Equine Assisted Session Planning Masterclass
What you'll learn
- Learn why session planning is important in equine assisted services
- Understand what makes a great equine assisted learning session
- Learn differentiation strategies for a variety of clients
- Learn all about task analysis
Requirements
- No previous experience needed.
Description
Equine assisted learning is an approach provided by credentialed professionals able to design and facilitate curriculum (e.g., special ed. teacher, experiential educator, instructor, life coach, etc.). It facilitates personal growth, education/knowledge, life skills and/or professional development. It is planned and guided by an EFL team, with an end goal in mind and involves framing and processing the participant’s equine interactions for the purpose of self-growth. The difference between EFL and other equine-assisted activities (riding, driving, interactive vaulting) is the focus, the goals and the curriculum. While the other activities focus on the skills needed to ride, drive or vault, EFL focuses on the interactions and relationships with the horses. When an appropriately credentialed professional in the activity is facilitating, the other activities can be incorporated into the EFL sessions to enhance the learning experience. Interactions with equines can help with the learning of many types of skills ranging from reading and math skills to self-care and social skills, to leadership qualities and teamwork. Because of this, there are also many different types of professionals who choose to incorporate EFL in their programs. Some professionals who use EFL are:
• Teachers, Special Education Teachers
• Equine Specialists
• Experiential Educators
• Equestrian Instructors (riding, driving, vaulting, etc.)
• Recreational Therapists
• Life Coaches
• Ministers
• Corporate Leadership Trainers
• Mental Health Therapists (for activities outside of a client’s treatment plan work)
• Occupational, Physical and Speech Therapists
Are you an equine assisted pactitioner (or practitioner in training) who needs some help with planning sessions? Maybe you feel your activities are getting a bit repetitive and would like to find ways to make them more fun, or you have lots of great ideas for equine assisted sessions but struggle to get them down on paper? This course will help you create a structured a session plan with clear goals and SMART success criteria that can be used to deliver a fun and fruitful equine assisted session.
Who this course is for:
- Equine assisted professionals or those interested in working therapeutically with horses and people.
Instructor
- 4.6 Instructor Rating
- 114 Reviews
- 260 Students
- 11 Courses
Lindsey Crosbie has spent more than two decades working as a riding instructor, equine assisted practitioner and equine behaviourist in the UK and abroad. She is a Board-Certified Equine Interaction Professional (CEIP-ED). The Certification Board for Equine Interaction Professionals (CBEIP) promotes independent certification for mental health professionals or educators who incorporate equines into their therapy or education/coaching practice. The credentials indicate verification of extensive professional experience and independent assessment of knowledge for including equine interactions within mental health (MH) or education/coaching professions (ED).
Lindsey also holds Equine Assisted Therapy and Learning certifications from Way of the Horse and EAGALA. She is a Professional Association for Therapeutic Horsemanship certified therapeutic riding instructor who is also a certified mentor, meaning that she can support trainees through the certification process.
In 2017, she trained in Colorado with the world-renowned therapeutic riding instructor Terena Thomas, becoming the only person in the UK to hold Hooves for the Heart Instructor certification. Lindsey is also certified in the Stable Moments method of equine assisted learning. These certifications enable her to specialise in working with children and young people who have experienced developmental trauma or attachment wounds. Lindsey holds a certificates in Integrated Somatic Trauma Therapy and Person Centred Planning and Life Coaching. She is a trained Mental Health First Aider.
Lindsey is also a CEVAS certified therapeutic care farming practitioner who uses animals and the outdoors to help people learn, grow and reconnect with nature.