Master Class

Back by popular demand!

**Late registrants welcome – final deadline to join the 2023 master class is August 10, 2023 at 11:59pm Pacific**
Sarah and Dr. Peters are excited to be running their master class again in 2023. This educational course offers an accessible overview of a number of important topics grounded in the latest neuroscience and research, along with best and promising practices from the fields of psychology, trauma treatment, and ethology, to help you better understand you and your equine(s). Learning to recognize how adversity and trauma impact the brain, nervous system, behaviour, relationships, and overall functioning, as well as concrete tools, frameworks, principles, and next steps to help start the process of transformation for you and your equine(s) are the main goals of the program. Trauma in humans, trauma in equines, and the particular intersection of the two (equestrian trauma) will be explored through a compassionate lens that brings in awareness of somatics, attachment, psychophysiology, and interspecies neurobiology.

Class information:

• Note: The start date of the master class has been moved from January 2023 to May 2023.
• The modules run approximately 3.5 hours in length each, on Zoom, once a month (roughly 25 hours total), allowing time for you to review the material between each module.
• The modules start at 8am Pacific / 9am Mountain / 11am Eastern on the dates below (all modules except one take place on a Saturday; the other is on a Sunday). Please cross-reference with a time zone conversion tool to ensure you know which time and date the modules will be where you are located.
• Upon registration, students will receive a welcome email with instructions as well as the link to the Zoom meeting room. Please check spam in case you don’t find this email (it will be sent to the email address that you used to create your PayPal account).
• You may attend the modules live or watch the recordings after the fact at a time that is more convenient for you. You have access to the video recordings for 3 months after the end of each module. The link to the recording is sent out the week following each module. **Late registrants will receive an automated registration confirmation email with the links to the recordings of Module 1 (access ends August 29, 2023) and Module 2 (access ends September 10, 2023)
• Please check spam for our emails and ensure that Sarah’s email address (info@equusoma.com) is in your Contacts list and whitelisted by your email provider, to ensure that emails are delivered and not filtered out as spam. We send reminder emails before each module and the recording link in an email the week after each module.

Who is this for?

This master class is geared towards a general audience. Horse, donkey, mule, and hinny lovers of all walks of life have taken the course, as have equestrians in various disciplines. Also, professionals in different scopes of practice, such as horse trainers, natural horsemanship instructors, clicker trainers, riding coaches, equine bodyworkers, equine-assisted psychotherapy and learning facilitators, animal communicators, veterinary health providers, therapeutic riding instructors, and so on are also welcome!

• Curious about integrating this material more deeply in your work? Professionals in the professions listed above are welcome to register for the EQUUSOMA®: Horse-Human Trauma Recovery training and personal growth program (2 years / nearly 200 hours), licensed through Somatic Experiencing® International. We offer two inclusion scholarships per cohort. Please visit our website for more information.

BIPOC scholarship program:

For Black, Indigenous, or other persons of colour who are interested in this program who face marginalization and inequity due to race / racialized trauma, please contact us to inquire about our scholarship program: info@equusoma.com.

Payment:

Payment is by credit card, and the link is at the bottom of the page to register. Registration is on a first come, first served basis. We cannot offer payment instalment plans because payment in full is required in order to reserve your spot in the course. Payment by credit card allows participants to pay off the course registration in instalments in a customized way that works for their respective situations.

Student Cancellations

You are eligible for a 100% refund if cancelling more than 90 days before the first day of the master class (May 27), and a 50% refund if cancelling between 60-89 days before the first day of the webinar or seminar. A $100 CAD administrative fee is applied to process refunds. No refunds are possible for cancellations that occur in the 59 days before the first day of the webinar or seminar.

Instructor Cancellations

On occasion, a module from the master class may be affected by reasons beyond our control, such as due to instructor illness or emergency or a technical issue (e.g., an internet, power, or Zoom service outage). In these cases, we may need to reschedule a module. Because the modules are recorded to accommodate the many students who cannot attend live, no refunds will be provided in the event that a particular module needs to be rescheduled, as the content will still be made available.

If the master class program needs to be cancelled in its entirety, two options are possible: (1) you may defer your registration and the entirety of your registration fee payment (without penalty or administrative fees, at no additional cost) to a future master class program taking place in the next year (from the start date of the event in question that was cancelled or rescheduled). We are considering additional dates pending demand, but we can make no guarantees about the availability or dates of future offerings. Or (2) if you prefer, we will issue a 100% refund due to the inconvenience (if the program had to be rescheduled entirely) or a partial refund (prorated based on the modules that occurred before the interruption).