Transform Your Passion Into Purpose with The Horses Gift Certification Program
Are you fueled by a deep love for horses and a desire to make a difference in people's lives? Do you envision yourself leading a high-impact coaching business that not only fulfills you but also transforms the lives of your clients?
If so, you're in the right place.
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Meet Jennifer
Jennifer Malocha is a renowned trauma coach, equine-assisted facilitator, and founder of the Horses Gift Certification Program. With a personal history of healing from childhood trauma, she uses horses as emotional mirrors to guide others in transformative experiences. Her compassionate coaching method empowers clients to turn their history of trauma into their story of triumph.
Jennifer has over 15 years of horsemanship training with Buck Brannaman, integrating his techniques into her coaching. Through Winner Circle Coaching, she helps individuals and groups uncover emotional blocks and develop life skills with horses' support. Her signature approach, Redefining Your Story, encourages clients to embrace their inner strength.
The Horses Gift Certification Program offers a two-year journey blending trauma recovery, current trauma recovery practices, spirituality, and business mastery, equipping students to become skilled coaches. Jennifer provides personalized coaching and support, inspiring the next generation of equine-assisted coaches to create positive change in others' lives.
Core Certification Components
Horse-Human Connection: Focus on understanding horses' energy, behavior, and communication. Emphasize the importance of building trust and a deep connection with the horse, similar to your own long-term partnership with horses.
Most Current Trauma Recovery Methods: Teach clients how to process emotions, discover their authentic selves, and find healing through presence and awareness in the horse-assisted environment.
Indigenous Wisdom & Spiritual Practices: Share Indigenous teachings and how they can be applied to coaching. This can include elements like ceremony, respect for nature, mindfulness, and using horses as spirit guides.
Holistic Coaching Methods: Combine fitness principles, body awareness, and emotional healing. You can focus on how horses help create emotional breakthroughs and how students can use movement, energy, and mindfulness in coaching sessions.
Practical Coaching Skills: Training in how to structure and guide coaching sessions, how to facilitate powerful experiences for clients with horses, and how to read body language and energy—both of clients and horses.
Program Structure
Foundations of Horse-Assisted Coaching & Building Trust with Horses
Focus Areas:
Introduction to Horse-Assisted Coaching: Overview of the philosophy and principles of horse-assisted coaching.
Creating Sacred Space: Establishing a safe, calm environment for both horses and clients.
Building Trust with Horses: How to develop a deep and authentic partnership with horses, learning to read their body language and energy. Understanding the horses as co-coaches.
First Coaching Practice: Students begin working with clients in a controlled environment, focusing on building rapport and using horses as a mirror for emotional breakthroughs.
Key Outcomes:
Students will feel grounded in the essential principles of horse-assisted coaching and understand the importance of trust with the horses.
Practical exercises to connect with horses at a deeper level.
Initial coaching practice with supervision, learning to facilitate the early stages of a session.
Integrating The Latest Trauma Recovery Techniques & Equine Awareness
Focus Areas:
Trauma-Informed Coaching: Introduce key trauma recovery concepts, such as safety, trust, and resilience, and how they can be applied to working with horses and clients.
Horses as Emotional Mirrors: Teaching students how horses reflect the emotions and behaviors of their human partners, facilitating self-awareness and healing.
Interactive Coaching Sessions: Students practice using trauma recovery techniques with clients, with horses acting as the “silent coaches” reflecting clients’ feelings, behavior, and energy.
Facilitation Skills: Providing clear coaching instructions, holding space, and guiding clients through transformative moments with horses while ensuring a trauma-informed approach for individuals and groups.
Key Outcomes:
Students will gain confidence in using trauma recovery techniques with horses to support client growth and emotional healing.
Practice coaching while integrating the horse’s role in the recovery process.
Build skills in facilitating real-time breakthroughs with clients, leveraging horses as emotional guides.
Applying Indigenous Wisdom and Spiritual Practices
Focus Areas:
Horse Medicine & Spiritual Connection: Exploring Indigenous teachings around horses as spirit guides and how to honor the sacred bond between human and animal.
Sacred Ceremonies & Rituals: Introduction to ceremonial practices that enhance the coaching process, such as grounding exercises, intention setting, and gratitude rituals.
Honoring the Horse as a Teacher: Understanding the spiritual, emotional, and physical wisdom horses can offer.
Advanced Coaching with Horses: Students will deepen their coaching practice, integrating spiritual and ceremonial elements into their work.
Key Outcomes:
Students will integrate Indigenous wisdom into their practice, gaining a holistic understanding of horses as spiritual partners.
Ability to create deeper, more meaningful coaching sessions that honor both the human and the horse.
Confidence in facilitating transformational moments that connect clients to nature and their own spiritual wisdom.
Mastery of Coaching & Business Integration
Focus Areas:
Advanced Coaching Techniques: Students refine their coaching skills with complex scenarios and clients, working with both individual and group sessions.
Horse Handling Mastery: Mastery in reading the horse’s energy, knowing how to work with different temperaments, and handling more challenging situations with horses.
Practical Business Skills: Understanding how to integrate their coaching practice with the “Business in a Box” toolkit, including pricing, marketing, and managing their business systems (CRM, scheduling, payment systems).
Building Client Relationships: Advanced strategies for deepening client relationships, offering long-term coaching, and creating impactful packages.
Business in a Box (Tech) Toolkit: Everything tech that you need to simply plug and play with templates for sales funnels including email sequences, landing pages, websites and more.
Key Outcomes:
Mastery of horse-assisted coaching techniques with horses as both emotional mirrors and co-coaches.
Students feel fully prepared to launch their own business with confidence, utilizing all the tools and systems available to them.
Practice and feedback on final coaching sessions, ensuring that students are ready for certification.
This is a rare opportunity to join an exclusive group of only 12 new students per year. Over the course of a transformative 2 year-long program, you will receive personalized mentorship, extensive hands-on training, and all the tools you need to become a certified horse-assisted coach.
With 4 in-person 4 day training sessions, weekly group calls, and monthly one-on-one coaching with Jennifer, you'll gain the confidence, skills, and business knowledge to create a sustainable coaching practice."
"In this intimate setting, you’ll receive the support you need to master your craft, build your business, and step into your role as a confident, heart-centered horse-assisted coach.
Applications for the 2025 cohort are now open — reserve your spot today!"
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