for you. We exist as a unity, interdependent in relationship with all in the invisible web of the quantum field. Horses, as consummate teachers, can show us how to re-discover, connect and develop our “knowing” selves. The Zone of Intuitive “Knowing” comes directly from the ‘brain in the gut’ and the ‘brain in the heart’. This workshop includes experiential exercises with the horses that engage our innate abilities to use these organs of perception. We can choose to enter the Zone of Intuitive “Knowing” through direction from these powerful centers of intelligence in concert with the intelligence centered in the brain. When fully grounded we are able to extend our self-awareness into all aspects of daily life and live authentically each moment with tangible success.
Business and life coaches, counselors, psychotherapists, healing therapists (any discipline), teachers, business managers, trainers and consultants, all horse professionals or anyone interested in human growth and development will find this workshop helpful. This is a no- riding workshop.
This workshop can be used as a qualifying workshop for IFEAL Facilitator Training
Cost: £1,450.00
Contact Sun Tui: SunTui@me.com
For more information or to book this intensive: www.IFEAL.me
April 2- 5, 2012: Connecting the Pieces, Private Sessions with Kathleen Barry Ingram and Sun Tui, United Kingdom or Cypress
January 22, 2012 by Kathleen
Connecting the Pieces, Private Sessions with Kathleen Barry Ingram and Sun Tui
The researched evidence is that in order for any therapeutic technique to be effective, it is essential that the person is fully present, empathetic and congruent.
These private day/days Intensives affords the opportunity for an individual (or partnership – either personal relationship or professional) to deepen awareness of personal issues, core feelings and areas of bodily tension that inhibit the ability to reach your fullest true potential. Elemental horse related activities, that could include swimming or a sweat lodge set with in the IFEAL herd’s woodland environment, are designed to explore and integrate an expansive yet grounded mind set, capable of endless compassion, innovation, energetic adaptability and creativity. Our work will include experiencing the spiritual and scientific biology of emotions to integrate them with the Mind and Body.
Each session is custom tailored to meet individual’s needs, lasts 3 hours or more, begins with Tai Chi with the Herd.
A biodynamic organic lunch and nutritious snacks tailored and served to your taste are provided.
Kathleen Barry Ingram, co-founder of The Epona Approach™ is a Tucson-based life coach, consultant, lecturer and educator specializing in Equine Facilitated Experiential Learning
Sun Tui is the founder and director of IFEAL and is an Advanced Epona Approach Instructor. She teaches Horse Way Tai Chi and Integral Body Mind Therapy.
Special Note: These intensive sessions are also available at Sun Tui’s Olympus Mountain retreat home in Cypress. The home is a beautiful 11th century cottage, with mountain views over the 11th Century Monastery and Monagri village. The cottage is a pleasurable scenic 30 minute drive to either glorious Mediterranean beaches or breathtaking views from the top of Mount Olympus. On-site accommodation available.
Contact Sun Tui: SunTui@me.com
For more information or to book a private session: www.IFEAL.me
April 12, 2012: The Power of Horses: An Introduction to the Epona Approach ™ with Kathleen Ingram, Dusseldorf, Germany
January 22, 2012 by Kathleen
The Power of Horses: An Introduction to the Epona Approach ™ with Kathleen Ingram, Co-founder of the Approach.
A full day of learning, horse experience, and the basics behind the Epona Approach ™. This is not a method of training but an approach to being in integrity with the horse and the client.
Cost: 180€ with snacks and a vegetarian lunch.
This workshop will be held in English – German translation possible if required.
Please contact Eva Balzer, Stockweg 143, 45481 Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany
www.Zentaura.de
Email: kontakt@evabalzer.de
Mobile phone: +49 (0)172-2320836
April 14-15, 2012: Connecting with the Heart – Yours and the Horse’s, Dusseldorf, Germany
January 22, 2012 by Kathleen
Grace in Presence and Flow in Movement.
This 2 day workshop is an advanced workshop for those already familiar with the Epona Approach™ which is not a method of training or working the horse. Kathleen Ingram, as the co-creator of the Epona Approach™ with Linda Kohanov (author of the “Tao of Equus”), along with Eva and her magnificent herd will encourage the participants to follow their hearts in a respectful relationship. This workshop will help participants to maintain connection with respect and afford opportunities to take this into movement with the horse. Each individual’s intuitive gifts and the horses true essence is honored and encouraged.
Daniel Siegel, author of “Mindsight“, uses the description of this honoring of self with others and calls this “feeling felt”. In order for this to take place both the horse and the person must feel and experience the soul and essence of each other. As facilitators, we hope to help others to be open to their unique gifts and challenges. We will assist them in this integration for following the original “blueprint of their souls”. To do this the person must be present to what is happening and look for collaboration in stillness and movement, essentially what Kathleen has called the “Yin and Yang of It”
Cost: 395€ with snacks and Vegetarian lunches.
This workshop will be held in English – German translation possible if required.
Please contact Eva Balzer, Stockweg 143, 45481 Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany
Email: kontakt@evabalzer.de
Mobile phone: +49 (0)172-2320836
CANCELLED! The Sacred Pause: Living in Uncertain Times: February 14 – 19, 2012, Tubac, AZ
November 29, 2011 by Kathleen
RETREAT CANCELLED
A mid-winter retreat in sunny southern Arizona at Pocket Sanctuary at Kenyon Ranch
Connect with a group of women gathering to seek serenity in the uncertainty of these times and discover new ways to wait patiently in this Sacred Pause. Together we’ll explore the art of surrendering to what “is” by becoming “naked” with nothing to hide, “vulnerable” with nothing to defend, “empty” with nothing to lose, “in the unknown” with nothing to fear, and open to what is meant to happen.
