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Equine-Facilitated
Psychotherapy & Learning EFPL
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Spring 2012
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 Greetings to friends near and far!
The HEAL Newsletter has a little something for everyone interested in EFPL! Read about David Young's new website highlighting research in Heart Rate Variability (HRV). This measure of well-being for people and horses might have a place in EFPL research studies.
Interested in taking a HEAL workshop? Consider getting a price break for the upcoming Horse-Human Connection: 6 Keys to Personal Growth, held here at the HEAL Ranch April 20-22. Find the special offer in the article below!
For our colleagues overseas, advanced professional trainings in the UK and Norway feature the HEAL Model, a clinically reliable and justifiable model of treatment with EFPL.
Residents of the Pacific Northwest will not want to miss the Bitless Bridle clinic/demonstration (May 26, Port Townsend WA). The clinic offers educational demonstrations. Find links to the event and the product below.
As always... don't miss the "good reads and links"!
Thanks for reading! Peace and blessings.
Leigh
Human-Equine Alliances for Learning (HEAL)
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The Horse-Human Connection: 6 Keys for Personal Growth April 20-22, 2012 at the HEAL Ranch in Chehalis, WA
 Our life stories grow out of experience, but in time these stories can become our experience... keeping us stuck in old patterns that no longer fit. Learning with horses helps your brain move beyond the tendency to see what has been, to see more clearly in the here and now. Unlock old patterns and liberate your story using HEAL's Six Keys to Relationship.
About the Facilitators:
Leigh Shambo, MSW, LMHC, a licensed therapist and educator, has specialized in EFP/L for over a decade. David Young is a scientist and horse specialist (and Leigh's husband) whose work has informed and supported the HEAL Model of EFP/L. Leigh is the founder and lead therapist for Human-Equine Alliances for Learning, a non-profit charitable organization that supports equine-facilitated services and research. Leigh is regularly invited to teach and to speak throughout the US, Canada and Europe.
Say you saw it here and get 10% off!
Cost: $750 per person or $1350 per pair - lunch is provided
CEU's for counselors and therapists through NASW-WA and CA-BBS
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The Launch of a New Website by David Young
 When Dr. Stein (Stein PK: 103 Pub-Med papers) said to me in a casual conversation a year ago, March 2011 "Not much has been done for application of HRV for individuals", I was disappointed but I quickly resolved to search for individual applications of HRV that would give me self management and perhaps clinical opportunities in our EFPL services at HEAL.
What is HRV (heart rate variability)? I call it: a window into the autonomic nervous system (ANS). Healthy hearts have lots of variability and flexibility in their beat-to-beat rhythm. Stress load from all sources (including emotional stress) will show up in this measure - if we can track it with sufficient accuracy and reliability.
Interestingly, this measure can be as valid for horses as it is for people, making it potentially useful for EFPL research.
HRVreseach.com - This website will post the abstracts of the latest HRV studies from around the world (Pub-Med) that I believe would be appropriate for individuals, clients, clinicians & patients.
We will begin with humans and eventually include horses and the interaction of HRV between humans and and horses along the lines of HEAL. Before continuing with Humans and HRV, I will leave you one popular HRV horse article by Dr. Ross. What is as the heart of breakdowns in the racing industry: HRV. Click here for the article.
To read more about HRV and David's research into the topic go to HRVresearch.com
David W. Young
58 years in air and marine instrumentation, Radar, antennas, stealth technology, with 26 US letter patents + 10 classified disclosures, founded three companies , and one of the last skunks at the Skunk Works [Lockheed], Northrop consultant, and Office of Naval Research prime contracts, a 83 year old, healthy male. Today he is VP and husband of Leigh Shambo, President of Human-Equine Alliances for Learning (HEAL), a non-profit, and he is a private HRV researcher interested in his own health and others.
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The HEAL-LEAP Institute of EFPL
7-10 June 2012 & 6-9 September 2012
at the LEAP Centre in Gloucestershire, UK
The British Association of Counseling and Psychotherapy (BACP) has endorsed an EFPL training course offered by the HEAL-LEAP Institute of Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy & Learning (EFPL). The first course starts in June 2012 in Gloucestershire, England. Completion of Level I courses [Foundations & Integration] earns participants 58 CPD hours through BACP, and in addition are eligible for the Advanced EFPL Practice Level II [Practice Certification in HEAL Model EFPL] which will be offered in 2013.
The course is designed for the therapeutic professional in EFPL and requires Masters' level or equivalent education and experience in psychotherapy, social services or related healing or educational environment. In this course students will gain understand of the bio-psycho-social foundations of EFPL, gain competency in treatment planning and service delivery for EFPL, and be able to design therapeutic treatment goals with EFPL interventions that will yield measurable and lasting outcomes for clients.
The HEAL Model™ of EFPL has been implemented in clinical practice with many types of difficult to treat clients. Ongoing research conducted at HEAL shows promise for treating PTSD in both youth and adults . The HEAL Model has also been used to treat sexually traumatized youth, addiction in clients with and without learning disability or trauma, and anxiety and depression in children and adults.
