basics

beyond

Building Technique

and Processing Skills in EAP

 Equine Assisted Psychotherapy Professional Development Workshop

Dates & Locations to be Announced

To host this workshop at your location
please call 561-791-8939
 

Here's a chance to practice and hone your skills to help you become even more confident about facilitating EAP sessions!

This hands-on workshop is designed to support and augment the fundamental processing skills used in EAP and EAL. It is open to practitioners at any level of education, training, or certification and provides an opportunity to enhance competency, build confidence, and improve expertise. Concepts presented will be reinforced through arena activities and practice sessions with horses.

Topics & Facilitation skills covered include:

• Establishing Rapport, Socratic Questioning, Clarifying and Paraphrasing

• Applying Present Centered Awareness, Use of Silence 

• Observation Skills, Responsive Listening, Tracking

• Communication Theory; Identifying Content, Process, and Structure  

• Anthropomorphism, Projection, Empathy, Countertransference

• Interpretation as an Intervention; Power and Pitfalls 

Day 1: Review fundamental psychotherapy processing skills and examine how they may be utilized in EAP sessions by both members of the treatment team. To review communication theory, verbal and non-verbal interaction, refine processing skills, and practice these in EAP sessions.

Day 2: Introduce and discuss the concept of anthropomorphism, its role in EAP, and practice recognizing it with particular emphasis on how it influences sessions. To understand the role of interpretation and distinguish it from other related processing skills and techniques. To practice the concepts presented through hands-on interactive EAP sessions.

WORKSHOP FEES: $350 per person, for early registration, $375 thereafter. Includes lunches & refreshments both days.  

For more information call (561) 791-8939