EQUUS® Founder and Author of Flying Lead Change Kelly Wendorf presents...
Rewilding:
Reclaiming Your Self Agency in a World That Wants to Tame You
Oct 6 - Oct 11, 2025 in Santa Fe, USA
Led by: Kelly Wendorf, Mary Hofstedt, Daniel 'DL' Landes
Is a partial scholarship for you?
We believe in making personal growth and education accessible to everyone, which is why we offer partial scholarships on a needs-aware basis for many of our programs.
These scholarships support individuals facing financial challenges, including — but not limited to — members of underrepresented communities. If financial stress might prevent you from attending a workshop, we encourage you to apply.
Partial scholarships, provided through the Association for Growth and Education, are limited to 2–3 seats per workshop and reviewed in the order received. We recommend applying as soon as possible, as scholarship decisions are typically confirmed 90–120 days before the workshop date.
Rediscover who you were before the world told you who to be.
As children, we face the ultimate existential conundrum: trade parts of ourselves to belong to the family system or risk not belonging to the family system in order to belong to ourselves.
Very few of us emerge as adults with fully intact, healthily differentiated egos that can authentically create the lives we deserve. This struggle translates into a complicated relationship with our self-agency and self-expression.
Interpersonal dynamics become stressful, and important opportunities are lost. Left unchanged, this leads to depression, isolation, resentment, and a haunting sense that something more is possible for you.
Where Wild Wisdom Meets Modern Transformation
Based on Kelly’s powerful online course, Assertiveness for Life and Leadership and her celebrated book, Flying Lead Change: 56 Million Years of Wisdom for Leadership and Life, this workshop is an opportunity to engage in revolutionary learning experiences to radically change outcomes in your life.
The process is not for the faint of heart. If you’re ready to move outside your comfort zones and enter the raw and wild places where change truly happens, this game-changing workshop is for you.
This workshop invites you into raw, transformative learning experiences that reconnect you to your authentic self-expression.
In this transformative 5-day workshop with EQUUS® master Kelly Wendorf, you’ll engage in bold practices that blend cutting-edge neuroscience, nature-based wisdom, and experiential learning. Some sessions with the MEA horses will amplify the experience, offering perspectives that go beyond words.
What You’ll Gain
Through powerful guided wisdom, neuroscience-backed practices, and deep experiential learning in nature, Kelly and the MEA team will guide you to:
By the end of your five days with Kelly and the MEA team, you'll have practical tools for authentic self-expression and a profound new relationship with your own power, plus the confidence to create the changes you've been yearning for.
Meet Your Faculty
Kelly Wendorf
Nature-Based Leadership Coach | Spiritual Mentor | EQUUS® Founder | Author of Flying Lead Change
Kelly's journey bridges ancient wisdom with cutting-edge science. After 15 years immersed in neuroscience and neuropsychology, studying with spiritual and Indigenous leaders across India, Africa, Indonesia, and Australia, she pioneered the EQUUS Experience® – revolutionizing how we understand leadership, social justice, and human potential.
Now, as founder of EQUUS® and author of Flying Lead Change, she's helping conscientious leaders create a future where humanity lives in deeper connection with nature and ourselves. Her revolutionary approach, featured in Forbes, Wall Street Journal Magazine, and Vogue, has transformed thousands of lives, from Fortune 100 executives to grassroots change-makers.
Bridge Builder: Uniquely blends neuroscience, indigenous wisdom, and horse guidance for breakthrough change
Global Impact: Serves clients from Amazon to Microsoft while championing underserved communities
In Santa Fe, Kelly will guide you to rediscover your authentic power through the transformative wisdom of neuroscience and horses.
This Workshop Is For You If...
You struggle to be harmoniously assertive – you either diminish your own needs or come out too hot and rigid, thus eroding your relationships
You sense more is possible for you in your life but are unclear how to assert your desires to make that happen
You’re tired of walking away from conversations without having said what you really want to say
You want to dismantle the limiting beliefs and behaviors that stand in the way of your best life
You desire to learn how to show up more courageously and skillfully in challenging conversations
You yearn to uncover the true purpose that awaits you on the other side of rewilding
Meet Your MEA Facilitators
Our trailblazing guides share hidden wonders across our 2,600-acre sanctuary, leading you from sunrise mountain hikes to secret Sangre de Cristo overlooks for unforgettable moments.
Mary Hofstedt
MEA's Content Facilitator
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Mary Hofstedt is an experienced non profit leader and educator who strives to advance a more hopeful, caring, and connected world. Her passion for youth and community development led her to work with Challenge Success, spearhead a coalition of youth and adult partners to develop a community arts center, and serve for over a decade within Stanford University’s John W. Gardner Center. She recently wrapped up a mid-career break to reflect on purpose, study Spanish, travel, and volunteer with whale shark research and conservation. She serves as a Senior Associate with Heartwise Learning and is thrilled to be based back in Santa Fe after a 22 year stint in the Bay Area!
Daniel 'DL' Landes
Experience Facilitator
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Before joining MEA, Daniel “DL” Landes spent decades as a restauranteur, author, and publisher. As the owner of multiple restaurants in Denver, CO – and then a hostel in Mexico – he dedicated himself to creating environments where people could work out their humanity while eating and drinking (which is why he fits in so well at MEA).
Now relocated to Santa Fe, DL says that “living in the Galisteo Basin impresses a unique and humbling perspective. Under the expansive, enchanted New Mexican sky I can feel so small and so big. I made a career of kicking up dust; living in the storm until the storm lived in me. When the dust settled two guideposts appeared: Spend more nights under the stars; provide a service.”
You will appreciate his dedication to creating memorable experiences during your time in Santa Fe.
Santa Fe, USA
Rising Circle Ranch
An upscale regenerative ranch featuring traditional Pueblo architecture and spanning nearly 2,600 acres of wildlife, hiking trails in the arroyo, with ancient petroglyphs, and awe-inspiring beauty. Close to historic Santa Fe, an artisan’s mecca.
Feeling that pull toward something wilder and more authentic?
If you’re ready to step into the raw edges where real change happens, this workshop will meet you there.
Somewhere between who you've become and who you were born to be lies the wild truth you've been searching for — it's time to find your way back.
