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At a Glance
| Upcoming EFL MasterMind with Kathleen Barry Ingram | |
| NEW!! Attract the Perfect Clients through the Way of the Horse | |
| Now Taking Applications for 2010 Equine Assisted Coach Training Program | |
| NEW!! Equine Assisted Coach Training in EUROPE!! | |
| Coaching Skills through Horse Wisdom with Linda Kohanov | |
| FREE Tele-Seminar--Pioneering the New Standard in Equine Assisted Coaching | |
| MLSC Supervision and Consensual Learning For Individual and Team Coaching |
Upcoming EFL MasterMind with Kathleen Barry Ingram
Equine Facilitated Learning MasterMind!
A cutting edge learning and support group for you and your EFL business!!
Are you tired of being the Lone Ranger in your business?!
- Do you feel a dis-connect across the various EFL modalities?
- Have you noticed the industry is fractured in terms of having to choose a learning modality, definitions of certification, application and business training (or lack of it)?
- Are you struggling to "do-it-All"?
- Are you wondering how to bring in new clients, manage day-to-day operations, build a support team and create new partnerships - not to mention create an internet presence and market yourself to the world!
- Is your practice stuck in a rut or are you overwhelmed with trying to keep up with the various cutting-edge practices?
Join Kathleen Barry Ingram and Lisa Murrell in the launch of the only existing Equine Facilitate Master Mind March 12-14, 2010 in Wellington, Florida!
Date March 12-14, 2010, Registration NEW!! Attract the Perfect Clients through the Way of the Horse
Attention!! coaches, consultants, designers, healers, instructors, practitioners of equine-assisted learning and coaching, and other soulful service providers...
Register Below to learn more about our Attract the Perfect Clients the the Way of the Horse program and application process!Date Begins February 15, 2010, Location TBA Includes virtual and live training! Pre-Requisites No horse experience necessary Registration Now Taking Applications for 2010 Equine Assisted Coach Training Program
Equine Assisted Coach Training through the Way of the Horse is designed for:- Both experienced and beginning coaches who want to incorporate equine assisted learning into their practices
- Consultants, therapists, leaders, managers and HR professionals
- Those with and without equine facilitation training or skill
- Non-riders and riders
- People with and without horses
The EAC program is based upon:- MetaSystem Consulting Group's Multi-level Systemic Coaching model
- ICF, International Coach Federation, Core Competencies and Ethics
- The Epona Approach™ to equine experiential learning.
- A deep journey of self-exploration and transformational learning
We invite you to participate in the EAC as an entire course; or you can experience what you want in any order you want as individual weeks, or ARENAS.
Equine Alchemy's and MetaSystem Consulting Group's Equine Assisted Coach Training, (EAC), Coaching Skills through Horse Wisdom and Coach Supervision Programs combine virtual, traditional classroom and experiential learning in Arizona, New York and Florida.
Participants will receive (depending upon the ARENA you choose):- Instruction from ICF certified coaches who are incorporating Equine Assisted Coaching in their practice
- 16 days of on-site instruction for
- 9 group coaching conference calls
- 3 individual coaching sessions
- 3 peer-to-peer coaching calls
- Practice in equine assisted coaching
The EAC focuses on building the following competencies in four focus areas:
Equine Assisted Learning and Horsemanship Components- Demonstrate proficiency and ease working with horses as teachers.
- Demonstrate mastery in reflective and active round pen exercises.
- Demonstrate mastery in individual equine assisted coaching sessions.
- Coach at a PCC Level
- Barn and property set up
- Support staff
- Horse handling guidelines
- Vision
- Strategic Planning through Vulnerability
- Branding with Archetypes
- Money and YOU
- Profit Pyramid
- Learn how to use energetic and emotional cues to give you insight into what is needed to best coach your clients to success.
The best candidates for this program....- Have an established coaching business or are working toward this
- Own their own horse where they are the primary caretaker or have access to horses with specific criteria.
- Are able to handle intense personal growth and development.
- Are able to receive both positive and developmental feedback.
- Participate in monthly conference calls.
- Have one coaching conversation with Lisa or another Equine Alchemy coach between each session.
