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and Nature
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Workshops & Retreats
for Personal Discovery & Professional Development
"There is a quiet light that shines in every heart. It is what illuminates our minds to see beauty, our desire to seek possibility, and our hearts to love life" --John O'Donohue
Nestled in the natural beauty of Novelty, Ohio, Pebble Ledge Ranch offers a sanctuary where you can explore life's most precious questions and embrace your most authentic, lovable self. Surrounded by the majesty of nature and our gentle, wise herd of horses, our retreats and coaching sessions provide a unique opportunity for personal growth, reflection, and rejuvenation.
Experience Transformation at Pebble Ledge Ranch
Whether you are seeking clarity, healing, or a deeper connection with yourself and others, our retreats are designed to support your journey. Through guided coaching sessions, interactive activities with our horses, and time spent peaceful outdoors, you will find space to breathe, reflect, release stress and realign with your true path.
For Teams and Leaders: We invite you to bring your team to Pebble Ledge Ranch for an immersive experience designed to enhance relationships, boost leadership skills, and improve team performance. Our tailored sessions draw upon the present strengths of your team, guiding you all toward a shared vision of success and a desired future. Through equine-assisted learning and thoughtful coaching, your team will cultivate trust, communication, and collaboration in a way that is both impactful and memorable.
Discover the profound wisdom that nature and our horses have to offer. Join us for a retreat or a customized coaching session, and step into a space of growth, connection, and renewal. We can’t wait to welcome you to Pebble Ledge Ranch.
Follow Your Heart -
It Knows The Way
A Visioning Retreat with
Brooke Medicine Eagle
Brooke Medicine Eagle
Guided by Brooke, Horses, Nature
and Your Heart
*WAIT LIST ONLY (workshop is currently full)
Come join me on a beautiful and sacred journey of the heart.
Walk a Heartpath of beauty, grace, light, and sweetness, awakening your ability to clear, heal, and blossom.
September 18-20 — Friday 3:00 PM through Sunday 1:00 PM
There is a quiet voice within you that already knows the way.
It speaks in dreams, in longing, in the gentle stirring of your heart.
This gathering is an invitation to step out of ordinary time and enter sacred time — to walk the Heartpath of beauty, grace, sweetness, and light.
Guided by Brooke's sacred teachings and visioning process, we will create a circle of deep listening, remembering and visioning—a place where grief, healing, joy, and possibility are all welcomed.
May we walk the Path of the Heart
with courage, beauty, and grace.
May the horses guide our listening, the earth steady our steps,
and the ancestors awaken our remembering.
May our dreams rise like morning light, and may we follow the quiet wisdom within for your heart always knows your path.
Held by the living sanctuary of Pebble Ledge Ranch, we will enter a ceremonial field to follow your heart -it knows the way
Here the natural world becomes our teacher.
The river reminds us of our voice.
The earth welcomes our footsteps.
The trees and ancient stones hold the stories of time.
The fire carries transformation and healing.
The wind lifts our songs and prayers.
Together we will:
- Sit in sacred circle, calling in the ancestors and the wisdom of those who walked before us
- Be with the horses, whose presence mirrors truth and awakens the instinctual wisdom of the heart
- Drum to the heartbeat of Mother Earth, remembering our own rhythm
- Journey through the Medicine Wheel, restoring balance of body, heart, mind, and spirit
- Share song, story, and vision, dreaming our future into being
This retreat is not about becoming someone new.
It is about remembering the one you have always been.
It is a time to listen for the quiet guidance of the heart
and to allow your deepest dreams to blossom into life.
Dates: September 18-20th— Friday 3:00 PM through Sunday 1:00 PM
Location: Pebble Ledge Ranch 9796 Cedar Road Novelty, Ohio
Fee: $395
Lodging: You may stay at Ranch- in the cottage or yurt or bring a tent
To register or learn more or schedule a private session with Brooke September 17 or 21 contact Jackie Stevenson jacalynstevenson@gmail.com or 440-241-8605
Together we will nurture your highest dreams and invite the courage to offer your finest gifts in service to life—with joy, love, and grace.
Brooke Medicine Eagle is a legendary indigenous Earthkeeper, wisdom teacher, healer, visionary, singer/songwriter, catalyst for wholeness, and ceremonialist. She is the best selling author of the Native American literary classic Buffalo Woman Comes Singing, and of The Last Ghost Dance.
Over the last 35 years, her many music recordings, teachings, writings, conference appearances, and wilderness spiritual retreats have touched the hearts and minds of people all over the world. In January of 2000, in recognition of her remarkable contributions in bridging cultural gaps in our world, Medicine Eagle was one of 30 people to receive the special Magical Blend Millennium Award, along with the Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Jean Houston, Oprah Winfrey, Deepak Chopra and others.
Brooke is also a sacred ecologist with a focused interest in living a harmonious, regenerative lifestyle, as well as dedication to the preservation of our sacred waters. Born in a homesteading family, she loves simple, clean country living; aboriginal skills; as well as crafting and artistry. Having years ago passed on the stewardship of her beautiful FlowerSong Garden Sanctuary, she is now expanding her love and connection to All Our Relations by traveling, exploring, deepening and teaching internationally. After 8 years on the road, she is now looking for a gardening and sustainable community to call home.
Brooke has an amazingly rich altar of offerings for the upliftment of all. Her wisdom has come not only from deep life experience, and formal education (having recently completed her PhD begun long ago); but as well through studying with native elders and some of the finest teachers, spiritual leaders and healers of contemporary times. Brooke invites everyone in our time to heal themselves through spiritual action in service of the next seven generations of our children.
