Hippocrene Spring--Epona
Awaken Your Senses... Personal Growth through Equine Experiential Learning
Next class begins December 2009
We are currently accepting applications for "The Art of Listening Within" Personal Growth Intensive and Facilitator Training Program beginning December 2010.
June 2009 class
Facilitator's Kathy Jamie, Tracey Bish, and Lori Halliday completed their program June 2009. This promises to be a great group of facilitators with a diverse background of unique interests and gifts that they will incorporate into their offerings.
"The Art of Listening Within" is a rich program that incorporates equine experiential learning activities, lecture, reading materials, somatic activities that enhance a greater sense of self awareness and heigtened awareness of others, dynamics of relationships, tools for self reflection and appreciation, and the basics of group dynamics.
Somatic awareness exercise
In order to hold space for another being, animal or human-- as a group facilitator, partner in life, parent, friend, family member, employee or employee we must understand our Self and gain tools so that we may navigate our relationships from a place of awareness and enlightenment.
"The Art of Listening Within" is a series of sessions spread over several months in order to support the integration of new ideas, ways of being, and experiencing life. We will meet for 5 four day sessions and in between you will be given experiential and informational assignments to enhance your learning and spiritual journey. While we will teach you the tools to take this work to a professional level, this program is for anyone wanting to experience life more fully and create relationships that support happiness and joy-beginning with the most important relationship-that to your Self.
Carl Jung believed that the foremost drive within humans is towards wholeness and the realization of the Self. "The Art of Listening Within" is that journey- to reconnect with our most basic desire to feel the joy that resides within each of us and to then share that with others. It is in sharing our most authentic self that we experience joy and a sense of fulfillment.
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"To live deeper we have to go to the places that help us find slower rhythm. But simply going to these places is not enough. We have to let these places touch us, change us, speak to us. We have to be able to listen with the very cells of our being to truly receive what the place has to offer to us. If you can listen, you will hear the truth you may have forgotten, the truth that lets you sit still, the truth that who you are is enough." Excerpt from Dance, Oriah Mountain Dreamer |
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This program is limited to 6 individuals so that we may provide an intimate experience highlighted by personal attention. While we are not teaching pychotherapy at Hippocrene Spring, Cathryn's life experiences and professional training in integral counseling psychology deeply inform her perspectives and her abilities to share this unique work with others.
Please contact Cathryn for further information and more details.
415 810 2740 HippocreneSpring@aol.com
Tracey and Bella
Tracey Bish Photography
Please contact Cathryn Clerc 415 810 2740
Facilitator Trainee Testimonials
Read what graduate trainees are saying about their experience.
"The Facilitator Training Program at Hippocrene Spring has been one of the most powerful experiences I have had on my life's journey. It has provided an opening for me to go deeper and to learn more about who I am in this world and what I have to offer. There is so much richness and love in what I have learned, in all the materials presented, that I know that this is one of the ways that can make a definite shift in this world.
Cathryn has an amazing gift in sharing her knowledge and wisdom. I have learned so much and reawakened this very wisdom within myself......I look forward to carrying this work out into the world as I believe that many people will respond to it. I am so grateful for all that I have learned."
Kathy Jaime, Aptos, CA
"Cathryn, her herd and the Hippocrene Spring trainings offer a unique pathway into the mysterious landscape of emotional messages, sociosensual awareness, boundaries, relationship, and the artisit in all of us. Out in nature with the herd she provides a safe and sacred container which gently allows deep personal growth and soul work to emerge with it's potent messages.
She encourages us as we return to the wisdom of the body and reminds us of the Gift "Listening Within". Truely a life altering and enhancing journey."
Lori Halliday, Aptos, CA
"I feel that Cathryn has given me the skills and knowledge to go out into the world and start a program that works for me. In addition, the program [has been] a great extention to my own personal growth experience and the journey that I am on.
I would recommend this program to anyone who is looking to begin their journey in Equine Experiential Learning or furthering their own personal growth experience.
Cathryn is a great teacher that has a great presence and brings so much knowledge and passion to her work."
Tracey Bish, Boise, Idaho
New Movie
The Horse Boy is now playing in local theaters. This looks like a beautiful movie that speaks to the heart and the incredible healing power of horses. Please check out the trailer for dates and theaters near you. http://www.hippocrenespring.com/apps/videos/videos/show/6463200-horse-boy-trailer
Recent Videos
New Offerings
We are offering some one day workshops-check out our One Day Workshops page.
Daily Inspiration
Most of us struggle with how to be more present in our daily life. How do we silence the internal chatter and let go of the stress in our lives so that we may be more present and experience a deeper sense of connection to all that is. Try this: take 5 minutes in the morning and do some stream of consciousness writing. Just go with the flow...and you may be surprised by what unfolds in the NOW.
Testimonials
"What a fabulous experience. I never imagined this could be so fulfilling. This weekend (workshop) has been a rich experience that I will carry with me into all areas of my life. This has been a wonderful gift to myself, and I thank you and the horses from the bottom of my heart."
Kathryn, San Francisco, CA
"Cathryn, ...your great sense of compassion, your gentle ways, and your wisdom carried me through a very challenging time in my life. I came to you because of your counseling training but our ten weekly sessions with the horses brought me more insight than years of one on one therapy. I am so very grateful to have found you and your herd!! With deep appreciation."
Sandra C., Bay Area
