The Broken Arrow Wranglers Round Up & Rally Model
This is not a program to attend. It is a shared, hands-on experience designed to reveal truth, restore authentic communication, and build real community through embodied learning with horses.
It is a space intentionally created for honesty and transparency—where people no longer have to perform, hide, or pretend.
It is a place where freedom begins with an encounter – but endures in relationship with self and others.
Veterans, first responders, and youth come to the Round Pen to find inner peace but gain so much more:
• They learn to stop striving and start leading from a place of quiet confidence.
• They receive grace and learn to live without the burden of shame and regret.
• They remember who they really are – and become a part of something bigger.
They are the Broken Arrow Wranglers.
Grounded in a Horsemanship Approach That Reveals Inner Truth
The Round Up & Rally model is not about training horses or producing polished performances. It is about revealing who we really are – the inner life of the human – through an honest relationship with the horse.
Founded on principles developed by horseman Mike Buchanan through his work with the Wyoming Honor Farm, (a prison program with wild mustangs), Round Up & Rally recognizes that horses do not respond to force, performance, or intention alone. They respond to truth—what is truly present inside the human leading them.
The experience between human and horse in the Round Pen therefore becomes a relational mirror—one that invites honesty, humility, and transformation.
The horse becomes a living feedback system—revealing fear, control, passivity, confidence, alignment, and trust without judgment or agenda. The horse simply responds and allows us to see and know ourselves as we lead.
From knowing the horse, we come to know ourselves.
From leading the horse, we learn to lead our inner life.
From embodied truth, freedom is experienced and shared.
How It Works
1 — ENGAGE
We begin together in the Round Pen.
Participants come together over the course of a multi-week journey. The Round Pen becomes the primary environment for transformative work—a space where honesty is safe, shame has no power, and growth is communal.
There is no hiding.
No image to manage.
No hierarchy.
Everyone stands equal.
Participants are introduced to the horse—not as an animal to be controlled, but as a living example of honest communication.
They observe how the horse communicates:
• Body language
• Energy
• Boundaries
• Presence
They learn how to listen without words.
Within this space:
• The environment is controlled and safe
• The horse is free to respond honestly
• The participant is free to experiment, learn, and adjust
2 – EXPERIENCE
Guided Leadership, Not Instruction
Each participant steps into the Round Pen, one at a time, where the rules are simple: There is no failure here—only a chance to try again.
It’s not about “getting it right.” It is about becoming aware.
It’s not about training horses. It’s about allowing the horses to help reveal our true selves.
As participants engage:
• The instructor makes observations about posture, breath, energy, and intention
• The horse responds immediately with honest feedback as it is being led
• Gentle direction is offered to help align inner state with outward leadership
• Other participants may offer reflections, reinforcing community learningThe outcome is a somatic experience where the body’s safety system begins to regulate. Individuals are able to work through patterns, fears, and mindsets, learning to trust in a way that rarely happens in everyday life.
And, as they learn to lead the horse with calm presence and clarity, they learn to lead themselves the same way.
As a result, the Round Pen experience is highly effective in addressing trauma, PTSD, anxiety, and patterns that are difficult to resolve through talk therapy alone.
The body learns what the mind alone cannot, and individuals begin to step into their authentic selves.
Collective Growth and Transformation
The freedom in the Round Pen is not experienced alone – but lived with others.
While one person is in the Round Pen, the group remains present—observing, learning, and reflecting together.
Participants begin to see themselves in one another and the horse—recognizing how they interact, communicate, and show up.
The Round Pen becomes an environment where individuals can be vulnerable and cultivate trusted relationships, with recognition and acceptance of our common brokenness.
3 – EMPOWER
Activation of What Has Been Revealed
Freedom is not a one-and-done moment.
It is an ongoing, community-centric process that solves the problem of regression by ensuring individuals continue to make meaning of their learnings through authentic relationships with themselves and others.
Participants begin to recognize their own “inner horse”—the emotions, fears, instincts, and protective responses that drive behavior in daily life.
They engage in a process of reflection and discussion to name what they discovered, clarify what matters most, and identify where their restored passions and integrity can be uniquely activated in their lives.
With the support of the group, individuals forge these insights into action so that healing is sustained.
Because this is the nature of progress: it is measured not by speed, but by stability.
4 — EXPAND
The Rally: Walking Forward Together
The Rally: Walking Forward Together
What is revealed in the Round Pen does not stay there.
At the end of the multi-week Round Up & Rally experience, a showcase event is held in the Round Pen, where the horsemanship model and impact stories are shared with family members, coworkers, leaders, and friends.
Participants are no longer scared to share their brokenness. They do not want to keep freedom to themselves.
They take their embodied learning back to their homes, workplaces, schools, and communities—where they become catalysts for others’ transformation.
They become an invitation for change – because their changed presence invites honesty.
Their strengthened leadership creates safety. Their renewed hope cultivates freedom around them.
This is the truth: nobody carries their restoration alone. Freedom is given, received, and lived – together.
LEARN HOW WE MULTIPLY AND SUSTAIN THE MODEL
If you believe:
- Freedom should be accessible
- Leadership can be restored
- Community should hold transformation
- Culture can shift from the inside out
Then help us build and multiply Outposts of Freedom.
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