2025 Winter Coach and Instructor Cohort – Starting January 20th – Applications due January 5, 2025https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/5aba99755dd94417b94286c60b1ec30d
Candidates will be reviewed, selected, and contacted between January 6–10, 2025.
Payment links will be sent out on January 13, 2025.
To secure their spot, candidates must complete payment by January 16, 2025, at 11:59 pm.
Confirmed candidates will gain access to Google Classroom on January 17, 2025.
🌟 Why Choose the Cohort Coaching Evaluation? 🌟
Our Cohort format is the most supportive and structured path to becoming an NCCP Instructor/Coach, offering:
✅ Weekly Online Meetings: Get personalized guidance and feedback.
✅ Built-In NCCP Modules: Includes LTED, Planning an Equestrian Practice, and Analyzing Beginner Performance.
✅ Video-Based Evaluations: Showcase your skills at your own pace.
📋 What You Need:
- A facility, 3 riders, and horses.
- Internet, laptop, and a camera (to record your videos).
📣 Open to Instructors and Competition Coaches (English and Western).
🔗 Details and registration: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/5aba99755dd94417b94286c60b1ec30d
👀 Stay tuned—our Competition Coach Specialist Cohort Pilot opens soon!
2024 Fall Coach and Instructor Cohort – Starting September 9th – Applications due August 4th.
For the purposes of EC Certification, a cohort is a group of Instructor and Coach candidates who work together with a Learning Facilitator and a Coach developer. Within the cohort training the candidates will receive support, mentoring, and collaboration/discussion with other candidates. The cohort is run remotely using Zoom, Google Classroom and other online applications. The cohort is accessible to any member with access to High Speed Internet.
Apply to attend the 2024 Fall Cohort here
2024 Coaching Dates – Tentative contact [email protected] for confirmation of date and location
| October TBA | English Coach and Instructor | Metchosin | [email protected] |
| September 9th | Fall Coach and Instructor Cohort, English and Western | virtual | [email protected] |
Rider Level Requirements for Certification:
| Drive | Instructor | Learn to Drive 1-12 |
| Western | Instructor | Western Rider Level 4 |
| Western | Competition Coach | Western Rider Level 4, Intermediate Rider Basic Training |
| Western | Competition Coach Specialist | Portfolio Submission |
| English | Instructor Flat | English Rider 6 |
| English | Instructor Jump | English Rider 6 must complete jumping or Pony Club C2 |
| English | Competition Coach | English Rider 8 or Pony Club “B” |
| English | Competition Coach Flat | English Rider 8 may bypass jumping |
| English | Competition Coach Specialist | Portfolio Submission |
Minimum Age Requirements:
| Drive Instructor | must be at least 16 Years of age |
| Western Instructor | must be at least 16 Years of age |
| English Instructor (flat or jump) | must be at least 16 years of age |
| Western Competition Coach | must be at least 18 years of age |
| English Competition Coach (Flat or Jump) | must be at least 18 years of age |
| Western Competition Coach Specialist | must be at least 21 years of age |
| English Competition Coach Specialist | must be at least 21 years of age |
THE FOLLOWING IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED:
- Mentoring for all levels
The mentoring component of the training requires that you establish a mentoring relationship with one or more Certified Coaches who are certified at a level above the level you are working towards. - National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP) Training EC/NCCP Long-Term Equestrian Development EC/NCCP Analyzing Equestrian Performance EC/NCCP Plan an Equestrian Practice EC/NCCP Design an Equestrian Sport Program EC/NCCP Manage an Equestrian Sport Program
- Resource Manuals (available from the HCBC Store)
- Rider Level Manuals
- English Rider 1-2, 3-5 and 6-8
- Western Rider 1,2,3,4
- Learn to Drive Manual
- Stable Management in Canada
- Rider Level Manuals
- Equestrian Canada Lunging Fundamental ECourse at https://campus.equestrian.ca/student/catalog.php
Coach and Instructor requirement chart
REGISTER FOR AN EVALUATION
- Review the HCBC Events calendar for upcoming evaluation days and locations and choose the evaluation you wish to attend.
- All applications will be submitted to [email protected] or mailed to HCBC 27336 Fraser Hwy, Aldergrove, BC V4W 3N5
- Evaluation applications must be complete and submitted to HCBC no later than 30 days before the Evaluation date.
- Candidates may choose their own topics from the official list, they will be the lessons you teach at the Evaluation.
- Lesson Plans and EAP’s should be submitted as .pdf documents, with each document in its own file. For example the Emergency Action plan must be a single document containing all of the pages and requirements for the EAP. Each lesson plan will be its own .pdf file with all pages contained in the .pdf file.
- Submissions of .jpegs or photo’s of pages, incomplete files, or individual pages of multi page documents will not be accepted into an evaluation until their submission is uploaded correctly.
- It is important that the evaluators can read your EAP’s and lesson plans. They do not have to be typed, however they must be large enough to read and legible. These must be .pdf files.
Here is an application submission checklist for you to review and ensure that all of the required documents are included with your application:
2024 English Comp Coach checklist
2024 Western Comp Coach Checklist
2024 English and Western Competition Coach Specialist checklist uploading soon.
*Note: English Instructor of Beginner has the option to take the Jumping Module, which you can indicate on your completed registration form. There is an additional fee for this component.
How to Purchase Registered Coach Status from EC
How to Purchase Licensed Coach Status from EC
All Coach and Instructor candidate must complete the Standard First Aid course (16 hour, in person). Any reference to Standard First Aid in the requirements is referring to the 16 hour course.
You can find the application forms for all coaching levels on our Resources for Coaches + Coach Candidates Page
EVALUATION DAY
On Evaluation Day you should come prepared to spend the full day at the barn, so bring lunch, drinks and snacks. You must also bring a list of contents for your human and equine first aid kits and any props or tack (side reins, lunge line and whip, etc.) you require to teach your lessons. You should also bring copies of your lesson plans and Emergency Action Plan, as well as a clipboard, pens and pencils for the written tests (for English Instructor). All candidates must bring their own horse for the lunging along with appropriate tack and protective equipment.
You will have a full day completing all of the individual modules including:
- Teaching the lessons according to the lesson plans you have previously submitted.
- Teach the lunge lesson required for your context
- Bandaging a horse to ride, to ship or with a stable wrap; (instructor)
- Oral and written tests covering stable management issues, dealing with injuries and/or emergencies, discussion of your Emergency Action Plan. (written test for English Instructor only)
Additionally
- Please note that spectators are not allowed at any Evaluation. The exception is Coach Developers in Training.
- Friends, family, coaches or dogs should stay at home.
- Candidates can have help at the beginning of the day unloading their horse, and at the end of the day to load the horse.
- You will be prebriefed at the beginning of the day and debriefed at the end of the day
- Bring your confidence, the Evaluators want you to be successful.
- Come dressed to ride in neat and clean attire. Bring your hard hat and gloves for the lunging.
- Demo riders and horses are provided for you, lunge horses are not provided
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