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While many of you can’t join us in person right now as we uphold COVID-19 travel restrictions and guidelines, join Kelly in saying hello to the EQUUS herd in Santa Fe, NM. Let us bring the herd to you!
What would you do if you suddenly realized you were a racist? In the midst of the peaceful Black Lives Matter worldwide protests I took it upon myself to dive into as much antiracist material as I could get my hands on. My Kindle running hot, I read in a weekend White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander and listened to Brené Brown’s recent interview with Ibram X. Kendi author of the New York Times bestseller How to Be an Antiracist. I read papers and articles. I had difficult conversations with loved ones.
If you’ve ever been to a circus or traveled somewhere exotic, you may have encountered elephants either doing tricks or taking tourists on rides through the forest. How are such enormous creatures trained? All around the world a tragic process is still being implemented by elephant handlers. They start by training the elephant when he is a baby and weighs only 200 pounds. At that stage, they shackle his legs to a twelve-foot length of chain and stake the chain into the ground. During this process many other unspeakable events happen to the baby elephant.
Society points the finger at the individual—to raise a good kid, to be healthy, to recycle, to reduce carbon emissions, to succeed financially—but it’s a deflection to keep us engaged in our own personal choices rather than hold the society at large—our leaders, our institutions our policies—responsible for creating a culture that supports us to thrive.
Aedín is a small black six-year-old quarter horse mare who was saved from the kill pens last year. When she arrived three months ago to live at our ranch she had not been trained or ridden. In horsemanship terms, you would say she hadn’t been ‘broken’. Broken––such an incisively appropriate term for what we do to horses (and people I would add). In order to feel safe on the back of one thousand pounds of wild horse muscle, trainers notoriously intimidate, bully and manipulate their four-legged companions into submission, rendering them emotionally numb and spiritually bereft. Cowboys call these horses proudly ‘yes ma’am-ers’. I call them a tragedy.
“People talk about getting back to normal,” said a colleague the other day, a senior executive who has been working from home for a large health care organization since the lockdown. “Well, I don’t want to go back to normal! Normal was insane!”
She’s right. Normal American life was insane.
In this MoxieCast we are joined by Kelly Wendorf and Lead Mare Artemis. Kelly Wendorf is a coach, mother, spiritual mentor and founding partner of Equus, an 11-acre experiential learning & discovery campus in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Horses are co-facilitators in their work at the ranch, and much of Kelly’s wisdom on leadership has emerged from her life-long observations of the horse herd, a 56-million-year-old system.
We have a lot to learn from animals – just ask Kelly Wendorf, whose life’s work shows us what we can learn from horses about leadership. Kelly sat down with us for a chat about her work with horses, her journey to coaching and her upcoming book, Flying Lead Change (out October 2020).
We need each other. We always have, but now in the times of lockdown our need for support and camaraderie is probably more important than ever. If you’ve never been a part of an intentional circle or support group of some kind, you are in for a treat.
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Like anyone who has ambitions, dreams and desires, you deserve someone in your corner to assist you to be accountable to your best self, and support you to be committed to creating a life of meaning and purpose. Whether you be a leader of an organization, an artist or a stay-at-home parent, your most inspired life awaits you. Coaching empowers the frequently hidden capacities and gifts that lay dormant inside each person. Once those are seen and liberated, and limiting narratives and constructs disassembled, clients discover they have the capacity to create the life they’ve always wanted. Coaching sessions are in-person or remotely by phone or Zoom. EQUUS Coaches are ICF certified and masterfully intuitive, deeply partnering with each client towards their most ambitious goals and dreams.Six month minimum commitment required.
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Starting at $550 for initial coaching consultation, and ranging from $6,500 – $100,000 for long-term life-changing engagement.
Initial Coaching Consultation
Curious about coaching but not sure what it entails or what it can do for you? Start with an initial 75 minute deep dive initial coaching consultation. Your EQUUS coach and you will meet via Zoom. You’ll prepare in advance with how you want to use this time, and what you want out of your session. Your coach will ask powerful questions, you will give honest answers. Together you will examine and explore what’s going on in your life, and you’ll discover limiting beliefs and narratives that are holding you back. Your coach will hold a profoundly deep space of presence-based awareness, and bring the fullness of their mastery and experience. If your coach feels it’s needed, they might bring some neuroscience, somatic awareness practices, ground you through some nature-based wisdom, challenge you towards new possibilities and transmit what they know is possible for you. By the time you are finished, you will have a renewed outlook on life, an aligned sense of purpose, and a fresh, expansive sense of possibility.
