Clinic for Professional Mental Health Groups

CONNECTING TO SOUL THROUGH HORSES AND NATURE: Supporting our clients to transcend personal story and step into conscious awareness

With our business partner Equine Encounters Australia, wherever you are in New Zealand or Australia, we bring to your group an insightful two-day clinic based on the principles in our 2024 book, Soul Connection with Horses: Healing the Mind and Awakening the Spirit through Equine Assisted Practices. Drawing on our combined experience of over 20 years working in the therapeutic space with horses, we introduce experiential learnings from nature as we lead mental health professionals through concepts of awakening, spaciousness and examining existential beliefs, with the aim of deepening therapeutic offerings to your clients.

Horse experience is not required.

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Soul Connection with Horses

JANUARY 18 2025

We have a full-day workshop coming up on Saturday, March 23rd. This is a bespoke workshop for a maximum of four people for each workshop for profound personal learning in the presence of horses. Deepen your self-awareness and touch the infinite within you while sharing sacred space with horses. With especially adapted meditative and mindfulness practices, for a day you will be immersed in the horse’s wisdom to experience a beautiful meeting of souls. Click “contact” to below to express your interest.

Choose Your Own One Day Workshop

Choose a theme from below (or suggest a new one), find 3 others to join you, and contact us for available dates. We tailor-make one-day workshops for 4 people at a time that suits everyone. Please contact us directly for further information

The Inner Mirror - Soul to Soul Connection with Horses

This workshop is about making soul-to-soul connections with horses to learn from their ancient wisdom and to connect with your own innate wisdom. Horses show us that it is possible to live joyfully in the present moment, to fully accept who we are, and to let go of concern for past and future.

Recovery from Life’s Hard Knocks

If we expect life to be a smooth ride we can be bitterly disappointed. We all encounter unexpected and painful periods in life, but how we come to terms with them determines who we become. In a supportive environment with horses, with like-minded people and an experienced therapist, sharing a painful story that needs to be resolved can bring you to the next level of recovery and acceptance.

Meditation and Mindfulness with Horses

In the presence of horses you can learn to be more aware of your own being (body sensations and feelings) as well as how you typically experience your outer world (immediate environment). Through meditation and mindfulness practices with horses you become aware of the thought-noise that gets in the way of true awareness. In this workshop you will experience horses modelling peaceful and healthy ways of being which they will share with you.

Taming the Inner Critic

If you often feel bad about yourself the chances are that your Inner Critic is constantly chatting away to you. The Inner Critic is the result of conditioning from the society in which we live, but there comes a time when it needs to be questioned, with negative self views replaced by developing true self respect.

Developing Leadership Qualities

Leadership within an equine herd is effective and dynamic as each horse takes on a specific role. Seeing how they take responsibility for their own and the herd’s safety, and how they fluidly balance their roles within the herd, provides insight into human group dynamics. In this workshop the horses give you many opportunities to explore your own leadership potential.