Workshops & Individual Sessions

Workshops cover the following areas, however each workshop is unique and has its own particular theme.

• Horse-human relationship skills
• Mind-body awareness
• Finding your instinctual self
• Reflective work with the horse
• Active work with the horse
• Dancing with the horse
• Working with the energetic field of the horse
• Learning how to be assertive
• Authentic leadership
• Being part of a group in a workshop setting gives you the opportunity to learn how to effectively support others, and witness how horses reflect to each of us our own uniqueness.

An initial private individual session with Miranda will last at least two hours, with follow-up sessions to be arranged to meet your needs, on an ongoing basis if necessary.
Workshops for groups run for half days, in the case of Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy (EFP) taster and follow-up sessions, and one, or two days for specialist workshops.
Miranda is also running two women’s groups, who come for regular sessions. This is a powerful, intimate and cost effective way to begin a long journey with the horses. It’s also possible to book a tailor-made half or full-day workshop just for you and your friends, which can run indefinitely.

Individual, couple or group sessions are available in Family Systemic Work, with or without the horses and Miranda also runs regular Constellation workshops with Annie Shaw at Lydney Park and in Woodchester, Stroud.

Miranda also provides supervision in EFP for individuals and groups.

Friday, March 2nd @ Lydney Park, Gloucestershire, 2-6pm, £75.

Saturday, March 3rd @ Lydney Park, Gloucestershire, 10-2pm, £75.

Wild Women Group will be starting in April
As spring arrives with it's tender shoots are you feeling the need to reconnect with those shoots inside of you longing to be born?

Come and explore your wildness with a herd of horses on the ancient land of Lydney Park Estate, with it's Roman Temple a healing site for us all to reconnect with our earthy energies.

Lucy's experience of being part of the herd with the women .....
"Let me give an example. And it is one of the most profoundly healing experiences of my life and one that I hold deep within me and am deeply grateful for. Miranda (supported by Sally) generously gave us the opportunity to sit bareback on a horse. My horse was Maud, her wise, maternal mare. I had longed to sit on a horse since a single childhood ride decades ago. The memory of feeling the strength of the horse’s back, lingered throughout the years. I was excited as I moved onto Maud, (in a pretty ungainly fashion), but totally taken aback when I immediately felt myself emotionally break down, sobbing and sobbing. I draped myself over her shoulder, prostrate. Maud stood completely still, and I could feel her body saying, “I’m here, I’m not going to move”. I trusted her. She gave me what I needed. She didn’t fidget or buckle, her head did not swish, her legs did not flinch – she was a rock for me. What I slowly realized, (and of course Miranda knew), was that Maud was holding me in a way my mother could never do. I was crying the un-cried tears of the little girl who had to be “strong” and look after her little brothers, and not respond to her own needs. I was getting the feeling of being held for the first time; I was also grieving for the nurturing I didn’t get as a child. I was overwhelmed by how generous Maud was to me – something I had been desperate for my mother to be, and which she could not give. For me this highlighted the importance of feeling your own truth, rather than just trying to understand it intellectually. This is the path to true healing. The horses seek the truth, find it and offer it."

The Wild Women Group at Lydney Park will be starting on Monday 2nd April 2012, 1-5 p.m.
The next dates will be:

Monday 21st May 2012, 1-5 p.m.
Monday 25th June 2012, 1-5 p.m.
Monday 16th July 2012, 1-5 p.m.
Monday 13th August 2012 1-5 p.m.
Monday 10th September 2012 1-5 p.m.

You need to be able to come to all of the groups and be part of the whole journey. The cost will be £75 per session.

The group will be run by Miranda and Sally Tottle.

Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy (EFP) Second Follow-up Session
Thursday, May 10th @ Lydney Park, Gloucestershire, 10-2pm, £75.

Open to eight people who have completed a taster session and a follow-up session. We'll be looking a bit deeper at body awareness and the effect that state-of-mind and body language can have on the horses - and on people. Working in the round pen, you'll see a demonstration of how to controll a horse's direction and speed, using your energy and posture. There's a chance to have a go yourself, and it may also be possible to begin some ridden work, for those who want to ride.

Constellation workshop (with the herd), Saturday and Sunday, June 23-24 @ Lydney Park, 10am-4pm, £300.

This is an opportunity to work on a present issue in your life or a relationship that you may feel blocked with. Using EFP, this is a unique approach to Family Systemic Therapy which Miranda has found to be incredibly powerful in helping clients find what is stopping them moving forward in their lives. Working together as a group, this is a really interesting way to help people discover more about their place in the family and to work through any problems that are uncovered as a result.

Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy (EFP) Taster.

Friday, June 29 @ Lydney Park, Gloucestershire, 2-6pm, £75.

Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy (EFP) Follow-up Session.

Saturday, June 30 @ Lydney Park, Gloucestershire, 10-2pm, £75.

“Growing with the Herd” Women’s Group

Miranda runs this group with Sally Tottle, author of Body Sense, an experienced workshop leader and Alexander Technique practitioner for riders and non-riders.

There are six once-a-month day-long sessions, including delicious vegetarian lunches. The group is open to eight women who have completed an introductory session with Miranda and the horses or have attended an EFP workshop with Miranda. You will need to be in psychotherapy or be able to demonstrate your ongoing commitment to your therapeutic journey.The aim of this group is to transform with the herd, to find a deeper connection to your self and others, exploring your sexuality and bodily image, your creative self, finding a balance with your feminine and masculine.

Supervision group for therapists @Lydney Park

New for 2012, this group is open to four therapists. Meeting four times a year, with the herd, it’s a time for support and reflection. Dates to be arranged.

To book a place for a workshop or an individual session, contact Miranda on 01594 842748, or email mirandacarey@yahoo.co.uk.