Coaching Skills through Horse Wisdom

MetaSystem Consulting Group's coach training is focused on developing and implementing individual, team and organization coaching processes to foster powerful systemic learning and growth environments.  

With its training program on the fundamentals of coaching , Coaching Skills through Horse Wisdom,  Multi-Level Systemic Supervision Cycles equinealchemy.com/workshops.php#16, and Equine Assisted Coaching for Coaches, equinealchemy.com/workshops.php#16, MetaSystem Consulting Group offers in-depth coach development for both begining and veteran coaches and consultants. 

These coach training, coach development and coach supervision programs combine virtual, traditional classroom and experiential learning in Arizona, New York and Florida. All of our coach development programs, coach specific training and supervision are based upon Multi-Level Systemic Coaching™, www.metacg.com/mls_coaching.shtml and The Equine Coaching Experience™; the link to Practical Alchemy.

 Coaching Skills through Horse Wisdom :

• Is based upon the International Coach Federation Core Competencies

• Is available as an entire course; or you can experience what you want in any order you want.

• Gives you the 160 coach specific training hours to apply for ICF certification through the portfolio application, (each module is 40 hours)

• Works with the horses to develop emotional and energetic agility--critical coaching skills that are difficult to teach in a traditional classroom

• Involves systemic experiential learning with the horses

• Qualifies you to apply to enter the Epona Fast Track Apprenticeship Program, an accelerated program to become an Epona Approved Instructor in Equine-Facilitated Experiential Learning (EFEL)

• Qualifies those who are interested in combining ICF coaching and the Epona Approach to create an Equine Assisted Coaching practice to apply for MCG's Equine Assisted Coaching for Coaches Program

  (Coaching Skills through Horse Wisdom  is in the cue for accreditation by the International Coach Federation to qualify for "Approved Coach Specific Training Hours" (ACSTH) for participants that aim for the internationally recognized  ICF certification or certification)

Contents Coaching Skills through Horse Wisdom FAQ's Session Outlines Cost and Application

Coaching Skills through Horse Wisdom is a deep journey of self-exploration and transformational learning. In addition to classroom and group process work, our equine coaches help us develop new competencies in working with and relating to others, exercising mind-body awareness, non-verbal communication, assertiveness, creativity, and leadership skills.

We explore intersubjectivity, or the sharing of subjective states by two or more sentient beings, and Coaching from a Systems perspective.  In Coaching Skills through Horse Wisdom you will learn how to integrate the deep insights revealed from our equine partners; an integration that offers  a perspective of embodied knowingness and deep connection with your personal power. Through this work of your own personal transformation you will learn these skills of emotional and energetic agility and their applications with clients.

The 9 month program consists of 4 on-site five-day experiences in New York, Florida and Arizona plus independent study assignments in between sessions. This program focuses on developing new perspectives on learning and competency in managing your own transitions as well as learning how to utilize these new perspectives in coaching others.

An Multi-level Systemic approach to coaching

What better way to develop understanding of this model than through the eyes of a Coaching Skills through Horse Wisdom graduate Schelli Whitehouse, of Pegasus Unlimited articulates her experiences in a powerful way.

“ Coaching Skills through Horse Wisdom is a powerful, comprehensive coach training model in and of itself.... Adding the dynamics of another sentient being, not human, that has no preconceived prejudice or agenda offers a crystal clear looking glass into your own abilities to communicate effectively and receive honest and immediate feedback.

The horse requires us to become self-aware and aware of others.  We are made to literally feel what is happening in the relationship, to become emotionally aware in our bodies, not just our intellect, of what needs to happen next.

Other experiential modalities that involve man vs. ropes, rocks, black diamond ski runs or even burning coals may have a place for the development of man against the environment or even the individual against him or herself.  The experience of working with horses requires a 'relationship' with another being.  It requires an acute awareness of boundaries, your and theirs.  It requires skill in interpreting body language.  It requires permission to lead and a willingness to follow.  Working with a horse requires courage as well as vulnerability.  Most importantly, the horse requires authentic communication.

Twenty minutes in the round pen with a horse will take those powerful, insightful lesson off the page, out of your head and anchor those skills into your entire being.  Coaching Skills through Horse Wisdom offers an opportunity for coaches to finely hone or even transform their ability to lead another human or group to recongnize and achieve their highest potential.  After all, isn't that what we are hired to do? ”

Why Horses?

Horses make conscious that which is unconscious for us.  How?  Horses are masters of nonverbal communication, and can easily assess and mirror our true feelings and intentions, even when we are not fully aware of them. Because they are preyed upon in nature, these sensitive, mindful creatures have maintained a highly developed ability to respond to their environment. Subtle changes and nuances that we may not be aware of can provoke behaviors in them that give us information about ourselves. These behaviors help us identify our own patterns that impact our lives, relationships and careers in a negative way or keep us from moving forward. To learn more about why horses...

Helping others to become aware of and identify their own patterns and impact on their lives is what coaching is all about.

Horses are powerful allies in helping us learn how to manifest success in life and work. They keep reminding us of our authentic goals and desires---and continually illustrate how to put them into action. Combined with a Multi-level Systemic Coaching™ methodology, this powerful learning allows you to efficiently work on yourself as means to develop your coaching skills for others.

Coaching Skills through Horse Wisdom provides a coaching approach based upon energetic and emotional agility that contains a set of tools for observing and shifting your way of being and how you interface with your environment, the basis of coaching.

Through work with the highly sensory equine partners we can engage in this approach experientially.  It is this experiential learning with another being that differentiates Coaching Skills through Horse Wisdom from other coaching programs.

