The Horse-Assisted Neuro-coaching Diploma
School period::
March 21, 2025 through November 28, 2025.
Virtual mode.
Virtual on e-learning platform.
Schedule:
Fridays from 17h00 to 19h00, Buenos Aires time.
Language:
Spanish.
Hourly load details:
37 virtual classes of two hours each.
74 hours completed.
27 hours for reading material.
18 hours for mentoring.
43 hours for the final research paper.
Investment:
10 instalments of $125.00. Argentinian citizens and residents must contact us for instalments in pesos.
CURRICULUM:
The Horse-Assisted Neuro-coaching Diploma was designed with the idea of becoming a solid academic formation offering students the opportunity to take the profession to the next level.
It offers a serious, respectful, and committed model.
It educates facilitators with high ethical standards to put them into practice in their profession.
Neurosciences are the scientific base for the understanding of the nervous system and its connection to the production and regulation of emotions, thoughts, behavior, and basic body functions.
It contributes to the community in a different and challenging space encouraging the growth of virtues and values through the interaction with the horses, the leadership professors and through cooperation.
WHO CAN APPLY
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
• Neuroscience and ontological coaching cut across a precise and efficient design in all workshops and sessions.
• The contribution of Quantum Physics in our work from the perspective of Neuroquantum.
• To encourage the efficient use of linguistic and communication resources in all facilitators.
• To know the horse’s being and take full advantage of this co-facilitator in the development of workshops and sessions.
• To reveal the originality of each facilitator in the development of workshops through the validation of his peers and constructing the work from a synergy standpoint.
• To offer design tools that will lead to the creation of excellent Horse-Assisted Coaching workshops.
MODULE I:
Foundations based on Neuroscience
This module will entail 6 classes covering the curriculum described pursuant to the following objectives:
• To acquire the specific language and the basic notions of primary structures of the nervous system and the connection with the psychological, emotional, and neurological axis.
• To apply said knowledge to the Coaching field for a better understanding pursuant to the biological basis of the cognitive, decision making, behavioral and emotional process.
SUBJECT MATTER
Introduction to the anatomy of the nervous system.
· Basic concepts: neurons, nerves, plexus.
· CNS (Central Nervous System)
Brain: hemispheres.
Cerebellum.
Brain stem.
Spinal cord.
Base lymph nodes.
Cranial nerves.
· PNS (Peripheral nervous system) – nerves and organs of the senses.
· ANS (Autonomic nervous system) or vegetative: sympathetic and parasympathetic
· Other systems: submucosal and cardiac plexus
Introduction to the physiology of the nervous system:
· Basic concepts : neurotransmission, synapse.
· Reflexes.
· Brain áreas: association cortex, Broca’s área, Wernicke’s area, object naming área.
Fusion of neuroscience and coaching:
· Concepts of neuroscience. Division of the 4 branches: cognitive, affective or emotional, social, educational.
· Neuromyths: Erroneous beliefs about how the brain works. Feminine and masculine brain. Rational or analytic brain. Emotional brain. Creative and logical brain.
· Paul MacLean’s Triune brain.
· Indispensable neurochemicals needed to produce results in our clients: Serotonin, endorphins, dopamine, adrenaline, noradrenaline, acetylcholine, cortisol, oxytocin, GABA, glutamate.
· Punishment-reward system.
· Mirror neurons.
· Coaching with the autonomic nervous system. To create safety in our clients.
· Neuroplasticity and neural pruning. Habits.
· Neuroquantology: Coherence among the brain, the mind, and the body.
· Self-leadership and energetic equilibrium. Quantum Brain Training.
· Training in will and resilience. Meta-conscience.
· Detachment.
MODULE II:
Neurocoaching.
This module will be taught in 18 classes that cover the described syllabus, crossed by the 9 Coaching master’s degrees, meeting the following objectives:
• To establish a clear distinction between the specific training in horse-assisted coaching and other horse-assisted interventions.
• To distinguish and respect the differences in the roles, and understand the scope and limits that each facilitator has when working with a team.
• To be aware of the responsibility and commitment to necessary and adequate emotional management to advance the sessions and workshops.
• To acquire a language with its own distinctions using the clean language technique to prioritize the metaphoric representations of the client.
• To develop active listening as a communication strategy with the intention of listening the client with full consciousness without being distracted by external thoughts and activities.
• To work on clarification together with the client as the grounds to determine clear objectives and purposes.
• Practice as a neuro-coach processing information at all levels performing a corporal, emotional, mental, and even spiritual observation of our clients in order to connect him to his internal resources and contribute to the understanding of his behavior.
SUBJECT MATTER
● Introductory concepts: What is coaching? Origins. Types according to the content and methodology. Scope and limitations: what we are and what we are not.
● Specific lexicon in the coaching branch.
