What You Will Learn as an Apprentice: Equine Components
In the Epona Apprenticeship Program, students learn about:
- Creating an effective herd capable of mirroring a variety of human issues
- Assisting horses develop the necessary skills to support clients
- The Epona approach to teaching riding lessons
- Facilitating a variety of round pen activities
- Using creative visualization and the body scan to help clients connect with themselves and their horses
- Reading the horse’s feedback and interpreting equine messages for the client
- Helping professional riders work through any emotional issues that impede their performance
- Evaluating various riding, training, and therapeutic styles
- Developing a personal style of facilitating that draws on the facilitator’s strengths and interests
- Adapting various ground training and riding activities to teach human development skills, including assertiveness, anger management, emotional fitness and agility, leadership, conflict resolution, creativity and expanded multi-sensory awareness
- Running a humane, creative, equine-facilitated educational center in which horses, clients and staff members are encouraged to share authentic feelings, ask for help, and develop their own strengths and talents in a nurturing, empowering, congruent environment
Find out more about the program:
- Overview
- Prerequisites
- The Selection Process
- Personal Commitment
- Equine Components
- Mental Health Components
For more information contact Carol Roush at carol@medicinehorseranch.comor 520-455-5058.