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Equine-Facilitated
Psychotherapy & Learning (EFPL)
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Spring 2013
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 Greetings gentle readers!
I hope that spring is finding you with it's warm breezes. Pleasant as spring may be, it holds danger for our equine partners with the risk of laminitis, a serious metabolic condition brought on by the high sugar content in spring grass. Our equine therapist Cloud has been affected and is currently on sick leave. Please send healing thoughts his way as he recovers!
Our newsletter explores the healing power of horses for emotional wellness in humans. Whether your wish is to learn more about equine-facilitated psychotherapy and learning, experience it yourself through an individual session or personal growth workshop, or develop your skills in facilitating the process of EFPL, you'll find valuable information and connections in this issue's featured publications, presentations and events.
EFPL offers a very potent avenue of healing and personal growth which reliably produces profound positive changes for the participants. The horses demonstrate a non-calculated and casual ability to touch each heart in a unique way. How do they do it? As long as I have been in practice I never stop learning from them. They help trust in the process and in the unknown. Nature has a wisdom that transcends logic and planning, and horses can help us find and live in that wisdom. Enjoy and learn!
Gratefully,
Leigh
Human-Equine Alliances for Learning (HEAL)
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The Listening Heart by Leigh Shambo
is Now Available as a Kindle e-Book!
 In response to the popular demand from tech savvy bookworms, The Listening Heart is now a Kindle e-book!
There's no need to actually own a Kindle either, the Kindle app is available for download to your computer, smart phone, tablet, etc.
We are very excited about this next stage in the life of The Listening Heart making it available to a wider augdience. TLH has already received an enthusiastic response from readers both inside and outside the arena of EFPL.
Kindle Price: $9.99
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Horses Helping People MA Webinar on The HEAL Model of EFPL
 Join HEAL founder Leigh Shambo, LMHC in supporting the organization Horses Helping People MA. Leigh has donated a webinar on The HEAL Model of EFPL to be held on Monday, March 18th at 7pm Eastern. Horses Helping People MA offers several great webinars featuring unique applications of the therapeutic use of horses.
Benefits of Horses Helping People MA webinars:
- Attendees can participate by asking questions and sharing their own ideas and experience.
- Viewers can watch the recording as many times as they wish - a great option if you can't watch live. - Easy to access and attend from any computer location! Webinar description: The HEAL Model of Equine-Facilitated Psychotherapy and Learning (EFPL) is described as a foundational model for understanding EFPL. Using concepts from neuroscience, attachment psychology, and animal science, Shambo explains how a feeling-based bond with the horse lies at the heart of EFPL treatment for mental health. In the HEAL model, a six-stage process is used to successfully treat complex PTSD and other clinical disorders. Outcome research from actual client treatment is reviewed in support of this model. Leigh Shambo, MSW, LMHC is a psychotherapist with a full time clinical practice in Washington State. She is also the founder and President of Human-Equine Alliances for Learning (HEAL), a non-profit that sponsors research on and equitable access to equine-facilitated psychotherapy. Through HEAL, Shambo offers professional EFPL Facilitator Training to qualified individuals world-wide. Through her research she is widely known as a pioneer in EFPL clinical practice and she recently released her first book, The Listening Heart: The Limbic Path Beyond Office Therapy.
Fee: $15
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2013 HEAL Facilitator Training Program for Equine-Facilitated Psychotherapy & Learning (EFPL)
Only a few spots are left in the 2013 class! If you are interested in joining us for this career enhancing program, please contact HEAL Operations Manager Ricki Martin at ricki@humanequinealliance.org.
 The HEAL FTP is a clinically-oriented, small group (up to 10 individuals), intensive training program for professionals wishing to incorporate EFPL into their practice or business. It is a post-graduate program requiring a Masters degree or equivalent education and experience, and is also open to practitioner teams consisting of helping professional + horse specialist. This is a certificate program open to candidates on an application basis. "This training program is amazing. I feel well prepared to get started in this work." ~Donna Martino, CO, USA On-Site Instruction Weeks: May 06-12, 2013 & Oct 07-13, 2013 Location: HEAL Ranch - Chehalis, WA
Program Cost: $7200 *discount for practitioner teams available * apply for partial scholarship* Application Fee: $75 non-refundable
Deposit: $600 non-refundable Program includes distance learning and & individualized consultation. CEU's for counselors and therapists through NASW-WA and CA-BBS. Click here for the brochure!
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The Keys to Connection at the HEAL Ranch
April 5-7, 2013
Start your season of renewal with a gift to yourself - a HEAL personal growth workshop. We have been offering EFPL workshops for over a decade and we have heard from our customers that the experience is priceless, an investment that keeps rippling forward. In April we feature our newest workshop The Keys to Connection. This hands-on experiential workshop is intended to help participants build templates for quiet authority, for self care and for conscious deep connection with others. The HEAL herd is eager to assist you in finding your power to 'be the change'! Learning objectives include practical techniques for increased balance, clarity, and loving communication with others, and support for developing and trusting your intuition. Come join us!
Dates: April 5-7, 2013
Location: HEAL Ranch - Chehalis, WA
Cost: $540 - lunch is provided
CEU's available for counselors and therapists thru NASW and CA-BBS.
Click here for the brochure or email HEAL Operations Manager Ricki Martin at ricki@humanequinealliance.org for more information.
"Thank you very much for another wonderfully powerful and magical weekend. The horses touch that place within ourselves that little else can accomplish. ~C.A.
"I have never felt more welcomed and at home at a workshop. The generosity of spirit of Leigh, David and the HEAL staff was contagious." ~B.P.
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Good Reads!
***** The Archeology of Mind by Jaak Panksepp & Lucy Biven
The Archaeology of Mind presents an affective neuroscience approach-which takes into consideration basic mental processes, brain functions, and emotional behaviors that all mammals share- the neural mechanisms of emotional expression. It reveals-for the first time-the deep neural sources of our values and basic emotional feelings.The book offers an evidence-based evolutionary taxonomy of emotions and a brand-new clinical paradigm for treating psychiatric disorders in clinical practice. The Power of the Herd: A non-predatory approach to social intelligence, leadership and Innovation by Linda Kohanov Linda Kohanov is beloved for her groundbreaking articulation of "the way of the horse," an experiential wisdom known to riders for centuries but little studied or adapted to off-horse use. Now Kohanov takes those horse-inspired insights on exceptional communication and leadership into the realms of our workplaces and relationships. Here we explore the benefits of "nonpredatory power" in developing assertiveness, fostering creativity, dealing with conflict, and heightening mind-body awareness.
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