8 Participants

$1800 (Includes lunch, materials, Connections 101 online course)

Time: 9:30 am through 5:30 pm daily

This four-day training is for people who have NOT attended a workshop with Linda Kohanov in the past five years. Participants will explore the life-changing perspectives that Linda is introducing this year through all Chasing the Black Horse programs, while practicing innovative personal and professional development skills through nonriding experiences with members of the Eponaquest herd. (These experienced equine teachers have worked with people from around the world for well over a decade.)

In preparation, participants will receive the self-paced, professionally produced Connections 101 online course (a $587 value in itself). “Watching this course ahead of time will allow us to go much deeper into the work with horses,” Linda says. “In addition to the new Chasing the Black Horse perspectives and skills, the emotional intelligence and mind-body awareness tools in Connections 101 provide key insights that we will build upon progressively throughout this four- day adventure.  

“The horses really help ground these life-changing insights. In the four-day introductory workshop we’ll learn how to create mutually respectful, uplifting relationships, expanding our understanding of nonverbal communication, energetic awareness, boundaries, assertiveness, intuition, and the healing power of connection. These skills will enhance your personal and professional interactions with people, horses, and other animal companions.”

All Chasing the Black Horse Workshops include:

The debut of key insights that will change your perspective on the history of civilization, organized violence, and authoritarian impulses. Participants will integrate these principles through experiential activities with horses, engaging tools that not only offer hope for the future, but also introduce practical ways to change the tide.

You will learn:

Why the same destructive patterns repeat themselves and always lead to the collapse of complex societies, leaving the toxic by-products of trauma in their wake

How to recognize the three ingredients that lead to oppressive oligarchies

Why the development and inevitable collapse of these unsustainable systems are escalating in the modern world

Why the primal fear men experienced at the dawn of animal domestication gave rise to the most destructive aspects of patriarchy

How this fear emerged when humans learned to control the breeding of large herbivores

How this long-hidden fear continues to inspire the rampant projection, lies, and abuse of both men and women in male dominated cultures and religions

Why widespread understanding of this primal fear is essential to productive cultural change

How early humans employed counter-dominance strategies to rein in aggressive individuals and groups

How associations with diverse cultures insured human survival during the Ice Age

Why egalitarianism was a choice that our distant ancestors actively and repeatedly made

How human physiology reflects our egalitarian roots

How scientific evidence shows that there was a collapse in male genetic diversity between 8000 and 4000 years ago, coinciding with the intensification of agriculture and hierarchical social structures

How the vast majority of men are disempowered and exploited in conquest-oriented civilizations 

Why the counter-dominance techniques used by early cultures eventually contributed to the rise of aggressive leaders, and why many of these same strategies in use today are ineffective

What new, in many cases counter-intuitive, techniques must be employed to ensure that men and women experience safety, fulfillment, mutual respect, and cooperation in life

Why it’s significant—and accurate—that the ancestral princess changed into a black horse in Jung’s client’s mythic dream (rather than changing into a woman or some other animal) (see the newsletter link below)

How these “new” transformational strategies are based on the “lost keys of paradise” that horses model and inspire in us

For an in-depth overview of the history and inspiration behind the Chasing the Black Horse model, see https://eponaquest.com/chasing-the-black-horse-keys-for-personal-and-cultural-transformation/

All artistic images in this edition of Eponaquest News were created by Claire Boyd and Linda Kohanov, copyright 2026 by Eponaquest LLC.

Cancellation Policy: Cancellation up to 30 days prior to the event start date results in a credit of one-half the workshop tuition. There is no tuition credit for a cancellation 30 days or less before the event start date.