What You Will Learn as an Apprentice: Mental Health Components
You will learn how to:
- Understand Dissociation, including the differences between Discordant and Concordant Dissociation
- Identify client’s coping strategies and behavioral patterns utilized to survive, assisting him or her in developing behaviors which move them to a place of thriving rather than surviving
- Clearly identify various Personality Traits and distinguish between Traits and more severe Personality Disorders
- Create containment and a consistently safe and nurturing healing environment
- Understand projection and transference and its role in the therapeutic process
- Know, through your body cues and thought patterns, when you are triggered and be able to effectively deal with your counter-transference issues
- Identify the subtle energetic cues from the horse, which will enable the client to understand fully their own subtle energies and underlying thought patterns
- Read client’s "energetic field" and differentiate between your intuitive messages and your own intruding thoughts
- Dance with the client: to move in and out of their process, assisting them without too many words while providing consistent support
Additional Skills
You will explore:
- Ways of incorporating art, music and dance into workshops, horse camps, and therapeutic sessions
- Transformational activities with horses, including shamanic journeys, spirit painting, myth, storytelling, and journaling
- Techniques for processing "past life memories" that sometimes arise in deep work with horses, including theories that help people deal with the experience constructively whether or not their personal belief system encompasses such phenomena
- Approaches to greater self-awareness and acceptance through mindfulness practices
Find out more about the program:
- Overview
- Prerequisites
- The Selection Process
- Personal Commitment
- Equine Components
- Mental Health Components
For more information contact booking@theeponacenter.com or 520-455-5908.