10-Week Course Outline: Starting Your Equine-Assisted Coaching Practice

10-Week Course Outline: Starting Your Equine-Assisted Coaching Practice

Week 1: Introduction to Equine-Assisted Coaching

• Content:
  • Overview of equine-assisted coaching.
  • Benefits and unique aspects of this coaching practice.
  • Case studies and success stories.
• Experiential Exercise:
  • Reflective journaling on personal motivations and goals for starting an equine-assisted coaching practice.
  • Group discussion to share insights and build community.

Week 2: Business Planning and Initial Investment

• Content:
  • Detailed breakdown of startup costs.
  • Creating a business plan.
  • Securing funding and budgeting.
• Experiential Exercise:
  • Drafting a preliminary budget and business plan outline.
  • Peer review and feedback session.

Week 3: Understanding Regulatory Compliance and Liability

• Content:
  • Overview of regulatory requirements.
  • Understanding liability and securing insurance.
  • Developing risk management plans.
• Experiential Exercise:
  • Case study analysis of regulatory compliance scenarios.
  • Role-playing exercises to practice handling liability issues.

Week 4: Selecting and Training Suitable Horses

• Content:
  • Characteristics of suitable horses for coaching.
  • Process of selecting and acquiring horses.
  • Basics of horse training for coaching.
• Experiential Exercise:
  • Virtual tour of a model equine-assisted coaching facility.
  • Interactive Q&A with a professional equine trainer.

Week 5: Facility Management and Maintenance

• Content:
  • Requirements for a coaching facility.
  • Daily maintenance and long-term management.
  • Safety protocols and emergency plans.
• Experiential Exercise:
  • Creating a facility management checklist.
  • Simulated emergency response planning.

Week 6: Marketing Strategies and Client Acquisition

• Content:
  • Developing a brand and marketing plan.
  • Utilizing social media and online marketing.
  • Networking and partnership building.
• Experiential Exercise:
  • Designing a marketing campaign.
  • Group brainstorming on client acquisition strategies.

Week 7: Building Your Online Presence

• Content:
  • Creating a website and optimizing for SEO.
  • Engaging content creation (blogs, videos, etc.).
  • Managing online reviews and feedback.
• Experiential Exercise:
  • Building a basic website or landing page.
  • Writing a sample blog post or creating a social media video.

Week 8: Professional Training and Certification

• Content:
  • Overview of necessary training and certifications.
  • Choosing the right certification programs.
  • Continuing education and professional development.
• Experiential Exercise:
  • Researching and selecting certification programs.
  • Developing a professional development plan.

Week 9: Coaching Techniques and Best Practices

• Content:
  • Key coaching techniques specific to equine-assisted coaching.
  • Integrating horses into coaching sessions effectively.
  • Managing client-horse interactions.
• Experiential Exercise:
  • Role-playing coaching scenarios.
  • Peer feedback on coaching techniques.

Week 10: Finalizing Your Practice Launch Plan

• Content:
  • Bringing all components together.
  • Setting up timelines and milestones.
  • Preparing for launch day.
• Experiential Exercise:
  • Presenting individual practice launch plans.
  • Group discussion and final feedback session.

Each class includes a combination of lectures, interactive discussions, and experiential exercises designed to ensure you gain practical skills and knowledge essential for starting your equine-assisted coaching practice. You will also have access to online resources, templates, and a community forum for ongoing support.

Read this:  EquineFlow Coaching, not Counseling or Psychotherapy

EquineFlow Transformational Coaching is not psychotherapy, counseling, advice giving, mental healthcare, or treatment for substance abuse or any addictive behavior. Certified EquineFlow Practitioners are not licensed mental health professionals, psychotherapists or counselors, and do not present or act as such. Transformational coaching is not intended as a replacement for counseling, psychiatric interventions, treatment for mental illness, professional medical advice, financial assistance, legal counsel, or other professional services. Certified EquineFlow Practitioners only work with clients who are able to self-regulate their nervous system. The EquineFlow Approach does not include assessments, diagnostics, treatment or medication.

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KAREN E. : I CAN THINK MORE CLEARLY *****
​I can think more clearly and find I can trust in my decision making processes as a result.  EquineFlow Coaching has helped me in all areas of my life, relationships, parenting and my work as the founder of a non-profit charity. I can not recommend Equineflow more highly.   Karen E. Greenville, SC.

