Equine Assisted Traumatherapy with a Psychodynamic Perspective (pEATT) & Equine Assisted Trauma Informed Care (EATIC) - Who is this training for?
Curious to learn how to work with clients who have experienced traumatic events while having horses on your team?
Are you a licensed mental health professional /traumatherapist or other mental health professional, teacher, social worker or coach interested in working with equines in traumatherapy or in trauma informed care?
Are you an equine professional curious to work differently with horses and help promote change in your clients?
This training offers you rich learning and potential personal growth while taking you through a structured, well researched equine assisted model.
Ilka Parent, Minds-n-Motion, Katarina Lundgren, MiMer Centre and the rest of the our trainer team
Welcome to Module 1: Part 1.
(Courses begin as soon as you have signed up).
You can enroll at any time and gain immediate access to all course material. pEATT/EATIC courses build on each other, completing Part 1 is required before attending Part 2 and Part 3.
Module 1:1: The Fundamentals of Equine Assisted Trauma Therapy with a Psychodynamic Perspective (pEATT) & Equine Assisted Trauma Informed Care (EATIC) (online)
Whether you are working with horses or people, no matter what your theoretical background is, this training will give you the necessary theoretical fundamental knowledge to understand the dynamics and individual steps when working with equines in a therapeutic/supportive setting. In a step by step process, you will be taken through the fundamental theories, best practice, basic skill set and equine welfare. This course is a self-study course. (9:45 hours)
Cost: 460,- Euros (incl. appl. fees/taxes)
pEATT & EATIC Curriculum
pEATT/EATIC 1:1 is part of a certification curriculum in psychodynamic Equine Assisted Traumatherapy, consisting of 4 Modules, incl. a certification exam. You can read more about the certification curriculum here: www.mindsnmotion.org/index.php/en/certification It is also part of getting an accreditation in EATIC (Equine Assisted Trauma Informed Care). Read more about this here: www.mimercentre.org/index.php/education
Module 1 is offered online:
pEATT/EATIC 1, Part 1: The Fundamentals of Equine Assisted Trauma therapy with a psychodynamic perspective (pEATT) and Equine Assisted Trauma Informed Care (EATIC)
pEATT/EATIC 1, Part 2: The Essentials of Equine Assisted Traumatherapy/Trauma Informed Care
pEATT/EATIC 1, Part 3: Putting Theory into Practice in pEATT and EATIC.
You will receive a Certificate of Attendance for each Part you complete. If you attend and pass all three Module 1 Parts, you will receive a Certificate of Completion. This Certificate of Completion is necessary for you to attend any other Modules in pEATT and EATIC.
Horses
Horses and clients and team members as equals. This is a core value of pEATT and in EATIC.
Horses are never tools!
Ensuring equine welfare in all human-horse interactions is a fundamental ethical standpoint in pEATT and in EATIC.
Course Curriculum
- Welcome!
- BACKGROUND: Collaboration
- What is EATIC?
- INFORMATION: pEATT, EATIC - POSSIBLE CERTIFICATES AND ACCREDITATIONS
- VIDEO: Introduction - Disclaimer and Initial Information (5:26)
- INFORMATION: Course Structure, Course Elements, Homework, Assignments and one important Q & A
- MONTHLY ZOOM MEETINGS AND STUDY GROUP
- INFORMATION BOARD: Check In Here Regularly!
- INTRODUCTION BOARD: Introduce Yourself!
- RECOMMENDED READING LIST
- VIDEO: A First Look at Equine Welfare (55:10)
- VIDEO: Equine Welfare 1 (21:12)
- VIDEO: Equine Welfare 2 (25:46)
- VIDEO: Case Example (33:41)
- DISCUSSION BOARD: Case Example
- VIDEO: Discussion in the Team (10:47)
- VIDEO: The Principles of pEATT (6:40)
- VIDEO: The Kolb Learning Cycle (11:02)
- VIDEO: The Quadrant Team Approach (16:58)
- VIDEO: Team members - Why have horses on the team??? (5:49)
- VIDEO: A Horse is a Horse, of Course!? (39:00)
- DISCUSSION BOARD: Summary
- INTRO AND INFO
- VIDEO: Psychology, Cognitive Sciences and Anthropomorphism (23:24)
- VIDEO: Introduction to Stress and its relative - Trauma - from a Physiological Perspective (23:56)
- VIDEO: Equine Evolution and Coexistence with Humans (25:21)
- VIDEO: Equine Cognition and Social Dynamics (31:29)
- VIDEOS (3): Equine Cognitive Abilities (37:13)
- VIDEO: Equine Welfare and Stress (19:37)
- QUIZ
- RESOURCES: Articles on Horses & EiT/L
- VIDEO: The Horses at Minds-n-Motion (17:00)
- DISCUSSION BOARD: Your Own Lenses
- VIDEO: Observational Categories (16:07)
- VIDEO: Practicing Horse Observations (4:02)
- VIDEO & DISCUSSION BOARD: Horse Observations (6:33)
- VIDEO: Team Discussion and Neutral Language (6:28)
- VIDEO: Standardized Line of Questioning (31:51)
- INFORMATION: Working with Children
- VIDEO: The Team's Areas of Responsibility - MH and EBS (30:34)
- DISCUSSION: Summary
- INFORMATION: Homework Assignment
Attention Returnees!
As a result of the collaboration between MiMer Centre and Minds-n-Motion, the “Equine Assisted Traumatherapy from a psychodynamic perspective/Equine Assisted Trauma Informed Care” training contains all necessary and elemental parts from prior individual trainings. By combining the former versions of pEATT and EIT/L trainings, new information is therefore also available for all previous attendees.
We honor your previous attendance and will give you a 50% discount for those parts you attended if you choose to attend the new Module 1. Contact Ilka at [email protected], or Ally Katarina at [email protected] for your discount coupon.
Bundle prices for returnees:
Returnees with prior attendance of (previous/former) pEATT Part 1/ EIT Level 1 only: € 920,-
Returnees with prior attendance of (previous/former) pEATT Part 1+2/ EIT Level 1+2: € 690,-
Ilka Parent, Clin. Psychotherapist,
Depth Psychology, Psychotraumatherapy (DeGPT)
In the past 30 years, my clinical focus has been on specializing in traumatherapy, be it combat related aspects or complex PTS(d).
In the equine assisted field, I have a worldwide network, organize regular international symposia on equine welfare in equine assisted practices, and publish both textbooks and articles on the topic of traumatherapy with horses on the team.
Katarina Lundgren
Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness Instructor, Master Student in Psychotherapy and Cognitive Science
I have been working with education and learning for 30 years, the last 15 of them, together with horses. I have been working with trauma informed and sensitive care in the EAP/L field for more than 10 years. And educated on equine welfare and wellbeing for the last 15 years. I am the founder and director of MiMer Centre.
MiMer Centre gives trainings and courses worldwide and online, we contribute to science and research, present on conferences and in books, pertaining to the topics of equine welfare and wellbeing, rewilding, and trauma informed care in EAP/L.
