Maritime Mini Clinics

This is going to be a great one :)

📣Special announcement!!! 🔔

On June 17, from 9 to 5 PM, I will be offering a *physical* Equine Behavior workshop!🎊

Join me at Sorbie Stable For a day of learning about horses’ psychology and how we can use that information to appropriately shape our approach when working with our horses.🐴💪

On top of the theory, we will have a series of scenarios to help you *SEE* 👀 what`s going on and how an appropriate type of leadership can make a difference.

This event is for anyone who is interested in equine behaviors. We will be using the horses on site, No riding experience is needed, simply bring a chair, pen, paper, and a smile!😁

The workshop cost is: 85$/Participant
**The cost of the workshop will include some tea, coffee, and snacks during the day as well as an option for lunch.😋

↘️Follow the link to the registration form:
https://forms.gle/RBFQdEum6dpoL7jh8

❌Don’t miss this one we will have a blast!!!

Rhythm & Balance clinics with Linda Clark coming up quickly!

❗️Over Poles is currently full but we have TWO spaces available in the Groundwork clinic next week (Tuesday, May 16th)❗️

📑Register here:
https://forms.gle/51nK3qS9TwtegsdC6

Want to audit? You can preregister at the link above, or pay Linda directly on the day.

📢 Rhythm & Balance Clinic 📢

We have only FOUR spaces left for the Groundwork clinic with Linda Clark.

📆 May 16th
📍 Princess Louise Park, Sussex
⏰ 630pm - 830pm
💰 $85.00

(Over poles is currently full)

Register here:
https://forms.gle/oYmFJ3iCQcs2RAsi7

📢New Clinic Alert📢
Rhythm & Balance with Linda Clark

Offering both groundwork and a ridden over poles:
📍 Princess Louise Park, Sussex, NB
💰 $85 per clinic
⏰ 630 pm - 830 pm

📆 Groundwork: Tuesday, May 16
📆 Over Poles: Tuesday, May 30

Register now to secure your spot:
https://forms.gle/bJxoFd13Yu7LqNSJ8

About Linda 🫶:
Linda Clark is a certified Competition Coach with 45 years of coaching experience in hunter, eventing, barrel racing, and team penning. She is the founder of Discovering Balanced Horsemanship, where she helps her students create connections with their horses that foster joy and unity through mental and physical balance.

📝Auditing available: $25

MESSAGE US :) Trial period of offering 💻virtual theory lessons💻 before and between in-person lessons.

Interested in positive reinforcement and/or cooperative care?
Want to schedule lessons but don't know what to expect?

✨Why Theory Lessons✨
* There is a lot of information to cover, and having a separate theory lesson will help you take that information in and give you time to process without the lesson time ticking
* You will receive a digital version of the theory lesson content so you have something to look back on
* I will include a video demonstration of first sessions so you can start the foundation behaviours before our in-person lessons
* I will review and send a response on video of your first sessions
* When we have an in-person lesson, we can focus on other cooperative care behaviours because you will have started training the foundation behaviours beforehand

✨ Private and Groups ✨
* Private one-on-one and group theory sessions available, with discounted rate for group
* Includes theory overview, video demonstration, and discussion time
* Shaping plans for foundation behaviours

This Sunday is the last New Brunswick date for Regaining Our Balance with Della!

We have a few spaces left; send us a message to grab one or register here:
https://forms.gle/Yj18MctttwdRJDsv6

❗️Call for Clinicians❗️

✨Who are we?✨
Maritime Mini Clinics is a project meant to promote local clinicians and highlight local Stables while giving horse lovers something to do that didn't cost a lot of time or money.

✨What do we do?✨
You design your own mini clinics and we do the rest! This makes it easy for you as you get to focus on the people and horses while we take care of all of the other parts including:
✔️Ad creation
✔️Registrations
✔️Payments
✔️Indoor arena securement
✔️Advertisements

✨What, exactly, is a mini clinic?✨
It is a clinic that is:
⏱2 hours or less in length
🐎10 participants or less
💰$100 or less to participate

What does it cost you, as the clinician?
💵Small administration fee
💴Arena fee
💶And you take the rest!

Want more info, or to start planning your first (or next) mini clinic? Send us a message through Facebook or at [email protected]

Tetagouche River Ranch is offering an amazing opportunity for anyone hoping to gain this certification.

💥Certified Horsemanship Association (CHA) Instructor Certification for English and Western Instructors from September 28 2023 to October 2nd 2023!

Tetagouche River Ranch is excited to offer a Certified Horsemanship Association (CHA) Instructor Certification for English and Western Instructors from September 28 2023 to October 2nd 2023!