EquineFlow is a proven, certified transformational coaching approach using an integration of individuation, horse assisted learning, nature based coaching, positive psychology, art therapy, active discovery learning, narrative therapy, felt sense, hypnosis, intuitive learning, neuro leadership, clean language, ACT, inner child work,  voice dialogue and work in altered states of consciousness to offer you a holistic program to expand your emotional literacy and transform life and leadership. 

There comes a point when you need to reconnect with your true self, allowing all aspects of your being to come forward and take charge.

Despite knowing your strength, there are moments of doubt, questioning if this path aligns with you. That's alright. Life isn't solely about strength. Even the most resilient people can feel misplaced despite outward success. Experiencing imposter syndrome, guilt over success, or being overwhelmed doesn't indicate incompetence. It shows resilience. You've endured, even if exhaustion has set in.

Though you may not control every circumstance, you sense the importance of no longer being defined by past experiences or mindstates you had to create during moments of adversity .

To progress, weather challenges, or explore new frontiers, conserving energy and tapping into your power is vital. Learn to navigate within your consciousness, accessing resources and wisdom to shape the future. At EquineFlow, we utilize Omnicognition, an adaptive integration system across different consciousness levels.

You'll explore the essence of squirrely thoughts and unleash inner innovation. Omnicognition enables connection to neurological and collective wisdom, helping you get access to an inner guide to navigate rough waters.

Evoke Wisdom to Emerge from Within

Connecting to the wisdom within is your key to successful, purposeful, balanced life. When you learn to hold dual awareness of your external and internal environment, you begin to assimilate all your parts into a whole. Through integrating unconscious and conscious triggers, thoughts, sensations and feelings you discover why you have been reacting to what you perceive. As a result you begin to transform your personal and collective consciousness. You learn to transcend individual limitations and radically amplify your power to put plans and actions into effect.

When you connect to  knowledge within, you resolve any dilemma.  Omnicognition is not aimless positive thinking,  meditation or guru speak. It is rigorous, realistic, pragmatic, intuitive, sensory trans-conscious dialoging to truly get to the bottom of what is internally unresolved within your environments and connections. It is accessing inner guidance on the conscious and trans-consciousness plane on how to move forward and overcome obstacles in a way that is in alignment with your personal values, strengths and purpose.

When you connect with Omicognition, you learn to bounce back from doubting your abilities, and move forward wiser, stronger and with a renewed clarity. You shed the attachments that now become irrelevant to you.  Omnicognition is the path of consciously rising above old pathways of limitations. You grow into your own self, learning how to love and trust yourself, whole heartedly, flaws and all, embracing your potential, and trusting your ability to handle the responsibility that comes with truly stepping into your power. 
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Omnicognition is about dropping feelings of not being good enough, through becoming a pro at emotional literacy and inner wisdom. You discover who you are outside of your emotional injuries, and turn potential energy into kinetic energy to get better people, better energies, better future, better routines, better mental progression in your life, and your purpose driven endeavors.

Through it, you contribute with your personal power to inspiring humanity to a grow a better world. 

How?

During 90 days to  you dedicate yourself to the process of integration of conscious and unconscious parts of yourself, journeying deep within, to walk the halls of your existence. You have private intensive weekly meetings,  and integrate rigorous self-study with personalized homework and assignments. The brave equineflowers who have gone before you say it is really, really hard work. Harder than almost anything you have ever done, and that this is not for everyone. But that by the time you are through, you wish you had done it 10 years ago. 

Evoke and let emerge
You learn how to evoke mindstates that allow you to leverage mind, body and intuition to let emerge agency, power, clarity and meaning into everything you do.  You discover brain based techniques to expand neurological self-determination, self-trust and self-direction. You dive deep into your own nervous system to understand where your thoughts originated,  how they have been driving your behavior, and what you want to do with that knowledge.

Experiential and kinesthetic
Experiential (meaning involving or based on experience and observation) and kinesthetic in nature, you to learn how to transcend group attachment, and instead discover your own answers, truths and place in the world.

Neurological Enlightenment
You surrender to neurological enlightenment to lean into emotional duress and  embrace your power. You tap into memory stored in your DNA to explore and release trauma stored in your ancestor lines. You radically amplify strength, agility and influence of your mind, to maximize purposeful happiness, and achieve your version of a meaningful, successful life, no matter what storm is trying to sink your boat.

Fun, Novel and Challenging
Coaching sessions are typically fun, provoking, and challenging. Sometimes they are dark. This process is not for the faint of heart and not everyone is ready.  Some environments can  limit the process of your personal transcendence.  A journey  of capital and material gains and promotions, conforming to what is, instead of creating what can be.