- Meet via phone with other participants at least once a month to discuss and reflect on your learning.
- Complete all homework assignments.
- Complete 4 active round pen sessions and 4 reflective round pen sessions outside the on-site program before graduation.
Why Horses? Horses are masters of being as well as 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.
Helping others to become aware of and identify their own patterns and impact on their lives is what coaching is all about.
It is this experiential learning with another being, the unique and powerful Epona Approach™, that differentiates EAC through the Way of the Horse from other coaching programs.
How is EAC through the Way of the Horse structured? The eleven-month program consists of 4 on-site five-day experiences either at Bushwood Farm in NY (or Wellington, FL) in the winter, 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 through the way of the horse.
Equine Assisted Coaching through the Way of the Horse is designed to fulfill the core competencies of the International Coaching Federation, (ICF).- Setting the Foundation
- Co-Creating the Relationship
- Communicating Effectively
- Facilitating Learning and Results
Session Outlines
Week One: Setting the Foundation
Classroom Work- Introduction to Coaching
- The ICF competencies and standards
- Distinctions between therapy and coaching
- Coaching agreement
- Setting the foundation
- Introduction to coaching model
- Co-Creating the relationship part one
- Meet the Herd-Promotes engagement with others
- Body Scan-Awareness of body and others, moving into relationship
- Reflective Round Pen Work
- Emotional Messaging Chart
Week Two: Co-Creating the Relationship/Communicating Effectively
Classroom Work- Co-Creating the relationship part two
- Coaching presence and awareness
- Energetic and emotional intelligence
- Powerful communication
- Creating Presence
- Positive and Negative Intentionality
- Active Listening
- Powerful questions and purposeful inquiry
- Direct Communication
- Team/Group coaching
- Systemic debriefs and coaching practice and supervision
- Active Round Pen Work
- Use of Multiple horses simultaneously
- Awareness of body and others, moving into relationship
- Emotion as Information
Week Three: Communicating Effectively/Facilitating Learning and Results- Team/group coaching and systemic approach
- Systemic debriefs and coaching practice and supervision
- Facilitating Learning and Results-Part I
- Creating awareness
- Designing Actions
- Planning and Goal Setting
Week Four: Marketing your Practice for a SIX Figure Business- Vision
- Strategic planning through Vulnerability
- Branding with Archetypes
- Money and you
- What to say when you don't like to sell
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the format of these 5-day sessions? These 5-day on-site sessions at the Bushwood and Wellington 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, group MasterMinds and topic calls, individual coaching and supervision.
Who will we be working with during the MasterMinds, coaching and supervision? During the program, you'll work with ICF-accredited coaches, who will provide mentoring and feedback as you begin to coach others.
Are there any pre-requisites to the program? Participants are required to have taken an Introductory Program to the Epona work. As part of the course curriculum, you will be required to seek and secure your own coach and coaching clients.
Who are course leaders?- Lisa Murrell, ICF Certified Coach MCC Pending), Epona Approved Instructor
- Schelli Whitehouse, PCC pending and graduate of EAC and Money, Market and Soul Coach
- Kathleen Barry Ingram, Co-Founder of the Epona Approach
- Kathy Esper, Profesional Certificed Coach, ICF and Graduate of EAC
- Susan Casteneda, PCC pending and graduate of EAC
- Paul Kwiecinski, PCC and co-founder of MetaSystem Consulting Group
- Johanna Husta, Professional Dressage Trainer, Epona Instructor Partner
Date Week I February 1 - 5, 2010, Week II April 5 - 9, 2010, Week III June 21 - 25, 2010, Week IV September 6-10, 2010, Location Week's I and II are in Wellington, Florida.
Week's III and IV are in New York state at Bushwood Farm.Cost $17,997 for entire program or $5,997 per week Accomodations In NY:
The Arbor Bed & Breakfast, High Falls, NY, 845-687-9888
Florida lodging: The Royal Inn, (the nearest)
The Hampton Inn in Lake Worth
The Hampton Inn in WellingtonRegistration NEW!! Equine Assisted Coach Training in EUROPE!!
