Training as an equine assisted coach
foundation & depth
The value-free and healing space of horses
This training offers a deepening of your self-awareness and teaches the basics as well as a solid understanding of equine-assisted personal development. Our training is aimed at therapists, coaches, doctors, alternative practitioners and other healing and social professions who want to involve horses in their work with people.
But it is also aimed at anyone who wants to explore their relationship patterns and create a life that is rich in love, joy and creativity.
Our stance
Manuela & Carsten have learned that sound, conscientious and sustainable training takes time. We therefore offer ours with a duration of just under a week, with the possibility of completing an optional 4-day “Train the Trainer” program and an optional four-day trauma therapy training course the following year.
These 6 + 4 + 4 days are designed to ensure that an extensive repertoire of exercises, sufficient self-awareness, the necessary amount of theory and the appropriate mindfulness are taught to be able to offer this deep and healing work to groups and individual clients. Our training is characterized by emotional depth and the appreciation of the individual potential of all people.
We are convinced that what you want to pass on must first be experienced yourself, which is why the majority of our training is based on self-awareness. We teach the theory with joy and ease, and the training is rounded off with meditation, group discussions and free time to integrate what you have learned and experienced. Our training is less about teaching concepts and more about embodying an attitude!
The safety of the participants and horses as well as the practical teaching of this work is our priority, which is why we require basic experience in working with horses. At the end of the 6 days, participants have the opportunity to teach the exercises they have learned on their own. The training concludes with a certificate.
After this basic training of 6 days you will be able to integrate horses into your work with clients.
Graduate meetings and group supervision sessions support a mutual exchange of experiences and the further development of equine-assisted work. Beyond the training week, we offer personal coaching and supervision in person or via Zoom.
You will find the registration form for the training further down on this page.
"The decisive factor for the horse-assisted transformative process of people is the energetic rootedness of horses in themselves, their ability to be present in the moment, their non-judgmental offer to show themselves authentically in all their facets, their predominantly regulated state and their tendency to return again and again to this balanced point of rest."
Learning to love life
Contents of the training
- Attitude of the coach
- Safe and effective use of horses
- Group dynamics, leading groups
- How to create a trusting and safe space for opening up
- Selection criteria for horses
- Dealing with the language of horses
- Self-awareness in exercises, mindfulness and meditation
- Projection, transference, self-reflection
- Accompanying people without pressure or judgment
- Dealing with challenging situations and clients
- Coaching basics and advanced theory
- Training of intuition, intuition awareness, emotional competence and self-confidence
- The art of feedback
- Teaching a broad repertoire of exercises with possible applications, target definition and variations
- Use of effective interventions
- Practical experience in leading exercises
- Comprehensive script including description of the practical exercises
- Excursus: Organization, marketing, insurance & Co.
- Targeted application in therapy, individual and group settings
- Exchange of experience and joint further development of equine-assisted work in regular meetings
Contents of the training
- Attitude of the coach
- Safe and effective use of horses
- Group dynamics, leading groups
- How to create a trusting and safe space for opening up
- Selection criteria for horses
- Dealing with the language of horses
- Self-awareness in exercises, mindfulness and meditation
- Projection, transference, self-reflection
- Accompanying people without pressure or judgment
- Dealing with challenging situations and clients
- Coaching basics and advanced theory
- Training of intuition, intuition awareness, emotional competence and self-confidence
- The art of feedback
- Teaching a broad repertoire of exercises with possible applications, target definition and variations
- Use of effective interventions
- Practical experience in leading exercises
- Comprehensive script including description of the practical exercises
- Excursus: Organization, marketing, insurance & Co.
- Targeted use in therapy, individual and group settings
- Exchange of experience and joint further development of equine-assisted work in regular meetings
Our experience
Our profound experience from seminars, coaching sessions and therapeutic processes enables us to train people to create a space of growth that is supported by trust, openness, compassion, friends, security and authenticity. Graduate meetings and group supervisions support a mutual exchange of experiences and the further development of equine-assisted work.
We have both been involved in equine-assisted coaching and equine-assisted therapy for over 15 years now and can look back on a broad and very differentiated wealth of experience in this healing work.
