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9th Annual EAHAE International Conference

26-29 September 2013
Thursday 19:00h - Sunday 16:00h
Pebble Ledge Ranch, Novelty, Ohio/USA
(Cleveland Area)

We are growing worldwide. Grow with us at the 
2013 EAHAE conference for the first time in the United States!

Motto:

Business as a Force for Good...
"May The Horse Be With You"

Content:

• Listening to the wisdom of horses
  
• Inspiring each others innovations and creative ideas
  
• Sharing best practices
  
• Gathering new knowledge and skills
  
• Recommitting to values and ideals
  
• Learning from world renown educators of
  - Appreciative Inquiry,
  - Compassionate Coaching,
  - Emotional Intelligence and
  - Inclusive Leadership
  
• Strengthening our community connection and spirit

Organizers and hosts:

• Spirit of Leadership (Jackie & Herb Stevenson, USA)
  
• Acorns2Oaks (Sharon & David Harris, UK)
  
• HorseDream (Karin & Gerhard Krebs, Germany)

 

Video impressions of the 2012 Seminar:

 

Speakers

Agata Wiatrowska-Wiśniewska, Poland

Agata is owner and managing director of HorseSense, a company offering Horse Assisted Education development programs, Licensed HorseDream Partner since 2006, ambassador member of the European Association for Horse Assisted Education (EAHAE). For 10 years, she has been working as Manager in an international consulting company PricewaterhouseCoopers in Germany and then in Poland. Her experience gained by managing teams both in her home country and abroad resulted in her great understanding of leading processes and of the organizations. She is pioneer of Horse Assisted Education in Poland. Her company has offered seminars with horses as trainers for corporate clients since 2006.

Barbara K. Rector MA CEFIP-ED, USA

In 1974, a co-founder of TROT (Therapeutic Riding of Tucson, Inc.), Barbara utilized her skills as a Pony Club instructor to teach - TROT. While acting as resource developer, director of instruction, and executive director, she taught 45 weekly volunteers safe helping and handling techniques, schooled and trained 12 horses and ponies, supervised and developed assistant therapeutic riding instructors, while teaching 4 to 6 half day sessions of TROT classes for approximately 80 students weekly.

In 1989 - 90, at The College of the Holy Names in Oakland, CA, she obtained a Master of Arts degree with an emphasis in Spiritual Psychology. While at the Institute of Culture and Creation Centered Spirituality, she worked as an intake counselor and group facilitator for near death and dying youth, and women with homebound disabilities, at the Center for Attitudinal Healing in Tiburon, CA.

While completing her thesis, she worked as the manager for NCEFT (National Center for Equine Facilitated Therapy) in Woodside, CA. She is a 1965 graduate of the University of Arizona with a BA in Philosophy and English.

In the early 90's Barbara developed the therapeutic riding programs at Sierra Tucson Hospital and co-founded FETE, Medicine Horse, in Flagstaff, AZ. At Sierra Tucson, a private psychiatric hospital, she developed and coordinated Sierra Tucson's Integrated Riding Resource Program for adolescents, family week treatment, the eating disorders and trauma resolution units, while training the hospital medical staff in her model for equine facilitated experiential process work - now trademarked as ADVENTURES IN AWARENESS™ (AIA).

Barbara has developed the AIA/EEL Institute workshops and training seminars where the professional facilitation skills and teaching techniques of the AIA interactive equine exercises are learned and practiced. Educators, health, horse and other animal professionals are provided a residential experiential "learning through doing" opportunity to develop competency in the principles, theory, and practice of Equine Experiential Learning (EEL) and practice of Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy (EFP) utilizing the structural format of AIA.

Barbara co-founded EFMHA (Equine Facilitated Mental Health Association), a section of NARHA (North American Riding for the Handicapped. She is both a NARHA and an EFMHA board member. Barbara serves on NARHA Ways and Means and Standards Committees and EFMHA's Curriculum Development and Standards Committees. Her first book, is The Handbook of Equine Experiential Learning - through the lens of ADVENTURES IN AWARENESS™. Book #2, AIA's JOURNEY RIDE is a work in progress. Barbara is a founding board member for Animal Therapy Association (ATA - recently fused with PAN) which seeks to develop animal assisted therapy as a profession, link existing 'model' practices, and generate educational degree programs. Barbara is also serving as Secretary on The Commission for Certification of Equine Facilitated Mental Health & Education Professionals.

Christina Pitts MA JD, USA

Christina is founder of PITTS-ALDRICH ASSOCIATES, and has been consulting and coaching in varied organizations over the past 20 years, leveraging learning in prior careers as a university administrator, educator, business executive and attorney. She’s a writer and a poet, a former marathoner, sailor and tennis champion. Now her passion is horses, coming home to a childhood dream.

