MiMer School is run by MiMer Centre - Equine-Human Education and Research Centre. An International Non-profit, NGO, and Foundation. We offer trauma informed, trauma sensitive and trauma focused trainings in Equine and/or Nature Assisted Interventions/Services, as well as other complimentary educational and growth-supporting courses/events, all with an ecological approach.
Our main offer is our extensive training in EATIC - Equine Assisted Trauma Informed Care (built on and further developed from our former educational program EiT/L "Equines in Therapy and Learning Programs"). Other offers are our trainings and service offers in ECO assisted Mindfulness: TS-EAM - Trauma Sensitive Equine Assisted Mindfulness, TS-NAM - Trauma Sensitive Nature Assisted Mindfulness. And we have our most recently developed program in HEAR - Human-Equine Assisted Rewilding and Rewild your Heart-workshops.
We also offer additional standard and bespoke courses/trainings, workshops, webinars/seminars, CPD/CEU-days, supervision, mentoring - online and in person - to support you in your education, continued education, professional and personal growth in the field of Equine and Nature Assisted Interventions.
We initiate and take part in Equine Assisted Intervention-related research projects and educational projects, as educators, facilitator, researchers and/or collaborators.
Welcome to MiMer School!
EATIC - Equine Assisted Trauma Informed Care
EATIC is an accreditation curriculum that educates on how to work, stress, trauma and neurodivergence (ND) informed, stress, trauma and ND sensitive, stress, trauma and ND focused based on an integrative approach to human growth and healing. The curriculum includes introductions to our mindfulness-based programs (TS-EAM, TS-NAM) and our Rewilding courses - (Rewild your Heart and HEAR).
The theory you do online with the support of our trainers and our online study group. The practice and exam parts are offered regularly at different locations, when and where there is large enough group of students ready to take them. Included in our trainings are online group and peer supervision.
EATIC course structure:
Level 1:1 - EATIC - The Fundamentals (former EiT/L Level 1):
Introducing the work, including basic theory on needed facilitation skills (with a great focus on observational skills), equine science and welfare, the basics of stress and trauma and how to put together sessions.
Level 1:2 - EATIC - Introductory Theory (former EiT/L Level 2):
We give some backbone to the fundamentals and introduce a supportive theoretical framework and discuss how theories from different sciences, mainly psychology, ethology and cognitive science support our practice.
Level 2 - EATIC - The Practice: An in person and hands-on skillset training where you practice what you have learned so far.
Level 3 - EATIC - The Framework with deeper theoretical anchoring:
On trauma, ND and dissociation, mindfulness, ecopsychology, expressive arts and experiential learning.
Level 4 - EATIC The Second Practice, Exam and Accreditation:
A final practical in person skill set training and your final exam.
Trauma Sensitive Equine Assisted Mindfulness - TS-EAM
This workshop takes you, through a step by step process where you create a solid and individualized base for your mindfulness practices.
TS-EAM incorporates experiential learning, trauma sensitive mindfulness (TSM), expressive arts, ecopsychology and nature assisted and equine assisted learning to support you in a relaxing, grounding, resource creating, emotionally supportive, reflective, and therapeutic processes.
The goal is for you to develop tools so you can work with yourself, to better be with yourself, without overwhelm, stress and trauma reactions. To help you find better and greater emotional agility and flexibility, which creates more room for other, more positive experiences in life.
To take part in a TS-EAM workshop is a requirement if you want to become an accredited TS-EAM facilitator, together with a completed EATIC training.
Rewild your Heart - Nature Assisted Mindfulness - HEAR - Learn about our Holistic and Ecological Approaches
In our Rewilding concept we use a combination of TSM (Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness) and Nature Assisted Mindfulness - NAM (put together as TS-NAM) as a base for the stepwise process we invite you to in our Rewild your Heart and HEAR workshops and courses.
Whilst we offer knowledge about feralization and domestication, social dynamics, communication and behavior in horses, and invite you to come with us out into nature to visit feral-living horses. The journey there is not complete without you rewilding yourself - your heart.
Finding nature, and the wild in yourself, supports you in connecting with all other beings and their environments. We offer you the chance to experience this kind of rewilding in our workshops, but we also teach you how to facilitate this stepwise rewilding process. As always, all our offers are stress, trauma and ND informed, stress, trauma and ND sensitive and at times, stress, trauma and ND focused. We also teach about why rewilding of oneself can be a pathway to healing stress and trauma and restoring balance in one’s life.
Rewilding and Nature Assisted Mindfulness is part of what you can learn about in our EATIC courses. To take the Rewild your Heart workshop is a requirement if you want to become an accredited HEAR facilitator.
A rewild your Heart workshop or course is also an excellent CPD/CEU opportunity for Equine Professionals and any Equine Assisted Service provider to deepen their understanding of horses and their environments.
