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Almost every issue in public discourse today is politicized, polarized, and fanaticized. Even a topic like ‘children in cages’ is rendered political instead of ethical and moral. What is happening?
Hope flirts on the horizon, yet we have several more months of loss in-store––loss of lives, of livelihoods, homes, holiday gatherings, opportunities, of friendships, memories and security.
Kelly joins me today to share her flashpoints in life and how she found her passion for horses. She describes how her father influenced her work today, the influential people in her life, and how working with horses affected her career trajectory…
We need your help spreading the word about Flying Lead Change. This is a book for anyone who wants to transform their leadership. See more below about how to purchase the book and register for your free seat in the “How to Lead a Transformative Life” workshop.
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!
On a hot, humid afternoon, a small dog-like creature nibbles on fruit suspended above a lush fern-covered ground. The thick jungle forest is bursting with sound, as this is a time when mammal life explodes with innovative evolutionary options. Nearby our earliest ancestor (also small) moves past, vying for the same sweet delicacy. For a moment the two lock eyes.
Recently a friend asked me how I was doing. “I’m angry,” was my simple reply. At once they rushed in to comfort me with advice on how to deal with my anger as if anger were some kind of a parasite, disease, or unwanted house guest. I stopped them, “No…I’m really grateful for it. Anger is very useful for me.”
How do we become the people we want to be? How do we create a more just society? These are the questions Kelly Wendorf has spent her life exploring and finding innovative approaches for. Neuroscience says we are wired for love and connection and to understand that we are one – which means we have the blueprint for happiness and fulfilled potential within us. So what ignites the blueprint?
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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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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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Building Life Boats – Practical Advice for Building Financial, Emotional and Spiritual Resilience in These Times
This will be a great grounding seminar providing practical advice for building financial, emotional, and spiritual resilience in these chaotic times. Our panelists will cover everything from setting up a virtual workspace successfully to how to protect your mind and soul during a time of crisis.
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Kelly Wendorf, MCC, MECD
Founding Partner
Kelly Wendorf is an executive and personal coach, published author, spiritual mentor, and socially responsible entrepreneur. Her early experiences were vitally and deeply shaped by the natural and ancient world around her where she learned a way of listening to forces within people, nature and moments. This unconventional education grants her a gift of perception that liberates untapped potential and hidden gifts within individuals and organizations, helping them to solve problems differently through a wisdom-informed and wholeness approach.
Panelists
Mary Elaine Baker
President, Co-Founder
Patriot Advantage
Mary Elaine Baker is president and co-founder with her husband Brett of Patriot Advantage, a military spouse and veteran-owned boutique business that provides virtual administrative and marketing solutions for business owners and entrepreneurs who are task saturated. Recognizing the untapped potential of military spouses who often have difficulty maintaining traditional employment, they conceived of Patriot Advantage not just as a business opportunity but also as a vehicle for creating positive social impact by matching this talent pool and others who share the company’s values with entrepreneurs who needed to focus their time on their core business.
Topic: Running a Small Business Virtually
J. Scott Strachan, CPCC, PCC, MECD
Founding Partner
EQUUS
As a socially conscious educator, serial entrepreneur, speaker and facilitator, he brings a wealth of experience to his clients. Scott dynamically engages with organizational leaders, business groups and private clients to evoke positive, sustainable changes and expanded possibilities informed by what is already possible within them. His ability to illuminate the hidden strengths and capacities within his clients makes him a trusted companion to those who are strongly motivated toward transformation. Scott has worked within many highly matrixed companies, such as Microsoft and Cisco, to assist them with shifting their organizational culture towards one that is more conscious, aware and human.
Topic: Financial Reframes, Options and Tips
Daniel Weil, CPCC
Founder, DNW Associates
EQUUS Faculty
Based in the foundation of the Co-Active® Model, Dan’s programs incorporate a lifetime’s unique experience, perspectives, curiosity, wisdom and an expansive ability to listen. He works collaboratively in his program offerings that are customized for private individuals, leaders, executives, or with groups. Dan’s specialties include Brand Development Coaching where he is especially gifted at assisting clients to discover the soul of their work and how it is authentically and powerfully expressed in the world. Dan also creates and facilitates workshops and retreats, designed to build connection — to inspire attendees from within themselves.
Topic: Service as a Way to Wellness
Adam Ram Charan, B.C.S.T.
EQUUS Faculty
Adam Ram Charan has been passionate about exploring consciousness through meditation and healing work for decades. A native of New York, he has spent the greater part of 30 years in India where he gained a deep appreciation and understanding of spiritual awareness practices and intuitive wisdom which finds expression in his practice of integrative bodywork and transformational coaching. He combines this with extensive training in holistic therapeutic approaches including Craniosacral Biodynamics, Somatic Movement Education, Holistic massage, Somatic Experiencing, Ayurvedic massage, Thai bodywork, Myofascial Release, Reiki, Pranic healing, and more. He received his coaching training and certification through Coacharya in Chennai, India.
Topic: Somatic Anchors to Presence and Groundedness
Niccole Toral, MA, LPCC, CDWF, TEP, Vision Quest Guide
EQUUS Faculty
Over the last 17 years, Niccole spent time as an apprentice under respected indigenous healers from the highlands of the Peruvian Andes, North American First Nations, and Mexico. During these apprenticeships, she underwent intense spiritual initiations, which became the matrix for her approaches to healing. Niccole specializes in Shamanic and Nature based ceremonies inherited from her North and South American ancestors and teachers during her training. She incorporates these ancient healing techniques to deepen a person’s experience of their loving and transformation so they may more fully inhabit who they authentically are.
