Finding Flow in Practice with Natural Lifemanship®

Join us in 2026 for a full calendar of experiential trainings grounded in movement, attunement, and real relationship.

The deepest healing doesn’t come from control

It comes from learning to move with what’s real, right now.

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.

At Natural Lifemanship, flow isn’t passive. It’s a dynamic, embodied, relational presence. It asks that we develop flexibility, practice emotional regulation, and trust the intelligence of the moment. It means riding the edges of discomfort without collapse or control, and guiding our clients to do the same.
In 2026, our trainings will help you:
  • 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
Make 2026 the year you stop pushing and start flowing—for your own growth and the deeper impact you bring to others.

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.

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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

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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

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 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

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Principles of Trauma Processing

October 8-11, 2026
Natural Lifemanship Headquarters Brenham, TX
Pre-requisite: Fundamentals of NL
Trainers: Bettina Shultz-Jobe & Kate Naylor

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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

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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

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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

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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

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NEW TRAINING:
Principles of Trauma Processing

In the mental health fields, the sciences of neurobiology, attachment, polyvagal theory, and affective neuroscience have illuminated the integral role trauma plays in mental illness, toxic stress, and life satisfaction. So, of course, and thankfully, many modalities for treating trauma have emerged. To be trained in one or two gives us a toolbox – but a limited one.

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.

This revolutionary and embodied approach is multi-modal, pulling from models like Somatic Experiencing, EMDR, IFS, TIR, Somatic Movement and Psychodrama.

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. 

Earning CE Credits

The Principles of Trauma Processing Program Info

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Become an NL Member.

When you become an NL member, you get the following exclusive benefits:

  • 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.