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Apr 27 @ 9:30 am – 4:30 pm

Trauma lingers in our hearts and ripples out to every corner of our lives. Trust, safety, self-confidence and well-being crumbles. Isolation, sadness and depression enter in.

Whether you are a first responder, survivor or a care provider, our herd of gentle horses will guide you to a renewed sense of self, well-being and a heart ready to heal.

Your Experience will Include:

Horses: Experience the relief and release of your emotional self as you share a heart connection with an equine partner. Activities explore themes of meaningful connection, re-establishing relationship, boundaries, body language, trust and emotional presence.

Wellness: Learn how trauma impacts your mind, body and spirit. Unburden yourself of the stress of trauma as you rediscover the value of self-care, boundaries and trust in the safe, calming presence of the herd.

Mindfulness: Embrace the herd’s invitation to heal, surrounded by peaceful woodlands, gardens and pastoral beauty.

Healing Heart: Listen to the inner voice of your heart and become attuned with your life again. Regain your sense of direction. Develop a renewed sense of who you are and ground yourself in the rich rural serenity of the farm, while letting the healing embrace of nature touch your heart.

Details:

Fee: $200 plus HST per participant including all materials and horse experiences — a $50 deposit reserves your spot
Bring your own lunch and water bottle
Payment terms: Cash, cheque or e-transfer
Group size limited to 8 participants
No previous horse experience required and there is no riding involved
Deadline for registration: Monday, April 15, 2019
Contact Jennifer Garland at 705-295-6618 or jgarland@nexicom.net to register
There will be a cancellation fee of $50 for those who cancel after April 15, 2019

About Your Facilitators:

Jennifer Garland is the Owner/Program Director of The Mane Intent Inc., offering Wellness Programs and Workshops, Individual and Team Effectiveness Coaching, and Leadership Development. Jennifer is certified in Facilitated Equine Experiential Learning. She is also an award-winning business professional with a career reflecting significant leadership experience in communications, cause-related marketing and change management.

Michael Hartmann, MSW (equiv.), RSW, is a Mental Health Clinician with Peterborough Family Health Team and operates his own private practice in Peterborough with a focus on trauma, addiction, and family therapy. His is the former Team Lead for Bellwood Health Services’ PTSD/Trauma & Addiction Program for members of the Canadian Forces and Veterans Affairs Canada, RCMP and First Responders.

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May

Sat

Expanding Body, Mind & Spirit with Horses @ Renegade Ridge Farm

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May 25 @ 10:00 am – May 26 @ 4:00 pm

Join us for 2 days of Embodied Equine Experiencing:

Learn and lean in with choreographer and movement artist Paula Josa-Jones, author of Our Horses, Our Selves — Discovering the Common Body.

“The mind is like the wind, and the body is like the sand; if you want to know how the wind is blowing, you have to look at the sand.” — Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen

Horses mirror our physical and emotional expression and show us when we are “out of sync” — when our inside feelings and outside behaviours are not in harmony.

Horses are prey animals and they are always congruent: their outward behaviour matches their inner feeling. Humans (and other predators) on the other hand, are often wily and subversive.

The non-judgemental presence of a horse can help us calm and ground ourselves physically and emotionally, and understand more clearly what we are communicating with our bodies and minds.

Being seen and felt by a horse helps us to see ourselves more clearly, and develop a more conscious and compassionate inner awareness.

This two-day workshop combines working with horses and somatic movement and touch practices that expand our awareness of what our bodies are feeling and expressing.

Grounding experience in the body gives us a clear and vibrant sense of our sensual connection to the earth, each other and ourselves. By cultivating an improvisational spirit of exploration and play, we gain access to greater expression and openness.

Moving mindfully restores qualities of connectivity and confidence by dissolving the separation between inner and outer experiencing. Both days will combine movement and touch exploration working in partnership with horses.

There will be no riding and no previous horse experience is required.

EMBODIED EQUINE EXPERIENCING helps to:

Learn how to track your body’s responses and how to settle when your nervous system is activated
Build feelings of confidence, mindfulness and a spirit of improvisation
Connect with the horse using touch and movement practices that are intuitive and playful
Build trust in your ability to create emotional attunement with the horse
Learn how softness and listening create physical and emotional balance
Build resilience with the help of a horse
Discover a more authentic, conscious and compassionate relationship with your body
Find an inner sense of ease and flow for both you and the horse.

Your experience will include:

Horses: Participate in ground-based activities that explore themes that include connection, touch, play, presence and mind-body awareness.

Heritage: Explore the breathtaking scenic beauty of this century farm with pasture, fields, woodland walks, historic buildings, a stone labyrinth and the tranquil sights and sounds of nature.

