Finding Flow in Practice with Natural Lifemanship®
The deepest healing doesn’t come from control
In the world of experiential work, the most profound breakthroughs often arise not from carefully laid plans, but from a willingness to follow the natural current of relationship, sensation, and connection.
Finding Flow 2026 invites you into a year of releasing the need to fix, to force, or to always “know.” Instead, we turn toward curiosity, responsiveness, and attunement—to ourselves, our clients, our horses, and the environment we share.
- Deepen your somatic awareness
- Navigate stress and regulation with presence
- Build authentic connection through responsiveness, not rigidity
- Trust what emerges, because that’s where the healing is
Let’s Learn Together
To guide you in your journey, enhance your healing practice, and grow your impact, we offer the following:
Fundamentals of NL
The Fundamentals is one of our signature trainings, designed to teach you the powerful process we’ve developed for creating deep, connected relationships based on our unique principles—and implement it into your own life and practice.
This training has no pre-requisites and is step #1 in the certification process.
Upcoming Dates:
- September 14 – November 13, 2026
This training is online. Registration for each Fundamentals training will open up about two weeks before the training begins.
NL Intensive
The NL Intensive is taken after the Fundamentals when you’ve gained a solid foundation for using the Natural Lifemanship principles. In the Intensive, you’ll go deeper into your personal growth and embody your unique and powerful practice to build on your relationship with yourself, your clients, and your horses.
Being Fundamentals Level 1 trained is the pre-requisite for this training, and this is step #2 in the certification process.
Upcoming Dates:
- August 17 – December 11, 2026
This training is online. Registration for the Intensive training will open up about two weeks before the training begins.
NL Practicum
Enhance your Fundamentals or Intensive training with our in-person Practicums.
NL Practicum
September 24-27, 2026
Natural Lifemanship Headquarters
Brenham, TX
Pre-requisites: Fundamentals of NL (any level) or NL Intensive (any level)
Trainers: TBD
NL Practicum
October 16-19, 2026
Horse Sense of the Carolinas
Marshall, NC
Pre-requisites: Fundamentals of NL (any level) or NL Intensive (any level)
Trainers: TBD
NL Practicum
November 18-21, 2026
Natural Lifemanship Headquarters
Brenham, TX
Pre-requisites: Fundamentals of NL (any level)
Trainers: TBD
Specialty Trainings
Trainings to support your personal and professional life, wherever you are on your journey
Principles of Trauma Processing
October 8-11, 2026
Natural Lifemanship Headquarters Brenham, TX
Pre-requisite: Fundamentals of NL
Trainers: Bettina Shultz-Jobe & Kate Naylor
Connected Horsemanship
November 12-15, 2026
Natural Lifemanship Headquarters Brenham, TX
No pre-requisites, but Fundamentals of NL is encouraged.
Trainers: Tim Jobe, Tanner Jobe & TBD
Connected Horsemanship
December 9-12, 2026
Natural Lifemanship Headquarters Brenham, TX
No pre-requisites, but Fundamentals of NL is encouraged.
Trainers: Tim Jobe, Tanner Jobe & TBD
Personal Growth & Wellness Retreats
You cannot take clients down a path you have not traveled yourself
Personal Immersion
December 3 – 6, 2026
Natural Lifemanship Headquarters Brenham, TX
No pre-requisites, but Fundamentals of NL is encouraged.
Trainers: Bettina Shultz-Jobe, Kate Naylor, Kathleen Choe, Mary Oliver, Beth Burgmeyer, Laura Hutler
Registration for this training opens in July 2026.
Partnerships & Collaborations
Training opportunities created through shared vision and collective effort—expanding impact together to serve and strengthen the NL community
Embodied Developmental Movement, Part 3
Fluid Communication: Embodying the Nervous System
August 19 – 22, 2026
Natural Lifemanship Headquarters Brenham, TX
No pre-requisites, but Fundamentals of NL is encouraged.
Trainers: Mark Taylor and Bettina Shultz Jobe
Embodied Developmental Movement, Part 4
Moving In and Out of Relationship: Embodying the Primitive Reflexes
February 3 – 6, 2027
Natural Lifemanship Headquarters Brenham, TX
No pre-requisites, but Fundamentals of NL is encouraged.
Trainers: Mark Taylor and Bettina Shultz Jobe
NEW TRAINING:
Principles of Trauma Processing
In order to fully support the unique traumatized individual that stands before us, we must learn to integrate trauma modalities, and find the mechanisms of change that lie underneath protocols, gadgets, and new terminology.
In this training, Bettina Shultz-Jobe and Kate Naylor will guide trauma professionals in exploring the principles that underlie effective trauma processing, so that an integrated, comprehensive framework can emerge. Not a protocol, not new acronyms, but a skillset to answer the question “What should I do next, in this moment?”
Processing trauma can be relational, grounded, safe, and productive – and adaptable – when we know what, at its most basic, is necessary for trauma to move through the body and mind.
When we support clients toward wholeness, from our own place of wholeness, the work transforms.
Learning will include:
A foundation of intentionality, somatic skills, and co-regulating presence
How and Why to “build out” and externalize a trauma memory
Various ways to move within, work with, and ‘move through” this memory
The completion of movements in trauma work
Movement and reflex integration in trauma work
Parts work, inner child work, and addressing shame
The importance of the reparative experience and how to facilitate this
And of course how to integrate horses into it all!
Learning will be didactic and experiential. Come prepared to learn both personally and professionally!
The Principles of Trauma Processing offers 25 NBCC CE credits. Participants may apply for APA CE credits through our partner, Elevate You CE, for an additional fee.
Looking for community?
Join a community where transformation, healing, and purposeful relationships take place.
Become an NL Member.
- Discounts on courses, products, and events.
- Exclusive access to our Regional NL MasterMind Groups.
- An NL online community to connect, learn and grow TOGETHER!
- Access to other professionals who share your passion for supporting others in their growth and healing through Equine Assisted Therapy, Equine Assisted Psychotherapy, Equine Assisted Learning, and trauma informed care.
- Expand your toolbox for helping clients regulate, connect, and grow.
- Resources to support the nuance of the horse-human relationship.
- TOTAL-ACCESS to hours of rich online content.
- Opportunities to earn CE credits online.
Natural Lifemanship Certification fees include NL membership.