Our upcoming conference, A Natural Life: Love and Grief are Connected, is only days away— we want to ensure you are prepared to embark on this transformative journey, even if you are not able to attend the conference! 

On July 20th at 5:00 PM CDT, we will host a webinar to guide you as you push against, fight with, run from, and maybe. . . sit with, lean into, and move through the various losses we face each and every day––preparing the path for whole-hearted living and love that both carries us and knocks us to our knees.     

During this intimate webinar Bettina Shultz-Jobe, co-founder of Natural Lifemanship, will share her story and her space with you.  She will suggest concrete ways to nurture yourself as you begin an intentional journey with love and grief prior to, during, and after the conference.  She’ll discuss the importance of community and how we can begin to ease into the communal experience of grief.  She will offer thoughts about what to bring on your journey, the space to create inside and around you, and (for conference attendees) how to get the most out of this unique and powerful upcoming experience. 

Join us for “How to Prepare for Your Journey With Love and Grief”, and begin to learn and embody the skills for grieving; because skills for grieving are skills for living––and loving.

See how our trainings have evolved to give you more!

This webinar dives deep into the ways we were challenged during a global pandemic, and how we emerged stronger than ever.

Today, we are leading the way in the Equine Assisted Services (EAS) field as seasoned professionals and visionaries. While the ways in which we train other professionals have changed, our core principles remain the same.

Join us as we answer all of your questions surrounding the changes we've made—from our various online training programs and exciting in-person options to our sought-after certification process.

We’ll share the many paths we’ve paved as you move forward in your own professional and personal journey, and offer guidance and resources to support you along the way.

This 1 hour webinar will address the question of “where do I go from here?” for people who have completed their first training with us and are interested in continuing to grow and learn with Natural Lifemanship (NL).

If you do relationship based work such as counseling, teaching, coaching, or leading and want to learn how to positively impact your clients’ lives, work more effectively with horses (and/or humans!) and grow your business, this webinar will provide a road map for the way forward.

NL is a trauma informed, principle based model that blends the art of connected relationships with the science of attachment, trauma, and mammalian development.  NL emphasizes clear ethics and offers both personal and professional growth opportunities through virtual and in-person learning led by experienced and skilled practitioners of the model.

Options for no to low cost opportunities all the way to full fledged certification in the Natural Lifemanship model will be discussed.  We will discuss the the concrete "nuts and bolts" of the certification process!

Bring your curiosity and your questions and sign up for this informative, free webinar now!

Not all certifications are the same!

The field of Equine Assisted Psychotherapy and Learning is growing rapidly.  New trainings and certifications are springing up all over - and each is a little different.  When seeking your own training path there are some important considerations to be mindful of so that you get exactly what you need to do this work well - with integrity.  The founders of Natural Lifemanship have been offering EAP/L for over 3 decades, training and education for over 10 years, and in 2015 they launched a certification process...in all these years, Natural Lifemanship has learned A LOT about this field.  Doing quality EAP/L work is a complex and subtle process that is at its best when science, ethics, and experience all come together.  Join us for a 1 hour webinar where NL founders, Bettina Shultz-Jobe and Tim Jobe, will let you in on the most important things to consider when choosing a training and certification process.  There’s more to it than you think!

TIMES LISTED ARE CENTRAL DAYLIGHT - PLEASE NOTE YOUR LOCAL TIME:

Pacific Time: 11 am - 1 pm

Mountain Time: 12 noon - 2 pm

Central Time: 1 pm - 3 pm

Eastern Time: 2 pm - 4 pm

TIMES LISTED ARE CENTRAL DAYLIGHT - PLEASE NOTE YOUR LOCAL TIME:

Pacific Time: 11 am - 1 pm

Mountain Time: 12 noon - 2 pm

Central Time: 1 pm - 3 pm

Eastern Time: 2 pm - 4 pm

Helping people form connected, trusting relationships to overcome toxic stress and trauma has never been more critical than it is at this exact moment in history.

• Receptivity, why it matters and the practice of embodying it
• Is self-regulation possible or even desirable?
• Co-regulation, co-dysregulation, and the value of our own presence and deep resonance with others
• The gut brain, heart brain, head brain, and other neural streams
• And whatever else happens to come up!

Bettina Shultz-Jobe, NL Co-Founder, and Rebecca Hubbard, Co-Founder/Owner of Pecan Creek Ranch will discuss the many ethical dilemmas specific to the field of Equine Assisted Practice. 

If you've been in this field for any time at all, you know it gets all kinds of complicated really fast!  Bettina and Rebecca have been in this field for a combined 30 years, and have worked in a variety of situations - not-for profit, for profit, contract, employee, lease agreement, etc.  They’ve seen it all!  They understand the importance of strong ethical values and guidelines for all involved and the complications that arise as we seek to be sustainable in this field.  They bring passion, extensive experience and expertise to this conversation!  We hope you will join us!

