What You Will Learn as an Apprentice: Educational Mental Health Components

Students learn how to:

Create containment and a consistently safe and nurturing environment conducive to optimal learning.

  • Understand and recognize Dissociation, including the differences between Discordant and Concordant Dissociation
  • Identify client’s coping strategies and behavioral patterns used 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
  • Understand projection and transference and their role in relationships
  • Appreciate when a client needs more than education and therefore when to refer the client for counseling or psychotherapy
  • Know, through body cues and thought patterns, when the facilitator is triggered and be able to effectively deal with these personal issues
  • Identify subtle energetic cues from the horse, which will enable clients to understand fully their own subtle energies and underlying thought patterns
  • Differentiate between the client’s and the facilitator’s intuitive messages and intruding thoughts
  • “Dance” with clients: to move in and out of their process, assisting them without too many words while providing consistent support

Additional Skills

Students explore:

  • Ways of incorporating art, music, and dance into workshops, horse camps, and therapeutic sessions
  • Transformational activities with horses, including shamanic journeys, myth, storytelling, and journaling
  • Approaches to greater self-awareness and acceptance through mindfulness practices
  • Techniques for using the Epona Approach in teaching riding

Find out more about the program:

For more information contact Carol Roush at carol@medicinehorseranch.com or 520-455-5058.

 

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