In this Personal Mastery Course we will utilize our connection with the horses, as equal partners, to assist us by modeling congruent messages and behavior, co-creative and consensual leadership and appropriate boundaries. They will teach us to experience emotional messages as information, and educate us, their human students, to live consciously in the present moment.

Through a series of specially designed activities, we will deepen our awareness of personal issues, core feelings and areas of bodily tension that inhibit the ability for us to reach our true potential as leaders. A tremendous boost in self-esteem and confidence comes from learning how to establish boundaries and direct a thousand-pound creature through mental focus, creative visualization and clarity of intent.

These skills, which can be difficult to teach in a conventional classroom or counseling session, have far-ranging applications that are linked to increased success in personal, relationships, career and parenting. Horse-facilitated activities will help us to recognize and move beyond the coping strategies associated with surviving in a competitive world. EFL assists us to develop a thriving mind set capable of endless compassion, innovation, energy adaptability, and creativity.

These intelligent, sensitive creatures response to both positive and negative changes in the handler's behavior, offering constant feedback and timely rewards or consequences for their actions. Horses are social creatures who readily and honestly respond to the challenges inherent in forming and sustaining relationships. As animals preyed upon in nature, they have also retained a highly developed ability to sense changes in the stance and arousal of other herd members, an ability they easily transfer to interactions with human beings. Horses see through the slight incongruities of emotion and intention, yet they are exceedingly patient and forgiving.

No previous experience with horses is required, and this training involves working on the ground with the horse in a safe setting with an experienced handler. EFL may or may not proceed to working on horseback.

Designed to open and deepen personal mastery, we provide experiences to assist in identifying and processing areas of beliefs and conditioning which are ready to be released and transformed so that we can be effective and congruent leaders. You will learn about unified fields, how they work, and how to hold your place in the field of co-creation. We will use the horse work to look at competition, sharing power, intuitive and telepathic awareness, and to provide connection between our mind, body, emotion and spirit.

Warm water work will be an adjunct to the equine learning, as we soften and deepen our connection with our essence through the expansiveness of the medium of water. Dropping into the flow of our life force, we will open to the potential of our essence. We will challenge what we belief, release what we carry that shadows the power of our leadership, and open to the full expression of who we are!

Kathleen is a Tucson-based life coach, consultant, lecturer, and educator specializing in assisting individuals in personal/professional growth and Equine-Facilitated Experiential Learning. She is dedicated to helping individuals and groups move beyond limiting patterns of thought and behavior, assisting them in the discovery of possibilities to resolve conflict, develop competency and find peace. You can learn more about Kathleen on her website: www.sacredplaceofpossibility.com. (Kathleen is pictured above with Pappy from Buffalo Woman Ranch.)

Flo Magdalena is the founder and executive director of Soul Support Systems, and author of I Remember Union and Sunlight on Water. She specializes in teaching energy and consciousness work through Soul Recognition, Circuitry Alignment, and HeartThread workshops.

Shoes Fillman is a Soul Recognition and HeartThread Facilitator and a Myofascial Release Practitioner. She has vast experience with humans and horses.

Sun Tui is the founder and director of AHHO and is an Advanced Epona Approach Instructor. She teaches Horse Way Tai Chi and is the founder of Integral Body Mind Therapy.