Only people who purchase one of these initial consultations are eligible for consideration as a longer-term EQUUS coaching client. Longer-term coaching clients invest between $6,500 – $100,000, depending on the duration and rhythm of the coaching container you and your coach design together.
A twelve-week course co-facilitated by EQUUS Founding Partner Kelly Wendorf and EQUUS Faculty Adam Ramcharan designed to assist empathic and sensitive people to navigate the complicated world of human dynamics with healthy self-entitlement, clear and respectful self-agency and self-care. Classes are weekly for two hours, with light homework and assignments in between. There will be a one-week break in the middle of the course.
Price – $2200.00
Space is very limited, so book your place today.
Each Class is 2 hours, live on ZOOM, with Kelly Wendorf and Ramcharan.
Home study work.
Participants will learn to:
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Set healthy and appropriate boundaries
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Say no
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Say yes honestly
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Free yourself from the compulsion to please people
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Defining and claiming a healthy sense of self/self-worth
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Relate to others as equals
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Express your needs without fear, guilt, or aggression
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Resolve conflicts with a win-win attitude
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Reclaim your power rather than give it away
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Judge what is objectively fair in interpersonal matters
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Directly communicate with confidence, honesty, care, and compassion
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Discern what is ‘yours’ what is ‘theirs’
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Relational literacy – have an understanding of interpersonal dynamics —blueprint of toxic personalities/mindsets that affect one’s ability to be assertive
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Recognize micro-aggressions
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Recognize power imbalances and address them before you get run over
Register Today For customer support please email us or phone: 1.844.378.8773.
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Ken Tohee
Ken Tohee
Ken Tohee comes from the Ioway and Otoe people of Oklahoma. He takes care of the EQUUS herd and particularly enjoys learning about horses. When not working at EQUUS, Ken spends time involved in Native American spirituality and Native American music. He loves the animals, the horses and the environment. He particularly loves Kassie the donkey.
Thunder Bear
Thunder Bear
Thunder Bear Yates comes from Nambe Pueblo, and is a speaker of the traditional Tewa language. His father was the Buffalo Keeper of Nambe. Thunder Bear loves working outdoors and with his hands, and works hard at EQUUS to take care of the EQUUS herd and the property. Thunder Bear cares for the environment and is assisting EQUUS to restore the land, plants and trees to well-being. He is also a Cultural Advisor to EQUUS.
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This combination of experiential and distance learning introductory course teaches you the foundations of the EQUUS model and approach to leading and living over 8 weeks. Amidst global change and disruption, we are being called to be our best selves. What conditions can we create for ourselves to thrive in these times? How can we lead others to do the same? Ancient principles and practices show us the way forward. Join EQUUS Founding Partner and author of Flying Lead Change, 56 Million Years of Wisdom for Leading and Living, Kelly Wendorf in this introductory 8-Week online course and learn how our proven model can bring a thriving transformational change in your life, today.
Next Course, Registration Opens August 1st:
Thursdays: Sept 30th – Nov 18th, 8 AM – 9:30 AM MT
Thriving and Joy as a state, a beingness within, and a result of living out these tenants has been deeply felt through and since our last class, I think for the first time. I could not help notice how points of (perceived) weakness or limitation became areas which allowed me to indeed, thrive.
– Lisa D.
Price – $1499.00
Space is very limited, so book your place today.
Each Course is 1.5 hours, live on ZOOM, with Kelly Wendorf.
Home study work.
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Register Today For customer support please email us or phone: 1.844.378.8773.
Katie
We adopted sweet Katie from the Espanola Animal Shelter. We’ve been told she is a purebred Australian Cattle Dog. But we think she’s actually a Northern New Mexico Butterfly Sheppard. She spends her days chasing butterflies and their shadows. When not herding butterflies, she’s coaxing Molly to play games of tumble and roll.
Éowyn ‘Wynnie’
Named after Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings character who was a fierce shieldmaiden, Wynnie is indeed idealistic, spirited, brave and high-minded. Adopted from the animal shelter, she spends her days in the piñon forests of Thunderbird Ridge, and hunts alongside her friend Lizzie.
Elizabeth
Elizabeth ‘Lizzie’ – Lizzie is a tuxedo cat, adopted from the animal shelter. When she arrived at Thunderbird Ridge, she had lived virtually her whole life in a cage, having come to the shelter as a kitten, and raised for over a year in that environment. Now she’s an adventuresome hunter, and is the first to enthusiastically greet our EQUUS clients at the driveway.
Molly
Super happy, joyful and content – Molly’s calm and welcoming presence soothes us all as she keeps a watchful eye on well, everything.