Personal & Professional Growth

Taught with horses

Personal & Professional Growth Services harness the equine-assisted experiential approach for growth and skill-building. These services are provided for individuals and groups in the form of resilience and retreats, and professional training and consultations.

TESTIMONIAL: In this video, Rachel talks to Kent County Veterans Services coworkers Nelson and Reginald about their recent experience on the Men's Equine Retreat at Peace Ranch.

Resilience Training

Resilience Support

Helping the helpers is the theme for Resilience Support services at Peace Ranch. For frontline workers and caretakers, individuals and groups may receive help to address secondary trauma and build the necessary resilience to keep on helping.

Options include:

  • Herd Meditation- for 8-20 people

  • Peace Mindfulness Path- individuals and small groups

  • Retreats- 1/2 and full day retreats customized to your group of 6-12

For more information call 231-499-4736 or email jan@peaceranchtc.org.


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Family Retreats

Join us at Peace Ranch for a four hour retreat customized to your family needs. Address relational issues for a “tune up” or strengthen what you’ve got with a “team up”. Retreats combine all the ranch has to offer including the Peace Mindfulness Path, Classroom time, and experiential work with horses all purposely combined to meet your needs. Schedule soon, opportunities are limited. Email jan@peaceranchtc.org.

COMING SOON: RUSTIC RETREATS!

Check back soon for information on 1-2 night retreats at Peace Ranch.


Professional Training

Healing From The Bottom Up

  • Trauma Education Workshops – 3 hour educational and experiential workshop for parents, professionals, and providers involved with traumatized children and adults. Social Workers get CEs.

  • EAGALA Training provided by our team led by Jacquelyn Kaschel, EAGALA Advanced Certified MH/ES, to increase your expertise and facilitation skills in areas like: Strengthening your Team, Keeping it Clean, Mindful of Metaphor, Safety & Other Non Verbal Interventions.

Intensive Immersion Experience

The Intensive Immersion experience at Peace Ranch is designed for Eagala teams, (Mental Health and Equine Professional), new to the practice of Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP), or interested in fine tuning EAP skills. 

  • Learning objectives and goals are customized according to your need and may include:

  • Overview of EAP: the why and how of horses that is beneficial to therapy.

  • Identify EAP principles and activities based on client needs and goals for therapy.

  • Observe EAP in practice.

  • Compare EAP model practice when working with different clientele.

Cost is $200 per hour per team with a 3 hour minimum.

The Intensive Immersion experience is offered exclusively on site at Peace Ranch Eagala CEs are offered for individuals with Eagala certification.  Your facilitators, Jan Stump, MSW Eagala-MH, NLCP and Jackie Kaschel, Eagala Advanced MH/ES have over a decade of experience to help your team learn and grow. To schedule your customized training experience or get more information email: Jan Stump, Clinical Director, at Jan@peaceranchtc.org.


Professional Consultations

Are you interested in developing an equine therapy program? Do you need some direction?

Our Consultation team offers:

  • Over 30 years non profit experience 

  • Over 30 years clinical experience 

  • Plus 17 years pioneering Equine Assisted Programming

Professional Consulting at Peace Ranch can help you answer questions like:

  • PATH? EAGALA? Or something else?

  • For profit or nonprofit?

  • Where should we start?

  • What kind of horses to we need?

  • How can we help our specific population? (Veterans, kids, etc.)

Professional Consultation services are personalized and confidential. Jackie (Executive Director/co founder) and Jan (Clinical Director) will gather some information from you, then meet with you virtually or in person to answer your questions.

Cost: $150 per hour with a 2 hour minimum.

To schedule your consultation, email jan@peaceranchtc.org.

To SCHEDULE your custom group experience, contact: info@peaceranchtc.org