Building Your Resilience
A Series of Self-Care Workshops Created to Nurture Your Caring Heart.
Making a living by offering others your unconditional care and support is no easy feat. You show up for each and every client and do your best to be your full, authentic, loving and boundaried self, every day.
Working in the mental health and helping professions can be psychologically and emotionally taxing. We all know, intellectually, that we need deep and restorative self-care in order to be at our best. It is what we encourage our clients to practice. Yet, are we really doing it for ourselves?
About Building Your Resilience
The Natural Lifemanship Institute, in collaboration with our students and partner sites, has developed the Building Your Resilience online series to provide opportunities for profound self-care, through mindfulness, meditation, art, journaling, self-reflection, and more.
Choose from the following workshops and give yourself the restorative care you need to best support your clients.
30 Requests in 30 Days
Life and relationships begin with requests. This is the science of relationships and attachment theory. But the requests we make matter – and how we make them matters, too.
In 30 Requests in 30 Days, you’ll practice making requests of your horse, and, of course, attuning to and responding to your horse’s responses and requests. Each day, you will receive a prompt for spending intentional time with your horse. These prompts are designed to give you dedicated time and space to practice attunement and reflect on your relationship with your horse in community with others who are doing the same.
Members: $30
Non-Members: $99
30 Requests in 30 Days is a follow-up to the Coming Home to the Body Series, but participating in Coming Home to the Body is not a requirement.
NL Members save 69% on this training alone! And that’s just one of many benefits of members. If you’re not yet an NL Member and you want to save on this course and many others, join us.
Course Curriculum
Here’s a look at what you’ll experience in 30 Requests in 30 Days.
Aligning With the Seasons
In Coming Home to the Body, we learned to turn inward in Winter – listening to your body and finding ways to regulate it.
In Spring, we are exploring new beginnings and reaching out to grasp what is on the horizon.
Now it’s time for practice. We’ll take what we’ve learned about our own bodies and our regulation into our relationship with horses, embracing the energy of springtime.
Making Requests of Your Horse
Each day, you will receive a prompt for intentional time spent with your horses. We’ll post the prompt in the forum each evening so you can review it before the next day begins.
Reflecting in Community
Once a week we will come together on Zoom for a discussion lead by Tanner Jobe, to share and process your experience within our community. Sharing will also happen in the group forum.
Thursday, April 11th 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Central
Friday, April 19th 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. Central
Wednesday April 24th 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Central
Thursday May 2nd 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. Central
Monday May 6th 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Central
Wednesday May 15th 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Central
About Tanner Jobe
Tanner Jobe is Natural Lifemanship’s Director of EP Development & Director of Media. He has spent much of his life immersed in the Natural Lifemanship approach and excels in communicating with horses.
He is passionate about sharing his experience and expertise with horses and helps mental health and other helping professionals learn how to effectively weave the Natural Lifemanship approach into their practice.
Coming Home to the Body: Tools for Embodiment
With Mark Taylor and Kate Naylor
Winter is the time for hibernation, slowing down, moving within, and listening deeply to our bodies. In Coming Home to the Body, each short session will provide a tool for you to inhabit your body consciously by coming into relationship with your inner sensory world.
The tools and explorations—addressing simple themes that unite the body, mind, emotions, and spirit—will be transferable to your work in the world with clients, students, and horses.
After the spring equinox, we will begin to freshen the senses and sensory organs, allowing us to move into the greening environment with curiosity and innocence, maintaining the intention of providing tools for awareness and integration.
Members: $29
Non-Members: $299
Recordings will be available while the course is in session for those who register. Â
Course Curriculum
Here’s a look at what you’ll experience in Coming Home to the Body with Mark Taylor and Kate Naylor.
Winter Ceremony: Nurturing the Hearth Within (January 30)
January 30 at 5:00 pm CST
In this ceremony led by Kate Naylor, we will seek the hearth within us, the ever present light that calls us home to ourselves even in the darkest winters of our lives. As we tend to this fire that burns at the core of our being, we remember that in all darkness, there is life waiting to begin again. Let the warmth there permeate out into the winter that surrounds us this season. Together, we will turn inward and allow creativity in body, mind, and soul to fan the flames flickering within.Â
Tools for Embodiment: B-weekly Sessions (February 1 - March 19)
Between February 1 through March 19, each short session, led by Mark Taylor, will provide you a tool for you to inhabit your body consciously by coming into relationship with your inner sensory world – honoring the energy of winter. Â Sessions will be held every Tuesday and Thursday at 6:00 pm CST.
What to bring to each session:Â
- A place to sit
- A place to move
- A place to lie down
- A sense of humor
- A sense of awe
- A notepad and writing utensilÂ
- A willingness to relax and experience yourself in a new way
Spring Ceremony: Welcoming the Dawn (March 21)
March 21 at 10:00 am CST
Spring is a time of new beginnings – the sun begins to shine with more strength, imparting energy to the Earth and all her inhabitants. It’s a time to birth something new, reach out into the light, and grasp what is possible. Join Kate Naylor for this morning ceremony – together we will celebrate the dawning of Spring’s energy and allow it to engage us, moving us forward into a new day, a new year, a new set of possibilities.
Tools for Embodiment: B-weekly Sessions (March 26 - April 4)
Between March 26 – April 4 sessions with Mark will shift toward the energy of Spring, allowing us to move into the greening environment with curiosity and innocence, maintaining the intention of providing tools for awareness and integration.
Sessions will be held every Tuesday and Thursday at 6:00 pm CST.
What to bring to each session:Â
- A place to sit
- A place to move
- A place to lie down
- A sense of humor
- A sense of awe
- A notepad and writing utensilÂ
- A willingness to relax and experience yourself in a new way
A Note About Seasonal Cermonies
Equine Assisted Services are also nature-based services. When we take clients outdoors, nature becomes an organic participant in the process and the change of seasons is a part of that experience. Every few months we let go of what has been and welcome what is coming. It is an opportunity to pause and notice both the literal and the metaphorical.
Observing the seasons in your sessions offers you and your clients another chance to explore the reality and beauty of time. Join us for winter and spring ceremonies as we pause and consider the wisdom that the seasons, and nature herself, have to share.
About Mark Taylor
Mark Taylor directs the Center for BodyMindMovement, offering 500-hour certification programs in Somatic Movement Education located in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, and Chile. The trainings prepare movement professionals and people in the helping professions to facilitate physical, mental, and spiritual transformation in themselves and in others, through the study of embodied anatomy and developmental movement.
About Kate Naylor, LMFT
As a nature-based therapist, NL trainer, former school teacher, and horsewoman, Kate believes strongly in our interconnectedness—our own mind/body/soul as well our connection with others and the larger web of life.
Connecting to Self for Awareness and Healing with Jenn Pagone
Immerse yourself in an introspective journey of discovery, self-awareness, and healing with this transformative course led by Jenn Pagone.
Connecting to Self for Awareness and Healing is a four week long course thoughtfully designed to guide you on your path to self-understanding and personal growth, creating a strong foundation of inner resilience and empowering self-led living.
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Mindfulness Meditation With Sarah Willeman Doran
This five-week course prepares your mind, body, and soul for a daylong retreat where you put everything you learn into practice.
Learn the fundamentals of mindfulness meditation, how to work with emotions, cultivate inner resources and self-compassion, and embody the heart practices of forgiveness and loving-kindness.
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About the Instructor
Sarah is a life coach, meditation teacher, and NL practitioner. A former Grand Prix show jumping rider, she also breeds and develops young horses. She is the author of the blog Grappa Lane, which covers the topics of conscious living, horses, and psychology.
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