Heart: Re-connect with your heart and other like-minded souls — both human and horse

About Paul Josa-Jones, CMA, RSMET, SEP:

Paula is a choreographer and movement artist, and brings improvisational perspective to all of her work with horses and humans. She believes that this approach helps deepen connection with others and ourselves by opening access to our innate, intuitive, and creative selves.

Paula is a Certified Laban Movement Analyst (CMA) and a registered Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist (RSME/T) accredited by ISMETA, the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association. She is a Guild certified Tellington TTEAM practitioner and a Somatic Experiencing© practitioner, trained in the trauma recovery work of Dr. Peter Levine. She has studied with Body-Mind Centering with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and others for the past 30 years. Her writings on movement and dance have been published in Contact Quarterly, and she writes a blog called Ride Dance Write. Paula’s book, Our Horses, Ourselves: Discovering the Common Body was published by Trafalgar Square Books in 2017.

Your Investment: $400 per person plus HST for this two-day weekend workshop – a $50 non-refundable deposit will reserve your space. Gathering is exclusively offered to 8 participants. Your investment includes all horse activities, program materials and snacks. Participants to bring their own lunch and a water bottle.

To Register: Contact Jennifer Garland at 705-295-6618 or email jgarland@themaneintent.ca

All participants must pre-register prior to date of workshop.

Terms of payment: Cash, Cheque or E-transfer to jgarland@themaneintent.ca or credit card

Cancellation Policy: due to limited spaces available for this unique experience, the $50 deposit is non-refundable. Also, a cancellation made 21 days before or less from the dates of this workshop are non-refundable. If you pay in full, for any cancellation made more than 21 days before the workshop, 50% of the investment will be refunded. If you need to cancel for any reason, every effort will be made to apply any non-refunded amount to a future experience offered by The Mane Intent.

All participants will be required to sign consent and waiver forms prior to working directly with our horses.

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Jun

Sat

Dream Catchers and Heart Desires — Creative Expression @ The Mane Intent Inc.

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Jun 1 @ 9:30 am – 5:00 pm

In this unique one-day workshop – we will explore our dreams and heart desires. You will create your own traditional dream catcher and be guided by a gentle herd of horses as your step into a transformational journey of self-discovery, healing, personal growth and renewal.

Spend a day connecting with your heart, personal truths and life desires. The day will include a mixture of creative expression, self-reflective journaling and walking the medicine wheel with our horse guides. Horses are gifted and sensitive. As you journey together, exploring your heart’s desire, your horse partner will hold safe and welcoming space for you, while reflecting back to you the unspoken messages of your body presence.

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Jul

Fri

Embodied Expressions: A workshop for EAL Practitioners @ The Mane Intent

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Jul 5 @ 9:30 am – 5:00 pm

Embodied Expressions

A Workshop for Equine Assisted Learning Practitioners

In the presence of horses, listening to our impulses and allowing our body to respond in movement, with sounds, with poetry or with images, deepen a sacred space of possibility in embodied awareness and presence.

Exploring our creative expressions in collaboration with horses invites us to listen deeply to our emotions, thoughts, spirit and body knowing.

This palate of experiential learning activities will explore:

Our opportunities to ‘be’ with movement, sound, colour, images and horses
Collaboration through connection with horses and expressive arts, with a trauma-informed approach
Engagement in activities to strengthen our own awareness of different learning expressions, as Equine Facilitated and Equine Assisted Learning practitioners
Playfulness with our ‘inner teacher’
Sharing ideas how your horse partners have ‘inspired the creative spirit in your practice

Date: Friday, July 5, 2019

Time: 9:30 – 5:00 p.m.

Fee: $200 plus HST per person

Terms of Payment: Preferably cash, cheque or e-transfer — credit cards are accepted

Tags: #equineassistedlearning #horses #selfdevelopment #selfdiscovery

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Trauma lingers in our hearts and ripples out to every corner of our lives. Trust, safety, self-confidence and well-being crumbles. Isolation, sadness and depression enter in.

Whether you are a first responder, survivor or a care provider, our herd of gentle horses will guide you to a renewed sense of self, well-being and a heart ready to heal.

Your Experience will Include:

About Your Facilitators:

Join us for 2 days of Embodied Equine Experiencing:

Learn and lean in with choreographer and movement artist Paula Josa-Jones, author of Our Horses, Our Selves — Discovering the Common Body.

“The mind is like the wind, and the body is like the sand; if you want to know how the wind is blowing, you have to look at the sand.” — Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen

EMBODIED EQUINE EXPERIENCING helps to:

Your experience will include:

About Paul Josa-Jones, CMA, RSMET, SEP:

To Register: Contact Jennifer Garland at 705-295-6618 or email jgarland@themaneintent.ca

Embodied Expressions

A Workshop for Equine Assisted Learning Practitioners