Building upon recent professional development through Lake Erie College, Spirit of Leadership LLC, HorseDream, and Gestalt Institute Cleveland, she and her partner, Lynne Aldrich, launched in 2011 HorsePlay HP2 - Human Potential Horse-Powered as their preferred methodology for supporting Leadership and Team Development, Change Management, Strategic Planning, and more, as well as Executive and Personal Coaching. Their business model is “Have Program, Will Travel!” taking their work to where clients and horses reside.

David Harris, UK

David is an internationally acclaimed speaker, trainer, facilitator and coach. David is also a life learner in congruent horsemanship. He lives in Windsor, England, with his wife, two children and four horses. He is passionate about people and their amazing potential.

David says “We are all stars, sometimes we need to learn to shine”. He is the founder of Acorns2Oaks (A2O) together with his wife Sharon. The vision of A2O is for its clients to experience “Success on Your Terms”, whatever success is.

Diana Bilimoria PhD, USA

Case Western Reserve University Weatherhead School of Management
Dr. Diana Bilimoria researches and teaches topics that include: Inclusive leadership, How do individuals achieve their fullest potential as leaders and contributors in organizations? How can workplaces tap into all the capabilities of leadership and diversity? She is an expert in how leadership development can transform individuals, groups, and organizations. Her studies have helped corporate, educational, and nonprofit organizations reinvent themselves and establish practices that attract and retain a high-performance, diverse workforce.

Gerhard J. Krebs, Germany

Gerhard is owner and managing director at G&K HorseDream GmbH and EAHAE president. He holds a university degree M.A. in Contemporary German Literature and Political Science.

He is working as an entrepreneur since 1983, started IT-Trainings in 1986 and founded HorseDream in 1996 together with his wife Karin. They both started with horse assisted leadership seminars and team trainings on the market in 1998 with horses as medium and catalyst. Gerhard founded EAHAE in 2004.

Jackie Lowe Stevenson, USA

Jackie works as consultant, coach, therapist and educator. She is the founder and CEO of Spirit of Leadership LLC.

Jackie teaches at Case Western Reserve University and the Gestalt Institute. She is an Entrepreneur in Residence at Lake Erie College where she has founded and facilitates in the “Experiential Learning with Horses” Professional Practitioner Certificate training program. She lectures within the U.S. Turkey, Israel and Mexico. Jackie lives in Ohio with her Native American husband, herd of seven horses and a zebra, wolf/dog, dogs and cat. She has learned from her horses that “A herd is inclusive, everyone belongs, everyone is essential, everyone matters”.

Juan Bernado Bermeo, Ecuador

Juan is founder and president at Checa Pichincha, Ecuador, a center of dressage and tame. The facility of 7 hectares is designed to meet the physical and mental necessities of the horses.

Juan has a real passion for horses since age 5, began with classes vaulting, dressage and jumping in Germany, Argentina and Ecuador. His studies conducted six years of Industrial Engineering.

From childhood he was interested in the way we think and understand the world from the point of view of the horse, and looking for ways to improve your relationship with them, making it easy for them. Horses marked his course and helped address the decisions of his personal life. Most methods used for training and horse management did not meet his expectations. This led him to attend various courses around the world to acquire new knowledge.

Jude Jennison, UK

Jude of Leaders by Nature is renowned for her visionary thinking and specialises in challenging the status quo for continuous improvement. She leads by example with courage and a huge heart and challenges people to go beyond what they believe is possible in a way that feels safe, exciting and fun. And she’ll go there with you, step by step.

Jude combines 6 years of coaching and leadership development expertise with 16 years of corporate leadership in IBM to take leaders and corporate teams beyond their comfort zone to be extraordinary leaders. Jude’s experience in IBM includes Service Manager for a variety of Outsourcing contracts, European Business Operations and Cost Management Leader (managing a budget of $1 billion). She was the Communications Partner to the UK General Manager of the Services business and designed and implemented a Skills Management strategy across Europe for over 28,000 people.

June Gunter, USA

June has 25 years experience working as an educator and leadership development consultant. Her mission is to bring horses and people together to discover more effective ways of leading and of creating a healthy community. June holds a Doctor of Education degree in the field of Adult Learning from North Carolina State University.

June attributes many of the lessons she learned about being a teacher and a leader to the horses she has loved from childhood through today. In 2004 she founded TeachingHorse LLC.

Kim Seng, USA

Kim is an Equine Behaviorist, Educator and Communicator, Certified Natural Trainer, Facilitator of Horse-Human Develpoment Learning, Certified Therapeutic Riding Instructor, and Certified Centered Riding Instructor. Kim's experiences have been an enriching lesson with the human and the interaction with horses. Through this participation, she observed firsthand, the misunderstanding many owners have of their horses. All of these experiences and more has pushed her to create an educational facility, "Nature of the Horse", Horse and Human Development Center. The Center is the realization of a vision of being able to be a guide and coach offering growth between horses and riders in a holistic partnership.