They will discuss the following dilemmas, questions and much more:

1. Does the Equine Professional need to abide by the same ethics and HIPAA laws that the Mental Health Professional abides by?
2. My client’s parents don’t want to call our work “therapy.”
3. A potential client wants to do EAP to help her recover from an eating disorder, but this is out of my scope of practice.  However, there isn’t another EAP program close to my client.
4. A potential client wants to do equine assisted coaching, but I am a therapist.  OR they want to do therapy but I am a coach.
5. If I am the Equine Professional (EP) can I teach my client riding lessons?
6. Should my client be able to board their horse at my facility?
7. I usually see clients in an office setting.  Can I charge more for EAP sessions?
8. Is it okay to see a client who is seeing another therapist for “talk therapy?”
9. I have limited horses with which to work, but I’m noticing that one of my horses is showing signs of burnout.
10. Our business is a not-for-profit and one of our board members would like for one of our contract therapists to see their child in therapy.
11. Our business is a not-for-profit.  It is easier for us to raise funds when we have client pictures, stories, and testimonials.  Can I use these?

More than ever, this foundational NL principle is vital in our world and in our work:  Secure attachment is built when we can feel an internal sense of connection through physical closeness and through physical distance.

In this webinar Bettina Shultz-Jobe, NL Co-Founder, will expand on what was taught in her last webinar - Doing Attachment-Based Work Through Telehealth.  In this previous webinar she discussed primarily attachment-based attunement and responsiveness.  In this upcoming webinar she will focus primarily on what Natural Lifemanship calls connected detachment – connected but exploring physical distance.

Developmentally, how is connection with distance built?  What does this look like as small children grow and how can this understanding help as we support people throughout the lifespan.  Why and how are things like exploration, distance, challenge, risk, and differentiation so important in our understanding of attachment?  As we partner with people who have attachment wounding, how do we help them feel connected to self, others, their community, and their world even when they are physically alone.  Learning will be applicable to any type of therapy, coaching, or teaching (including telehealth).

The more I (Bettina Shultz-Jobe, NL Co-Founder and CEO) practice as a therapist, and the longer I am a mother, the more I believe that effective therapy (with clients of any age) is just the building of secure attachment.  The more I learn about trauma, and the more I learn the many different theories and models available for trauma recovery, the more I believe they’re all just different ways of conceptualizing how secure attachment is built. Helping people heal from attachment wounding is experiential to the core!  In this webinar, I will talk about (and model) what it really means to do attachment-based work, AND how a deep understanding and embodiment of this becomes EVEN MORE important when doing telehealth.  We are really going to break it down and get concrete about attachment-based attunement and responsiveness!  This webinar will lay the foundations for my next webinar which will focus more heavily on how to do trauma processing through telehealth.  This webinar is appropriate for any therapist or coach who has recently moved to telehealth.  The information learned will be valuable for telehealth, but will be equally valuable when we are able to move back to in-person sessions, with or without horses. In the year and a half that I have been doing telehealth I have found that this medium has helped me and forced me to hone my skills and more deeply embody what it takes to give my clients the reparative experience of a secure attachment.  I hope telehealth can do the same for you!  Join me!

The live call is free to all.  Recordings are available to all NL members.  All others can "name your price" for the recording (minimum price is $5).

• Transitioned children and families to telehealth
• Incorporated transitional objects to build connection and bring experiential modalities into sessions
• Create a personal space for well-being (bringing the outside in!)
• Create a shared sensory space between client and clinician
• Adjust the office space to allow for movement and sensory interventions
• Incorporated the horses
• Trained his staff to transition to telehealth
• Incorporated bottom-up regulation into telehealth sessions
• A bit about the technology involved

Join Natural Lifemanship co-founders, Tim Jobe and Bettina Shultz-Jobe, for a conversation about some of the belief systems and principles that have historically prevailed in the horse world.  Concepts like leadership, respect, connection, control, safety, and partnership will be explored.  Tim and Bettina will deconstruct these principles in a discussion about how two very different (and often opposing) cultures can come together to bring about health and healing for human and horse alike.  They will also discuss conditions in which bringing horses and humans together to do therapy is inappropriate and possibly harmful for both.  Learn how Natural Lifemanship helps equine assisted practitioners partner people with horses in ways that promote changes at the neurobiological level. With Natural Lifemanship, connection is always the goal of any activity. The process of cultivating connection is highly nuanced ensuring that the relationship is built in ways that promote health and well-being for both parties.