The cost will be $975.00 which includes the clinic fees, a year’s membership to CHA, manual, meals and use of Ranch facilities, horses, and equipment.

The Tetagouche River Ranch team is happy to be able to host one of the only CHA clinics being offered in eastern Canada for the 2023 year!

This program is an amazing way to earn insurance breaks and certification focused on safety, education, and fun!
A certification of level 2+ is also recognized by EC to obtain your licensed coach status.

Please email [email protected] with any questions or to register. Be sure to register before spaces fill!

CHA, an association dedicated to safety and education in horsemanship, offers highly respected clinics that provide credibility and knowledge to any program. CHA has been in operation since 1967, training and certifying instructors in both English and Western disciplines from the US and Canada and now worldwide. CHA brings together many different disciplines, clubs, colleges, riding schools, training facilities and camps. For more information on CHA, please visit their website at https://cha.horse/

DATE CHANGE
Anchor Equestrian Friday February 17th from 6 - 830pm

We have 5 more chances across the Maritimes for you to join a Regaining Our Balance clinic this year.

Not sure what to expect or if this clinic is for you? These clinics are designed to help you answer these questions:
✨ Are you having enough fun with your horse?
✨ What do you value when it comes to horses?
✨ Are horses worth it for you?
✨ Do you feel like something is just missing for you?
✨ Have you lost a bit of that magic?
✨ Are you just not sure what to do?

Leave your horse at home because this clinic is all for you 🫶

You won't want to miss this 💖 Register here:
https://forms.gle/qo4RsmJKSwoK5eSUA

PEI: Anchor Equestrian and Lost Creek Ranch
NB: Breyden's Way and McLeod Brook Stables
NS: Eagles Stables Limited

Don't miss our first webinar series! Registration link below.

Equine Behavior Foundation by Jessica Frigault of Tomorrow Equine

If you would like to understand your horse on a deeper level, this webinar series is for you! The Equine Behavior Foundation series was created to teach people how to see their horses for who they truly are. This is a 2 part-virtual class (meaning you will have 2 evenings of learning) where you will dive into the root of the species’ behaviour to understand what makes our horses tick, and how we can use that information to create outstanding relationships with our horses.

✨ Part 1- Horse social interactions pyramid ✨
Learn to identify each horse’s role play within the herd and the role we play as humans interacting with horses. By knowing each social role's needs, we can learn how to better interact and engage with horses within different social roles.

✨Part 2- The*horsenality* Chart ✨
By tracking horses’ patterns of thinking, feeling, and doing we can create a chart of patterns of being that give us TONES of information about our horse as an individual. By knowing how to chart our horse we learn how to be the best leader specifically for him.

This 2-part webinar series will be hosted twice in the month of February. You can register individually or for the full series (and get a discount 💰).
📆 Part 1: February 16 and 20
📆 Part 2: February 23 and 27
💰 Cost is $25 per webinar or
💰 $40 for the series

About the clinician 🫶:
Jessica Frigault is a certified instructor with the IHA. Her speciality is reprograming patterns of thinking, feeling, and moving to create stronger long-lasting relationships with horses for emotional and physical fitness.

✨REGISTRATION LINK✨
https://forms.gle/5Q6xyFfedCyUY51MA

New Brunswick had a great time with Della at two Regaining Our Balance clinics this weekend. Nova Scotia, are you ready ✨

Join Della of Mile Ranch in Nova Scotia in two weeks:
📆 February 11 - Eagles Stables Limited, Upper Burlington
📆 February 11 PM - Oak Ridge Equestrian, Gavelton
📆 February 12 - Bits N Bridles Tack and Feed Store, Falmouth

You won't want to miss this 🫶 Register here:
https://forms.gle/qo4RsmJKSwoK5eSUA

Can't make it to this weekend's Regaining Our Balance clinics? Don't worry, we've got you 🫶

‼️Register here‼️ to join Della of Seven Mile Ranch February 11 and 12 in Nova Scotia!
https://forms.gle/BdvBFjyaaLXgzXeB8

Not sure what to expect or if this clinic is for you? These clinics are designed to help you answer these questions:
✨ Are you having enough fun with your horse?
✨ What do you value when it comes to horses?
✨ Are horses worth it for you?
✨ Do you feel like something is just missing for you?
✨ Have you lost a bit of that magic?
✨ Are you just not sure what to do?

Leave your horse at home because this clinic is all for you 🫶

Join Della, Danique, and Laura on this amazing journey.

Do something loving to yourself and send their page a message. You won't regret it.

