Meet the facilitators
Marty Wildman
Co-Owner of Lone Eagle Ventures – Lead Equine Assisted Learning Facilitator
Lone Eagle Ventures
I am the head facilitator at Lone Eagle Ventures, located within Stoney Nakoda lands in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Through Lone Eagle Ventures, I bring my over 20 years of first-hand experience with the healing power of horses to the First Nations children and youth. In operation for five years, Lone Eagle has provided services to the children and youth of kee Tas Now Tribal council in camp retreats as well as on-school-site services. We have created and tested a 12 part equine-assisted cultural program which takes young indigenous learners from the basics of horse care all the way to independent riding. Along the way children and youth learn about themselves, others and their culture and gain confidence and collaborative leadership skills. All teachings and learning is consistent with First Nations ways of knowing and being.
I have over 25 years of experience in the fields of acting, stunts, wrangler work, administration and First Nations stunt action consulting. I have worked on North of 60 (1992) Texas Rangers (2001) MythQuest (2001) Lonesome Dove (2004), Heartland (2015,-2016 & 2018), Outlander (2017, 2019 & 2021) Invasions (2021) and Makings Of A Murder (2022). In addition to Lone Eagle Ventures, I am also co-founder of Stunt Nations, a 100% Indigenous owned non-profit organization focused on enabling and empowering youth to learn how to become effective and authentic stunt persons for film and television. I have a passion for helping indigenous children and youth reach their full potential.
~Marty Wildman
Raquel Wildman (Andrew)
Co-Owner of Lone Eagle Ventures – Equine Assisted Learning Facilitator
Lone Eagle Ventures
Howdy!
I am the wife of Mr Marty Wildman, Co-Owner and facilitator with Lone Eagle Ventures.
My home land is Morley Ab, I am Stoney Nakoda and part Lil’ Wat St’ at’ imc first nation. I come from a family of horse people and always had a love for horses as a little girl. I believe I adopted the love of horses through my father Wayne Andrew. My father is a well known Cowboy/horse breeder and a INFR 1984 World Champion Saddle Bronc Rider, he travelled all over Canada and USA.
I am a Barrel Racer chasing her dream! My passion and love are horses and teaching children & youth. I was a Education Assistant at Nakoda Elementary School for 7.5 years and a Childcare giver for 5.5 years.
I changed my career 3 years ago to become an Equine Assisted Learning Facilitator and joined my husband Marty with our business Lone Eagle Ventures.
As a little girl, my dream was to become a champion barrel racer and a horse trainer. Throughout my journey I wanted to be an EAL facilitator after discovering what Equine Assisted Learning is. I fell in love with the fact that EAL truly heals your mind and spirit. The power of the horse is truly a gift of healing.
My goal is to help people in need of change within themselves. I have a passion to help others … As I love to quote ” I am in love with my life and I am livin my dream”.
Never Give Up.
~Raquel Wildman (Andrew)
Lone Eagle Ventures works to teach children and youth patience, understanding, cooperation and teamwork which then translates into the school systems.
Our training also works with adults suffering from PTSD, residential school trauma, inmates released back into the communities, and those suffering from a variety of mental health issues.
Our main goal is healing through horses. All participants will gain valuable experience personally and professionally with knowledgable horsemanship which they can use regularly in their daily lives.
How It Works
Strong leaders possess passion, determination, confidence, positivity, and commitment. They realize the importance of maintaining personal integrity, honesty, courage, sincerity, compassion and sensitivity. Exercises are designed to bring out and fine tune these qualities as individuals work with the reflective and transparent nature of the horse.
Horses seek to find trusting and respectful leadership when charged to interact and an individual’s success depends on respectful relationships. Therefore, when assigned to work through a task, horses will immediately pick up on the internal stress that individuals try to hide but negatively impacts productivity. The relevant skills horses force us to use in order to find success are: keen observation, effective communication, active listening, and productive negotiation.
Conflict is a natural occurrence in every work environment but it can sometimes go deep, undermining a team’s effectiveness. Before a situation becomes terminal, the facilitators find they can positively impact many difficult circumstances. Horses are innately astute and immediately identify anxious, aggressive and nervous energy. This unique ability provides an experienced facilitator with a number of skill based options. Superseding an incident at the moment the horse identifies the source of contention or facilitating the conflict as it runs it’s course are two possibilities; another comes by learning to respect each other for the value we bring to the position we hold.
The bottom line . . . Equine Assisted Learning works!
“Not only are horses used as barometers to aid facilitators as they identify the hidden messages, but the defining moment comes when they realize that the horse is part of their healing”
– Marty Wildman
Lone Eagle Ventures 