USEA Instructors' Certification Program

USEA Instructors' Certification Program

SPECIAL NOTE: DUE TO LOW ENTRIES, THESE TWO WORKSHOPS WILL BE SHORTENED TO TWO DAYS EACH !! ONE OR TWO SLOTS REMAIN ! NO REDUCTION OF TEACHING OF EACH CANDIDATE WILL OCCUR !

Level I/II Dressage and Jumping Workshops will be Back-to-Back June 15-18, 2010 !! Get it all done at once in four days! Save money and travel time!!

ICP Information Page, 2010

Introduction: New Spring Farm, as part of a grassroots effort to improve safety and quality of coaching in the sport of eventing, has hosted Instructors' Certification Program (ICP) workshops and assessments over the last two years and will continue in 2010. Initially we gave special consideration to active Area IV instructors who were committed to completing the ICP certification process, fully described at: (http://useventing.com/education.php?section=instructors&id=1040). However, the need for this valuable program is nationwide and all are welcome. We are equipped to conduct Level I/II workshops and believe the need for these levels of instructors is the most acute, so we are limited to them.

Experience has shown us how really valuable these workshops are, how incredibly skilled the teachers are, and how much instructor candidates seem to enjoy and profit from them. At $400 for each three-day workshop, limited to eight candidates, they appear to be quite a bargain. Many people have audited parts or all of our workshops and also seem very satisfied. The ICP program itself, once fully seen, is quite obviously excellent. Those who have designed it and conduct the various processes meet regularly and continue to refine and improve it. We assure those considering being candidates that it is fair, complete, open, well-designed, friendly, and free of teaching style bias. While our angle is safety improvement for the sport, we also have come to realize how valuable the transference of horsemanship and basic teaching skills is that comes with it.

There is a continuing need for "demo" horses and riders, who are the basic material of all workshops and assessments. Those who participate in this part can and should be of all ages and levels from beginner up through experienced preliminary competitors. As much as the "demofolk" are appreciated, virtually all find the actual experience of serving as guinea pigs for model teaching to be well worth the time and effort, and no one is charged to serve in this role. If you are thinking of this as a possibility, please contact us.

Our own role is to facilitate, and we do our best to make things easy and comfortable for all who attend. Though we live in a small Midwest town, there is a good commuter airport two miles away, with very good jet air-service through Memphis, via Delta/Northwest three times a day, and as Columbia is a university town, there are numerous good motels nearby. It has been our great pleasure to meet many new eventing people and to share our training facility for this purpose. We do hope that you will consider taking part. All inquiries are welcome at Holekamp@aol.com.

2010 Schedule - Back-to-back Workshops

1) Teaching of Dressage Workshop, Level I/II

Dates: June 15 -16, 2010 (Tuesday and Wednesday)
Site: New Spring Farm, Columbia, MO
Teacher: Phyllis Dawson
Fee: $400
Entry: contact Holekamp@aol.com

2) Teaching of Jumping Workshop, Level I/II

Dates: June 17-18, 2010 (Thursday and Friday)
Site: New Spring Farm, Columbia, MO
Fee: $400
Teacher: Phyllis Dawson
Entry: contact Holekamp@aol.com

Tim and Cheryl Holekamp
New Spring Farm
7901 Highway 63 South
Columbia, MO 65201
Sales horses: newspringt@aol.com
Breeding to Windfall: holekamp@aol.com