Knowing and understanding the nature of the horse allows her to create a quick rapport resulting in trust, respect, and leadership. These are the qualities that must be developed between horse and human to create a beneficial bond.

Leslie Yerks

Linda Kohanov, USA

Linda is an author, speaker, riding instructor and horse trainer who has become an internationally- recognized innovator in the field of Equine Experiential Learning and a respected writer on the subject of Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy.

Her book The Tao of Equus: A Woman’s Journey of Healing and Transformation through the Way of the Horse was selected as one of the Top Ten Religion and Spirituality books of 2001 by Amazon.com.

Her second book, Riding between the Worlds: Expanding Our Potential through the Way of the Horse, was published in 2003.

Both books have been used as texts in university courses across the country and have received appreciative reviews in publications as diverse as Horse and Rider, Natural Horse, IONS Noetic Sciences Review, Shift, Spirituality and Health, Animal Wellness, The Equestrian News and Strides (the magazine published by the North American Riding for the Handicapped Association).

Among her numerous lectures throughout the U.S. and Canada, she was a presenter at the 2001 NARHA conference and was the keynote speaker at the 2003 NARHA conference. She was also a featured presenter at the 2004 International Transpersonal Conference.

Stéphane Wattine, France

Stéphane is maning director at EquiLibre-Coaching® which induces a different kind of awareness that is sharper and deeper. In brief it is a chosen accelerator to change.

It is a process that develops leadership in all meanings of the word: leadership in the professional realm, in managerial situations; self-leadership within the framework of a personal development objective or to get a personal project under way.

Steve Peplin, USA

CEO Talan Products Inc
Steve has strengthened his leadership and CEO skills through “Horse Assisted Learning”. As part of our conference panel he will share some of his experiences.
Talan Products is a leading manufacturing organization that serves its customers, employees, and shareholders by leveraging stamping and metal working expertise to provide innovative product abd service solutions with world class performance.

Jim Kepner, Ph.D

Topic: The Energy of Joining
Horses sense, relate and connect through the energy field they generate around them and the energy of the earth. Jim has some observations about how horses use subtle energy fields and some practices we can do with each other to access this fascinating realm of connection.

Jim Kepner Ph.D. (James Kepner) is a psychologist in private practice in Cleveland and on the professional staff of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland. He is the author of the books Body Process: a Gestalt approach to working with the body in therapy and Healing Tasks: psychotherapy with adult survivors of childhood abuse. He teaches Gestalt Body Process Psychotherapy internationally.

He also co-developed subtle energy methods and teaches this work at www.pathwaysforhealing.com with applications to healing from trauma, stress and supporting wellness.

 

Prices & Registration

Per person US$ (without taxes, without accommodation, lunch included):

Special Offers

Per person US$ (without taxes, without accommodation, lunch included):

 

Save Your Space

The conference is open to 75 people, the pre-conference Train the Trainer and the the first post-conference workshop are open to 16 people, the HorseDream Partner License Workshop is open to 10 people.

If you are not an EAHAE member please join us as an "EAHAE Friend" before signing up for the conference: http://www.eahae.org/register_eahae_friend.htm.

To save your space please send us a deposit of 10 % via PayPal. You might want to take advantage of the early bird pricing for the conference of $500.

 

 

Travel and Lodging Information

Please book your flights early to get good rates and

•  Arrive at Cleveland Hopkins International airport. We will provide transportation for a reasonable fee or you can rent a car at the airport.

Accommodation for EAHAE  2013 Conference in USA

• There are two facilities for lodging while at the Conference.
• Punderson State Park and Conference Center
• Red Maple Inn
• See below to find a roommate to share lodging
• We will provide complimentary morning and evening transportation to and from your lodging to the Ranch where the horse presentations will be.

Accommodations for HorseDream workshop will be at the Ranch cottage or home hospitality at a modest rate. Contact Jackie for these rates at jacalynstevenson@gmail.com

We have a block of rooms and cottages reserved at Punderson State Park and Conference Center. When you make your reservations please let them know you are with the European Association of Horses Assisted Learning International Conference 2013.

You will be booking and paying for your own lodging. We will include lunches. If you stay at the Red Maple Inn breakfast is included. You will be making and paying for your reservations directly with the Red Maple Inn

Details for Punderson State Park (PDF).

Details for the Red Maple Inn (PDF).

 

Find a Roommate

If you would like to appear on a list for the EAHAE organization and sharing of travel and/or accommodation with other participants, please send the following information to us in an email to jacalynstevenson@gmail.com:

• Name
• Region/country
• Email address/phone
• Seminar arrangements/time period
• Lodging choice of: Red Maple Inn, Punderson or either
• Travelling dates/arrangements
• Accommodation idea
• Other issues

The list will appear here when available.

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