✨The Myth of The Therapy Horse ✨

Horses are not divine unicorns capable of intuitive healing.

They are not therapists.

Horses are very pretty prey animals whose concept of connection is largely about survival. They are sensitive and fast livestock.

They are capable of extremely subtle communication and focused listening. That's it.

This does look like magic to humans. In fact, I would argue that it looks more and more like magic to us all the time. This is because the human condition is evolving away from connection with self and others. Let me explain:

In many ways, this is the best time for humans to be alive. Advances in medicine, technology, transportation, communication, etc are making us capable of what was once unfathomable success. We have become a society of very effective problem solvers. We want to solve ALL the problems. We also want to use this kind of thinking to solve mental health issues.

Unfortunately, we’re failing. Miserably.

In 2022, the World Health Organization announced a 13% increase in mental health conditions and substance use disorders in the past decade. Su***de rates, eating disorders, depression, anxiety..... you name it.

We are struggling.

But I would argue that it is the struggle itself that’s the problem. We want to solve mental health like it's a Rubik's Cube, but we can't. We want to numb psychological pain with medications, but we know it's still there. We think we can treat psychological pain like it's a bad rash.

Our caring nature also wants to fix psychological pain in our loved ones - we try to send them an insightful meme, wrap them in a blanket, send them positive affirmations. Because we care, pain in others causes pain in us and WE. DON’T. LIKE. IT. We have to FIX IT so that no one hurts.

But wait a minute, when a loved one is in pain, this causes you pain. Why?

As Steven Hayes puts it:

"We hurt where we care, and we care where we hurt"

Your hurt about your loved one's pain tells me you care. Your grief tells me how much you loved. Your anxiety tells me how important something is to you. Your pain has a purpose.

And yet, we want to medicate it, shut it down, bottle it, fight it. With our loved ones we want to stay away, isolate, text instead of call, disconnect because we feel like "your pain is too hard for me".

We don't want to feel. Feeling is hard.

We've lost the capacity to be okay with pain, to connect with our pain, and to connect with the pain in others.

But pain is part of us, and if we have disconnected from our pain, we have disconnected from ourselves.

And then there are the horses.

Horses are not as advanced as us. They can't write long posts about the human condition, let alone the equine condition. They don't have this complex world view.

They don't even have the neurological complexity to argue with psychological pain. Here's why:

Horses can't notice their thoughts. Horses are only IN their thoughts. They can't struggle with psychological pain - they only know how to be in psychological pain and react accordingly. Their survival also depends on noticing the subtle cues of the horses and humans around them, and reacting accordingly.

They have minds that react to the subtle cues of others in the present moment. What a novel idea.

When our minds are disconnected from our own experience, our horse is standing right there, observing. And it's in their reactions to us that bring us back to the present, that force us to self-reflect and connect with ourselves. Asking ourselves “what am I doing to cause this reaction?” magically brings us back to ourselves.

Horses are not magic therapy unicorns; they are just anxious, connection-driven livestock that have retained the skills that humans have lost.

And we need them now more than ever.

❗❗ New webinar series alert ❗❗

Equine Behavior Foundation by Jessica Frigault of Tomorrow Equine

If you would like to understand your horse on a deeper level, this webinar series is for you! The Equine Behavior Foundation series was created to teach people how to see their horses for who they truly are. This is a 2 part-virtual class (meaning you will have 2 evenings of learning) where you will dive into the root of the species’ behavior to understand what makes our horses tick, and how we can use that information to create outstanding relationships with our horses.

✨ Part 1- Horse social interactions pyramid ✨
Learn to identify each horse’s role play within the herd and the role we play as humans interacting with horses. By knowing each social role's needs, we can learn how to better interact and engage with horses within different social roles.

✨Part 2- The*horsenality* Chart ✨
By tracking horses’ patterns of thinking, feeling, and doing we can create a chart of patterns of being that give us TONES of information about our horse as an individual. By knowing how to chart our horse we learn how to be the best leader specifically for him.

This 2-part webinar series will be hosted twice in the month of February. You can register individually or for the full series (and get a discount 💰).
📆 Part 1: February 16 and 20
📆 Part 2: February 23 and 27
💰 Cost is $25 per webinar or
💰 $40 for the series

About the clinician 🫶:
Jessica Frigault is certified instructor with the IHA. Her specialty is reprograming patterns of thinking, feeling, and moving to create stronger long-lasting relationships with horses for emotional and physical fitness.