Facilitators are three Elders: Mary Louise Gould, Holotropic Breathwork Practitioner, Kathleen Ingram, Counselor/Coach, and Eve B. Lee, Shamanic Practitioner, who will guide the gathering in activities including meditation, Holotropic Breathwork, shamanic journeying, reflective round pen work with horses, inspired writing, walking the labyrinth and working with dreams.
To prepare for the retreat and to begin to answer the question: “Where do we go from here?,” participants will read When the Heart Waits by Sue Monk Kidd.
Cost: $1850 per person including meals and lodging
Nonrefundable Deposit: $400 by January 16, 2012 (The program requires a minimum of 7 participants)
Save 10% for payment in full ($1665) by January 2, 2012
Save an additional $100 apiece for you and each friend you bring!
For more information contact Mary-Louise Gould at MLGould125@aol.com or 520-975-6126, or log on to www.EquineMagic.com
Horse work will be done at Equine Voices Rescue and Sanctuary: www.EquineVoices.org
Equine Facilitated Therapy, Coaching and Learning Workshop: November 19-20, 2011, Corrales, New Mexico
October 1, 2011 by Kathleen
Experience two days of sharing, learning and collaborating on the next level of Equine Facilitated Therapy, coaching and learning in New Mexico! Join us November 19-20 at Equine Alchemy Southwest in Corrales, New Mexico (just outside of Albuquerque, NM).
Reconnect with the “why” of your work! Featuring Kathleen Ingram and Lisa Murrell, and hosted by Susan Murrell Castañeda, MS, NBCT, this workshop will include community and partnership activities, Group Master Mind Time, and Experiential Equine Time.
November 18: Optional “Meet and Greet” wine and cheese networking event with Kathleen and Lisa: $20
November 19-20: 2 day workshop: $497 (Includes healthy lunch and snacks each day.)
* Payment plans and limited student scholarships available –contact Lisa Murrell for details.
Click here to register for workshop.
Chocolate Turtle Bed & Breakfast
1098 West Meadowlark Lane
Corrales, NM 87048
(505) 898-1800
www.ChocolateTurtleBB.com
Los Poblanos Historic Inn and Organic Farm
4803 Rio Grande Blvd, NW
Albuquerque, NM 87107
(505) 344-9297 or Toll Free at 1-866-344-9297
www.LosPoblanos.com/accommodations
Nora Dixon Place
312 Dixon Road
Corrales, NM 87048-7723
(505) 898-3662
www.NoraDixon.com
Sandhill Crane Bed and Breakfast
389 Camino Hermosa
Corrales, NM 87048
(505) 898-2445 or (800) 375-2445
www.SandhillCraneBandB.com
DATE CHANGE: Coaching Mastery through The Way of the Horse with Kathleen Barry Ingram, Lisa Murrell, and the Equine Alchemy Herd; OCTOBER 12 -14, 2011 Stone Ridge, NY
September 12, 2011 by Kathleen
Due to flooding, downed trees and a general mess with the aftermath of Hurricane Irene my August training, Coaching Mastery Through the Way of the Horse, with Lisa Murrell in New York has been rescheduled for October 12 -14, 2011. Thankfully, Lisa and her horses are safe and well.
Now that Lisa’s place is up and running again, we are excited about presenting the Coaching Mastery workshop as a certified Equine Facilitated Training program for coaches.
For questions about this workshop, please contact Lisa Murrell at: info@equinealchemy.com
To register: www.EquineAlchemy.com
Coaching Mastery through The Way of the Horse with Kathleen Barry Ingram, Lisa Murrell, and the Equine Alchemy Herd; August 30 – September 1, 2011 Stone Ridge, NY
August 18, 2011 by Kathleen
Are you ready to to go ‘Alpha’ in your coaching/EFL practice? Combining horses and coaching is the next level for coaching AND Equine Facilitated Learning. Join Kathleen Ingram, Lisa Murrell, and the Equine Alchemy Herd in New York for 3 days of sharing, learning and collaborating on the next level of coaching and EFL, August 30, 31 and September 1.
Many times coaches feel like there is so much more that their client needs to make a real transformation in their lives; that no matter how powerful their coaching is, no matter how many years of experience they have, they haven’t been able to support their clients to this transformation.
Coaching Mastery through the Way of the Horse is what you have been seeking. Through International Coach Federation Coaching with horses, you can guide your client to the next highest version of themselves.
Cost: $1497 (Includes healthy lunch and snacks each day)
Early Bird Registration by August 19th: $1097
Bring a partner for 10% discount when you register by August 19th!
Visit www.EquineAlchemy.com to register.
An Informational Day for Mental Health Professionals; Thursday, August 18, 2011; 9:30 am – 3 pm; Silverdale, Washington
July 16, 2011 by Kathleen
How Equine Facilitated Learning Can Support and Enhance Your Client’s Process
Kathleen and Drea will present the latest information on Equine Facilitated Learning; discuss how EFL can support and enhance your practice; and explore the viability of work with horses for depression, anxiety, PTSD and other mental health issues.
