An approach to Equine Assisted Services based on the science of relationships
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2. Start your journey
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3. Evolve your life and practice
Experience the transformative power of connected relationships in your personal and professional life.
A Path That Meets You Where You Are
Marijane has been practicing as a licensed mental health professional for nearly a decade. She is looking to evolve her practice by incorporating equines through Trauma-Focused Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (TF-EAP).
Learn more about what drew Marijane to Natural Lifemanship®
Gretchen wants to use her experience with horses to support others in their growth and healing.
What drew Gretchen to Natural Lifemanship®?
Kathy incorporates equines into her life-coaching practice and wants to include the NL process of Trauma Informed Equine Assisted Learning (TI-EAL).
What’s different about NL for Kathy?
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Training
In-person and virtual options designed to meet you where you are and help you grow both personally and professionally.
Certification
Integrate and embody the principles of deep connection and relationship with yourself, your clients, and your equine partners. Receive individual, team, and group support for your own EAS practice —your specific clients, horses, and facilities.
Sue McKinney
Founder and program Director of Barnabas Horse Foundation,
NL Certification Student
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Horses are powerful partners because…
Horses are capable of engaging in healthy, genuine connection, relationship, and partnership. This relationship can be profoundly deeper than words.
A HORSE IS NOT
- A tool for our healing, an object, a mirror, or a metaphor
- A flawless magical creature capable of divine intervention
- A therapist
- A human
A HORSE IS
- A herd animal who depends on interconnected and complex relationships
- A mammal who craves connection and authenticity
- A highly sensitive creature who relies on ongoing, subtle, and embodied communication
- A sentient being, an individual, with their own wants, needs, and histories— including their own wounds to heal
Looking for equine assisted personal growth or therapy options for yourself?
We have two exclusive paths designed to support you in your own healing journey.
Our personal growth workshops, trainings, and retreats provide opportunities for connecting deeper to yourself, building internal resilience, and moving forward towards health and wellness.
If you are seeking more individualized support closer to home, our practitioner listing will connect you with a professional who is certified by Natural Lifemanship® or in the process of certification.
Simply choose your path below, and begin your journey.
Our blog
Certifications in Equine Assisted Services: Comparing Apples to Oranges
By Bettina Shultz-Jobe (with a ton of help from Kate Naylor and Laura McFarland!) This data is accurate, to the very best of our knowledge as of 09/07/2022. As we are made aware of changes or get better information, we will update this page. Interested...
Natural Lifemanship is a Contemplative Practice
What is Contemplation? I think therefore I am…… Or is it, I am therefore I think? If I don’t think, AM I? Wait! What does thinking have to do with who I am? Or who you are? Really... Who AM I? Who ARE you? Who are WE? Surely each of us has pondered these sorts of...
Introducing the Jobe Treatment Ratio for Equine Assisted Services
Evolving the Role of Equines Many of us on the Natural Lifemanship team have been working with equines for decades. We’ve spent much of that time preparing mustangs for domestic life, training horses for ranch work, and partnering with them for equine assisted...
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