Equine Facilitated Personal Development
Why Horses?
Who Would Benefit from These Programs?
For corporate clients, we offer
Reported Benefits and Results

Windhorse Centre is located at Lothlorien Farm on beautiful Salt Spring Island, BC, and was founded by Jacqueline Sutton B.A. and Leslie Ross M.Ed. As psychotherapists they combine their eclectic therapeutic and spiritual training and skills with their passion for horses and natural horsemanship. Through Windhorse Centre they offer a variety of Equine Facilitated Personal Development programs that work in conjunction with the magical nature of horses. In addition Leslie and Jacqueline provide individual psychotherapy, shamanic healing sessions and other non-equine workshops. The vision of Windhorse Centre is to provide opportunities and experiences that promote self-empowerment, awareness, transformation and expansion of consciousness.

Is a co-creation between client, human facilitator and horse. Through experiential exercises with the horses an individual is able to explore feelings and behaviors. This provides an opportunity for an individual to process emotional issues that they identify as problematic in their life, and to gain a clearer understanding and awareness of how to relate to him/herself and others. Greater clarity and awareness brings healthier life choices.

Most of the experiential exercises with the horses are done on the ground. Horse experience and riding skills are not a pre-requisite.

Horses have the ability to be gifted guides and facilitators of human transformation. Being herd and prey animals, they are adept at perceiving subtle shifts in energy, movement and emotion in their environment. Because of this sensitivity, horses are skilled at responding to the inner experience of those around them, mirroring emotions, feelings and thoughts, both conscious and unconscious. Interaction with horses offers the opportunity to be in the present moment and reflect on the inner self, bringing it more fully into awareness. The result of this is a deepening connection to the self, where individuals can chose to live life with more authenticity, consciousness and joy.

Those experiencing:

• Transitional issues eg. Job/career, relationship, natural transitions such as aging and maturing
• Grief, depression and suicidal issues
• Abuse issues
• General life dissatisfaction or desire to expand themselves
• Desire for deepening spiritual connection and/or personal awareness
• Fear of horses
• Fear of maximizing your potential, of being who you truly are.

For Corporate Clients, We Offer:

• Team building
• Strengthening leadership skills
• Communication development
• Confidence building and self empowerment
• Heightened awareness for individuals’ roles
• Developing choice-making and goal-setting skills
• Developing self-responsibility

Reported Benefits and Results:

• Stress reduction
• Relationship building
• Enhanced clarity and awareness of the self
• Personal transformation
• Interspecies and interpersonal communication
• Development of emotional congruence (the internal emotional experience matches external expression)
• Expanded spiritual connection
• Fun, playfulness
• Improve self confidence and self esteem
• Resolution of fear of horses
• Increased body awareness