Kathleen has just returned from a successful trip to the United Kingdom where she worked with members of the military from the British Combat Stress organization. A 2 day pilot program (through the IFEAL organization) was presented to 4 soldiers who experience PTSD; work with the horses proved beyond expectations the viability of EFL with individuals under the care of mental health professionals.
Cost: $150 (Lunch included)
To pay by credit card (through Pal Pal), contact Drea at:
drea.b.bowen@gmail.com
To pay by check, mail check to:
Drea Bergqusit Bowen
12620 Willamette Meridian
Silverdale, WA 98383
Afternoon experiential sessions optional: Individual sessions from 3 pm – 6 pm available with Drea, Kathleen, and the herd. Contact Drea for limited time slots and costs: drea.b.bowen@gmail.com
About Silverdale and the Ranch:
Drea’s ranch is located just 10 minutes from Silverdale, where you can find hotels on the water, Silverdale Water Front Park, shopping, a brand new YMCA, and great food all within walking distance of your hotel.
Silverdale is located on the beautiful Kitsap Peninsula, surrounded by Puget Sound; the Olympic Mountains to the west and the Cascade Mountains to the east. Summer is an amazing time of year to visit.If you wish to extend your stay there are a tremendous number of things to do in Silverdale. Darkness does not fall until 10:00 PM, leaving plenty of time to play after our day together. Kayaking (Drea has 2 and can round up more if needed), hiking, a ferry ride to Seattle, a visit to the Olympic Peninsula, or a ferry to Victoria, BC are a few suggestions.
Getting to Silverdale:
The Seatac Airport has a shuttle to the Silverdale Hotel and arrangements for a ride can be made if you choose to stay at the ranch.
Accommodation Suggestions:
Silverdale Beach Hotel – located on the water front, offers a restaurant and lounge.
Oxford Suites – boasts a water view and offers a lounge.
Oxford Inn – located one block from the water.
Drea is offering a sleep-in horse trailer with a queen air bed and electricity that could accommodate 1 person. $20 per night. Use the facilities in the house.
Drea has a 27’ Sea Ray that can accommodate 2 people; it will likely be in the water at the marina, a 15 minute drive from the ranch.The marina is magical in the summer, with the Purple Martins are so busy that time of year. The boat has a kitchen and bathroom, the marina offers a deli and showers. $40 per person.
Drea is also offering space in the back yard with easy access to the bottom floor bathroom for those who wish to pitch a tent. $10 a night with the option to coordinate food for breakfast.
IFEAL Graduation UK, June 2011
June 12, 2011 by Kathleen
2011 IFEAL Graduates
On June 10, 2011 the IFEAL graduation took place after a full week with facilitators and practice clients. The new facilitators, Dawn Oakley Smith, Angela Green, and Debbie King have successfully completed the program they began last September.
- Barbara Murray
Their integrity, enthusiasm and complete understanding of the work fill me with hope and joy for the continuation of Equine Facilitated Learning in the UK and worldwide. Sun Tui, Barbara Murray and Shelley Carr continue to inspire and teach others through their combined gifts and talents.
2011 IFEAL Herd
Expand Your Equine Facilitated Knowledge & Grow Your Practice; August 19 – 21, 2011, Silverdale, Washington
May 30, 2011 by Kathleen
Equine Assisted Coaching, Equine Facilitated Learning & Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy
with Kathleen Barry Ingram, hosted by Drea Bergquist Bowen
Would you like to learn more about integrating your life skills, experience, and education for a successful and fulfilling equine facilitated learning practice? Drea and I have noticed that facilitators/instructors sometimes have difficulty differentiating between Equine Facilitated Learning, Equine Assisted Coaching and Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy. Our intention with this workshop is to assist others to understand when these types of facilitation overlap; when discernment is necessary; how to combine some of the practices and principles unique to each; and how to assess your specific skill set and gifts to identify your individual practice.
The balance and integration of science and spirituality, and wisdom and psychology in your life and your practice will also be part of our conversations and support during our time together in Washington. The latest research on the brain and the limbic system will be presented and discussed as well as how it all supports the efficacy of our work with the horses.
This workshop will give you the opportunity to connect with like minded people! You can also schedule some individual time with Kathleen, Drea and the herd.
Total Cost for Friday – Sunday: $500 (includes lunch Saturday and Sunday, snacks and beverages)
Nonrefundable deposit: $100 payable to Drea Bergqusit Bowen
To pay by Pal Pal invoice with credit card contact Drea at: drea.b.bowen@gmail.com
To pay by check mail check to: 12620 Willamette Meridian, Silverdale, WA 98383
Special Additional Workshop Thursday, August 18, 2011: Why Equine Facilitating Learning?: A Day for Mental Health Professionals. Contact Drea for details (drea.b.bowen@gmail.com).
About Silverdale and the Ranch:
Drea’s ranch is located just 10 minutes from Silverdale, where you can find hotels on the water, Silverdale Water Front Park, shopping, a brand new YMCA, and great food all within walking distance of your hotel.
Silverdale is located on the beautiful Kitsap Peninsula, surrounded by Puget Sound; the Olympic Mountains to the west and the Cascade Mountains to the east. Summer is an amazing time of year to visit. If you wish to extend your stay there are a tremendous number of things to do in Silverdale. Darkness does not fall until 10:00 PM, leaving plenty of time to play after our day together. Kayaking (Drea has 2 and can round up more if needed), hiking, a ferry ride to Seattle, a visit to the Olympic Peninsula, or a ferry to Victoria, BC are a few suggestions.