✨REGISTRATION LINK✨
https://forms.gle/5Q6xyFfedCyUY51MA

Only a few spots left with Della of Seven Mile Ranch for January! Join us at Crazy 8 Stables in Memramcook to set yourself up for your greatest horse year ever 💖

SAVE THE DATE!

🐴 Information will be posted in the coming weeks on clinics and demos. If there is something you would like to see please comment below or send us a message 🐴

Previous vendors - we will be in touch soon with this years registration information.

The countdown is on for the first two Regaining Our Balance clinics 📆 and they're almost full ‼️

Secure your spot now 📝before time runs out ⏳:
https://forms.gle/BdvBFjyaaLXgzXeB8

Not sure what to expect or if this clinic is for you? These clinics are designed to help you answer these questions:
✨ Are you having enough fun with your horse?
✨ What do you value when it comes to horses?
✨ Are horses worth it for you?
✨ Do you feel like something is just missing for you?
✨ Have you lost a bit of that magic?
✨ Are you just not sure what to do?

Leave your horse at home because this clinic is all for you 🫶

***Notice *** Please Share***

Ovation Helmets has issued a voluntary recall of some of its Protege Helmets. The impacted Protege helmets have a manufactured date sticker located inside the helmet from
December 2020 to December 2022.

Protege models #467716, #469766, 469566

If your helmet falls within these dates, please contact your seller for replacement or credit immediately.

Ready to start your new year off right? Register now for a Regaining Our Balance clinic!

The world is changing for horse owners. Our resources of time, energy, and money might not be leading to the life with horses that you had hoped for.

Join mental health therapist Della LeClair (MSW, RSW, CCC) of Seven Mile Ranch for a Regaining Our Balance session (without horses) to reconnect with what is meaningful for you so you can have more fun with your horse in 2023 ✨️

Head to HorseReg.com to renew or purchase your 2023 NBEA membership. Your 2022 membership (and $5M liability coverage) expires at midnight, December 31st.

✨Regaining Our Balance✨
And lets not forget our islanders 📆 PEI dates and 📍 locations are available! Still searching for a few more PEI hosts for January 6, March 30, April 1, and April 2. Sign up as a host and get a free seat! 🫶

Contact Maritime Mini Clinics to secure your spot 🎟

Clinic Description
The world is changing for horse owners. Our resources of time, energy, and money might not be leading to the life with horses that you had hoped for. Regaining Our Balance is a 2.5-hour session (without horses) and is about reconnecting with what is meaningful for you.

✨Regaining Our Balance✨
📆 We have dates and 📍 locations for New Brunswick and Nova Scotia!

Contact Maritime Mini Clinics to secure your spot 🎟

Clinic Description
The world is changing for horse owners. Our resources of time, energy, and money might not be leading to the life with horses that you had hoped for. Regaining Our Balance is a 2.5-hour session (without horses) and is about reconnecting with what is meaningful for you.

Still searching for PEI hosts for January 6, March 30, April 1, and April 2. Sign up as a host and get a free seat! 🫶

✨ Are you having enough fun with your horse? ✨

You don't want to miss this. Join Della of Seven Mile Ranch for a Regaining Our Balance clinic just in time for the New Year. Leave your horse home because this 2 hour clinic is all for you 🫶 Offered for both adults and youth

💵 $85 per seat (transferable but not refundable) - message us to host and get your spot for free!

Seven Mile Ranch has generously donated a seat in ROB or GOAT to Chantelle's Fundraiser Auction and it is open for bids this week (closes Saturday). This auction is in support of a NB area equestrian coach.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=124149657171260&id=100087286776859&mibextid=Nif5oz

We have an exciting announcement to make: as our clinicians and administrators focus on expanding our ability to deliver excellence in horsemanship by launching the Maritime Horsemanship Association - we are thrilled to let you know that Courtney le Roux will assume the role of managing Maritime Mini Clinics.

The vibe will be the same - any tack, horse breed irrelevant, every discipline with small time & financial commitments BUT with Courtney's personal touch.

Stay tuned for more from your clinicians folks! We have some amazing things planned for 2023!!

Here's an amazing opportunity! Do not delay - these fill up fast ☺️

Our very first "Handling Anxiety" clinic is coming up!

This clinic is designed to help you handle your anxious thoughts as opposed to getting je**ed around by them. It’s also designed to help you to help your horse to handle his/her anxious thoughts.

January 13th-15th we'll be on PEI at Anchor Equestrian. Spots are filling up fast! Get your deposits in now, to secure your spot before it's too late!

Marci Powell clinic update: both NB clinics for 2023 are unable to go forward. Sorry to let you down - hopefully she can come see us again another time.

