AHA!! Art & Horse Assisted Healing & Empowerment workshop
March 28, 2020 10AM - 4PM Central Standard time
$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)
Photo Art Credit: Ulla Frederiksen ♥
Date and Time
Saturday Mar 28, 2020
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM CDT
March 28, 2020 10AM - 4PM Central Standard time
Fees/Admission
$125 All art supplies and horses provided.
Bring your own lunch (water & snacks provided)
Come dressed for the weather, and the paddock. Close-toed shoes.
No Art or Horse experience needed.
Contact Information
Stacey Garcelon
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