Getting to Silverdale:
The Seatac Airport has a shuttle to the Silverdale Hotel and arrangements for a ride can be made if you choose to stay at the ranch.
Accommodation Suggestions:
Silverdale Beach Hotel – located on the water front, offers a restaurant and lounge.
Oxford Suites – boasts a water view and offers a lounge.
Oxford Inn – located one block from the water.
Drea is offering a sleep-in horse trailer with a queen air bed and electricity that could accommodate 1 person. $20 per night. Use the facilities in the house.
Drea has a 27’ Sea Ray that can accommodate 2 people; it will likely be in the water at the marina, a 15 minute drive from the ranch. The marina is magical in the summer, with the Purple Martins are so busy that time of year. The boat has a kitchen and bathroom, the marina offers a deli and showers. $40 per person.
Drea is also offering space in the back yard with easy access to the bottom floor bathroom for those who wish to pitch a tent. $10 a night with the option to coordinate food for breakfast.
Do You Speak Horse or Human to Your Equine Co-Facilitator?
by Drea Bergquist-Bowen
Those of us drawn to equine facilitated learning and psychotherapy come to this field for our own reasons and with our own special set of experiences and level of horsemanship. I started my EFL journey with a solid knowledge of horses and a knowing of how my relationships with my herd had, without question, changed my life. I was searching for the explicit knowledge to understand why this work is so meaningful and powerful and a skill base to help others experience what I had experienced with my herd.
Being a passionate student of equine behavior, social bonding in particular, I have noticed that the same concepts that are so transformative for humans in their work with horses, work in reverse for the horses when we are aware of that potential. The more I thought about this, the clearer I could see how each of the horses in my herd had changed their own neural patterns and behaviors as they found their way to trusting and bonding with me. In the process of building a trusting, respectful social bond with the horses in my herd, I absolutely had been doing this work for my horses just as they had for me. I think of it as human experiential learning.
Horses are not unlike humans, they manifest ingrained neural patterns based on their life experiences. Very few of the horses we work with will be free of the consequences of conforming to a human world where most people don’t speak their language. For horses the challenges can come from the effects of unnatural and painful training methods, from living as a tool for a human’s competitive ego, being kept in an environment that is unnatural, and from being misunderstood as a species. Every horse on my ranch, except for the two who were born here, have required a diligent effort on my part to lead with my heart, honor their boundaries, and build a dependable bond based on getting to know each other, then like each other and ultimately to trust each other. The remarkable thing about helping horses reconnect with their authentic self expression is how willing they are to shed those traumas and patterns when working with a human who understands the nature of the equine species and who is 100% committed to creating a safe social bond that is based on their nature.
I have noticed in my travels and training that, in many instances, the horse – our partner facilitator, is not considered in the way that I feel truly honors and cares for their contribution to this work. I don’t think this is a purposeful oversight. With our focus on learning the intricacies of helping people we may not have had been presented with the imperative of getting to know the intricacies of the equine just as well. Whether we have come to this work with a lifetime of horse experience or none at all, there is so much to learn about this most amazing animal.
Our work is grounded in connection, relationship, empowerment, and learning to trust and honor our unique gifts and I believe this applies equally to our relationship with our equine partners. Just as we have to be committed to our own personal growth and development, to acknowledge our gremlins, and to bring our best authentic self to our work with our fellow human beings, I believe we also must commit to becoming adept at understanding the equine species so that we are confident, comfortable, and feel safe at all times. From there we can create a safe, emotionally rich and rewarding working environment for each horse, as an individual.
We all have different circumstances with regards to the horses we work with in our equine facilitated learning/coaching/therapy practices so the extent of our relationships with those horses will be a bit different for us all. Ideally, working with horses that we are able to create a strong social bond with is optimal in my opinion. When that is not possible, our deep understanding of the horse as a species is critical to offering them the support they deserve for doing the work we are asking them to do.
I feel that understanding the equine species, who that animal is in nature – collectively as a herd and individually as male and female, how a horse navigates in a healthy emotional and physical state and what it looks like when they are not, and believing it is our responsibility to be just as aware of their base line as we have to be for our human clients is essential and it is part of my path of advocacy for the horse in this work. I am passionate about helping facilitators know the difference between sessions where a gain for the human was taken from the horse versus a gain that came from a mutually shared experience. It is my pleasure to help people truly understand the animal that I love wholeheartedly so that they can enjoy the incredibly deep, heartfelt, social bond that equines are capable of. With a clearer understanding about the richness in relationship that is possible for us with our equine co-facilitators we have the opportunity to go from being good facilitators to Inspired Facilitators. And you know the horses are going to teach us a few things about ourselves along the way!
Meet the ‘Heart of the Herd Ranch’ Herd – In order of their arrival
Homer – 23 year old sorrel quarter horse gelding. IHe is a Lamborghini with his athleticism and forward drive. He is a lot of horse and he has taught me volumes about patience, seeing and feeling the horse inside, and gratitude. He is the rock of my herd, my go to guy, and I aspire every day to be the kind of leader he is in the herd.
