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SUMMARY:Chasing the Black Horse: Advanced Intensive (Workshop is Full)
DESCRIPTION:8 participants \n\n\n\n$1800 (includes lunch\, materials\, and the Master Herder online course) \n\n\n\nTime: 9:30 am through 5:30 pm daily \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis four-day advanced training is for people who attended a workshop with Linda Kohanov in the past eight years (including The Tao of Equus\, Beyond Words\, Power of the Herd\, and Black Horse Wisdom). Participants will explore the life-changing perspectives that Linda is introducing this year through all Chasing the Black Horse programs\, while expanding upon the skills learned in previous introductory workshops\, with a dual emphasis on innovative horse skills and personal/professional development skills. \n\n\n\nIn preparation\, participants will receive the Five Roles of a Master Herder online course upon registration (a $549 value in itself). “Watching this course ahead of time will allow us to go straight to advanced skills that employ this model\,” Linda says. “In addition to the new Chasing the Black Horse perspectives and skills\, the Five Roles model provides key insights that we will build upon in learning how engage in co-creative conversations through movement with the Eponaquest herd\, how to set ‘boundaries in motion’ with our more dominant horses\, and how to dance with the gifts and challenges that arise when we move from the more gentle\, reflective experiences we explored in the introductory workshops to the more rigorous and exciting prospect of exercising ‘authenticity in action.’” \n\n\n\nThe workshop will emphasize advanced human development skills that are relevant to working more effectively with people and animals\, including a process for developing a higher tolerance for vulnerability\, handling difficult conversations with greater clarity and ease\, and cultivating “emotional heroism\,” Linda’s unique and highly original program for turning tense situations with aggressive or dysregulated individuals into masterful opportunities for building trust and understanding. \n\n\n\nAll Chasing the Black Horse Workshops will include: \n\n\n\nThe debut of key insights that will change your perspective on the history of civilization\, organized violence\, and authoritarian impulses. Participants will ground these principles through advanced experiential activities with horses\, engaging tools that not only offer hope for the future\, but also introduce practical ways to change the tide. \n\n\n\nYou will learn: \n\n\n\nWhy 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 \n\n\n\nHow to recognize the three ingredients that lead to oppressive oligarchies \n\n\n\nWhy the development and inevitable collapse of these unsustainable systems are escalating in the modern world \n\n\n\nWhy the primal fear men experienced at the dawn of animal domestication gave rise to the most destructive aspects of patriarchy \n\n\n\nHow this fear emerged when humans learned to control the breeding of large herbivores \n\n\n\nHow this long-hidden fear continues to inspire the rampant projection\, lies\, and abuse of both men and women in male dominated cultures and religions \n\n\n\nWhy widespread understanding of this primal fear is essential to productive cultural change \n\n\n\nHow early humans employed counter-dominance strategies to rein in aggressive individuals and groups \n\n\n\nHow associations with diverse cultures insured human survival during the Ice Age \n\n\n\nWhy egalitarianism was a choice that our distant ancestors actively and repeatedly made \n\n\n\nHow human physiology reflects our egalitarian roots \n\n\n\nHow 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 \n\n\n\nHow the vast majority of men are disempowered and exploited in conquest-oriented civilizations  \n\n\n\nWhy 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 \n\n\n\nWhat 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 \n\n\n\nWhy 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) \n\n\n\nHow these “new” transformational strategies are based on the “lost keys of paradise” that horses model and inspire in us \n\n\n\nFor 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/ \n\n\n\nCancellation 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. \n\n\n\nAll artistic images in this edition of Eponaquest News were created by Claire Boyd and Linda Kohanov\, copyright 2026 by Eponaquest LLC. \n\n\n\nIf you would like assistance registering for this event\, contact Sue Smades at info@eponaquest.com. If you have any additional questions\, email Linda at rasa@eponaquest.com or call/text at 520-730-8599. \n\n\n\n\nRegister Now
URL:https://eponaquest.com/workshop/chasing-the-black-horse-advanced-intensive/
LOCATION:Amado\, Arizona\, Amado\, AZ\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop - Linda
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