Academy for Coaching With Horses

The Academy For Coaching With Horses
The Academy For Coaching With Horses is dedicated to raising human consciousness through interaction with horses, all animals, and Mother Earth.

What Makes Kathy Pike, Founder of Academy For Coaching With Different?
The Academy for Coaching with Horses offers personal growth programs and Equine Facilitated Learning Instructor Training Programs. Our client’s come for three day and up to 6 days of experience with Kathy’s masterful herd of teaching horses. After experiencing a personal growth workshop one can anticipate a break through in releasing old emotional patterns, gaining more personal confidence, a higher ability to read and understand body language (both of horse and human), improved boundaries and clarity about their life path and purpose. Noted Author of"Hope From The Heart Of Horses"

Have You Always Felt A Deep Emotional Connection To Animals?
We attract individuals who feel a deep connection to animals and nature and wish to serve others or the earth and its creatures. Our goal is to provide experiences that help others achieve a deeper appreciation of these gifts. Our certification students grow both personally and professionally through understanding the nature of horses and building confidence, presence and trust while engaging with them. This “in the bones” and very experiential style of learning provides an opportunity for individuals to shift their consciousness, expand their sense of spirituality and transform their life and work.

What Is The Eflc (Equine Facilitated Learning Certification) Program?

The Equine Facilitated Learning and Coaching (Eflc) Certification Program is our most comprehensive and in-depth training program for incorporating the Horse as Teacher, Guide, Mentor, and Healer for humans. Taught nationally and internationally for over 12 years and reaching over 12 countries, our program is the most complete choice for coaches, riding instructors, therapists, artists, equine specialists and counselors who wish to integrate Horse into their business. Through exploring the nature of Horse our certification students flourish with new teaching tools and coaching language to add to their already existing areas of value, focus and expertise.The actual work you will experience with horses may at times feel indescribable and may even produce a sense of magic or a state of being you have not experienced before. These otherworldly, transcendent and highly transformational states of consciousness and experiences become grounded through our written materials, worksheets and coaching processes.What Can I Expect To Learn While Working with Kathy and Her Masterful Herd of Horses?
• Intuitive and emotional intelligence, agility, and savvy providing you ease in coaching others.
• A deeper sense of self, purpose, and connection to others and a sense of fulfilling your life purpose.
• Key tools to shift self-sabotaging energy patterns into productive habits of success.
• Higher levels of empowerment and confidence in your facilitation and coaching.
• Increased heart centered potency – the “true power” of any leader.
• Finesse in using intention, focus, and body energy to create connection, movement, and communication with Horse and others.
• Expanded consciousness through living the way of the Horse.

Can The Eflc Program Help Me — Even If I Already Have A Horse Business?

Absolutely! Many individuals take the Eflc Level One Training Program to add the proven effect strategies and tools to their already existing equine profession giving them the ability to help individuals become more aware, congruent and stress/fear free in working with horses, or in mastering their life path. The Horse is the teacher along the journey within the program. Coaches, therapists and equine specialists also enter into the yearlong Equine Facilitated Learning and Coaching program to become experts in the quickly growing field of employing horses to teach humans about emotional intelligence, leadership and communication skills and healing and transformation.

Once I Become Eflc Certified, What Kinds Of People Can I Help?
Certified Eflc Facilitator work with many types of people from women in transition, cancer survivors, veterans, corporate leaders and children. The Academy for Coaching with horses offers one of the most comprehensive programs in the field with over 15 years of offering training programs and workshops. Over 150 graduates of the Academy for Coaching with Horses span over 18 continents. Programs are held throughout the world, some offering retreat type setting with lodging.

The Academy for Coaching with Horses Offers:

• Workshops with Horses for Personal and Professional Growth (Equine Facilitated Learning Workshops)
• Eflc Certification Programs
• Online Home Study Courses

What About A More In-depth Program? Is That Offered At The Academy For Coaching With Horses?
YES! Coaches, therapists and equine specialists also enter into the yearlong Equine Facilitated Learning and Coaching Certification Programto become experts in the quickly growing field of employing horses to teach humans about emotional intelligence, leadership and communication skills, and healing and transformation. Certified Eflc Facilitator work with many types of people from women in transition, leadership groups, cancer survivors, veterans, corporate leaders and children. The Academy for Coaching with Horses offers one of the most comprehensive programs in the field with over 15 years of offering programs. The Academy for Coaching with Horses has over 150 graduates spanning over 18 continents. Programs are held throughout the world, some offering retreat type setting with lodging.

What Can I Expect With The Year-Long Eflc Certification Program?

A great, new rewarding career awaits you as this program is the most in-depth of it’s kind!

The Yearlong Eflc Certification Program Educates in Four Areas of Competency:
• Equine Facilitated Learning and Coaching session design
• Facilitator and coaching skill development
• Natural and Intuitive methods for selecting, partnering with and caring for program horses
• Program, marketing, business development

Note: One of the special features unique to Kathy Pike’s yearlong Eflc Certification Program is the Mind Body Method™ Coach Training, originally developed by Kathy Pike and taught for over twelve years. These original coaching models provide the structure and process for you to coach your clients to deeper levels of self-awareness while they are interacting with horses. The Mind Body MethodTM coaches clients to access the truth of their being and inner wisdom with ease and grace.

Will The Horses Help Me To Learn A Richer, More “Authentic” Life With Deeper Connection to Self and Others?
What makes the Academy such a stand out, is that our program also includes the r are teaching that horses offer regarding the non-linear and circular flow of life and energy. The Horses’ Way offers humans a ‘how to’ for living a richer more authentic lifewhile maintaining a deep connection to self and others. Certification students who wish a more mystical journey explore aspects of shamanism or the seven primary energy centers (chakras) of both Horse and human to experience key spiritual lessons.

