Training & Certification as an Equine Assisted Coach

Help people to live their true selves authentically and from the heart.

Cavalo Coaching Ausbildung, Coaching lernen mit Supervision

Profession of the new age

Horses connect in ways that often cannot be expressed through words, but are well understood by our hearts on a deep level. Horses bring us into our hearts and feelings. Horses are living mirrors and therefore powerful partners in personal development.

Equine assisted coaching uses the power of horses to mirror people and initiate change.

You want to learn this healing work with horses? Supporting people in their process together with horses? Develop yourself and live your potential?

Then this training is just right for you on your way.

More about Cavalo Coaching

Trainer
Anna Kerckhoff de Sacchi

For more than 10 years now I am certified as EquusCoach and accompany people together with horses in equine coaching. I love this work and it gives me great pleasure to teach and pass it on myself. Since the year 2019 I offer the equine assisted coach training with us in Portugal. I call my “method” Cavalo Coaching, from the Portuguese Cavalo = horse.

In the training you will learn how to deal with horses and people in a respectful and trusting way in the context of equine assisted coaching. You learn and experience which practical exercises are applicable in which context.

Im Aussen Seminarraum . Cavalo Coaching Ausbildung 2021

Content of the training

Horsemanship & Horse Knowledge: Equine psychology, horse behavior, social behavior, instincts, herd rituals.
Language of horses, non-verbal communication
Reading and understanding horses
Safety aspects in the work with horses and coachees
Mindful and conscious interaction with horses and people
Coaching: Theory and Transfer
Coaching with the Work of Byron Katie: Theory and Exercises
Neuroplastic Basics & Heart Brain Coherence
Meditations
Practical coaching exercises with horses
Self-reflection and feedback round

Cavalo Coaching Ausbildung. Teamübung mit Pferd

Requirements

To begin the training, participation in the preparatory seminars is a prerequisite. You are flexible in terms of time. You can do all the seminars in one year or spread them out over longer periods of time. Only the two training weeks should be attended within 12 months if possible. Exceptions are possible by arrangement.

Participation in the Monty Roberts Introduction Course (I do not currently offer this course myself, but colleagues do) or the course
Join-Up® / Natural Horsemanship
additionally the participation in the
RETREAT – Journey to your true self
is necessary (german) or the
RETREAT – Journey to your true Self
(english).
Another prerequisite is the willingness to work on one’s own issues and to enter into an open exchange with the other participants based on trust and respect.
Horse experience is not required. For those who have no experience with horses at all, there is the possibility of an additional basic course.

Dates of the prerequisite seminars:

RETREAT – Journey to Your True Self

15. – 19. Mai 2023, Barão de São João

Join Up® & Natural Horsemanship

May 22-26, 2023 & October 16-19, 2023, Barão de São João.

Dates of the training

In 2023/24, the training will take place in English. Translation into German and explanation of understanding is given.

1st week of training
October 23-27, 2023
2nd week of training
April 22-26, 2024

Place: Barão de São João, Algarve, Portugal
max. 6 participants

Training costs

– 2 training seminar weeks at intervals of 4-12 months on site in Portugal
– 6 Online seminars
– Conclusion & Certificate

Price incl. VAT, plus accommodation and meals

€ 3.990,-

Who is the training for?

– Coaches, Consultants & Therapists (m/f/d)

– Interested with horse experience

– Interested parties without horse experience can attend appropriate courses to get started.

– no riding experience is necessary

Procedure – 6 Online Seminars

After the first week of training, we all meet regularly online for exchange, supervision and mutual support. All participants are invited to conduct practice coaching sessions with coachees starting in the first week of training. These are presented and discussed as examples.

There are 6 online appointments of 1.5-2 hours in length.

Conclusion and beginning

After the second week of training, during which what has been learned is deepened and practiced, a practical examination takes place on the last day. For this, the prospective coach guides a coachee through a coaching session.

Upon successful completion of the exam, each participant will receive a certificate as an Equine Assisted Cavalo Coach.

This is the completion of the training and the beginning of your own equine assisted coaching career. Even after graduation, I am available for questions and supervision. Furthermore, there is the possibility to gain further experience as an assistant at my seminars. No one is thrown in at the deep end and left alone. The herd and I as the lead mare are always present.

