AHA!! Art and Horse Assisted Healing workshop

This is the first in a Art & Horse Assisted Healing & Empowerment workshop series. More dates TBA. Photo Art Credit: Ulla Frederiksen ♥

October 12, 2019 10AM – 4PM Central Standard time
(rain date October 20)

$125 All art supplies and horses provided.
Bring your own lunch (water & snacks provided)

Facilitated by Stacey Garcelon M.Ed. & the Anam Cara team with trauma-informed practices, Eagala model principles, and decades of mental health, horse & art experience.

NO ART OR HORSE EXPERIENCE IS NECESSARY 🙂

Agenda:
10:00 – 10:00 am: Participant arrival time, welcome, housekeeping, introductions, gathering themes to be used throughout the workshop.

10:30 – 11:00 am: Trauma education: what is trauma? How does it affect the mind & body and what can we do to heal and empower ourselves following trauma.

11:00 – 11:15 am: Comfort break/snacks/water

11:15 – 12:30 pm: Art & Horses: create/express goals for individual trauma healing, then join the horses in a facilitated session to deepen insight and awareness of this goal.

1:00: LUNCH with discussion about empowerment: what does it mean?

2:00 – 3:00 pm: Horses & Art: explore empowerment with the herd, then return to the art to see if anything needs to change or create a new piece based on insights and awareness from horse experiences.

3:00 – 4:00 pm: Sharing/Closure

Trauma-informed principles:
1. Safety
2. Trust worthiness and transparency
3. Peer support
4. Collaboration and mutuality
5. Empowerment, voice and choice
6. Cultural, Historical, and Gender Issues

Eagala Model:
1. Team approach (mental health professional, equine specialist & horses)
2. Ground based (no riding or horsemanship needed)
3. Solution oriented (participants find their own solution)
4. Ethics (we are governed by professional ethics)