For equine professionals who wish to learn the foundational principles of working in equine assisted learning and psychotherapy, including how to build a collaborative team, with horses as co-facilitators. Workshop includes optional day of skills testing for certification as Equine Specialist in Mental Health and Learning (ESMHL). More information at pathintl.org. Since March, 2020, ESMHL […]
A message from Trish Broersma, Director of Riding Beyond: Never have our Saturday sessions for the general public with the theme of “Challenging Times Call for New Strategies,” held more relevance. In the absence of our Riding Beyond face to face sessions with our horses in the coming weeks through April, and perhaps longer, I’ve […]
Training for Equine Professionals inDeveloping an EFL Program for Breast Cancer Survivors/Thrivers “I have learned a lot from this on line course. There are many things from session #4 that I am going to implement in our program. I want to zero in more on the different roles of leadership and utilize more hidden talents […]
In-Depth, Practical How-To for Your Practice of Equine Assisted Psychotherapy and Equine Assisted Learning Facilitated by Trish Broersma and Leslie McCullough, PhD THE HORSES • How to train horses for interactive work in the settings of equine assisted learning and psychotherapy, with a focus on relational liberty work.• Considerations in pairing horses and clients […]
February 15 – March 10, 2017 Listen to my presentation on how to kickstart a good idea into a broad-based community-supported program. MARCH 6, all day for free when you sign up, below. Here is what I’ll be talking about: Click here for details about the 2017 Healing with Horse Tele Summit and sign up […]
Join the movement & give back: Merrily Curtis Memorial Fund We are participating in Giving Tuesday for the first time this year with gifts to the Merrily Curtis Memorial Fund. This fund will help cover the expenses of sessions for the women who attend the free Riding Beyond programs.Your generosity makes a difference. Any amount […]
March 28 – April 10, 2016 Click here for details about the Healing with Horse Festival and Symposium and sign up for FREE. The Tele-Summit is designed as an immersive intensive, from your own home, an Epic, Equine-Assisted Extravaganza! The theme this year: WHAT WOULD HORSES DO? Starting Monday March 28, 2016 there will be […]
Last week Chad Moyer said that one of his greatest challenges with Chi Gong is to move out of “doing” into “following.” I am used to considering “doing” vs “being”, so this language caught my attention. He explained that it is easy to fall into “doing” the movements of Chi Gong, to reach for a […]
From out of Canada, with host Paula Slater, our conversation about horses and healing:
This past week I had a revelatory experience, recasting my past in a way that is still reverberating through me. Sunday, for the Summer Solstice, I found a few hours in an unusually busy week to go up to Howard Prairie for the 20th Annual World Peace and Prayer Day sponsored by Red Earth Descendants […]
Just returned yesterday from the extraordinary Healing with Horses Festival and Symposium, such a rich gathering with 85 other like-minded equine professionals. We did a lot of celebrating of Horse and a lot of delving deep into new ways of being with them for the benefit of our world. Here is a photo of Atticus […]
Let’s give our dear Peggy the gift she has asked for, on the occasion of her 80th birthday, August 18: A Community Sponsored Writing Retreat Peggy wants to write for a month at the Oregon Coast, and we want to gift her a month’s stay at her favorite retreat there, all expenses paid. We thought […]
Today I came across something I wrote on my return from Australia 3 years ago, having experienced many wonders, in particular a passage through seven gates during my camping in the Alice Springs area. I’m posting it here on my website as a reminder to me, to pay attention to these signposts of the future […]
Immense Possibilities, a truly remarkable and inspiring local show, on public television and internet, will feature Riding Beyond this Friday, April 17 at 8:30 pm on SOPTV. After that it is available for viewing at their website. http://www.immensepossibilities.org. Here is their introduction to the show: “Horses,” in the words of Australian poet Pam Brown, “lend […]
What a remarkable, inspiring and in-depth training we have just completed for becoming certified as mBIT Coaches led by Cheryl Parkinson Cruttenden! I’ve been offering a junior version of mBIT for about a year. This training added many layers of depth and clarity to what I’ve understood previously about working with the whole self, all […]
Webinar: How to Quickly Roll Out A Great Idea into a Broad-Based Community-Supported Program This webinar was recorded Monday, January 27, 2014 SORRY. THIS WEBINAR IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE FROM WINDRUSH FARM. This material is covered in the Riding Beyond Training for Professionals. PATH Intl has a webinar available that I recorded on programming for […]
Journey Horse Training: Colorado Creating Transformational Programs with the Horse/Human Relationship Friday May 15th 9am – 4pm a preconference before the Healing with Horse Festival and Symposium $160 Includes LUNCH This one-day intensive will give you building blocks for creating powerful experiences for clients that allow them to journey into their deepest creative resources, accessing […]
May 16-18th 2015, outside of Denver, Colorado. I will be opening and closing this three day event. (Additionally, we will take this time to dedicate the 2015 season of Riding Beyond with the community of rescue horses at Zuma Ranch, where the Symposium is held.) In the previous 2 years, this event has been an […]
June 25, 2015 Thursday 9 am – 4 pm Join those mindful buckaroos, Trish and Robert, once again for an all-day, unique writing workshop in beautiful Bend, Oregon at Healing Reins. And there’s more: MYSTIC WILL BE THERE TOO, the Riding Beyond horse who has opened the hearts and minds of so many this past year […]
Private Intensive Mentoring: Riding Into Your Own Mythic Life I offer private intensives for developing equine facilitated learning programs, working with me and my horses for at least 6 hours each day, to clarify and deepen the direction of your life work and to pursue significant contributions to the world, through work with horses. Your […]