HEAL www.humanequinealliance.org
LEAP www.leap-etc.co.uk/
BACP Continuing Professional Development www.bacp.co.uk/cpd/
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Can Horse Assisted Psychotherapy & Learning Help in Trauma Recovery?
The Role of Human-Horse Interactions in Trauma Recovery
15-17 June 2012 At Oslo University Hospital, AUA Stallen (Gaustad)
with Leigh Shambo, MSW,LMHC
Objective: As part of Hest og Helse's (Horse and Health) professional development process:
- to explore the theory and practice of horse assisted psychotherapy/learning in trauma treatment recovery processes
- to provide informed discussion about the future development of horse assisted psychotherapy/learning in Norway
The workshop will provide important information and dialog opportunities with Leigh Shambo, an experienced presenter, researcher and practitioner of horse assisted therapy with trauma victims. The emphasis throughout will be on explaining the theoretical and demonstrating the practical application of Horse assisted Therapy & Learning in trauma work.
Target Audience:
- Psychologists, social workers, pedagogs and others interested in learning more about this developing area of therapy
- Horse assisted therapy practitioners interested in developing their professional capacity
- Academics, Regulators, centre managers, professional bodies
Topics Covered: Overview of EFPL interventions and treatment planning, Introduction to the HEAL Model & the science of social-emotional healing with horses. "Six Keys" affective domains shared by human and horse; improving client emotional regulation with EFPL; helping client integrate bottom-up & top-down. Cultivating new behaviours that generalize and measuring client outcomes. Special considerations in working with PTSD patients.
Language: English (group discussions in Norsk with Norwegian group leaders)
Price: NOK5000 (includes 3 lunches, 1 dinner & notes)
Inquires: kjell.myhre@nhest.no
To register: Please register by using our entry procedure for courses and seminars (Kursplan) at www.hestoghelse.no.
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Bitless Bridle Clinic in Port Townsend, Washington
with Mitzi Summers
 The Jefferson Equestrian Association is pleased to offer a workshop that will explore the possibilities Bitless riding may offer you and your horse. This workshop will offer you the chance to try out a Bitless bridle while under the guidance of world renown riding instructor, Mitzi Summers.
The Instructor -
Mitzi Summers, winner of the Certified Horsemanship Association International Instructor of the Year in 2010, is experienced with the disciplines of dressage, hunt seat, jumping, western pleasure and training, ground work, and practices classical Natural Horsemanship. Ms. Summers is a world renown trainer, judge, and one of twenty Level IV Centered Riding instructors. She has taught thousands of horses and riders throughout the United States, Europe, New Zealand and South Africa. Under her experienced guidance, one can safely experience riding their horse with a Bitless bridle.
For more on Mitzi Summers: www.mitzisummers.com
The Benefits for Horse & Rider -
The Bitless Bridle provides a humane alternative to the Bronze Age technology of the traditional bit. Your horse is free from fear, listens more attentively, breathes more freely, and moves more gracefully. With a calm, less spooky horse, communication is enhanced, trust established, performance improved, and harmony achieved. Riding and driving becomes simpler, safer and more satisfying. Both you and your horse can relax and enjoy yourselves.
The Bitless Bridle-
Although The Bitless Bridle is indisputably a bitless bridle, it bears no other resemblance to the pre-existing and traditional bitless bridles, i.e., the hackamores, bosals, and sidepulls. It works on an entirely new and different concept compared with all previous bridles. The Bitless Bridle provides, as it were, full service communication, whereas the traditional bitless bridles all have limitations in their ability to provide for rider/horse communication. The hackamores and bosals, for example, make some provision for stopping (though with similar inherent problems to the bit method) but are weak on steering, whereas the sidepulls provide for steering but are weak on stopping. Furthermore, whereas the Bitless Bridle is applicable to all disciplines, the traditional bitless bridles are not.
For more on the Bitless Bridle: www.bitlessbridle.com
The Partnership-
Dr. Cook, an equine head, throat and neck specialist with 50 years of veterinarian experience, invented and developed the Bitless Bridle. He chose Mitzi Summers as his first Bitless Bridle consultant as well as a Bitless Bridle Instructor. She has helped horses and their riders learn how to develop a pain-free connection when ridden using Dr. Cook's Bitless bridle.
The basis of the workshop will be POSITIVE reinforcement with your horse, not dominance and submission but forming a true partnership. Riders and horses from all backgrounds and disciplines are welcome to participate.
Contact Summer Martell at summermartell@hotmail.com or 360-531-1726 for more information or to register.
Horse and rider participants: $50.00 (pre-registration required)
Auditors: $25.00
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Buddy
2002 - 2012
In memory of our amazing, steadfast Buddy who touched many lives during his life at the HEAL Ranch.
Deep thanks to those who cared for him, and the friends who have comforted David and I during this time of transition.
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