Course Length
6 Months
1 weekend per month
Start Date
Saturday and Sunday 7th 8th March 2026
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Venue
Holistic Horse & Pony Centre, Rydings Farm, Ockham, Surrey GU23 6PF
Course Overview
The HEART Self-Mastery Foundation Course is designed for individuals seeking personal growth and those aspiring to become HEART Equine-Assisted Coaches. This course harnesses the unique power of horses to facilitate deep personal development and self-awareness.
Through this course, you will gain self-awareness and practical skills to improve your relationships, career, and overall sense of self. The unique interaction with horses will help you uncover and address personal challenges, leading to a more fulfilling and empowered life.
Course Benefits
Course Features
Month One
Beliefs: The Blueprint of Your Reality
Beliefs shape how you experience life, often without you realising it. Many of the patterns affecting relationships, health, success, and confidence are driven by unconscious belief systems operating beneath awareness.
Horses respond instantly to belief states, making them powerful teachers of mindset. This module helps you recognise limiting beliefs and replace them with empowering supportive ones, giving you a clear, practical framework for creating lasting change from the inside out.
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Reflection Is Life’s Law
Nothing shows up by chance. The people, patterns, and situations in your life are reflections shaped by deeper energetic laws at work. Horses act as powerful mirrors, revealing how the law of reflection operates in real time. Through direct experience, you discover why certain challenges repeat and how to respond differently to create change.
This module gives you practical insight into transforming difficult relationships and situations by shifting what you bring into them—restoring clarity, responsibility, and ease.
Month Two
Embracing Emotions Effectively
Unexpressed or misunderstood emotions influence behaviour, health, and decision-making. When emotions are ignored or suppressed, they often surface as things like conflict, illness, self-sabotage, procrastination, perfectionism, financial and relationship issues
Horses help you reconnect with authentic feeling and emotional truth in a safe, grounded way. This module offers practical tools to gently release emotional blocks, understand emotional patterns, and develop greater emotional awareness for yourself and others.
Overcoming Fear and Failure
Fear shapes choices, limits growth, and keeps people stuck in familiar patterns. While fear is a natural response, it doesn’t have to control your life or decisions.
Working with horses, you explore how fear shows up in the body, behaviour, and relationships. This module supports you in building confidence, courage, and trust in your ability to move forward despite uncertainty and perceived failure.
Learn to confront your fears and diminish their hold over you. Understand the root cause of fear, develope strategies to overcome it, and gain confidence to handle challenging situations.
Month Three
Say It So It’s Heard
At the heart nearly all major conflict lies miscommunication, between what is felt, what is meant, and what is actually expressed. Horses offer immediate, honest feedback on how congruent your communication truly is.
In this module, you explore how clarity, intention, and presence influence every interaction. Working with the horses reveals where mixed signals, unspoken needs, or emotional charge create resistance.
You learn how to express yourself clearly without force or withdrawal, and how to listen beyond words. The result is communication that builds trust, encourages cooperation, and creates connection across relationships, families, and professional environments.
Getting to the Heart of It
Unresolved experiences from the past often sit quietly beneath present-day challenges, shaping behaviour, relationships, health, and self-belief. Horses provide a safe, grounded, and authentic space where emotional truth can surface naturally.
In this module, you are supported to explore the deeper causes behind recurring patterns and struggles. Through experiential work with the horses, you gain insight into what still needs attention and healing.
By addressing challenges at their root rather than the surface, you create space for genuine resolution, emotional freedom, and lasting change in all areas of life.
Month Four
The Happiness Myth
Many people spend their lives chasing happiness through achievement, approval, or control, only to feel unfulfilled when they arrive. Horses demonstrate a different way—one grounded in acceptance, trust, and presence.
In this module, you explore the beliefs and fears that block joy and keep happiness just out of reach. Working with the horses reveals where resistance and attachment interrupt natural contentment.
You learn how to release control, soften expectations, and reconnect with a deeper, more sustainable sense of joy. Happiness becomes something you allow, rather than something you pursue.
Worth the Wealth
Your relationship with money, success, and abundance often mirrors how you value yourself. Hidden patterns of self-doubt or self-sabotage can quietly limit opportunity, confidence, and flow.
In this module, working with the horses brings clarity to themes of worthiness, authenticity, and self-respect. You explore how internal value shapes external results and how small shifts in self-perception can create powerful changes in outcomes.
By strengthening your sense of self-worth, you open the door to healthier relationships with money, success, and personal power—creating greater freedom and possibility
Month Five
The Freedom of Forgiveness
Holding onto past hurts, resentment, or regret drains energy and keeps you tied to what has already happened. Forgiveness is not about excusing the past, but about releasing its grip on the present.
Many of our horses have experienced trauma and yet demonstrate remarkable resilience and trust. In this module, you work alongside the horses to gently explore what you are still carrying.
Through experiential processes, you learn how letting go restores clarity, lightness, and emotional freedom—allowing life, relationships, and opportunities to move you forward unburdened.
Power of the Present
Stress and overwhelm often arise from living in the past or worrying about the future. Horses live fully in the present moment and naturally invite you into that same state of awareness.
This module introduces practical, embodied tools to access calm, focus, and inner stillness. Through direct experience with the horses, you learn how to quiet mental noise, ground your energy, and reconnect with what is happening right here, right now.
Presence becomes a lived experience rather than an idea, supporting balance, wellbeing, and empowering you to make clearer decisions in your life, relationships and career.
Month Six
Leading with Your Heart
True Leadership is not about control or authority, but about clarity, presence, and integrity. Horses respond only to leadership that feels safe, consistent, and authentic.
In this module, you explore different leadership styles and how they influence trust and cooperation. Working with the horses reveals where confidence, hesitation, or mixed messages impact your ability to lead.
You learn how to lead yourself and others with calm assurance and compassion, developing a leadership presence that people naturally respect and feel inspired to follow in both personal and professional settings.
Living On Purpose
Disconnection from your Life Purpose often shows up as restlessness, frustration, or a sense of being off track. Purpose brings meaning, energy, and fulfilment to life.
In this final module, horses support you in reconnecting with your inner guidance and natural direction. Through experiential work, you clarify intention, identify what truly matters, and align your goals with your values.
You leave with renewed focus, confidence, and motivation—ready to live, love, and work with purpose, direction, and authenticity from the heart. “The purpose of living is living your purpose” W