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MENTORSHIP PROGRAM

If you found your way to this webpage, it means you are already taking steps to finding your life aligned with joy and inspiration!

Congratulations!

The Epona Ridge Mentorship Program is designed to support a deeper and richer journey, the life long journey of personal growth through experiential work both with and without horses. This intensive program of Equine Facilitated Experiential Learning (EFEL / EEL) supports alignment with your personal calling and life/career.

WHY SHOULD YOU PARTICIPATE IN THE MENTORSHIP?

Whether you are looking for a deeper and on-going experience of the Equine Facilitated Experiential Learning, want to start a equine/healing practice or already have a well developed skill and focus and want the coaching and support to move to the next level, these intensives bring innovation and inspiration into your life and career.

All programs at Epona Ridge have, at their foundation, the Abraham-Hicks principles of The Law of Attraction, supporting each individual on their own journey to their deliberate creation and experience of life.

In this sense, the work at Epona Ridge is highly personalized and is specifically designed to support and develop the strengths of each participant with advanced personal growth and the development of the deeper purpose in your life-work so that it is aligned with your individual desires.

Barbara is a highly skilled and sensitive facilitator who has an uncommon ability to empower and inspire participants. She gives you the tools to find your inner clarity so that you can create a foundation of continuous alignment with your heart, and move forward in building your life/livelihood of personal joy. (see testimonies below)

WHO IS THE MENTORSHIP DESIGNED FOR?

Over the years, Barbara has found that there are some common threads throughout the individuals who thrive with the experience at Epona Ridge in personal growth and Equine Facilitator Training.

The Mentorship helps enhance the personal life journey as it spans eight months with three seperate week long retreats in addition to interim virtual study.

Here are some of the common threads from past participants as they experienced themselves through the program.

I have a desire to make a difference in my world

I want to share my gifts with others

I am joyously able and willing to invest in my life and am making a commitment to myself for a life that is fulfilled

I am inspired to reach for the stars and am willing to be open to creating my highest dreams

I am open to moving forward as I deal with resistance within myself when it inevitably comes up in my life experience.

I am not interested in living in the drama of life, victimization mindset, or lack, and I am determined to focus on well being for myself as well as others.

I continue to listen to my inner calling as I walk the path of joy and connection to my Spirit!

If you find that these statements mean something to you and the life you desire to live, then you have come to the right place!

Welcome home!

WHAT IS THE MENTORSHIP?

The subtle art of facilitation and walking the path of the healer is quite a different journey from participation in workshops. Personal growth takes on a new meaning for those who want to hold the sacred space for others.

Barbara will help you determine which of the two tracks are most appropriate for you. Each utilizes EFEL/EEL guidance. The difference is in the focus of the program:

»The Personal Development Track:
This track is for those looking for a life in balance and seek ongoing coaching support. It is designed to enhance your personal experience of life and to empower and inspire the Soul.
This extended intensive provides a wonderful process to create new and life enriching patterns in life. It supports an opening to your inner wisdom, releasing habits that no longer serve you and offers the foundation to create the life you want to live.

Learn skills to quiet the mind and sustain inner peace for a life in balance
Get the tools to activate the heart connection for clear direction and personal awareness
Learn how to find your daily inner guidance and personal empowerment to walk the path for a joy filled life
Improve non-verbal awareness to enhance all personal relationships
Build healthy habits that keep you aligned with your personal best
and so much more...

»The Business Development Track:
The second track is for entrepreneurs who want to integrate a lifestyle career in the field of facilitating others.
It is imperative to have the necessary training. The liabilities and intricacies of facilitating with horses, especially with all the variables that can come up, requires understanding the subtle queues and learning the path to a partnership in healing with your equine co-facilitators.
We have carefully designed a program that provides the solid foundation for you to create your own business or expand your skills within your organization. We offer an extended curriculum for working with horses and humans, improving your intuitive awareness with others, and learning the subtle art of facilitation and empowerment.

Learn techniques to support individual clients and business teams to transform negative behavioral patterns that inhibit or block personal awareness, productivity, creativity, empowerment and vision
Improve intuitive personal skills of non-verbal awareness in communication (fine tuning the ability to connect and build healthy relationships with clients to reach positive results)
Learn advanced personal development of cognitive awareness, simultaneous awareness in communication and creativity within your own business
Learn advanced development in facilitation skills, non-verbal awareness of boundaries and skills related to opening space for others (clients and team members) to willingly move forward

WHEN IS THE MENTORSHIP?

There are three intensives held over a six month period:

Week I: April 26 – May 1, 2010 (10am-5pm)
Week II: June 20 - 25, 2010 (10am-5pm)
Week III: August 22 – 27, 2010 (10am-5pm)

Teleconference call support throughout the Mentorship program, and six hours of one-on-one personal coaching for three months after the program ends.

Mentorship programs are designed and facilitated by Barbara for personal inspiration, creativity and clear guidance through individual attention. Due to the high level of personal focus, we have a limited group size.

WHERE IS THE MENTORSHIP?

All intensives are held at the beautiful retreat center at Epona Ridge in Asheville, NC. Some accommodations are available on site, on a first come basis.