If you have walked that path,  found it unsatisfactory, and are ready for more, The EquineFlow Approach can be a good fit. If you are prepared to answer the call that says it is time for you to lean into pressure, rise above the status quo, and step up to lead your world, then EquineFlow is exactly where you belong. Even though your EquineFlow journey will be an arduous path to follow, you will find yourself longing for the next session. Each session makes you grow stronger, wiser and more confident, while you notice how your life is finally integrating into a well functioning whole.

How do the horses fit in this journey?
Being around unbridled horses immersed in the natural environment of a horse farm among century old oak trees, allows you to return to a state of flow. When you reduce the activity of the default mode network and turn on the task positive network, you increase the functional connectivity between the two.  That's where an advanced type of cognitive integration can open up.

Horses are fabulous teachers. They rarely live inside their heads; they are grounded in their body. Their herd dynamics pull you out of your head, and into your body, where deep knowing resides. There, you connect with the richness of wisdom embedded within your nervous system, waiting for you to discover and utilize.

Being around horses is transformative. When we follow up close proximity to a 1200 lbs unbridled animal, with journeying in altered states of consciousness, near the ancient oak trees and water, we get a hyper-effective environment for human transcendence.

Each day and time is different, and each need is different. Each session is different too. Some days you may feel like gently brushing horses, to let go of your own dirt too. Other days you feel like quietly observing horse behavior to let them show you what patterns of your own behavior requires introspection. Some days you seek solace in their soft mane, letting their fur catch anguish, after life threw you for a loop. Some days you don't feel like hanging out with the horses at all, and instead opt for indoor work.  And yet other days you play with your four legged friends, with laughter and exuberance, learning to embrace your power and innate leadership.

Benefits

• Get unstuck
• Return to joy and flow
• Reconnect with inner power and wisdom
• Learn the advanced cognitive enhancement of omniconsciousness spaces
• Get better energy, better people and better mental progression
• Successfully get your world to a better place

Not able to come to our farm right now?
No worries. Many of our clients meet exclusively on Zoom. While the method can be assisted by the horses, it is neither defined by horses, nor dependent on interaction with horses to be effective.  The method is proven to work either way to bring profound change and success.

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What Clients Say About EquineFlow :

JOHN Z. : EXTREMELY REWARDING *****
Working with Monique has been simultaneously one of the easiest and most challenging experiences I have ever had. Most importantly, it has been extremely rewarding. Monique is skilled at unapologetically pushing you to work hard, while showing incredible empathy and developing lasting rapport with you from the very first session.

Honestly, I was a bit skeptical in the beginning because I am trained as a therapist, however what EquineFlow offered really sounded like exactly what I needed at this point in my life. Monique’s methods are based in research and she is always willing to explain the neuroscience behind what she is doing.

I learned skills that I could use in everyday situations the moment I walked out of my sessions. I learned the importance of taking time to really focus on getting in touch with all parts of myself, and I am learning how to hear all parts of myself and find balance in which parts push me forward in life. It has provided me with tools to come back to and use in the future, and it has given me the courage to make decisions and confidently choose to honor myself.  John Z. Greenville, SC

BARBARA M. : OVERWHELMING SENSE OF BLISS *****
Before starting working with Monique, I had a huge weight on my shoulders. Now I have a different picture of what my future looks like. Every session was like a small awakening and when I came closer to my turning point, I almost felt an overwhelming sense of bliss, understanding and peace. I had all the tools and knowledge all along. It just took the right person to ask the right questions.

If you feel stuck or uncomfortable, if you don’t know why or lack the skills to achieve your dreams, I highly recommend working with Monique. She’s a highly analytical, thoughtful and caring practitioner that will show you many opportunities to practice joy and happiness."
​Barbara M. 

SHAWN T. : GUIDANCE AND CARE IS UNMATCHED *****
Monique has this passion and ability to get right to work in dealing with issues. What therapy takes years to discern, Monique can extract in a matter of a few sessions. She is not afraid to walk with you in the hard work that she knows lies ahead. Her guidance and care is unmatched. She is direct in her ability to empower her clients almost immediately."
Shawn T. 

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SHARON E. : I AM WALKING INTO A DREAM *****
The peace and contentment with myself as a person began to positively impact my business and my friendships. My business has tripled, my divorce to my abusive ex is final-I am walking out of a nightmare and into a dream. This dream does not define me however, and if it falls apart tomorrow, I’ll be Ok. Because I’m me.   Sharon C. Greenville, SC

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