January 26-29, 2011
Valley Ford/Tomales, California (1.5 Hours from Oakland and SFO Airports)
January 26, Social Hour, 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Jan 27-29 Conference, 9 am – 5 pm
Jan 29 Special Performance and Dinner, 5:30 - 9:30 pm

Featuring Linda Tellington Jones

 

January 27, 2011

Opening Reflections By Ariana Strozzi
Ariana Strozzi, pioneer in the field of EGE and co-founder of EGEA, author of Horse Sense for the Leader Within and Planning Your Business in the ‘Horse as Healer/Teacher’ Profession will offer her recent insights and reflections on the growing field of EGE.

 

10:00-11:15

Keynote Inspiriation by Linda Tellington Jones

 

11:15-12:15

parasychology with beverly kane, md

  Parapsychology includes the study of telepathy, clarivoyance, precognition, and pscyho kinesis. The study of parpsychology can help us expand our understanding of the phenomology of EGE. this presentation review breatkthrough research in telepathy and a biref remote viewing experiment with the EGA atendees. Ariana Strozzi, pioneer in the field of EGE and co-founder of EGEA, author of Horse Sense for the Leader Within and Planning Your Business in the ‘Horse as Healer/Teacher’ Profession will offer her recent insights and reflections on the growing field of EGE.  Dr Kane is the program director of Medicine and Horsemanship at Stanford School of Medicine and has conducted gold standard scientific research in exercise physiology at the Stanford Center for Research in Disease Prevention. She is also the secretary of the San Francisco Parapscyhology Research Group.

 

 

Afternoon Demonstrations

 

2:00-3:15

Linda Tellington Jones will introduce her TTouch between pairs of people, heart coherence to deepen trust with teh horse and connecting to the Breath of Mother Earth with Dolphin Breathing. In addition, Linda will guide participants through a labyrinth for physical, mental and emotional balance of horse and handler. The latter part of the demonstration will include TTouches for our equine partners for developing a respectful approach for establishing trust and understanding how our expectation and visualization affects behavior.

 

3:15-3:30
Somatics Awareness

 

3:45-5:00

Linda and her TTouch continued...

 

January 28, 2011

9:00-10:00
Harness the Power of Your EQ, Amanda Madorno

Emotional Intelligence is about being ‘heart smart,’ not just ‘book smart.’ Many experts believe that emotional intelligence matters just as much as intellectual ability, if not more so, when it comes to happiness and success in life. This session provides you with an overview of the competencies that constitute emotional intelligence, the case for its importance to your business success and techniques to boost your EQ. You will: · Learn what emotional intelligence is and why it matters. · Participate in exercises that will enhance your understanding and development. · Increase your awareness of your EQ strengths and skills. Amanda Madorno, Owner and Principal for Roam Consulting, LLC coaches and consults throughout the country, developing leaders and building organizational capacity at for-profit and non-profit organizations. With more than 20 years experience, Amanda serves as an executive coach, leadership consultant and planning facilitator and serves as faculty for Professional and Continuing Education at the University of Washington. A lifelong horsewoman, Amanda is an Approved Instructor in Equine Experiential Learning.

 

10:15-11:15
Industry Updates
Panel & Group Discussion-

 

11:15-12:15
Mardi Horowitz, MD

Dr. Horowitz is a Professor of Psychiatry at UCSF, pioneering the development of the diagnosis and treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). In addition, he has initiated and directed several clinical research programs including the Psychotherapy Evaluation and Study Center, Center for the Study of Neuroses, and the Program on Conscious and Unconscious Mental Processes and the Center on Stress and Personality.

 

 

Afternoon Demonstrations

 

2:00-4:00

The Heart Lens of Horse and Human Physiology, Barbara Rector

Barbara Rector will present how the Heart Lens of hte horse and human can influence our learning from teh horse and it from us. Barbara has nearly four decades sharing horses with people. she has traveled the world training the trainers in her Adventures in Awareness™ process and has held key leadership roles at Therapeutic riding of Tucson, Inc (TROT) which she co-founded in 1974 and at Sierra Tucson Hospitals were she introduced therapeuitc work with horses and the practice of Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy. she is also a co-founder of EFMHA.

