3-Day Coach Retreat
Join us October 18-20, 2024, for a life-and-career-altering experience.
To be a more effective coach is to know yourself and what you bring to situations, as well as how to be in service to what is larger than you and what is unsaid and emergent in any space, be it 1-1 or in facilitation. In your work, you are holding the space for transformation for the client or group you are facilitating. This requires you to be attuned to you, your verbal and non-verbal communications, your relationships, your environment, and what’s emerging in the space between. Which, at its core, requires you to continue the work of knowing yourself and how you show up in the world. Horses have these lessons for us in spades. Entering into the field with horses can teach us about ourselves and how we show up in all these realms.
Join us on the EQUUS Campus in Santa Fe, New Mexico, for an immersive experience that will deepen your work as a coach. You’ll walk away with a new awareness of how you show up for yourself, in relationships, in groups, what boundaries you may need, how to trust what’s emerging, and how to move through life and work in sovereignty.
Details & Application
WHEN: October 18-20, 2024. Starts at 2pm on Friday October 18th and runs until Noon on Sunday October 20th.
WHERE: The EQUUS Campus in Santa Fe, NM
WHO: Limited to 8 Participants. Led by Liz Stewart, Kelly Wendorf, and the Equus Herd.
COST: $5000. Retreat cost includes program facilitation, lunch on Saturday, and course work. Travel and lodging not covered in the program cost.
MUST APPLY. Once accepted into the retreat, payment in full secures your spot in the group. Registration ends Sept 6, 2024. No refunds after Sept 1, 2024.
Why horses?
In this arena, the horses hold the lessons for whatever questions you bring with you regardless of what you’re working on. The results are often breakthroughs that arrive more quickly with a deeper, felt sense of impact from these experiences than could have been discovered through conversations or problem-solving techniques.
Equine Facilitated Coaching creates a container for learning that provides immediate insights and interpersonal reflection about your relationship with self, others, and life with horses as your guides, partners, and mirrors. No prior horse experience is necessary and no riding is involved.
In this arena, the horses hold the lessons for whatever questions you bring with you regardless of what you’re working on. Explore radical self-inquiry, deep listening, self-mastery, collaborative leadership, partnership, and non-predatory uses of power. Grounded in evidence-based research into the neurobiological approach to learning, working with horses engages the limbic pathway where the rewiring of emotional and psychological habits is possible and transformational.
Sessions with the horses go deep quickly. How do you show up in relationship to yourself, to others, and to life? How does your energy impact others? What might you need to learn about boundaries? What perspectives and mental models are actually limiting us, or keeping us back; and, what other perspectives are there? As you attune to your self through the mirror of a horse, you can uncover the ways of being in the world that are keeping you complicit in what you say you don’t want, and learn how you affect the field around you with your presence.
Horses teach us about ourselves, our relationships, our way of being in the world.
By giving us greater awareness of ourselves and the field we create, horses teach elusive yet essential personal growth and organizational change concepts in ways that are experienced, felt, and help reshape our neural landscape to support new growth and possibilities.
As prey animals, the equine nervous system is hyper-specific, which means they have an acute sensitivity which can read what’s happening on the landscape in a half mile radius around them. Horses can also pick up on emotions and feeling states of herd members. When you are in their presence, as part of the herd, they can read you too. In that way, they can help us find congruence in ourselves with who we really are, how we are being, and how our wholeness serves the whole herd.
Equine Facilitated Sessions guide us to:
Discover our most innate way of being in the world
Develop and master non-verbal skills
Develop inner resourcefulness in the face of challenges
Work through a power-with dynamic vs. a power-over dynamic
Be present, and know its impact
Create trust and safety
Develop the ability to self-regulate, and regulate others
Gain clarity of intention
Have sane, safe, mutually supportive relationships
Stay calm in a crisis
Practice the art of collaborative leadership
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