Natural Lifemanship® Webinars
Learn about Equine Assisted Services (EAS) in general, Natural Lifemanship in particular, and other important topics that pertain to the work you do.
Our webinars are created to give you the most relevant information about EAS, the relational sciences, trauma-informed care, and our organization directly from experts and pioneers in the field.
Upcoming Webinar Series:
Being a Student of the Horse:
Honoring the Client’s Experience and the Horse’s Reality
A webinar with Bettina Shultz-Jobe
What a horse is feeling matters. To the work. To our clients. And, of course, to the horse.
In equine-assisted work, there’s a familiar idea: that what a horse actually does—a swish of the tail, a shift in posture—doesn’t really matter. What matters, the thinking goes, is the meaning the client places on those behaviors.
Certainly, a client’s interpretation can reveal something important about their inner world. But if we stop asking what is actually happening with the horse, we risk turning a living, feeling partner into a canvas for human projection. The horse becomes an object for the stories we tell instead of a relationship to be understood.
What if we didn’t have to choose?
In this webinar, Bettina Shultz-Jobe invites participants to consider that honoring a client’s experience and seeking to understand the horse’s experience are not competing priorities—they are two expressions of the same practice of relational attunement. She invites participants to become students of the horse, approaching equine behavior with the same curiosity, humility, and disciplined attunement that skilled clinicians bring to understanding people.
Along the way, she’ll explore the concept of anthropomorphic double talk: the contradiction of dismissing thoughtful attempts to understand a horse’s experience as anthropomorphism while readily accepting projections that assign human meaning to the horse.
Through compelling stories, practical examples, and clinical insight, you’ll discover how honoring both the client’s experience and the horse’s communication leads to deeper attunement, more authentic relationships, and more meaningful therapeutic work.
This is where the deepest work lives—not in deciding what the horse means to us, but in learning to listen to what the horse in front of us is actually saying.
Being a Student of the Horse
Tuesday, August 11, 2026
6:00 pm CT
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Ten Things You Need to Know When Choosing an EAS Certification
Not all certifications are the same!
The field of Equine Assisted Therapy, 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 EAS 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 EAS 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!
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