● Linguistic acts: affirmations, judgement, statements, requests, offers and promises.
● Mental models. Characteristics. Types.
● The art of metaphors.
● Clean Language Technique. Speak responsibly. Maieutics.
● Non-verbal language: differentiate the concepts kinesia, paralinguistics and proxemia. To value the importance that voice tones, talking speed and gazes have in the communication process. Non-verbal expressions, facial expressions, micro-expressions.
● Definition of corporal image. First impression.
● Communication. Communication styles. Conversational Intelligence.
● Silence of the facilitators, working with uncertainty.
● Assertiveness. The power of words.
● Multiple intelligence: musical, corporal, kinesthetic, interpersonal, verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, naturistic, intrapersonal, visual-spatial.
● Objective and purpose. SMART objectives.
● Affective Neurosciences: emotions, how do we get to feel what we feel. Primary and Secondary. Emotional management.
● Physiological response of the client: the chemical being.
● Motivation: intrinsic, extrinsic, transcendental.
● Empathy. Types: cognitive, emotional, or empathic solidarity. The 10 values of empathy.
● Leadership. Types, gaps. Features and characteristics of a leader. Adaptative neuroleadership. Tehcnical problems vs. adaptative leadership.
● High performance Teams: characteristics, roles.
● Action: an acting being. Importance, plan, follow-up, assessment. Coordination of actions.
● Commitments and renewed commitments.
● Efficient time management: benefits. Strategies: time boxing, time blocking, Pomodoro technique, do not procrastinate, Pareto principle and GTD. Past, present-present, present-future.
● Two-columns method.
● The difficulty of change. Contradicting commitments.
● The power of beliefs.
● Learning: comfort zone, expansion and panic. Enemies. Types of learning. Passage from questioning to action.
● Observer model: relationship between beliefs, actions, and results.
● Fixed mentality. Growth mentality. Change and innovation attitude. Inertia Zone. Learning Zone.
● Attention. Attention networks. Executive Attention.
● Relationship among attention, memory, and emotion.
● Behavioral coaching.
● Temperament.
● Character.
● Personality. Enneagram. Evolution. Interior archetypes.
● Identity. Symbolic construction in relationship to others. Subjective phenomenon. Concept, models, tradition.
● Logic levels. Human needs and Maslow pyramid.
● Will power.
● Attachment styles.
● Resilience.
● Introductory foundations of Neurolinguistic Programming oriented towards objectives.
● Coaching and neuroscience supervision. Process. The Seven-Eyed Model. Supervision of ethical and legal concerns. Levels of reflection.
● Individual sessions and corporate groups contracts.
MODULE III:
Consolidation of the professional trinomial: coach, equestrian specialist, and horses.
This module will be imparted in 10 classes covering the following topics and complying with the objectives below:
• To interpret and reassess the horse’s world of sensations as an indispensable part of the professional trinomial.
• To incorporate the knowledge that allows us to decipher one’s world view.
• To achieve the differentiation of language pertaining to the functions of an equestrian specialists and his role at the horse pen.
• To design and develop dynamic at the horse pen addressing the specific hired objectives.
• To have a learning attitude and mental flexibility needed to unlearn knowledge related to horses which is not useful or valid with respect to horse-assisted neuro-coaching sessions and workshops.
• To optimize the horse or the herd in relation to the planning for each session or workshop.
• To assume responsibility and commitment with respect to safety by making sure that the horse pen and the surrounding areas are ready at the time of offering the workshop or the session.
TOPICS
· Introductory Concepts on Equine Ethology.
· Animal well-being.
· Lexicon specific to the equestrian world.
· Equine brain. The horse’s logic.
· The horse’s “Just being”.
· Social life and leadership.
· The key question: Why horse-assisted neuro-coaching?
· What must an equestrian specialist know about coaching and what must a coach know about horses?
· The horses’ body language: reading and interpretation of its signals.
· Perception through the senses. Audition rank. Sniffing trust. Visual acuteness. Visual field. Blind spots. Body sensitivity. Joining all the senses to understand behavior.
· Herd’s life.
· Temperament, character and personality.
· Getting used to the job elements. Innate fears. Adapting the professional objectives to the equine needs
· Electromagnetic fields and cardiac coherence.
· The adequate horse for each workshop and each group.
· Physical and emotional safety. Work environment. Elements. Adequate facilities. Safety norms. Insurance. Fees.
· Team work. Role of the equestrian specialist. Synergy and mutual validation. Dynamics. Diagnosis.
· Dynamics. Diagnosis.
· Ice-breakers.
· Design stages. Research to develop the theoretical framework.
· Strategies for working at the horse pen.
· Gathering and classification of the information obtained during the session or the workshop.
Services
E-learning
On-site experiences
Agenda
Contact
+54 9 11 5669 0911
+54 9 3415 94 1307
Buenos Aires
Argentina