Topic: Ancient Wisdom Practices and ‘Larger Perspective’ Spiritual Reframes
Flying Lead Change
56 Million Years of Wisdom for Leading and Living
This powerfully moving and instructional field guide for being human, published by Sounds True, is available from all major online booksellers. Flying Lead Change positions EQUUS as a leader in the field of transformational change in the personal and organizational sectors
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A portion of this book’s proceeds will go to Tewa Women United. Tewa Women United is a socially inclusive, indigenous-women founded and operated non-profit: “Nurturing and celebrating the collective power of beloved families, communities, and Nung Ochuu Quiyo (Earth Mother).”
For leaders at work, at home, and in our communities—an essential guide to nature-based leadership inspired by the wisdom of indigenous teachings and horses. Is there a common element to the challenges and crises of our modern age? If so, it must be disconnection—from each other, our planet, and the sense that our lives have purpose and meaning. Where can we turn for answers? In Flying Lead Change, leadership teacher Kelly Wendorf offers a new approach to leading and living inspired by two profound sources of ancient wisdom: original peoples and Equus (the horse), grounded in evidence-based principles of neuroscience. In her groundbreaking EQUUS training program, Wendorf teaches a way of leadership modeled on a 56 million-year-old system of the horse herd––a path that has allowed humans and horses alike to survive the kinds of global and societal threats we now face, such as climate change and mass extinction. In horsemanship, a “flying lead change” allows a running horse to respond with breathtaking grace to changing conditions. “Collectively, we need a similar physics-defying maneuver,” Wendorf writes. “This book is for the called—thought leaders, visionaries, parents, creatives, and all those who sense we are being asked to participate in humanity’s ‘flying change’ through the way we live, love, and lead.”
Presence as a Coaching Tool
Coacharya Coaching Colloquium
Wednesday, July 17
9pm IST / 10:30am CST
Free • Zoom
This panel discussion features five coaches who each implement their own specialized approach to coaching by integrating various unique tools and methodologies based on their respective backgrounds. They will dialogue with each other and webinar attendees about how their coaching presence facilitates breakthrough learning in their clients. We will also explore ways to enhance the coaching environment through invoking the power of our clients’ presence.
This panel is in honor of EQUUS launching a 30-hour coaching course on presence-based coaching inspired by contemplative wisdom called The Selfless Coach, with EQUUS Founder Kelly Wendorf and EQUUS Faculty Adam Ramcharan as trainers. The course starts late October, early November. CEUs will be available.
Panelists
Kelly Wendorf, PCC, MECD
J. Scott Strachan, CPCC, PCC, MECD
Adam Ramcharan
Dan Weil, CPCC
Rebekkah Goldsmith
Our Beginning
EQUUS Co-Founders Kelly Wendorf and J. Scott Strachan began on completely different paths. Kelly, a mother of two, was working as a horse trainer, coach, mentor, and facilitator in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and developing The EQUUS Experience®. Scott was living on a boat in California, working as an executive /personal coach, culture consultant, and facilitator.
Kelly and Scott met when they were both invited to a coach’s summit in Florida. Though they had many things in common, when Kelly described to Scott the part of her work that included horses, Scott expressed his indifference towards horses saying that in his opinion horses were ‘1200 pound beasts with brains the size of walnuts and it made for a bad combination!’
Kelly invited Scott to come to Santa Fe and try the EQUUS Experience®. Within twenty minutes, Scott held a new perspective and appreciation for horses, and their powerful ability to create change. He asked Kelly why she had been keeping this work a secret, and immediately invested himself to change that. He traded his boat shoes for cowboy boots and moved out to Santa Fe.
Starting a business together is never a first recommendation for a new couple, but Kelly and Scott are no ordinary pair. From the beginning they shared a passion for creating conditions where people and organizations could transform. The couple continued Kelly’s work of EQUUS and began the search for a property on which to not only call home, but to create a campus for guided self-discovery.
While on this search, they met with Four Seasons Rancho Encantado. During this meeting, Scott and Kelly were informed of an 11-acre estate next door that had stood empty for eight years, suffering from years of neglect. They committed themselves to fixing it up and creating an environment befitting EQUUS’s quickly growing, high-performing clientele. Their journey would require exactly what they empower their clients to do – leverage their gifts, strengths and crystal clear intention.
This is what they continue to do every day.
Scott and Kelly take special care to work within the Traditional Indigenous protocols of the area, and engage with the Tesuque Pueblo governance.They have received express permission to do the EQUUS work. Tesuque Elder, Kathy Sanchez, came to the property, blessed the land, blessed each of the horses, and blessed their work. They embed this protocol each day by formally acknowledging the Traditional carers, past present and future, in every opening of their workshops and retreats, and thanking them for EQUUS’s ability to do its work on the land. In ongoing support of their neighbors, EQUUS donates their property and workshop space to Tewa Women United, a multicultural and multiracial organization founded and led by Native women.
The property has become Thunderbird Ridge – an Experiential Discovery and Learning Campus. It is the home of five horses, a donkey named Kassie, two dogs, and two barn cats. It is a place that embraces every client that steps foot onto the land, and places themselves into the powerful tutelage of the horses. Each and every person, without exception, leaves there transformed.
They are still at the beginning. There is so much more about to unfold – for EQUUS, for its clients, and for you. We invite you to follow along with us as we continue to grow and make an immeasurably powerful impact in the world.
Welcome to EQUUS, we are so pleased that you are a part of this journey.
Stories of Transformation
Couple’s Retreat
Lucy and Robert, married for 28 years, seeking to renew and revitalize their relationship.
Government Agency
Change Culture of Department Through Long-Term Contract.
International Consultancy Firm
The client sought a deeply personal experience for each participant, and a transformational change.
Women, Power & Money Retreat
A three-day retreat for 12 professional women from major national corporations, educational institutions and privately held businesses.
