Kathy Pike , Coaching With Horses, Approved Facilitator in Equine Facilitated Learning and Coaching, Mary Barrett, Reiki Master and Life Coach provides powerful and heart based coaching with horses. Mary includes creative arts to integrate the lessons and

Coaching Sessions

The approach of White Horse Coaching (WHC) is that every person is resourceful, resilient, creative and whole. Each of us has the inner knowing to guide and inform our lives. Heart To Heart Coaching With Horses offers a path of personal learning, growth and healing on every level. Mind and body work in unison for expanded self awareness and understanding.

Early messages about who we are and what we are capable of can create a self-awareness that is false and a critical voice that dominates and inhibits our lives and relationships.

Horses are highly sensitive to the energy of human emotion and body language. Coaching with a horse is reflective in nature. The horse and person interact without an agenda and the horse's actions give feedback, reflecting what is true for the person in the moment, providing immediate learning, insight and self awareness. Authentic communication increases as the client's understanding of the horse's nature is deepened.

Coaching sessions are on the ground and no horse experience is necessary. Three sessions are highly recommended.

I also offer Reiki, an energetic healing practice, with a horse in attendance. Horses provide a grounded and powerful presence that enhances this healing experience. Reiki is a great addition to all equine learning work.

Heart To Heart

There are many benefits to coaching with horses. Every client has a unique experience. Some of the things that can be gained include:

Expanded self awareness and interaction with life
Living in the present moment
Understanding emotion as information
Heart-based leadership
Increased self acceptance, confidence and personal power
Increasingly authentic relationships
Living more creatively
Discovering potential and passion
Trusting what you know
Compassion for self and others
A deeper sense of connection to the natural world
Moving out of false self beliefs and limitations

Key elements of coaching include moving from a focus on integrating old trauma to living in the present; from why me? why this? to what's next? what now?; from resolving the past to visioning for the future; from looking backward to focusing forward; from figuring out why to figuring out how and what.

As human beings, we are living with challenges, great and small. Whatever they may be - physical, emotional, mental, spiritual; relationships, transition, purpose and health; trauma, fear, confidence or grief - we can shift our energy, move into compassion, personal integrity and power while releasing what is false for what is authentic, accepting our potential and creating our truth. The wisdom and healing power of Horse is waiting for us.

Mary Barrett

Mary Barrett -Life Coach
Equine Reiki Master,
B.A. Art and Human Development from Lesley University, Facilitator in Creative and Expressive Arts, Authentic Movement and Somatic Education

As a child I played at being a horse, jumping over picnic table benches and galloping across my backyard. Then the day arrived when a real horse came into our family. I could play with her - sliding down her backside into a deep snowdrift, chasing her through the neighbor's garden to bring her home, riding bareback and galloping up our long driveway. Spending time with our pretty mare, doing nothing in particular and having no agenda was timeless. I felt safe. She and I were fully alive in the natural world I thrived in.
My life led me away from horses for many years. I had children and became a Homeschool Educator. I kept my connection to the natural world by spending many hours in it. I was drawn to study and receive training in methods of somatic awareness and integration, the creative and expressive arts and I worked with children, adolescent girls and women for many years.
In mid life my longing for the company of horses returned. My path went in an unexpected direction and I was faced with several painful transitions. This path brought me to Equine Learning and a horse named Zorro who offered me his unconditional acceptance and wisdom. This was a transformational experience and a turning point directing me forward with a great sense of what life had to offer. I felt ready for the next best thing!

I work on Cape Cod in Massachusetts and I am honored to coach and witness the process of every client. Each session is always perfect. I trust my client's inner knowing and the wisdom of the horse.