April – 24 year old red bay appendix quarter horse mare – the stories I can tell about the thoroughbred side (it has to be the thoroughbred) of this mare will touch my heart and make me laugh until I cry until the end of my days. I paid a good bit to rescue this mare with no intention of keeping her. No one liked her. Human or horse. She was a beautiful soft doe eyed empty shell. She is sweet and spicy and the epitome of the stereotypes about mares. Committing to her and watching her find her way out of her darkness has been humbling and amazing. Today we are heart girlfriends!
Skye King – 6 year old sorrel quarter horse gelding. I flew to Montana to look at a broodmare band with my eye on Annie, Holly or Blondie. I flew home having purchased a 2 year old gelding. Our journey together has been very interesting and he is the one in a million horses that every horse owner wishes they had. He has grown into quite an amazing young man and everyone adores him.
Holly – 8 year old sorrel mare. Words cannot express the depth of bond this mare is capable of. She is the lead mare of my herd. She IS the sacred lead mare of fantasy and lore. We are soul sisters and I have had to earn every fiber of our connection. I am so blessed to have her in my herd to witness and be a student of and to stand beside.
Sierra – 3 year old sorrel mare. Holly’s filly. Funny, feisty, sweet, spicy, athletic, coy, lead mare in training. It is has been my privilege to raise her with Holly. I welcome getting her under saddle next year and anticipate some rides of my life!
Johnny – 3 year old red bay gelding. April’s colt. Regal, smart, sensible, incredible mover, loves to run, high play drive, brave and is going to challenge me to take my horsemanship to the next level. He is blessed with both of his parents stunning good looks.
Rasa – 7 year old red roan quarter horse mare. We are just getting to know each other. She came with a lot of emotional scars and trauma. She is coming out of her shell and is on of the most expressive mares I have ever known and we are just barely at the tip of the iceberg. I am thrilled that she is part of the herd. She is low mare and wants the mares above her to know what is going on.
Annie – 7 year old sorrel quarter horse mare. Also a new mare that came with a lot of emotional trauma. She has been slower to trust and let a connection happen. We are making progress and I am just starting to get a feel for the heart that she has. Rasa and Annie are extreme cases of the kinds of horses we may find in our practice experience and sharing their rehab is part of my mission.
Balancing Relationships through The Way of the Horse; September 16-18, 2011, Dusseldorf, Germany
May 30, 2011 by Kathleen
How do you find balance in all of your relationships? During these 3 days, the horses can help you to better understand your emotions and the messages behind these emotions. Get to know your own boundaries and experience and feel your boundaries in a whole new way with humans and horses. Specific exercises are designed to help you learn more about your body’s innate wisdom and the body language of others.
How can you be more authentic in all of your relationships? By learning more about our survival patterns and beliefs, which often unconsciously guide us, we can live from a place of authenticity in the present moment. The horses – as consummate teachers -mirror and demonstrate when our feelings and thoughts inside match our behavior outside and allow us the opportunity to heal and move into a place of thriving, not merely surviving.
Please join us for this non-riding workshop. Previous horse experience is not necessary. The workshop will be held in English with German translation when needed. This is an approved Epona beginning workshop, www.eponaquest.com.
Kathleen will be available for individual sessions 3 days prior to workshop and 2 days following workshop dates.
Cost: 495€ Snacks and vegetarian lunch will be provided each day.
For more information about the workshop, overnight accommodations and to register contact:
Eva Marie Balzer
Coaching for Humans and Animals
Stockweg 143
45481 Mulheim
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)2102 5283278
Email: kontakt@evabalzer.de
Private Sessions: Connecting the Pieces with Kathleen Barry Ingram and Sun Tui, June 20th – July 8th, 2011
April 21, 2011 by Kathleen
These private intensive workshops afford the opportunity for an individual or partnership (personal or professional) to deepen awareness of personal issues, core feelings and areas of bodily tension that inhibit the ability for us to reach our fullest true potential. Experience the spiritual and scientific biology of emotions to elicit an Authentic Sustainable Relationship in all areas of personal and professional life. Workshops might include elemental horse related activities, a sweat lodge, and swimming. Daily sessions will begin with Tai Chi with the Herd and conclude with personally tailored Horse Way TM Map Meditation. All activities are designed to explore and integrate an expansive, yet grounded, mind set capable of endless compassion, innovation, energetic adaptability and creativity.
A bio dynamic organic lunch and nutritious snacks will be tailored and served to your tastes. Overnight Accommodation available.
Sun Tui is the founder and director of IFEAL and is an Advanced Epona Approach Instructor. She teaches Horse Way Tai Chi and Integral Body Mind NLP Therapy.
To register: www.IFEAL.me
The Zone of Intuitive “Knowing,” A 4 Day Group Intensive; East Sussex, England: June 14 – June 17 2011
April 21, 2011 by Kathleen
Explore the subtle energetic connections between all of life through the scientific, psychological and spiritual dimensions of Equine Facilitated Learning and Psychotherapy with the Epona Approach™
Horses, as consummate teachers, can show us how to re-discover, connect and develop our “knowing” selves. The Zone of Intuitive “Knowing” comes directly from the ‘brain in the gut’ and the ‘brain in the heart’. This workshop includes experiential exercises with horses that engage our innate abilities to use our organs of perception. We can choose to enter the Zone of Intuitive “Knowing” through direction from these powerful centers of intelligence in concert with the intelligence centered in the brain. When fully grounded we are able to extend our self-awareness into all aspects of daily life and live authentically each moment with tangible success.
