Becoming Cowgirl Confident

 

 

 

 

 

 Empowerment Through Connection

Equine Encounters

at The Homeplace Ranch

 

 

 

 

 

 

For women ready to kick feeling dismissed, unappreciated and invisible

 

Cowgirl confidence is an attitude.

Tenderness and toughness.

It’s available to all, even if you’ve never touched a horse.

 

It’s time to touch a horse. 

When I was promoted to accounting supervisor at an energy company at 22, I mistakenly believed my superior leadership skills were responsible. Nearly a decade later, horses taught me that I was a technically competent accountant and a poor leader who alternated between bribery and bullying. When I became more self-aware and made my actions congruent with my emotions, my horses began to trust me as someone who would keep them safe. The most amazing thing is that ALL my relationships improved with this knowledge.

My love and respect for the horses caused me to learn a different way of showing up: more compassionately and respectfully. As I became a leader the horses chose to follow, I also learned to trust myself to make good decisions for myself and others. Since then, I am grateful for the opportunity to share these lessons from amazing teachers who live in the moment and seek nothing more than to get back to grazing after a scare. We have a lot to learn from these majestic creatures and the people that love and care for them.

 

2025 dates coming soon

Homeplace Ranch, Priddis, Alberta

Full day retreat limited to 8 participants. Click here to register.

Does your busy life leave you with little time for reflection? Are you longing for deeper connection with yourself and others?

Gift yourself with a peaceful day in the foothills of the majestic Rocky Mountains.  With the support of the gentle equine teachers at Homeplace Ranch, you can learn to unbridle your brilliance and develop a new style of leadership, one based on keeping yourself – and each other – safe.

This intimate hands-on experience is limited to eight participants. Don’t miss out!

Be introduced to gentle horses by Jocelyn Hastie and Mac Makenny, lifetime horseman and founder/owner of Homeplace Ranch

What’s included?

In addition to the retreat, you will receive:

  • an intake package that will set up the day and maximize the value of the experience.
  • a 30 minute private Zoom session with Jocelyn
  • a 90 minute community call approximately three weeks after the retreat.

You will take home:

  • the ability to give yourself permission to show up brilliantly, imperfectly and unapologetically.
  • a clear understanding of your degree of confidence in being a leader.
  • an experience of your ability to connect deeply with another being.
  • memories of the peace found in nature and the peace and connection found with the horses.
  • surprise bonus gifts.

What makes horses special?

Most people are aware that animals can help people feel better. What makes horses particularly helpful in personal development?

  • They are prey animals, not predators. Living “in the moment” is necessary for their survival.
  • They are very aware of emotion and intention in the people that interact with them.
  • Despite their heightened awareness of danger, horses seek calmness and quickly “get back to grazing.”
  • Horses are big and powerful and choose to partner with people.
  • Horses are amazing listeners with big hearts.
  • Horses are herd animals and communicate their emotions clearly and non-verbally.

Moments of Brilliance

After a horse show many years ago, the judge gave me a piece of advice that changed my life. He told me, “You can select your Champion one of two ways. You can choose the horse that makes the fewest errors, or the one that has moments of brilliance.”

Before I heard this, I would make a small mistake and get stuck at the mistake, making several more mistakes rather than shaking it off.

Since then, I’ve tried very hard to judge myself and those I love on moments of brilliance. That practice changed my world.

Jocelyn Hastie

 Click here to register for our 2025 retreats at the Homeplace Ranch

Moments captured from our retreat on August 9, 2024 at Homeplace Ranch

Photo credit to Cheryl Dust

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at the Homeplace Ranch near Priddis, Alberta

About the Homeplace Ranch

Become part of the history at Homeplace Ranch

Nestled on ~600 acres of pristine Alberta wilderness, Homeplace Ranch continues its historical operation by offering trail rides, lessons, horse awareness programs, corporate retreats and more.

