Nature Wellness Groups and Individual Sessions
Most insurance is accepted
Share Hope: Healing Trauma with Horses and Nature
Workshop May 15-17, 2009
9 AM to 5 PM
$295.00 16 CEU’s applied for
This workshop is for healers, therapists, body-workers and educators to learn and experience how interacting with horses and engaging in the self-restorative healing powers of nature can help achieve balance and health. We discuss trauma from a physical, mental, social and spiritual perspective. We begin the healing journey by learning about relationship through engaging a horse in a dialog of trust, faith, and hope, then utilizing music, art and mindfulness practices to encourage and seek insight into our deepest nature. The objectives of the program are to:
· Understand the effects of trauma on the body-mind
· Learn coping skills to regulate emotions
· Create relationship where one is heard and understood within a collective group
· Experience the re-restorative, re-generating and self-healing connection to nature and horses
Special Event
Discover Your Horsepower with Chris Irwin
Two Day Horsemanship Clinic
June 6-7, 2009
Hosted by Shared Hope for Healing at Nine Oak Ranch
Saturday and Sunday 9:00 am to 6:00 pm Daily
Evening Equine Assisted Personal Development Demonstration
6 pm to 9 pm Saturday June 6, 2009
For more information and to register go to www.chrisirwin.com
Barn Management: Vocational Skills Program for Transitional Youth
Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:30 to 5:30 PM
The purpose of the six week barn management program is to provide a “behind the scene” opportunity for youth to learn and participate in the management of an equestrian facility. The objectives of the program are:
· Equine Health and stable management
· Budgeting
· Collaborative work relationships
· Résumé writing
· Interview skills
Training Horses for Emotional Health
Individual Sessions
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This program is for people who understand the healing nature of horses and want to learn more about themselves through creating a trusting and respectful relationship with an equine partner. Participants will work with the Irwin-Method of Horsemanship to learn, grow and create a horse-human relationship that is balanced and peaceful.
Nature Play: Exploring the Creative Forces of the Earth
Saturday Evenings 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Begins April 25, 2009
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This 10-week program is for adults who know intuitively that life is interconnected with the Earth, animals, the stars and humans. A variety of hands-on experiential awareness modalities are incorporated into the healing journey of participants.
· Equine Assisted Personal Development
· Sand Play Therapy
· Journal Writing
· Art Therapy
· Labyrinth walk
· Music
· Myth and ritual
Playing in Nature: Exploring Sensory Awareness
Saturday Mornings 10:00 AM to Noon
Begins April 25, 2009
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This 10-week program is for children 6-8 who benefit for hands-on learning and can learn coping skills to help with behavioral and mental health issues. The group incorporates elements of nature play to help calm the senses.
· Play Therapy
· Equine Therapy
· Sand Play Therapy
· Art Therapy
· Labyrinth walk
· Storytelling and ritual
Vision Quests
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Vision Quests are provided for interpersonal knowledge through the activation of dormant sensory awareness the interconnection of life. Vision Quests will take place at Shared Hope and Zena Farms to enhance and encourage a sacred awakening of the relationship to the Earth and our place in the web-of-life. Participants chose the form of expression to serve them on their personal path.
· Equine Assisted Personal Development
· Art Therapy
· Sand Play Therapy
· Nature Walks
· Journaling
· Labyrinth Walk
Nature Art Therapy
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A program of an experience of ‘finding your place in the web of life’ and ‘natural world’ through a combination of the principles of Eco-Psychology and Art Therapy. Both Art and Eco-Psychology, share a common language, the language of the senses. Through activation more of our senses through the imagination and play with ritual and symbol in nature, a state of balance, wholeness, and healing occurs – taping into one’s own innate healing resources, as well as assisting in developing an intimate relationship with ourselves and the world around us. Modalities include – Art Therapy, based on the belief that the creative process is life enhancing; Sand Play Therapy, a nature-based creative experience, creating a sense of wholeness, and integration ; and Nature-Related play – bringing together one’s inner and outer worlds. Benefits include
· Improved imagination and abstract thinking
· Improved emotional and self/expression
· Increased Self-Esteem/Personal Confidence
· Enhanced self-regulation for optimal physical and emotional health
· Improved communication – through an expanded sensory awareness