Due to popular demand, we have developed EAC in Europe! Week I begins in May, 2010 and continues with 3 other on-site weeks ending in November, 2010.
Click below for more information about the program and to register!Date Week I May 17-21, 2010, Week II July 26-30, 2010, Week III September 24-29, 2010, Week IV, November 8-10, 2010, Location Belgium!! Cost $17,997 for entire program or $5,997 per week Registration Coaching Skills through Horse Wisdom with Linda Kohanov
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 , and Equine Assisted Coaching for Coaches, MetaSystem Consulting Group offers in-depth coach development for both beginning 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™, 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 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.
"The experience of working with horses requires a relationship with another being. It requires an acute awareness of boundaries—yours and theirs—as well as skill in interpreting body language. Interacting with horses requires obtaining permission to lead and demonstrating a willingness to follow. Such a relationship demands courage as well as vulnerability. Most importantly, the horse requires authentic communication. Twenty minutes in the round pen with a horse will take these powerful, insightful concepts off the page, out of your head, and anchor them into your entire being. " Schelli Whitehouse, Coach and Graduate
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 standards
- Distinctions between therapy and coaching
- Emotional & 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
Date Week I March 22-26, 2010, WeekII July 19-22, 2010, Week III October 4-8, 2010, Week IV December 7-11, 2010, Location Weeks I and IV; Bushwood Farm, Stone Ridge, NY (Just 2 hours north of NYC in the beautiful Catskill Mountains) Weeks II and III; Wellington, Florida Cost $17, 997 entire program or $5997 / week Pre-Requisites No horse experience necessary Accomodations Lodging Florida lodging: The Royal Inn, (the nearest) The Hampton Inn in Lake Worth The Hampton Inn in Wellington
Fly into West Palm Beach airport. It is about 25 or 30 min from us.
Miami airport does NOT have transportation to Wellington. Florida Sunshine Shuttle, #786..., provides one way transportation from Miami airport to Wellington for a fee of $180.00 one-way. Super Shuttle, #305..., provides one way transportation from Miami airport to Wellington for a fee of $100 one way. The trip is approximately 1 hour 25 minutes.
The address of the farm is 555 East Rambling Drive, Wellington, Fl. 33414.
Lodging In NY:
The Arbor Bed & Breakfast, High Falls, NY, 845-687-9888Registration Coaching Skills through Horse Wisdom Selection Process for 2010
Cost includes on-site programming, virtual classes and lunch during on-site sessions.
Program is limited to 16 people- 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 to
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
- Aternative Human Health Care
- Unique Experience, Skills, Connections
- Horse Experience
- 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.
To set up an interview and/or for more information contact Kathy Riggins at Kathy@metacg.comFREE Tele-Seminar--Pioneering the New Standard in Equine Assisted Coaching
Be a horse of a different color! Set your Equine Assisted Coaching Practice Apart from the Herd!!
Can you answer these questions in 5 seconds or less?- How is your Equine Assisted Coaching/Learning practice unique?
- Why should someone seek out YOUR services?
- How are you creating a viable and sustainable Equine Assisted Coaching/Learning practice?
Join Lisa Murrell and Annemieken Van Reepingen, a recent Equine Alchemy Graduate in this FREE Ground Breaking 60 minute Information Packed Tele-Seminar designed with you in mind!
"Pioneering the New Standard in Equine Assisted Coaching"
On this powerful call you will...- Discover how through seamlessly combining the ICF Core Competencies and Equine Assisted Coaching/Learning we are raising the bar for EFL practitioners
- Find out how knowing and incorporating these competencies powerfully impacts your clients and your practice
- Learn the powerful difference in Equine Assisted Coaching and other forms of Equine Experiential Learning!
"A horse of a different color attracts their perfect clients through standing out from the herd and is a pioneer for raising the bar in a rapidly growing EFL industry!! "
Lisa Murrell is an ICF certified coach, (MCC Pending), Advanced Epona Instructor and author of Inspiring Real Change; Using Systemic Experiential Learning to Develop Systems, Organizations, Teams and Individuals. Co-founder of MetaSystem Consulting Group, www.metacg.com and founder of Equine Alchemy, www.equinealchemy.com, Lisa is the creator of the cutting edge Coaching and Equine Assisted Coaching Coach Training Programs. (These programs are in the queue for ICF Accreditation!)