 

 

4:00-5:00

Embodying Patnership, Julie Dempster, CEGE and Mary Burg, CEGE

Paterning in equine work is a necessity for safety of horse, coach/facilitator and client. Julie and Mary believe that as direction-setters for hte Equine Guided Education (EGE) process facilitators and the quality of their partnering strongly influence the quality and even the outcome of the EGE experience. Successful partnering can create an empowering, exhilarating, and profoundly rewarding experience for all concerned. Mary and Julie will demonstrate what they have learned, discovered and distinguished over the past year in their practice of embodying partnership with one another, their clients, and their equine guides. Julie and Mary's demonstration will draw from the wide array of ontological and somatic tools and practices (clearing and harmonizing energies, processing breakdowns, empowering leadership, and opening practices that they have integrated into their lives and EGE offerings that enable them to experience the bliss of surrendering and dancing in the moment with their clients and equine partners.

 

January 29, 2011

 

9:00-10:00
The Art of Writing Great Rsearch Proposals. Jim Smith, DVM

Dr. Jim Smith of the Hagyard Equine Medical Institute in Kentucky will take us through a step by step process for how to successfully design research proposals. Perhaps we can contribute to the field by offering research statistics while we work? Dr Smith is also on the Board of Directors of the Horses and Human Foundation which offers grants each year to programs that present thorough research proposals.

 

10:15-11:15

Dr. Anne Perkins, Carroll College MT

Back by popular demand

 

11:15-12:15
Holistic Marketing for Your Horse Therapy & Learning Practice
Shannon Knapp, Author of Horse Sense, Business Sense

Know you need to market your business or organization, but uncomfortable with the practices of traditional marketing? Want to create success for your business while remaining in integrity with your beliefs and values? Let the horse show you the way in this presentation of key ways to create both money and meaning for you and your business

Learn effective but holistic strategies for your website, your print materials, your networking efforts, and your business as a whole! Shannon is founder and president of Horse Sense of the Carolinas, Inc. and Horse Sense Business Sense, LLC. She is certified EAGALA Advanced and is the author of the book, Horse Sense Business Sense, Volume 1, an introduction to starting and running your own Horse Therapy & Learning practice.

 

Afternoon Demonstrations

 

2:00-3:45

An Experiential Education Approach for EGE, Judy Askins CEGE

An Experiential Education Approach for EGE, Judy Askins, CEGE and her staff members at Equus Elemental will demo how they bring an experiential education model to EGE work with interactive exercises focused on active personal experience, reflection and application to expand knowledge, develop skills and clarify values. Participants will see how horses mirror back what they are putting out in the world moment by moment. Experiential education models are commonly used to help structure experience-based training and education programs. When combined with the innate wisdom and guidance of the horses, powerful and long-term benefits are achieved. Judy Askins – CEGE & EE Co-Founder, was published in “Chicken Soup For The Horse Lover’s Soul,” and began training horses in 2000. Judy is an award winning director, writer, producer and actor who enjoyed an illustrious career in television for28 years. She taught innumerable classes, workshops, and has coached for 20 yearsand is most passionate about empowering people with the horse as their guide.

4:00-5:00

Horse as Healer Teacher, Ariana Strozzi and Rick Coberly

EGE is an intuitive, creative process that allows the possibility that not just horses, but other animals, the earth and the sky become part of the process. Ariana and Rick will offer a demonstration focusing on some of the unique aspects of EGE including somatic awareness exercises, coach-style facilitation/interaction, and connecting to the environment as a means to heal what has been broken and re-connec to the spiritual calling in each of us to move forward in our lives with dignity and grace.

 

 

5:00 Closing Ceremony
5:00-9:00 Special Performance and Dinner

 

Post Conference Programs

Feb. 1-5, 2011 — EGE-1: Horse Sense for the Leader Within
Feb. 7-18, 2011 — EGE-2: Facilitation skills & Refinement
Feb. 1-18, 2011 — EGE Certification: Horse Sense in Depth (EGE-1 and EGE-2)

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