Training dates
- Sept. 23 to 28, 2024 (waiting list)
- Sept. 08 to 13, 2025
Prices
- 6 days training: € 2,690 (incl. VAT)
- Payment in installments is possible
Organization
- The training takes place at the Klokerhof near Windach am Ammersee (Bavaria).
- It starts on Monday at 10 am.
- It ends on Saturday between 5 and 6 pm. The days in between start at 9.30 am and end at around 5 pm.
- Hotels and guesthouses are available, we can send you a list of accommodation on request.
- You will receive further information after registration.
Testimonials
Training feedback
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for the wonderful training to become an Equine Assisted
Coach. I am deeply moved by all the profound insights in our
group and can hardly wait to accompany people with the horses into their
healing. All of this was only possible because you both opened and held the space
for us - and the horses. I am so
grateful to have been able to get to know you both! Your calmness, your
deep intuition for each and every one of us, your appreciation, your
loving feedback. And the way you both look into each other's eyes again and again at
and are so close - all of this is a great gift that I will take home with me, into my work and into my life. I am already looking forward to the next experience with you.
I am so grateful. A lot of things are loosening up inside me and taking on new forms. I am so happy to have gone this way, with all its ups and downs. Thank you both - for everything! I hope you are doing well with everything and that you can see again and again how valuable what you are doing is. I try to pass on the values that I enjoyed with you and bring them to life with the horses. My vision was: "I spread love and live self-love". Incredibly, it has come true!
I've been back home for a few days now, after a week of training in horse-assisted coaching. I am so grateful, happy and deeply touched for the time together, the deep processes, the extensive
learning, but above all for this space full of mindfulness,
appreciation, protection and love! To be allowed to be as you are, to be able to show
yourself with everything that is there at the moment, to bring
yourself out completely - that is what I was able to experience. I came back from this week of training with new courage and strengthened
. Dear Manuela,
dear Carsten, I find what you both bring into the world
so infinitely valuable! Thank you from the bottom of my heart and see you soon from Anne.
I feel deeply strengthened and blessed by this valuable time of training. My perception has become more refined and I rest in the beautiful awareness that everything, including myself, can truly be as it is and as I am. Manuela and Carsten have created this space, seemingly
effortlessly and with so much love, mindfulness and appreciation - I have rarely experienced such wise, gentle and empowering support in a seminar! I can only recommend everyone to have this experience and I would like to thank the two of them and everyone who was there on 2 and 4 legs for all the wonderful moments and experiences! Thanks to you, I now dare to take the step into coaching
with horses with joy and new self-confidence. See you soon!
An unforgettable and magical experience that I wish for everyone with all my heart! The space that Manuela and Carsten create with their work and the horses makes it possible to really get deeply involved with yourself and the processes you are facing. I completed the training to become a horse-assisted coach with the two of them and was simply speechless on several occasions. Although I have been working independently in coaching and training for 10 years and therefore really know a lot, the combination with the horses and the loving manner of Manuela and Carsten was simply something very special. Whether training or seminar, working with the two of them (with or without horses) can only be an enrichment.
It was so wonderful - in the truest sense of the word! I have already attended several seminars, but this training was by far the deepest, gentlest, most fulfilling, most connecting and simply most valuable that I have ever been able to experience in this form. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!
I look back on the training week with you and the horses with gratitude and a new inner peace. Piece after piece of the puzzle came together from day to day, from exercise to exercise to form the big picture. Clarity, courage and mindfulness displaced all the question marks. I was able to take home so much more than expected.
The training for equine assisted coaching was so incredibly
loving and at the same time so instructive. You created a
wonderful space where learning was possible in such a playful, intensive and at the same time professional way. The connection between you, the horses and us as participants was "tangible". This makes learning fun and easy! Many thanks for that!
It was an absolute heartfelt experience and I am so grateful for this wonder week full of experiences, which allowed me to travel a little further to my heart and inspired me so much. Thank you to Manuela and Carsten, you put so much heart into it and our group was absolutely amazing.
I felt really comfortable, seen, safe, protected, supported and accepted by you. These days of training are a great enrichment for my life. You held the space for me in such a loving and present way as I have never experienced from others. Thank you so much for that!
We look forward to seeing you