How is Coaching Skills through Horse Wisdom structured?

The nine-month program consists of 4 on-site five-day experiences NY, Florida and Arizona plus independent study assignments in between sessions. This program focuses on developing new perspectives on learning and competency in managing your own transitions as well as learning how to utilize these new perspectives in coaching others.

Session Outlines

Coaching Skills through Horse Wisdom is based upon the ICF Core Competencies, Ethics and Definition of Coaching.

Week One: March 22-26, 2010

Setting the Foundation

• Class room work supported by experiential learning with horses
  
  • Introduction to Coaching
    • The ICF competencies and standards
  • Distinctions between therapy and coaching
  • Emotial and Energetic Agility Part One
    • Emotion as information
  • Coaching basics
    • Coaching agreement
    • Setting the foundation
    • Introduction to coaching model
  • Co-Creating the relationship Part One

   

Week Two: July 19-22, 2010

Communicating Effectively

• Class room work supported by experiential learning with horses
  • Coaching presence and awareness
    • Energetic and emotional intelligence
  • Powerful communication
    • Creating Presence
    • Active Listening
    • Emotional and Energetic Agility Part Two
    • Powerful questions and purposeful inquiry
    • Direct Communication
  • Team/Group coaching
  • Systemic debriefs and coaching practice and supervision

 

Week Three: October 4-8, 2010

Facilitating Learning and Results

• Facilitating Learning and Results
  • Creating awareness
    • For you
    • For your clients
  • Designing Actions
  • Planning and Goal Setting

• Managing Progress and Accountability
  • Systemic debriefs and coaching practice and supervision.
  • Marketing Your Practice

Week IV:  December 7-11, 2010

Building a Six Figure Practice

• Strategic Planning through vulnerability
• Marketing through Strategic Attraction
• Building an infra-structure to deliver the goods

Cost and Application Process

Cost: $12,897.00 for entire program  or   $3,500.00 per individual module
Includes

Includes on-site programming, virtual classes and lunch during on-site sessions.

.Program is limited to 16 people.

Coaching Skills through Horse Wisdom Selection Process for 2010

• Applicants are required to send in an electronic copy of their application to Kathy Riggins.
• Additionally, applicants must pay a $75 (US$) non-refundable processing fee payable MetaSystem Consulting Group or by credit card. On the check memo line, please write: Coaching Skills processing fee.

Note: A $25 fee is charged by MCG for any check returned from the bank. This is due when the party is notified of the return.

In this maximum four (4) page application letter, provide the following information submitted as a Microsoft Word Document - text only/no photos or graphics.

• Date application and include name, address, phone number, and email address
• Education
• List schools, programs, trainings, certifications, etc. that have supported your growth and development
• Include the name of teaching/training institution, year/time attended, and a one to two sentence description of the program, its purpose and value to you.
• Professional Experience in one or more of the following fields:
  • Educator, consultant (specific field) o Licensed Mental Health Worker,
  • Coach
  • Alternative Human Health Care
  • Unique Experience, Skills, Connections
  • Other Note: Specify the number of years of experience you have in each area and the particular nature of each category (e.g. High School teacher for ten years.)
• Horse Experience (Note: Horse experience is not necessary for this program, though it is desirable for instructors to know ahead of time what level of horse experience participants have.)
• Describe your attraction to the field of Coaching. Why are you attracted to the Professional and Life Coach Training Program at Epona?
• Given the requirements and energetic demands of the Coaching Skills through Horse Wisdom, describe how you will integrate it with your personal and work life during the nine months of training.

All applications will be carefully considered. Applicants will receive email notification as to whether or not they passed the paper-screening phase, whereupon a phone interview will be scheduled. Applicants accepted into the program will receive detailed instructions on location, lodging details, food service, and payment schedules.

To set up an interview and/or for more information contact Kathy Riggins at Kathy@metacg.com

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the format of these 5-day sessions?
These 5-day on-site sessions are highly interactive and incorporate dialogue, exercises, energy work, horse dancing and play. There are many opportunities to ask questions, interact with others and be coached.

What will we be doing in between these on-site sessions?
Between the on-site sessions, you'll be given independent study assignments that include reading and writing exercises, supervision and mentoring as well as peer coaching with other participants.  These will be in the form of teleconferences, teleclasses and teleseminars.

Who will we be working with during the independent study assignments and supervision?

During the program, you'll work with an ICF-accredited coach, who will provide mentoring and feedback as you begin to coach others.

Are there any pre-requisites or requistes to the program?

• As part of the course curriculum, you will be required to have a course appointed coach--additional cost
• During the course you will need to acquire at least 2 paying clients
• During the course you will need to acquire 50 hours of coaching those clients (includes the 6 month supervision/mentoring)
• Post graduation, six months of supervision/mentoring is required by a course appointed coach--additional cost
• All lodging and travel expenses are additional

Who are course leaders?

• Linda Kohonav, internationally recognized author, Founder/Director of the Epona Center
• Lisa Murrell, Professional Certified Coach (ICF), Epona Advanced Approved Instructor
• Johanna Husta, Professional Dressage Trainer, Epona Approved Partner
• Schelli Whitehouse, Coach and Marketing expert
• The Epona and Equine Alchemy Herd

  Adjunct Facilitators:

• Kathy Esper, PCC
• Paul Kwiecinski, PCC
• Susan Castaneda, ACC
• Milton Rivera, Qigong Master and Healer

"Coaching skills through Horse Wisdom is an opportunity to learn coaching from the wisdom of horses and the brilliance of your body. " Marine Spring, PCC, graduate from Barbara Brennan School of Healing Science