​Owned and operated by passionate horseman Mac Makenny since 1974, Homeplace Ranch is committed to giving you a real Western experience unlike any you will find elsewhere. With a focus on allowing you to bond with your horse, learn new skills, and connect to the history of the ranch and the land, you will leave the ranch with a sense of belonging and purpose. Break away from the bustle and pressures of everyday day life by immersing yourself in the experience Homeplace Ranch.​

Located between Priddis and Bragg Creek, Alberta, Homeplace Ranch is a short drive from Calgary and surrounding areas.​

Our priorities are:

1. Safety and well-being of guests and animals.

2. An enjoyable experience, that provides you with a sense of natural beauty, history and our love of horses and nature.

Mac and Dr. Susan Lea Makenny have been wonderful supporters of this retreat, and I feel honored that they agree to host this retreat at their incredible facility with such sweet, gentle horses. I’m so excited. I hope you are, too.

Jocelyn Hastie

Founder of The Cowgirl's Code

What participants are saying:

Jocelyn’s middle name should be ‘Safety First’. In the space she creates I feel listened to. Her feedback is unapologetic, direct, and always served with compassion. Jocelyn saw the gifts in me that I was blind to and invited me to blossom. A true mentor does that.

Don’t miss this opportunity! So glad I attended the first one. Very well organized and thought out. My horse was so relaxed he had a nap on my arm!!The power of connection with each other, with the natural world is good medicine.

GS - Retreat Participant

I have been amazed by it all.

Jocelyn was able to create and guide me through a day that allowed reflection, insight, being courageous, and allowing myself to be vulnerable. I enjoyed the time with the horses, and Jocelyn’s guidance in seeing a bigger point of view in how I can show up in the world. It’s been a remarkable experience.

PB - Retreat Participant

Particular experience that stood out:

Leading Angus. Both of us understood one another as we worked as a team. Not just me walking him around with no point. It had meaning because it felt like we understood one another.

I just think your commitment and deliverance was outstanding!

TM - Retreat Participant

It was just what the heart needed and just what the doctor ordered. And I just am leaving with peace and gratitude and gratefulness and it connected me back to my ranch roots which is a blessing and a gift in my life. So thank you very much, Jocelyn, and I’m so glad I came.

DF - Retreat Participant

I think everybody came with a different life experience, a different journey, different things that they maybe are challenging currently and things they have overcome. So there was a lot of sharing of personal experiences but also a lot of learning through the horses of different skills that we can translate to work, to home, to all our relationships outside of the horse world, too, which is really fascinating. So, also strongly recommend it.

SM- Retreat Participant

How incredible the experience has been. The connection with other participants, the connection with the horses and the insights that we were able to get from discussing that amongst ourselves and our friends. I’m taking a piece away from that that was so much deeper than I had expected coming here.

I can’t recommend Jocelyn’s course enough, her retreat. If you get the opportunity, sign up and do it. ‘Cause it’s amazing and I think everyone has taken away something different, a little piece of their own and sharing that has been really been quite a magical day. And at Homeplace Ranch. Incredible. We’re very lucky.

JB - Retreat Participant

About Your Facilitator, Jocelyn Hastie

I am deeply committed to helping women develop self-awareness, self-acceptance and the confidence to:

  • increase self-awareness and self-acceptance to embrace the leader they are meant to be,
  • develop deep connections
  • unbridle their brilliance and
  • live life authentically and unapologetically.

My lived experience includes:

  • over 30 years as an accounting supervisor or manager in the energy industry (including 13 years as the only woman in management at a natural gas processing facility).
  • over 30 years of experience as a breeder and exhibitor of champion Peruvian Horses.
  • surviving advanced stage metastatic cancer.
  • coaching Calgary Stampede and First Nations princesses in communication and leadership.

My credentials include:

  • Certified Professtional Accountant (1991).
  • Certified Equine Gestaltist (2012).
  • Distinguished Toastmaster (2019, 2020, 2023).
  • certificate of completion in the Foundations of Woman-Centered Coaching (2023).

The Cowgirl’s Code programs proudly support local, female owned and operated businesses.

Our caterer is Ruys Ranch Private Chef, located in the Blackie area.

Some gifts are handmade at Horny Goat Acres of High River.

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Location

Events are held primarily, though not exclusively, in southern Alberta.

Call or Text Us

(403) 369-8776

Email Us

jocelyn@thecowgirlscode.com