Ariana Strozzi, pioneer in the field of incorporating horses into human development, explains the steps you need to take to plan your education and business in the horse as healer/teacher professions.

Equine-Assisted Counseling and Psychotherapy offers a comprehensive guide to the practice of working with equines in a psychotherapeutic setting. Chapters provide a research-informed approach to integrating the contributions of horses and other equines into mental health services. With a focus on equine welfare, the book uses a relational approach to explore a broad range of topics, including documentation and treatment planning, work with clients across the lifespan and with diverse needs, complexities related to horses in the therapeutic relationship, as well as ethical, legal, and best-practice considerations. Mental health and equine professionals will come away from the book with a strong understanding of both the theoretical and practical aspects of equine-assisted counseling.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-317) and index.

This book is a comprehensive resource on equine interactive practices, nature based learning and somatic coaching. Equine Guided Education (EGE) is profound, magical, and dramatically effective. EGE incorporates horse activities into coaching and therapy models that are set in natural outdoor settings. Interacting with horses provides experiences that train new skills in intuition, sensory awareness, and somatic sensibility. These non-linear forms of intelligence (EQ) are needed in these times of change and uncertainty and apply to people from all walks of life. Ariana, a pioneer in the field of Equine Experiential Learning, founded Equine Guided Education in the 1980's and co-founded Strozzi Institute (now known as Strozzi Somatics). She has been training professionals in EGE longer than anyone else. This instructive and thorough book is full of the essential tools needed to be successful in the equine, experiential, nature based healing professions. It is required reading in Ariana's SkyHorseCEGE(tm) programs and many other self-development and coaching processes. The principles in this book are universal to Equine Assisted Learning, and Equine Facilitated Therapy. If you call the equine-human relationship by another name, simply transpose the term EGE. This book is also a valuable resource for coaches, educators, and healers who want to bring a more natural, intuitive approach to their practice.EGE is the essential component that has been missing since we took our education indoors whether it be pre-school or leadership development.Various chapters include detailed explanations of the role of the horse, the role of the facilitator, the process of creating a positive learning environment, dealing with fear, self development principles, the actual process of facilitating EGE, the importance of nature and providing a somatic, biological perspective.

Horse Sense for the Leader Within is an excellent resource and must-read for people interested in Equine Guided Education Equine Assisted Learning, Equine Experiences, nature-based learning and self-development. With innovative vision and grounded experience, Ariana Strozzi brings together the universal principles of horsemanship and leadership, creating a powerful new platform for human development, growth and learning. An internationally recognized pioneer in the field of Equine Guided Education, Ariana eloquently reveals how horses become our healers and teachers, inviting us to awaken our intuitive and somatic senses and reconnect to what has heart and meaning. She reveals how respectful leadership is based on partnership rather than command and control. Leadership begins with the self we are and how we walk into our lives with presence and clarity. Leadership was not invented by human beings, rather its roots are in the animal kingdom as a way for social animals to communicate and coordinate. Ariana reveals the biological underpinnings of both horse and human by defining nine principles of Intuitive Leadership. Through these principles, she shares how our intuitive and sensate awareness can help us find clarity out of chaos and how to navigate the challenges and opportunities of our lives. By becoming aware of our animal nature and our innate drive for survival, we develop the capacity to respond with choice rather than merely react to the pressures of life. Ariana explores how the essential elements of intuitive and sensate intelligence, nonverbal communication, and re-connecting to our anima-self can revive the spirit and create clear focus and passion for a life well lived. She discusses the importance of the spiritual aspect of the mind/body/spirit in the healing arts and how it is ultimately the most significant part of a person's life force, the most important part that must be found when someone is in transition. The numerous stories throughout the book show how horses teach us to find self-acceptance in a world of judgment. As we learn to think more like a horse, we develop our intuitive imagination and create new possibilities for our lives. Rather than focusing on what is wrong with us, we shift our attention toward what is right about us. On this path of becoming, we focus on staying connected to what we care about most. Ariana eloquently invites us to explore new ways of thinking about our path toward leading our life on purpose. The Expanded Edition of Horse Sense for the Leader Within includes over fifty pages of new writings, stories, and expanded topics including Somatics and Spirit.

The burgeoning popularity of alternative medicine has created a growing need for professionally trained practitioners. This indispensable guide for prospective students is packed with resources, schools, and other educational opportunities in areas from Chinese medicine and massage therapy to chiropractic and applied kinesiology.

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