While working intimately with Horse, our certification students enter a journey of somatic exploration, energetic awareness, spiritual connection and intellectual integration for a new and renewed sense of clarity, purpose and direction.

Are You Ready To:
• Partner with Horse and become part of this rapidly expanding field?
• Listen to the call of Horse and step into an inspirational new career?
• Develop the confidence to be the leader of your own life while transforming the lives of others?

Are You Willing To:
• Expand your consciousness through living the Way of the Horse?
• Immerse yourself in a yearlong program with a “herd” of like-minded individuals creating a solid support system?
• Learn the coaching methods, horse skills and processes needed to create successful programs with horses?

What Do Students Say About The Academy For Coaching With Horses?

Kathy Pike's Eflc facilitator training was a wonderful balance of experiential and conceptual learning, steeped in the Mind Body Method and grounded by the presence and influence of the equine facilitators. Kathy offers her presence as a perceptive teacher who has the capacity to safely support one into their expansion of self. I will use the tools I learned from Kathy as I create my Life Coaching and EFL based business."
—Mari Rubens, CA

"I learned to listen to the horses and their wisdom, which has connected me deeply to my own inner wisdom and body wisdom. My ability of trust has increased dramatically. As a graduate of the Eflc program I am excited to share this work with others."
- Caroline Lockwood, Argentina

"Through the Eflc Certification Program I was able to deepen my knowledge and appreciation of the gifts horse has to offer humans. I have been so profoundly moved by what the horses in my life have taught me that I am inspired to share their gifts. I am now able to do this with confidence and skill as I bring this transformative work into the world."

- Melissa Bennett

"Through The Academy for Coaching with Horses Eflc Certification Program I have accessed a higher awareness of myself on many levels. I now have confidence on my life path and a deeper understanding of the work with Horse. I am excited to bring this work to others."

- Stephanie Sawtelle

"Kathy’s Eflc Certification program has been the most profoundly transformative experience of my life. Her body-centered approach allows deep healing and change for both people and horses. I feel privileged to help bring this powerful way of working with Horses into the world."
- Ingrid Gunby, New Zealand

Call Kathy Today!
The Eflc program has been taught in several countries and draws individuals from across the world. The different cultural views, terminologies and methodologies represented in our human herd brings a diversity that stimulates creative exploration and acceptance in each individual. The common language is Horse. Through exploring the nature of Horse our certification students flourish with new teaching tools and coaching language to add to their already existing areas of value, focus and expertise. We teach you how to coach your clients through the deep connections found with horses and nature. We give you the tools you need to immediately incorporate your exciting new skills and knowledge into your own business. Just pick up the phone and call Kathy today!

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What is The Academy for Coaching with Horses?

Founded by Kathy Pike, The Academy for Coaching with Horses is a worldwide training school in Equine Facilitated Learning and Coaching (Eflc), an experiential approach that develops emotional intelligence, presence, and leadership awareness through interaction with horses. The Academy treats the horse not as a metaphor but as a conscious co-facilitator, and over more than two decades its programs have reached students across 25-plus countries. The school carries the dual invitation "Reclaim your authentic self" and "Elevate Consciousness through Love, Honor and Respect."

Who is founder Kathy Pike?

Kathy Pike is an internationally published author, speaker, coach, and artist, and a recognized pioneer in the Eflc field who has spoken at multiple International Coach Federation (ICF) conferences and holds ICF credentials. Her professional foundation spans coach training for CoachU, corporate facilitation, and a decade in the healing arts as a massage and polarity therapist. Her certifications include T-Team work with Linda Tellington-Jones, Epona Approved Instructor for Equine Experiential Learning, Level One Eagala, and Psych-K Basic and Advanced, alongside a Fine Arts degree from the University of Utah.

What is the Mind Body Method that anchors the work?

The Mind Body Method™ is Kathy Pike's transformational coaching framework, refined over nearly two decades, that blends somatic awareness, emotional intelligence, and energetic insight into a practical coaching system. It offers three coaching models that thread through every certification and personal-growth program at the Academy. Students can begin with the Home Study: Mind Body Method (MBM) Coach Training - Foundation Model at $597.00 USD or the Coaching the Vision module at $397.00 USD, with a Complete Package, Coaching for Conscious Change, at $970.00 USD.

How does the Eflc Certification Program work?

The Eflc Certification is a one-year hybrid path combining online modules with onsite practice. Eflc Level One, Emotional Intelligence and Energy Mastery, runs ten weeks with weekly mentoring from Kathy Pike, and Eflc Level Two, Inspired Leadership with Horses, adds another ten weeks focused on personal power and leadership. The journey includes the Holistic Coaching Skills Master Course, which teaches the Seven Principles of Awareness and three styles of questioning, plus a four-day Live Learning Equine Practicum held in Colorado in spring, with video submissions available for remote participants.

Who should enroll in these programs?

The certification is built for coaches and consultants, therapists and healers, equine professionals and riding instructors, and career transitioners seeking service-oriented work. No prior coaching experience is required because extensive training is provided, but applicants must have access to horses they own or lease and go through a personal evaluation before acceptance. Those not ready for full certification can enter through personal-growth offerings such as Called by Horse, the Spirit of the Horse Retreat, and the One with Horse online program.

How do you buy a program, book, or private session?
Enrollment, home-study courses, books, and oracle decks are available through the EFL Store at coachingwithhorses.com, and certification applicants apply directly through the website. Self-paced entry points include Inner Vitality: Energy Tools and Meditations at $17.00 USD and Claim Your Inner Sovereignty at $47.00 USD. For direct work with the founder, One Month of Private Sessions with Kathy is $800 USD for four sessions and Three Months is $2,400 USD for twelve sessions.