2011 Calendar of Events
December 13, 2010 by Kathleen
2011 is bringing new opportunities for all of us and I will continue to teach in training programs in Canada at www.horsespiritconnections.com with Wendy Golding, Andre Lepiteaux and their amazing herd of horses. I will also be working with the team in United Kingdom at www.ifeal.me with Suntui, Barbara Murray and Shelley Carr and the wonderful AHHO herd.
March 15-19: Sacred Pause in Tubac, Arizona the-sacred-pause-flyer-20111
ADVANCED MENTORSHIP: New for 2011
December 13, 2010 by Kathleen
In 2011 Kathleen is offering individual advanced mentorship opportunities for interested and qualified professionals seeking the latest psychological and scientific information supporting the practice of Equine Facilitated Learning. Each mentorship is personally designed to meet the needs of the student. For more information on this please contact Kathleen directly.
Sacred Pause: Tubac, Arizona March 15-19, 2011
December 13, 2010 by Kathleen
Join us at this enlightening, expanding, and encouraging retreat. We promise a time of rejuvenation and relaxation at the exquistive Pocket Sanctuary in Tubac, Arizona (just 40 minutes south of Tucson and a world away from the city!)
For more information and registration: the-sacred-pause-flyer-2011
2010 EVENTS CALENDAR
February 6, 2010 by Kathleen
2010 Events Calendar
Working Calendar for 2010 Events, Workshops and Training Programs: Look under Events for full descriptions. New Information will be added monthly.
February 9-13 Sacred Pause Retreat- Tubac, Arizona
February 19-21: Feb 26-28 FEEL Program (www.horsespiritconnections.com) in Toronto, Canada TRAINING PROGRAM
March 12-14 Equine Alchemy presents EFL MasterMind Course, Wellington, FL
http://www.equinealchemy.com/EFL_MM/
May 3-9 HEAL Training Program Week One/Leigh Shambo (www.humanequinealliance.org) in Chehalis,WA TRAINING PROGRAM
May 22-25 Sacred Space: The Zone of Intuitive Knowing (www.ahho.me) in Sussex, United Kingdom
June 7-11 AHHO Training Program in Sussex, United Kingdom www.ahho.me)
June 18-20 Germany workshop/Eva Balzer (www.evabalzar.de)
July 9-11 FEEL TRAINING in Toronto, Canada (www.horsespiritconnection.com)
July 23-25 Energy and Grace, 6th Year! (www.humanequinealliance.org) Washington State
September 5-11 AHHO EFL Training in Sussex, United Kingdom/Suntui (www.ahho.me)
September13-18 Personal Mastery: The Missing Piece, Kathleen with Suntui and Flo Magdalena (www.soulsupportsystems.org) Sussex, United Kingdom, www.ahho.me
October 3-7, 2010 HEAL Group Training Program, Washington State www.humanequinealliance.org
October 11-17 HEAL FacilitatorTraining Program :Week Two/Leigh Shambo Washington State (www.humanequinealliance.org)
SACRED SPACE: THE ZONE OF INTUITIVE KNOWING, Sussex , UK May 22-25,2010
November 30, 2009 by Kathleen
SACRED SPACE: THE ZONE OF INTUITIVE KNOWING
East Sussex, United Kingdom
Exploring the Scientific, Psychological and Spiritual Dimensions of Equine Facilitated Learning and Psychotherapy
Monday May 30 – Friday, June 2, 2011
COST: £895
Led By Kathleen Barry Ingram MA co-creator of The Epona Approach ™
This workshop is for people interested in the subtle energetic connections between all of life. We exist interdependently in relationship with all in the invisible web of the quantum field. Horses, as consummate teachers, can show us how to re-discover, connect and develop our “knowing” selves. The Zone of Intuitive “Knowing” comes directly from the ‘brain in the gut’ and the ‘brain in the heart’, and informs and integrates this “knowing” with our neocortex, thus allowing for conscious choices in the present moment. This workshop includes experiential exercises with the horses that engage our innate abilities to use these organs of perception. We can choose to enter the Zone of Intuitive “Knowing” through direction from these powerful centers of intelligence in concert with the intelligence centered in the brain. When fully grounded we are able to extend our self-awareness into all aspects of daily life and live authentically each moment with tangible success.
