Below are a list of Equus Coaches who have completed a year long training course with Koelle Simpson to learn valuable tools in facilitating Equus Coaching. In addition to the core focus of developing equus coaching skills, this training course covers an indepth overview of equine psychology, equine health, equine husbandry, equine reproduction, equine safety & handling.
This course is design to help professional life coaches, facilitators, and/or psychologist to partner with a horse to accelerate the journey to helping their clients' reconnect with their inner truth.
Please note that each Equus Coach has his or her own business and is in no way a representative of Koelle Simpson, LLC. They have learned the work taught by Koelle and integrated this understanding with their own personal tools, business model, and personal style of communication.
If you are seeking to explore this experience for yourself Koelle highly recommends connecting with an equus coach in your area.
Equus Coaches Who Have Completed the Course Training:
Equus Coach: Diane Hunter
Located in Los Gatos, CA
Email: diane@afterautism.com
Website: www.afterautism.com/equus-coaching/
Diane Hunter helps clients reconnect with their inner guidance system and shows them the way to establish trust and leadership in their relationships. She discovered her passion for equus coaching through her personal journey raising a child with autism. She now shares her knowledge and stories with clients who want to learn how to listen beyond words and open up to the power of non-verbal communication.
Her background includes a degree in computer science (BSc), and certification as an Equus Coach through Koelle Simpson. and Life Coach through Martha Beck Inc.. She is an endorsed Mind-Body Coach through The Healthy Life Coach and her personal interest in neuroscience and the mind-body connection began when she healed her own back pain. To learn more, please visit her website www.afterautism.com.
Equus Coach: Kelly Eide
Loacted in Dubai, UAE
Email: kelly@trueyoume.com
Website: www.TrueYouMe.com
Kelly Eide is a business coach and consultant with over 18 years experience in strategy execution and organizational development. She holds an MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management, a Black Belt in Six Sigma, PMP Certification (PMI) and she is an international award assessor for EFQM. Kelly is also a Certified Life Coach (Martha Beck) and an EQUUS Coach, using horses to help individuals and organizations develop leadership competencies.
Equus Coach: Honor Medina
Locating in: Carlsbad, NM
Email: honorjmedina@yahoo.com
Website: www.honormedina.com
Honor offers 20 years experience helping individuals, families, and organizational groups experience balance by finding out what is true. Much stress occurs when we invest time and effort into what is not true or helpful for us. Where is the balance between managing should vs. wants vs. have tos? Honor has extensive experience coaching people toward finding balance and honoring the truth.
Since 1997 Honor has practiced as a Marriage and Family Therapist. She has trained her two standard poodles to be Certified Therapy Dogs. Honor has been EAGALA level one certified (Equine Assisted Therapy) since 2006 and is also a Certified Equus Coach by Koelle Simpson.
Equus Coach: Renee Sievert, RN, MFT
Located in San Diego, CA
Email: SievertServices@aol.com
Website: www.SievertServices.com
Renee Sievert offers individual coaching, team building and strategic planning for managers and executive teams. Certified as a Master Coach by Martha Beck and Equus Coach by Koelle Simpson, Renee combines empathy, intuition and powerful Equus exercises with coaching and leadership development.
Renee is an author, speaker, and consultant with over 25 years of experience. She is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT) and is trained in Gestalt Therapy, Domestic Violence Treatment, Critical Incident Stress Management and Addiction Treatment. She is also a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) and the International Coaching Federation. She was honored in 2009 at the Tribute to Women in Industry (TWIN) awards in San Diego, CA.
Equus Coach:
Karen GargelLocated in Thomasville, GA
An educator and lifelong seeker, Karen Gargel has trained as an Equus Coach with life coach and horse whisperer Koelle Simpson and as a life coach with internationally acclaimed life coach and best selling self help author Dr. Martha Beck.
Using horses in her coaching sessions, Karen helps you to reconnect with your one true self, to regain trust in yourself, and to rebuild confidence in your relationships with others. Join Karen in 1 to 1 private equus coaching sessions and begin to live your own best life ever.
Equus Coach: Joy Silha
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Email: joysilha@gmail.com
Website: www.awakenyourinnercowgirl.com/
Joy Silha, “Inner Cowgirl” Coach, is a certified Martha Beck Life Coach, certified Equus coach, and a passionate animal-nature person!
My purpose? To Awaken Your Inner Cowgirl!
A cowgirl is a woman who gets in touch with her true nature: her freedom, passion and talent. She is bold and adventurous, but also compassionate and connected to nature. I have created “Awaken Your Inner Cowgirl,” a coaching practice focused on encouraging women to find their authentic voice. I’ve owned horses for over 20 years, and have learned powerful lessons from them. I use horses as a mirror in my “coaching with horses” specialty, offering a life-changing spiritual experience of self-discovery.
I am a coaching columnist for the Albuquerque Journal and a writer for national publications. In a previous life, I was a marketing consultant to Ad Agencies and Fortune 500 companies.
Equus Coach Kate Apanui
Location: France, South West.
Email: kateapanui@gmail.com
Website: www.truenature.me
Kate loves to help people discover how they can re-connect and trust their natural instincts. Kate helps others use that connection to lead themselves, transform their self confidence, and create healthy relationships.
Kate uses horses in her coaching practice because she believes that horses are unique teachers, who naturally lead people back to a truth they were born knowing - that they’re empowered, beautiful, calm, kind, fierce and wild. That they’re enough in any situation, and they can always ask for help. Horses help you remember the truth, beauty and strength of who you are.