As we now move fully into the new and golden time prophecied, Brooke seeks to become what Mayan elders call the people of this emerging Age: people made of honey. As we hold sweetness, blossoming, flowering, lightness and love in our hearts, we will break through the oily surface of the power mongers of the past into a glorious time of living and creating from our hearts. The old calendar has ended, and a radiant future awaits our creation!
To schedule a private session with Brooke September 17 or 21 contact Jackie Stevenson jacalynstevenson@gmail.com or 440-241-8605
A Journey of Belonging:
Our Place in the Family of Plants
A retreat guided by horses, nature, and the living world of plants
You are warmly invited into a day of quiet returning — a gentle remembering of your place within the living family of life.
In a time when the world feels both uncertain and in motion, we gather in circle with the horses, the land, and the plant beings—to listen, to slow down, and to soften back into presence.
Here, we reawaken an ancient knowing: that through kindness, through beauty, we have never been separate…we belong.
Together, we will enter into a field of intimacy, exploration and ceremony...
- listening for the wisdom and healing presence of plants
- opening to perceive from the plants' point of view
- wildcrafting in respectful relationship with our plant kin
- honoring the lineage of ancestral plants and those yet to come through the seven generations
- sensing our plant relations through the embodied awareness of the horses
- wandering in a wonder-filled walkabout with the living world
- deepening our appreciation of the aliveness and sentience of plants
- discovering what we share in common with the plant world—breath, presence, interconnection, and belonging
- cultivating reverence, respect, resonance, reciprocity and reconnection
Date: Saturday, October 3, 2026 Time: 8:45 AM — 4:00 PM
Location: Pebble Ledge Ranch, Novelty, Ohio 44072
Fee: $135
Guides: Jackie Stevenson, Caryl Church-Jesseph, the horses, the plants, the presence of nature, and your own intuitive knowing
For registration or information: Jacalynstevenson@gmail.com
Guided by the quiet intelligence of nature,
we will move between stillness and movement, listening and sensing, individual reflection and shared circle.
This is a day of mindful embodied exploring, learning, growing and healing.
Remembering that we are part of the great web of life.
Remembering that we are in relationship with all living beings.
Remembering that we are not separate
Please bring your lunch and your spirit of curiosity and compassion Dress for the changeable whims of Mother Nature
Jackie Stevenson is the founder and CEO of Spirit of Leadership LLC, where she offers executive coaching, leadership development, and team-building retreats grounded in nature-based wisdom, and experiential learning with horses and nature. Her work supports individuals and organizations in cultivating authenticity, relational intelligence, and embodied presence. She is the author of Someday We'll Live Like Horses: Authentic Presence in Leadership and Life www.spirit-of-leadership.com
Caryl Church-Jesseph is an award-winning art educator, artist, writer and home herbalist. A devoted student of Northeast Ohio ecology, Caryl has a Master's degree in Art Education and post graduate passions in philosophy, grief tending, eco-spirituality, mythopoetic, and herbalism. She is the creator of Phia Creative Arts, LLC, home of land-based arts programming and therapeutic nature connection. PhiaCreativeArts.com
Experiential Learning with Horses Professional Practitioner Certificate Program
Developing Human Potential for Positive Change for the Future of Humanity and All Life
October 7-11, 2026
Pebble Ledge Ranch Novelty, Ohio 44072
Guided by Jackie Stevenson and the Pebble Ledge herd
- People interested in integrating and facilitating relational work with horses in their careers and personal lives
- People interested in strengthening personal mastery in their professional practice and personal lives by engaging with horses
- People interested in expanding their coaching capacities; client centered active listening, quality connection, embodied language, collaboration, flexibility, grounded mindful presence, inclusion, and awareness of the field by engaging with horses and their herd. You will learn and practiceBoard Certified Coaching (BCC )and International Coaching Federation (ICF) competencies.
Join the adventure with your fellow horse and human herd members for the Experiential Learning with Horses 2024 program. It is an honor, privilege, and responsibility to engage with horses and to support and guide people in their personal and professional learning, skill building and growth through experiential learning with horses and nature and coaching competence.
Arise, Arrive, Ascend
Pebble Ledge Ranch, Novelty, Ohio USA
A Transformational Journey
Into Your Next Chapter
Into Your Next Chapter
Step back. Go deeper. Lead better. A retreat for senior leaders ready to grow into what their next chapter asks of them — and shape the teams, organisations, ecosystems and communities around them.
October 27th - 30th 2026
(Tuesday morning - Friday Mid-day)
Guided by Tess Cope and Jackie Stevenson
A Journey To:
Arise with Courage
Honour the past, the path that has brought you here, and the gifts, experiences, and relationships that have shaped your journey.
Arrive with Confidence
Honestly explore your current reality, uncover hidden dynamics and patterns, and deepen your awareness of what is influencing your leadership and life.
Ascend with Clarity
This highly experiential retreat is an invitation to pause, take stock, and reconnect - discovering your unique presence, the gifts awaiting expression, and what life and leadership are genuinely calling from you. Leave with renewed purpose, clearer direction, and real hope for the road ahead.
Together, we will explore how to thrive as leaders amid chaos and uncertainty by deepening our capacity to listen, sense, trust, and respond creatively.
Guided by horses, nature, ancient wisdom traditions, a systemic whole-system lens, and the collective intelligence of community and field, we will enter a spacious realm of reflection, discovery, and transformation.
We will tune into the intelligence of body, heart, mind, spirit, and field and create space to release patterns that no longer serve us and cultivate the conditions for breakthrough.
Personal and Professional Retreats at Pebble Ledge Ranch
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