Suitable for business and life coaches, counselors, psychotherapists, healing therapists (any discipline), teachers, business managers, trainers and consultants, all horse professionals or anyone interested in human growth and development. This is a non riding workshop. (This workshop can be used as a qualifying workshop for approved EAP/FEAL Qualification Training)
CONTACT: Suntui www.authentichorsehuman.org
COST: £895
Great Cansiron Farm House, Cansiron Lane, Hartfield, East Sussex, TN7 4LD
Tel: +44 1342 850330
Skype: suntui1
E-mail: suntui@me.com
Authentic Horse Human offers EFP/FEEL Training Program
May 13, 2009 by Kathleen
EFP/FEEL Facilitator Training Diploma Incorporating The Epona Approach™ United Kingdom
Facilitated Equine Experiential Learning, FEEL
Instructors: Dr Barbara Murray, Advanced Epona Approved Instructor
Sun Tui, Advanced Epona Approved Instructor
For full Information regarding the FEEL Training Program in the UK
Contact: Sun Tui www.authentichorsehuman.org 044 (0) 1342 822682 cell: 0044 (0) 790 24 6058
Kathleen is teaching during Module 1 and Module 4
Module 1 23rd – 27th August 2009
EFP/FEEL Facilitator Training Foundation Skills
Led by Kathleen Barry Ingram co-creator of The Epona Approach ™
Module 4 Summer 2010
EFP/FEEL Facilitator Integrated Skills Assessment
Led by Kathleen Barry Ingram co-creator of The Epona Approach ™
Sun Tui, Barbara & Kathleen Spring 2009
Florida Continuing Education, March 2009
April 14, 2009 by Kathleen
Ruth leading Pinor
Refinement of Your Practice
Lisa Murrell, Johanna Husta and the Equine Alchemy herd, www.equinealchemy.com hosted Kathleen for 2 days of continuing education for practioners of equine facilitated learning. Working with Lisa and Johanna and their fabulous herd of horses was so fulfilling for everyone. Among some of the topics discussed and the highlights were recent research on the 3 brain theory of learning; limbic revision and regulation; the differences and comparisons of Equine Facilitated Learning, Equine Psychotherapy, and Equine Assisted Coaching; working consensually with the horses online; leading exercises to determine primary communication styles; and facilitator’s experinces and the lessons they have received from their individual work with horses. Johanna Husta, jhusta@hotmail.com, demonstrated useful horse exercises which are very congruent with EFL work. Attending were Diane Molony from Florida dwmolony@aol.com; Laurel Boyer from Colorado www.gypsywindranch.com; Helene Bernier & Sylvain Poirer from Quebec www.ecuriesnamaste.com; Ruth LeCocq from Jersey,UK www.equustoo.com and Giselle Faubel from Florida www.drfaubel.com
Lisa, Helene & Simon
Lisa &Tibor
Simon, Johanna & Sylvain Online Exercise
Diane & Simon
Sylvain so Happy
Laurel leading Pinor
February in Toronto, Canada
April 14, 2009 by Kathleen
February in Toronto
Kathleen traveled to Toronto, Canada to work with Wendy and Andre Golding’s, www.horsespiritconnections.com, 2009 FEEL training class. The psychological/spiritual aspects of Equine Facilitated Learning and practice in Reflective roundpen were the primary teachings for the two days with Kathleen. The class of 8 and the instructors, Wendy, Andre and Victoria Poe, felt this was definitely valuable and prepared the class for their work in equine facilitated learning. Ann Frohman, Christy Clarke, Colleen Cochrane, Debbie Sexsmith, Janis Mirynech, Marianne Bertrand, Melissa Woudstra and Suzanne Latchford took part in the 2 day training with Kathleen and also participated in the 3rd day when Wendy presented an excellent exercise to assist the students to Create Their Vision for their practices. Gael Crystal Light Warrior gave a very informative presentation on Shamanic Medicine, www.shamanicmedicine.ca and possible applications to the EFL work.
Kathleen will be going back to Tornonto next February to teach the new class of students. Here are a few pictures of the class, horses and instructors.
Wendy, Gael, Andre & Kathleen
Training Group
The Teachers
Christy with her teacher
HEAL’S 2008 GRADUATION CLASS
December 8, 2008 by Kathleen
HEAL Graduation 2008
HEAL and instructors, Leigh Shambo and Kathleen Barry Ingram, are proud to announce the premier class of graduates from the Facilitator Training Program. Jean Ryan Brothman, Ella Bloomfield, Samantha Heath-Lange, and Judith Kay successfully completed the program on October 25, 2008.
Leigh and I wanted to create, design, and implement a program which would encourage talented people to take the HEAL principles, teachings and philosophy to a wider audience of horses and humans. These five individuals, with varied backgrounds and life stories, rigorously undertook the challenge to uncover hidden truths and gifts, thereby discovering their own unique way of presenting and teaching equine facilitated learning.
We learned a lot this year ourselves, and we are confident that these individuals and others can take this paradigm shifting concept to horses and humans. It is time to change and influence how we all relate to each other and we gratefully acknowledge the guidance and wisdom our four legged companions give us on a daily basis.
Here are the graduates in their Own Words:
Ella Bloomfield
“Horses have certainly been the healers in my life, but what began as a personal experience and an intuition that people and horses can heal together, has become for me, over the past year, a researched and abiding truth. The HEAL Facilitator Training Program taught me how to celebrate my individual strengths and bring them to a field that heals through the language of the heart. This approach to healing and personal development is a whole-istic experience for all involved – the client, the horse, the facilitator, and the larger circle surrounding each one. This year has been life changing, and I now find myself, all of myself, embarking on a career with horses and people that is both personally meaningful and of great consequence in the world.”
Jean Ryan Brothman from Fort Valley, Virginia:
Jean Brothman & Magic
Judith Kay at Graduation
Sam Lange Graduates
You can contact these facilitators:
Samantha Heath-Lange
12724 128th Ave NE
Lake Stevens, WA 98258
Tel: 360-658-8980
Cell: 206-979-5963
Judith Kay
2732 Ron Court
Colorado Springs, CO 80909
Tel: 719-633-1979
Jean Ryan Brothman
2016 Boliver Rd.
Fort Valley, VA 22652
540 933-6225 Home
540 325-4900 (cell)
Ella Bloomfield
Nash Dom
Hartley Bridge Hill
Horsley
Gloucestershire
England, GL6 0QB
Tel: 01453 835825
Equine Facilitated Learning Opportunities in Tucson
December 8, 2008 by Kathleen
Kathleen invites you to experience EFL for yourself
Kathleen, Cutter and Rebecca Paradies
in Tucson. I work at the Ranch on River Road with Rebecca Paradies, www.paintinghorses.net and her horses, Peppy and Cutter. We can work with you individually and also set up other possibilities with families, groups and working teams. Kathleen can arrange for Indiviual and Family intensives for up to 3 days at the Ranch. Contact her for more information and for other venues.