It is difficult to find the words to describe the special vibrations all around the grounds of Epona Ridge. Maybe it is due to the quartz crystals that are throughout the land, or the expanding vortex in the forest that is a favorite spot for meditation and ceremony, or the horses and the love that permeates this space... but most definitely it is the synthesis of energy from each person that has been here before and has blessed this precious land with their light and awakening heart.

The ancient mountains in which Epona Ridge is nestled, lend a profound sense of connection and importance to the work that is done here.

You really must feel it to believe it. Click here to learn more about this exquisite, private sanctuary.

What Happens After the Mentorship Ends?

Those that complete the Epona Ridge Mentorship Program and have completed their practicum, will be eligible to apply for the graduate program offering advanced facilitator Graduate training and continued personal development and coaching as your business progresses. Specialty training and graduate self care retreats are offered annually.

We encourage you to learn more about the Mentorship Program by contacting Barbara to explore this opportunity further.

Click here to begin the Application process

Epona Ridge Mentorship Program Feedback

"I just graduated and it was/is a wonderful program. It helped me strengthen my connection to my inner wisdom, get clarity on the direction of my life's work path, and provided wonderful training in facilitating Equine Facilitated Experiential Learning workshops and information & tools regarding building a new business. Barbara... is a dedicated, caring and effective mentor. "

Lynne Sullivan, Brevard NC

Lynne has continued with her advanced education in Equine Facilitated Experiential Learning. She is also deepening her studies with Women's Spiritual Psychology and Ancient Earth Based Spirituality. Lynne currently supports experiential awakening, mentors students learning facilitation and creates sacred ceremonial ritual here at Epona Ridge.

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" Thank you so much for your kindness and support. That means the world to me and I am so happy to have you as my mentor. You have done a wonderful job bringing us along to be able to hold space for others while they find themselves and their connection. "

Holly Pollock

Holly is practicing EFEL in Florida and is studying to incorporate challenged teenaged youth in her program.

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"I came to Epona Ridge to reintegrate and challenge myself into the world of others (and horses) in a spiritual and heartfelt way. Mission accomplished.... learning has opened the doors...as well as, forged the relationships that were fostered and cultivated.

I was able to look to the child within....the inner wisdom of the horse, connecting with others, and sharing this experience with a group of strong, beautiful woman. The opportunities were immense for spiritual healing and growth and I will never forget the time spent on that beautiful mountain in Asheville, NC. I am deeply grateful and appreciative for the opportunity of studying with you, Barbara at Epona Ridge.

I loved the journey....and love the journey that I will carry with me, in my present moments throughout this lifetime, and then some. "

Robin

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" You have had a life-changing effect on my life and journey. One that I had been searching for and waiting for for many years.

... You gave me the permission I needed to follow "my" dreams and "my" journey regardless of what was around me. ... Thank you for the encouragement and honesty ."

"I was searching for meaning, validation of my own beliefs, and an outlet for my beliefs, and like-mindedness."

"You have made a diffence in my life like no other has. You helped me find my courage and self confidence. Because of that I was able to confront my issues. And heal. You provided me with a safe place and the knowledge and tools to bring about a change in my whole life."

"I absolutely "know" that my life is changed forever. I "know" that meeting you and this mentorship is making the rest of my life everything I have dreamed about. Thank you from the depths of my soul."

Melanie Walk, Illinois

Mel is currently practicing EFEL in southern Illinois and is a teacher in the local school system. She is focusing on Equine experiential work with children and is incorporating her very special gifts of holding space for troubled youth and the magic of horses to help support her program on emotional health and wellbeing.

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"I wish I could really articulate how much I've changed and grown since January. I've also been able to see the changes in others that are fortunate enough to experience what you are creating at Epona Ridge... I came because I have been searching for a career/profession/vocation and the only thing I knew was I wanted whatever it was to make my heart sing and expand my soul. What I realized is that for all of the inner work I had done in my life in the career area I’d been looking so much outside of myself.

I looked at the Mentorship Program and liked that it took place over several months and was not just a week long thing then we were sent out into the world. "

"Throughout the mentorship program and other workshops I’ve attended at Epona Ridge there was always an emphasis on opening to and following one’s heart energy, something I feel you model for us. For me the time has helped me to go from understanding the concept of heart energy to really feeling heart energy and alignment. You taught me the lesson not just with the horses but in everyday living the value of rocking back and breathing and of feeling where my energy is."

Dr. Nancy Kehr, California

I came to Epona Ridge to reintegrate and challenge myself into the world of others (and horses)

in a spiritual and heartfelt way. Mission accomplished....

2) How did I help you? In other words, what did you experience and how has that impacted your life?

Response:

Experiential learning has opened the doors...as well as, forged the relationships that were fostered and

cultivated. I was able to look to the child within....the inner wisdom of the horse, connecting

with others, and sharing this experience with a group of strong, beautiful woman. The opportunities were

immense for spiritual healing and growth and I will never forget the time spent on that beautiful mountain

in Asheville, NC. I am deeply grateful and appreciative for the opportunity of studying with you, Barbara

at Epona Ridge. I loved the journey....and love the journey that I will carry with me, in my present moments

throughout this lifetime, and then some.

Love, Robin