Marci will be in NS still & and you can connect with Cindy Wamboldt to reserve a spot!

https://www.facebook.com/cindywamboldt.wamboldt?mibextid=ZbWKwL

*RESOLVED! THANK YOU*
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Join clinician Della LeClair of Seven Mile Ranch at Crazy 8 Stables , hosted by Jannah Malone!

$85 per seat (transferable but not refundable) - only 12 seats available - message us to register!

Are you having enough fun with your horse? You don't want to miss this. Leave him home because this clinic is all for you ☺️🙌

*NOW BOOKING* Join host Sam Doucette at Anchor Equestrian as we dive into our Greatest Of All Time Horse Life & Regaining Our Balance goals vs values mini clinics.

Why do you like having horses? NO REALLY? Do you know why? Is your current horse relationship serving your needs (are you enjoying being a horse partner?) Let Seven Mile Ranch clinician Della LeClair guide you on a journey of awareness as you learn to have more fun with your horse life! But leave your equine friend at home - this clinic is all for you ✌️

$85 per seat - transferrable, but non refundable - 12 seats max - send us a message to book

UPDATE: the following dates are reserved (booking details to come)
ROB: Jan 28 - Crazy 8 Stables, NB
ROB: Feb 17 - Anchor Equestrian in PEI
GOAT: Feb 18 - Anchor Equestrian in PEI

WE ARE NOW OPEN FOR WINTER BOOKINGS!

NOW SCHEDULING R.O.B & THE NEW YOUTH VERSION G.O.A.T IN NS, NB, & PEI!

AVAILABLE DATES: INBOX US TO BOOK ($85 per participant, max 10-12 participants per clinic, host receives a fee)

*Info on ROB & GOAT in the comments - and more at Seven Mile Ranch 👇

More info on upcoming clinics

Last spring, we created an in-person (no horses) session for horse people, called Regaining Our Balance (ROB). Gas prices were skyrocketing, we were still in a pandemic, and peoples' lives with horses were changing whether they wanted this change or not. We saw a need to help re-ground people in why we even have horses in the first place, and we also wanted to ensure that we are pursuing our most meaningful lives with horses.

Since creating ROB, Della has travelled around the Maritimes connecting with horse people who felt adrift in their horsemanship for MANY reasons. And one request we've had multiple times is to present this session to our next generation of horse people.

So that's what we've done.

My G.O.A.T. Horse Life is a youth version of ROB with a specific consideration for some common mental health issues presenting in this population today, namely anxiety, perfectionism, and depression.

Using an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) approach, it will help youth to identify what is uniquely meaningful about horses to them, and ensure that they are staying true to their values and not caught up in the influences of social pressures or unhelpful thoughts or feelings. Most importantly this group aims to help youth to have more FUN with horses.

Stay tuned for opportunities to host one of these sessions in 2023! Coming soon with Maritime Mini Clinics!

We are very excited about this!

If you’ve missed out on booking Parallels in for 2023, we do have some good news!

Danique still has some dates that are open for Groundworks clinics in 2023! You can reach out to her to learn more about those opportunities.

As well as we have some exciting new things coming from Della! Seven Mile Ranch will soon be opening to book Regaining Our Balance sessions, as well as her new youth version of it, called My G.O.A.T Horse Life! These will be booked through Maritime Mini Clinics, so keep an eye out for those opportunities!

Amazing! More to come ☺️

First of all THANK YOU!!!

Not even 48 hours later and we’ve booked every Maritime date for the 2023 Handling Anxiety clinics. If you’re looking to book a spot in those clinics, send us a message and we can point you in the direction of the organizer for the date you’re interested in!

January - PEI
March - New Brunswick
May - Nova Scotia
September – New Brunswick
December – Nova Scotia

If you’re interested in hosting Handling Anxiety clinics outside of the Maritimes, please send us a message!

*UPDATE: ALL DATES HAVE BEEN RESERVED

✨ Handling Anxiety ✨

A weekend long clinic designed to help you identify what anxious thoughts are getting in your way, allows you to formulate a plan, and put that plan into action. This is accomplished by beginning Friday evening with a 2 hour anxiety workshop with Della. Then on Saturday and Sunday you will alternate between working with Della and Danique.

We have 5 clinic dates to offer for 2023. We will be aiming to divide them up across the Maritime provinces.

Please message our page to learn more if you’re interested in hosting a Handling Anxiety at your barn for 2023!

Wishing the National Barrel Horse Association NBHA New Brunswick qualifying riders the best of luck as they prepare for their journey to Perry, Georgia. 💖