Continuing Education with Epona Instructors: Vermont
November 25, 2008 by Kathleen
Lisa Murrell & Jan Koerwitz
Susan Campbell at Georgie's
In September nine Epona Apprenticeship Graduates met with Kathleen to have a continuing education weekend in beautiful Vermont. This event was sponsored by Georgie Stapleton at her farm, Midnight Mountain www.midnightmountain.com Georgie’s horses, her husband, Brian and the magical land supported all of us in the weekend of growth and opportunity.
The following instructors partcipated in this exciting and enlightening weekend:
Abby C. Williams, BA; Licensed Massage Therapist,Maine
abbyc.williams@verizon.net
www.thehorseknowstheway.com
Susan Middleton Campbell, MA Clinical Psychology; Lic. Mental Health Counselor
781-576-9419, Maine
susan.campbell15@comcast.net
Lisa Murrell, Professional Certified Coach (ICF), Executive Coach
845-687-4324 (May-November), New York State & Florida
Lisa@metacg.com
www.equinealchemy.com
Mufasa & Jean DiMarco in Vermont
518-392-4682 New York State
Francine Phillips, MS.Ed, Certified Infant Massage Instructor
845-485-7106, New York State
thepaintedhorses@gmail.com
Jean M. DiMarco
914-204-6212, New York State
jean@centeredwellbeing.com
www.centeredwellbeing.com
Georgeanna Stapleton; MA in Counseling Psychology, EFP
Francine, Jan, Lisa, Georgie, Paula & Susan in Vermont
802-276-2139, Vermont
georgie@midnightmountain.net
www.midnightmountain.com
Jan Case Koerwitz, California
707 695-3284
Paula Bixby, Maine
207-594-9428
Francine, Jan, Lisa, Georgie, Paula & Susan in Vermont
georgie@midnightmountain.net
www.midnightmountain.com
United Kingdom Visit in July, 2008
October 8, 2008 by Kathleen
Kathleen visited and worked with 7 Epona Equestrian Services instructors, www.taoofequus.comin England, Ireland and the Island of Jersey. This was the first time for the collaboration of this wonderful instructors and we conducted workshops, had a continuing education day, gave demonstrations and individual sessions. Anna Pell, Miranda Carey, Yvonne Monahan, Angela Dunning, Sun Tui Meyer and Ruth LeCocq attended the contiuing education day for instructors at the Leap Center in Gloucestershire hosted by Sam Quinlan.
Angela Dunning in Gloucestershire- Leap Center
Sun Tui Meyer and Barbara Murray from Spain hosted Kathleen at a workshop in Forest Row, East Sussex. This was a beginning workshop for individuals interested in equine facilitated learning with individual sessions scheduled with Kathleen the day after the 2 day workshop. It was great to introduce people to this work and see their eyes light up with new self-awareness and as usual, the horses were great!
Sun Tui & Lozen
Anna Pell, one of the great tour guides for Kathleen, made sure to stop at Stonehenge on our way back up to Hampshire for the Advanced workshop. Truly a magnificent site with the energy of the ancient ones filling the air. The knowledge and spiritual wisdom of the ancient ones, the Anazazi in the American Southwest, Stonehenge and New Grange in Ireland gives one pause to reflect on the messages and gifts they can convey to us today to support us in this time of change.
Stonehenge at dusk
Anna Pell, Miranda Carey, Yvonne Monahan and Kathleen conducted an advanced 4 day workshop for individuals already familiar with equine facilitated learning which was held at Hazeley Farm in North Winchester, Hampshire. We all had an opportunity to work with a great group of people coming from England, Belgium, Holland and Ireland. The horses at the farm proved to be masters at this work.
Kathleen & Yvonne at Hazeley Farm
Yvonne, Miranda & Anna
Kathleen spent time with Ruth LeCocq and her family on the Island of Jersey. Ruth and Kathleen gave a day long demonstration for mental health professionals. One of the participants had such a profound experience with Ruth’s horse, Klaus that she decided to bring her young clients to have an opportunity to feel this for themselves.
Ruth, Klaus & Kathleen (photo courtesy of the Jersey News)
Yvonne Monahan invited Kathleen to spend some time with her family in Ireland. A whirlwind of sightseeing and meeting the heart-felt Irish people brought back memories of her visit to Ireland with her father 20+ years ago. It truly felt like coming home.
- Yvonne with her horses
- Knowth Passage Mound
A visit to Newgrange and Knowth, ancient Irish sites in the Boyne Valley, tells the story of prehistoric man’s concept of the world; the flat earth with a hemispercial bowl overhead.The passages into the Newgrange and Knowth mounds are aligned with sunrise and sunset on the solstitial and equinoctial days each year. The sacredness of these sites reminds us to humbly see all of creation as connected and necessary.