Imagine That Team

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Beth Anstandig is changing the way organizations, leaders, and individuals use their power. As a

life-long cowgirl, writer, professor, and licensed

psychotherapist, Beth has 25 years of experience

developing, implementing, and training people in Natural Leadership—a model she pioneered. Natural

Leadership helps people awaken their innate awareness so they can live and work with more

authentic relationships and purpose.

Beth owns Take a Chance Ranch in Morgan Hill, CA

providing mental health, leadership, culture, and

well-being programs through The Circle Up Experience. Together with an ever-growing

menagerie of animals, Beth works with human herds

onsite and online. She’s trained thousands of leaders and teams from some of the most

renowned corporations, universities, and nonprofits.

Beth’s fresh perspective and work integrating basic animal practices into everyday human life have been featured in global media including BBC World Service, PBS, and Forbes. She is a frequent podcast guest, contributing writer for MomsRising, and an advisor and content creator for Kahilla: A Basecamp for Women on the Rise.

Beth has an MA degree in Clinical Psychology from Santa Clara University and an MFA degree in Creative Writing from Arizona State University. Beth is the author of A Garden of Forking Paths (Pearson Longman, 2006) and upcoming The Human Herd: Awakening Our Natural Leadership (Morgan James Publishing, 2021). She lives on her ranch with an expanding community of animal h

A Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LFMT) with a Master of Arts degree in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University. Amy is an innovative and eclectic professional who has been utilizing creative and alternative treatment modalities, including Ecotherapy and Equine Assisted Psychotherapy practices for the past 20 years.

Amy is trained in Trauma Focused Therapy, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, Emotional Freedom Technique, Ecotherapy, Constellation Therapy and Equine Assisted Psychotherapy. Amy is the Co-Founder and lead facilitator of Gallop Ventures, which offers  programs ranging from leadership and team building experiences to personal development workshops to deeper awareness and learning through Equine Assisted Psychotherapy.

As well, Amy owns and operates Imagine That Farm, a therapeutic care farming program offering a farm ecosystem that invites individuals, families and groups to participate in authentic farming practices for the purpose of therapeutic benefit. 

A licensed psychologist since 2008, Amanda is a seeker whose career is marked by a search for deeper understanding of how people’s psychological and emotional systems work and can be transformed for the better. 

She began her career in Portland OR, working with people struggling with suicidal and self harming behaviors and intense emotional dysregulation. Although aspects of conventional talk therapy were effective in helping these individuals, Amanda became frustrated with the limitations of this approach. She began to seek training that included a more holistic, self affirming perspective on mental and emotional health, and enrolled in several years of intensive training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, a body-based trauma therapy model. 

This new focus led to a change in specialization to developmental trauma and dissociative disorders, where Amanda was inspired by the depth of insight and change that people gained from listening to the wisdom of their bodies. In parallel with her clients’ journeys, Amanda became increasingly aware of the needs of her own body and spirit, and reconnected with her early childhood love of horses and the outdoors, riding horses again for the first time in 30 years. 

Now in search of deeper knowledge and understanding of animals and the natural world, Amanda sought specialized training in trauma focused equine -assisted psychotherapy (TF-EAP), which she integrated with her somatic approach of many years. After five years of somatic equine assisted psychotherapy, Amanda realized this was where she wanted to focus all her time and energy, which required a significant lifestyle change. 

In 2019, Amanda and her little family moved from Portland Oregon back to the fifth-generation ranch where she grew up in San Francisco East Bay Hills, and eventually adopted three horses of her own.