Find your

Certified Cavalo Coach

Béatrice Esser (in Anna’s team), Barão/Portugal

Béatrice Esser, Cavalo Coach

About me
Name: Béatrice Esser
born: 1983 in Germany (NRW)
residing in: Portugal, from 2019
Mother tongues: German, French
Other languages: English, Dutch, Portuguese (basic knowledge)

I have been in close contact with horses since childhood. My natural curiosity about life and interest in the well-being of people and animals accompanies me to this day.
So in the summer of 2021 I came into contact with Anna and her horses and had the great fortune to experience the herd up close for half a year. In 2022 I then successfully completed the training as an equine assisted coach with and by Anna. Since then, I have been offering one-on-one coaching and one-on-one guidance, both on-site with a horse and by telephone consultation.
The wealth of experience from the past years, the work with people and also animals form my trustworthy and solid basis for this wonderful work.
As a coach I support you in a protected environment, with an open ear and non-judgmental, to guide you towards your personal solution! Do you feel addressed? Do you have a request? Do you want to know more about me? Feel free to contact me!
I look forward to seeing you!

Christine Stelzer (in Anna’s team), Barão/Portugal

Chris Stelzer, Cavalo Coach and Riding Instructor

For a long time I have worked with horses and people in different ways and in 2019 I have added Cavalo Coaching training to my repertoire. I not only apply the knowledge I learned in the training in coaching contexts, but it also helps me in my work as a riding instructor. Horses mirror our inner self. This helps us in our own reflective and further development. They mirror us in every interaction. Thus, the origin of many a training or riding difficulty lies within people, which the horse mirrors. My goal is to accompany encounters between people and horses and to help both grow together and feel an intimate connection.

Conny Kadia, Portugal (Coimbra)

Conny Kadia, Cavalo Coach in Central Portugal

Conny Kadia, née 1965 in Germany, lives in Portugal since 1992 and works with horses since 2003. After a career as a professional musician, in 2020 she dedicated herself to her passion with horses and now offers Equicoaching in her new project “Mondequus” – Connection Training (MCT) near Coimbra in Portugal.
“For a “re-connection” with nature, horses are fantastic. They have very healthy and honest instincts, horses can lead us to our roots. Equicoaching is a perfect combination for individual – and group coaching in private and professional life to find blockages and release them naturally!” cke
Since 2006 Conny Kadia has taken courses in Natural Horsemanship, has taken lessons in traditional Portuguese riding, has worked part time at various riding arenas, and does trail rides with her own horses.
In 2022 she has certified for “Equine Assisted Coach / Equicoaching” with instructor Anna Kerckhoff de Sacchi in Portugal/Algarve.
Since then she has been successfully working with people, her program includes the following training:
Equicoaching;
– individual and group coaching
– workshops Natural Horsewomenship
– home visits for training of horse and human in their region…
More info about Conny Kadia:
www.connykadia.com

Marie Thimm, near Hamburg

Training as an equine assisted Cavalo Coach 2022/23
More info to follow

Lahja Engelmann

Training as an equine assisted Cavalo Coach 2020/21
More info to follow

Alena Sidow

Training as an equine assisted Cavalo Coach 2020/21
More info to follow

Natasha Surkemper

Training as an equine assisted Cavalo Coach 2022/23
More info to follow

Participant testimonials

The Cavalo / Equine Assisted Coach workshop with Anna is not only a wonderful experience, but an incredibly beautiful and very enriching journey! Anna’s gentle, knowledgeable and experienced way of guiding us into the fascinating world of horses and equine assisted growth is truly unique – even as a “horse person” a whole new universe has opened up to me, and the benefits that transfer to my personal and professional life are another true treasure and blessing!

Daniela von SiebenthalCavalo Coach 2022/23

The healing energy that can be felt just by being with horses fascinates and impresses me deeply. Without doing anything in particular, without following a method – horses help us to get in touch with our truth and our true self. As if we were looking into our soul mirror. In my training as a horse coach I learn to use this “magic” for myself and others to find their very own answers to the questions that are present in the moment. Anna’s calm and gentle guidance through the learning process makes this training one of the most beautiful and transformative experiences in my life. Thank you very much for this!

Xenia RautenbergerCavalo Coach 2022/23

Training & Certification as an Equine Assisted Coach

Profession of the new age

Trainer
Anna Kerckhoff de Sacchi

Content of the training

Requirements

RETREAT – Journey to Your True Self