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Equine Assisted Peer Support Practitioner Course
Rating: 4.6 out of 5(9 ratings)
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Equine Assisted Peer Support Practitioner Course

Learn how to work alongside horses to help women form connected relationships and improve their mental health.
Created byLindsey crosbie
Last updated 10/2024
English
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What you'll learn

  • Understand what equine assisted peer support means.
  • Learn how to work alongside horses to help women with their mental health.
  • Learn how to plan, budget, monitor and evaluate your project.
  • Learn how to safeguard your own mental health while working with trauma.

Course content

6 sections • 39 lectures • 4h 34m total length

  • Introduction2:49
  • About the Alpha Mare Course2:19

    Explore how the Alpha Mare Course delivers women-focused mental health peer support through horses, funded by Mind and Agenda, and inspired by personal family trauma.

  • About the Author0:57
  • Meet the Course Leader1:06

    Meet Lindsay Crosby, a seasoned equine assisted practitioner and therapeutic riding instructor. She also serves as an equine behaviorist with somatic trauma therapy and international training.

  • About Equine Assisted Learning12:44

    Discover equine assisted learning, a non-therapeutic, on-the-ground experiential approach using horses as learning partners. Learn about lead practitioners, equine advocates, and practical applications in corporate, education, and personal development.

  • Why Horses8:03

    Explore equine assisted learning as on-ground, unmounted experiential learning guided by a lead practitioner and equine advocate, focusing on processing outcomes, self-regulation, and non-therapeutic learning with horses.

  • Equine Assisted Learning Mini Quiz
  • About Peer Support3:04
  • Peer Support Video2:29

    Discover how peer support uses shared experiences to help others through give-and-take, honesty, and involvement, and learn to start or join equine assisted peer groups with the alpha mare curriculum.

  • Peer Mentoring Video34:05

    Learn to practice peer mentoring through trauma-informed, person-centered care by setting smart goals, establishing boundaries, and using active listening to build trust, support change, and plan closure.

  • How Peer Support Changes Lives2:37

Requirements

  • You should ideally have some experience of working with horses and people, be trained (or intending to train as) a facilitator or human services professional.

Description

The Alpha Mare Course is a peer support project with a unique selling point: horses. At With Horses, we know that the prospect of spending time with horses can motivate and inspire isolated and all kinds of people. However, women have a special affinity with them. As prey animals, horses are powerful yet vulnerable. The psyches of both horses and women are connected as they have a shared understanding of what it can feel like to be prey. Like the lead mare in the horse herd, women are nurturers. They are programmed by society to take care of others and are prone to make personal sacrifices. Due to putting their own needs last, they don't always access help for mental health. This course will help you learn to provide a medium-term, intensive Equine Assisted Learning (EAL) intervention designed to engage isolated women in peer support. Women and girls aged 16+ who experience mental health issues can take part. They learn about horse care and training as well as engaging in mental health discussions, developing life skills, confidence, improved mental and physical health and social networks. The Alpha Mare Course enables women experiencing mental health issues to set boundaries, make healthy choices, build self-esteem and cope with change. The course facilitates peer support as women join together to take part in a meaningful activity and bond over a shared interest. This equips women with the confidence and communication skills to talk about their mental health, form a supportive 'herd' and discover their inner Alpha Mare qualities.


Who this course is for:

  • Anyone wishing to find out more about how horses can help women to form connected relationships and improve their mental health.

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