Kate is a New Zealander currently living in France with her husband, daughter and bulldog. Among other things she’s a Certified Martha Beck Life Coach, Certified Equus Coach, Reiki practitioner, and a Registered New Zealand Nurse
WHAT IS THE EQUUS COACHING COURSE?
EQUUS COACHING COURSE for Life Coaches, Counselor, Therapists or Professional Mentors
Next course Starting FEBRUARY 2013
The Equus Coaching Course for 2012 is currently SOLD OUT.
This is a year long course designed for coaches, therapist and the like who are currently working with clients that yearn to gain skills as an Equus Coach. Combining the powerful tools of coaching with the amazing insights and wisdom from Mother Nature is quite a power packed punch. The experience can dramatically help accelerate clients through their stickiest of road blocks. If you have a passion for helping individuals to lead their best lives and a passion for learning life lessons from animals then this course may be for you.
You will learn all the necessary tools to become a very effective Equus Coach and have the skill set to begin offering 1 to 1 private equus coaching sessions to your clientele. This course is not designed to prepare students to conduct group workshops.
Minimum Requirements
* No previous horse experience is necessary.
* You need to have attended at least 1 in person hands-on group workshop or private equus coaching session with Koelle Simpson or another equus coach listed above.
* Show experience (an operating business), certification, or licensing in the field of teaching, life-coaching, self-help, and/ or other psychological therapies
** Given that many of the coaching tools stem from Martha Beck's Life Coaching program, it is strongly preferred that you have received your certification in the Martha Beck LCT Program (see Martha Beck) as a prerequisite for this course. If you have other experiences and/or skills that you feel would give you a good foundation for this course (i.e. attended Byron Katie's school, attended another life coaching program, experience in the field of counseling, or family therapy) please feel free to apply and I will be happy to take this into consideration when reviewing your application.**
During this course these are a few of the subjects you can expect to learn:
•A Foundation of equine psychology
•Basic equine husbandry and safe handling
•Advice and insights for setting up a partnership with an equine facility
•How to decipher and work along side your equine coach
•How to blend your life coaching tools with equus coaching
•Activities and exercises to help your clients transform their energetic communication
The course will begin with a 4 day hands-on practicum - Horsemanship 101, designed to help you get a leg up in understanding the equine world. This will be followed by several tele-classes geared to prepare you for setting up your equus coaching practice and prime your skills for working along side these amazing teachers. Following this you will attend another 4 day Equus Coaching practicum where you will begin to coach and be coached along side your equine partner. To receive your certificate of completion, you will be asked to submit various video recordings of your work for final assessment or attend a 3rd on-site gathering for in person exams.
Please view the course outline below:
On-Site Practicum Workshops in Scottsdale, AZ
* on-site locations could be subject to change*
FEB. 2013 - 4 Day Horsemanship 101
MAY 2013 - 4 Day Equus Coaching Practicum
MARCH 2014 - 2 Day On-site exams (Optional)
(Lunch & drinks supplied)
Tele-Classes - recorded (exact date & time will be given upon acceptance to the course)
Tele-Class 1 - Equine Psychology, Husbandry, Breeding & Reproduction Review
Tele-Class 2 - Setting-up Your Business to Include Equus Coaching
Tele-Class 3 - Review & discussion on Reading Assignments
Tele-Class 4 - Open Q & A with other Successful Equus Coaches
Tele-Class 5 - Open Q & A with other Successful Equus Coaches
Tele-Class 6 - Video Assessment Coaching & Review
Tele-Class 7 - Video Assessment Coaching & Review
Tele-Class 6 - Video Assessment Coaching & Review
Tele-Class 8 - Video Assessment Coaching & Review
Tele-Class 9 - Video Assessment Coaching & Review
Tele-Class 10 - Video Assessment Coaching & Review
Tele-Class 11 - Video Assessment Coaching & Review
Tele-Class 12 - Video Assessment Coaching & Review
Materials Supplied
(all materials will be supplied at 4 day Horsemanship 101 class)
•Equine Equipment (1 Dually Halter & 1 Pair of Long Lines)
•2 Books for Course Required Reading
•Client & Coach Assessment Worksheets
•Workbooks during on-site workshops
What is needed to receive a certificate of completion?
** You will have 1 year to complete requirements from the start date of the course (Feb. 2013 to Feb. 2014) **
• 30 hours of documented volunteer work with horses
• 1 Recorded Video Session of various horse work requirements OR attend on-site exam
• 2 recorded video sessions of Equus Coaching w/ a volunteer clients OR attend on-site exam
Application Process
1.) Email Info@KoelleInc.com to be added to the list of interested applicants for 2013
2.) You will receive an email on AUG. 1st 2012 suppling you with an application.
**All applications must be in by AUG. 31st 2012 to be considered.**
3.) You may be contacted to schedule a phone interviewing session during SEPT. 2012
4.) You will receive a letter of acceptance or decline by OCT. 1st 2012
5.) If accepted into the course a deposit of $300 will be required to hold your place on the course
COST OF 1 YEAR COURSE $6,300
$300 deposit due upon acceptance letter to hold your place on the course
$3,000 payment due Jan. 2013
$3,000 payment due May 2013
•Includes all materials & equipment
EXAMS
$500 - optional for in person exams
If there are a minimum of 7 students who would prefer to finish their final requirements in person than an on-site exam date will be set and there will be an additional $500 to cover the facility costs.
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