Medicine Horse Wellness
Equine Facilitated Personal Development
Embodied Emotional Relational Intelligence – guided by Horses
RELATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Authentic Relationship
A structured path
from relational struggle to belonging
Medicine Horse offers a full Relationship Journey that includes both in-person sessions with the horses and three online programs.
The Relationship Journey is about understanding yourself in relationship; where your patterns began, what healthy connection actually looks and feels like, and how to speak and listen in ways that build rather than break.
THE IMPORTANCE OF RELATIONSHIP
“The quality of your life ultimately depends on the quality of your relationships.” — Esther Perel
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” — African Proverb
THE RELATIONSHIP JOURNEY
The Medicine Horse Journey is not a single session or a quick fix.
It is a guided, progressive experience — one that moves at the pace of real change, and with care.
The Journey begins and ends with an in-person session with the horses.
In between are three online programs
Each program in the Journey stands alone. You may begin at any point, depending on where you are – you don’t have to follow the step sequence.
For those who choose to walk the full path, the Journey offers something rare:
a complete, embodied experience of transformation — from your roots of origin, to feeling at home within relationship.
THE JOURNEY STEPS
The Relational Journey looks like this
Step 1 — Clarity Call
A free no obligations 20 minute phone call
Step 2 – a Foundation Session
An in-person session with the horses in Cape Town
3 Online programs
Step 3 – Family of Origin
Step 4 – Right Relationship
Step 5 – Compassionate Communication
Step 6 – a Belonging Session
An in-person closing session with the horses in Cape Town
A PHONE CALL WITH SAM
Clarity Call
Before anything else, we gain clarity through a conversation to find out whether Medicine Horse is the right fit for you at this time.
This is an obligation free phone call with no pressure.
In it we’ll chat the details, see where you find yourself presently, answer questions, and get to know one another.
IN-PERSON SESSION IN CAPE TOWN
The Foundation Session
Your first encounter with the horses.
This is not a riding lesson and no previous horse experience is required.
It is a facilitated encounter in which the horses take their role as co-facilitators; reading your energy, your nervous system, and your relational patterns – with a precision that most of us have never experienced before.
What the horses show you in this session becomes the starting point for everything that follows. The session with the horses is anchored into your body as a felt experience that you can return to throughout the online work.
The Foundation Session is the entry point to the full Journey.
It may also be attended as a standalone experience.
3 Online Programs
Family of Origin
(4 x 1 hour sessions online)
Understanding your
default programme
Our relational patterns were formed long before we had words for them; in the family we grew up in, through the attachment relationships that shaped our nervous systems, and through the core wounds that taught us what love, safety, and connection felt like.
This program traces those patterns back to their roots. Not to blame or to excavate endlessly — but to see clearly – because what we can see, we can change.
Over four sessions you will explore:
- your attachment style and how it was formed
- the core wounds that run quietly beneath your relational patterns
- the role you played in your family system — and what it cost you
- the gifts forged in difficulty, and the new story that becomes possible when you can see the old one clearly
Right Relationship
(4 x 1 hour sessions online)
A blueprint for healthy connection
Most of us have never seen a truly healthy relationship modelled. We learned what love looks like from people who were also doing their best with what they were given – which means we are often working from an incomplete or inaccurate map.
This program gives you a new map.
Drawn from the model of the horse herd — where every member has a rightful place, where roles emerge from authentic nature, and where the whole is only healthy when each individual plays their part — Right Relationship explores what healthy connection actually requires.
Over four sessions you will explore:
- what relationship with self looks like — the non-negotiable foundation
- the ingredients of healthy relationship: care, kindness, empathy, trust, safety, consistency – and more
- what secure attachment feels and looks like – in practice
- the lived experience of building an authentic relationship — in real time, across the four sessions themselves
Compassionate Communication
(4 x 1 hour sessions online)
Learn the art of
NonViolent Communication
Effective, compassionate communication is an essential part of every relationship.
This program teaches Nonviolent Communication — a deceptively simple yet powerfully transformational framework that enhances how you express yourself, how you listen, and how you navigate conflict – without breaking connection.
The horses are natural masters of this language. They observe without judgement, feel without shame, need without apology, and ask without demand. They are your teachers throughout.
Over four sessions you will learn:
- how to observe clearly, without the distortion of interpretation or judgement
- how to identify and name your feelings with precision
- how to connect your feelings to the universal human needs beneath them
- how to make requests rather than demands, and why the difference changes everything
Optional add-on sessions
These optional add-on sessions are available after you have completed the Compassionate Communication program
NVC Practice Sessions –
integrate NVC into your daily life
Empathy Sessions —
learning to give empathy to self and others
Conflict Session —
using NVC specifically in situations of conflict
PROGRAM RESOURCES
Every program includes a program resource pack
– reference guides, charts and session summaries –
to support your learning between sessions.
IN-PERSON IN CAPE TOWN
The Belonging Session
The completion. The homecoming.
You began the Journey with the horses showing you where you were. You end it with the horses showing you how far you have come.
The Belonging Session is an in-person encounter — held with the full weight of everything you have accomplished. You’ll name your wins, affirm your transformation, and stand present with the horses – as someone who has done the work of coming home to authentic relationship.
The Belonging Session is only available after you have worked with us.
Ready to begin your journey?
Based in Cape Town, South Africa
Scope of practice: life coaching & wellness counselling.
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