USEA'S Instructors' Certification Program (ICP)
Presented by Charles Owen
Capable instructors are essential to the training of riders and their horses for humane, safe and skilled participation in the sport of eventing. The USEA Instructors' Certification Program (ICP) seeks to help event instructors at all levels acquire a knowledge base, both theoretical and practical, upon which they can continue to build throughout their teaching lifetime. For USEA certified instructors, this knowledge base will support not only the teaching of event riding and training, but also care of the horse and development of effective and safe teaching method.
The ICP will:
- Identify essential training principles for riders and horses, drawn from time-tested sources and from experience with today's competition challenges;
- Offer to instructors materials, workshops, and mentorship opportunities that present these training principles in a logical sequence;
- Certify instructors at a specific level of teaching proficiency, with the invitation to continue to learn and to achieve a higher level of certification if they so desire;
- Provide an atmosphere of professional openness and support to all instructors so that on-going learning is facilitated.
Levels of certification offered are:
- Level I-Novice: Instructors of riders through Novice
- Level I-Training: Instructors of riders through Training
- Level II: Instructors of riders through Preliminary and CIC*
- Level III: Instructors of riders through Intermediate, CIC**, and CCI*
- Level IV: Instructors of riders through Advanced, CIC***, and CCI**
- Level V: Instructors of riders through CCI*** and CCI***
A 2005 schedule of workshops and assessments can be found here
For contact info for ICP Workshop Faculty, click here
For a list of current USEA ICP Instructors, click here
Direct link to USPC Association, click here
If you are an ICP candidate instructor, or someone who has attended an ICP workshop, and you own an ICP workbook, click here for an updated ICP Mentor List.
For further information on the program, both participating as a candidate instructor and acting as a host/organizer of ICP workshops, contact:
Nancy Myers
Educational Programs Manager, USEA
525 Old Waterford Road NW Leesburg VA 20176.
Tel: 703-779-0440 Ext 3007
Fax: 703-779-0550
E-mail: nancy@useventing.com.