Date February 9, 2010,
19:00 Europe Time 12:00 PM Eastern TimeLocation Virtual on Skype! Cost $FREE!! Registration Once you have applied, we will send you the call in number along with your confirmation! Thanks and we look forward to your being on the call!
With Ease and Grace, Lisa and AnnemiekenMLSC Supervision and Consensual Learning For Individual and Team Coaching
New!! Multi-Level Systemic Coaching Supervision and Consensual Learning For Individual and Team Coaching
MLSC supervision is coach co-training with a group creatively designed to model a real client team structure and process.
The MLSC supervision cycle is a collective developmental process that unfolds over a period of the 3 months; 2 monthly teleconferences, where participants share and learn. MLSC supervision is structured as a "systemic learning team" or organization, and participants can choose to develop their individual and team coaching skills, at their own pace.
The classes will be lead by Lisa Murrell, with guest coaches.
Objectives The MLSC supervision groups focus on three main areas:- Multi-level systemic individual and team coaching and consulting competencies
- Developing a Consensual Learning Environment
- Opportunities to develop sales, marketing, products, success strategies, networking and collaboration, writing and publishing, etc.
How does it work? The MLSC supervision group is designed as a consensual and evolving learning environment that includes experimentation, modeling and personal development though a collective and evolving process.- It stays practical and operational. Individual and team coach training and learning occurs through modeling and practice.
- It is a systemic co-learning environment where new individual and team coaching practices and strategies are tested rather that presented.
- It questions and challenges each of its members to stimulate personal and professional growth and development.
- Its members practice positive confrontation of their differences and respect their diversity of approaches.
- For each coach, it is a personal sharing and professional support and mentoring network.
The structure of the MLSC supervision groups is designed to practice multi-level systemic coaching from several points of view. It also accepts and integrates all the participant’s prior theoretical training and approaches and is not limited to the use of any one theoretical or conceptual field.
Methodology MLSC supervision groups is co-owned and emergent.
The group processes, operating principles and rules, and a good part of its day to day organization are co-defined by its members and are principally centered on the development of their systemic individual and team coaching competencies.
Each MLSC supervision session is managed under the shared responsibility of all its members. This can include:- Logistics, i.e. a call in number
- Bringing real-life individual and team coaching supervision issues,
- Coaching these issues, and sharing commentaries and options for future development and improvement
- Moderating the day's work and co-managing the group processes.
- Moderating and/or coaching collective sequences concerning the mentoring group's processes,
Consensual Learning Each team participant is fully responsible for his or her own learning process. This includes:- Proposing individual and team coaching real-life situations for group supervision.
- Their personal conclusions following each supervision and mentoring sequence.
Systemic Analysis MLSC supervision group’s operating principles relies upon a consensual and systemic learning environment. This structure permits the simultaneous integration of group work on several different levels of reality:- Client case study or problem proposed by a participant
This is an opportunity for the group to practice systemic diagnosis and development around what is going on with this particular client situation.
- Strategic options for the participant who presents the client case or problem
Secondly, this a way to propose options for the future practice of the participant who proposes the case study—both as a coach and strategically for the client.
- Supervision of the participant's coach within the MLSC supervision environment
This perspective allows the ‘coach’ to gain insight into his/her coaching methods.
- Questions MLSC supervision group operating modes
This is an opportunity for the group to further develop their Consensual Learning environment.
- Group supervisor and coaching practice level This gives the group the chance to examine the model in general and explore any new ideas for its growth.
The analysis and integration of all these different levels permits:- Simultaneous application of MLS coaching practice—in fact, the MLSC in action!
- Development of each participant's future MLSC practice
Date Begins February, 2010, Location Teleconference!! Cost $1,200.00 Pre-Requisites You are already coaching. Registration Contact Kathy Riggins at kathy@metacg.com or call 845-687-4324. or click registration button.
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