Inspiration & Influences
Our interdisciplinary program has been inspired and influenced by a wide variety of people from diverse fields and consequently includes tools, techniques, processes and approaches from interpersonal neurobiology, somatics, presence-based and body-mind-spirit coaching methods, mindfulness, neuroscience, quantum physics, leadership, personal development, and transpersonal psychology and more.
Our program is a synthesis of all of these to produce an interdisciplinary and integrated training program – not just an assortment of ideas. It also aims to develop equine experiential learning facilitators who are deeply committed to their own learning and development, to an inquiry-centered approach to coaching, to cultivating mindfulness and awareness in themselves and their clients, and to placing themselves in service to the growth and well-being of their clients.
We gratefully stand on the shoulders of others and acknowledge those who have gone before us, and without whom we would not have evolved to where we are today. Our influences include, but are not limited to the following:
Equine Experiential Learning
Linda Kohanov and various Epona graduates, Barbara Rector, Patricia Broersma, Gestalt Equine Institute of the Rockies (GEIR), E3A, EAGALA, HEAL Leigh Shambo, Ariana Strozzi, The McCormicks, Allan Hamilton, Paul Hunting, Terry Murrray, Dr Beverley Kane…
Horsemanship
Carolyn Resnick, Klaus Hempfling, Nevzorov, Michale Bevilacqua, Imke Spilker, Sherry Ackerman, Pamela Au, Tom Nagel, Magali Delgado & Frederic Pignon, Friendship Training, Jenny Rolfe, Phillipe Karl, Paul Belasik, Margrit Coates, Harry Whitney, Ray Hunt, Pat Parelli, Mark Rashid, Linda Tellington Jones…
Leadership & Martial Arts
Lance Secretan, David Rock, Max DePree, Ken Wilbur, Ginny Whitelaw and Wendy Palmer along with various Akido and Tai Chi teachers, Theory U, Person Centered Planning and Appreciative Inquiry…
Philosophical, Esoteric, Metaphysical
Eckhart Tolle, David Hawkins, Albert Villoldo, Joseph Campbell, Joseph Chiltern Pearce, Siddha Yoga, Akido and Tai Chi, Don Miguel Ruiz, Judith Anodea Smith, Caroline Myss, Dennis Lewis …
Neuroscience, Quantum Physics, and Animal and Human Behaviour
Institute of Heartmath,Temple Grandin, Bruce Lipton, Rupert Sheldrake, Peter Levine, Bessel van der Kolk, Laurence Heller, Aline la Pierre, Steve Hoskinson, Stephen Porges, Karla McLaren, Daniel Siegel, Daniel Goleman and Richard Boyatzis, Jaak Panksepp, Christian DeQuincey, Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini & Richard Lannon, Brene Brown, Richard Davidson, Sharon Begley, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Amit Goswami, David Perlmutter, Gary Zukav, Ruby Gibson, Dr. Marshall Rosenburg, Byron Katie, Margaret Wheatley…
In addition, our team has the support from USA-based Performance Transformation with the launch of the Accretive Coaching process through the Kanthaka School of Equine Facilitated Learning as the Australia/Asia Pacific representative for this authorised instructor training.