Wild At Heart Horses

Workshops

3-Day Equine-Assisted Therapy Workshop

🐴 2024 dates to come! (Will be when the weather cools down - in the meantime, private group bookings will be available upon request).

🐴 Learn how to facilitate Equine Assisted Therapy as an Allied Health professional. We cover NDIS, Medicare & AHPRA requirements while teaching you how to prepare horses for therapy work and how to design and facilitate an evidence-based intervention that meets the high professional standards required in the allied health field.

🐴 Facilitated by Samantha King - Psychologist & owner of PAAW (multi-disciplinary canine assisted therapy clinic), owner & head trainer at Therapy Dogs Australia (therapy dog training @therapydogsaustralia) & assistant trainer for The Brumby Project @thebrumbyproject

🐴 Co-facilitated by the incredibly knowledgeable horsewoman Tamara Janus @tj_equine who will assist you with refining your horse handling skills and general horse knowledge.

🐴 Work with 5 brumbies - all transitioned from wild living to domestic for a career in equine assisted therapy.

🐴 Upper Caboolture, QLD

🐴 $880

🐴 5 spaces per workshop

**International attendees are welcome.

We will be teaching you horse-handling skills, however this 3-day workshop does not equip you with enough horsemanship to provide equine therapy on your own. This workshop will serve as either an introduction to the field, or a professional development opportunity for those already in the field. Your core training to become and equine-assisted therapist will be extensive, it is not something that can be covered in a 3-day workshop.

Previous horse handling experience is a benefit, but not compulsory.

The workshop is all ground work (as is our equine-therapy style).

This workshop is suitable for clinicians who are already working with horses in therapy, who want to start their equine therapy journey, or who are working/wanting to work alongside an equine specialist in their therapy sessions.

We will be spending 3 days together getting to know the horses (brumbies, who have been trained specifically for therapy), teaching you how to structure an equine-assisted session, doing role plays and skill development in ethical horsemanship. Topics such as equine body language and learning theory will be applied to horsemanship skills.

This is a hands-on workshop, expect to be up and about for 3 days!

Private Clinic Options

You are welcome to book the clinics with less than 5 people, however the cost will remain the same.

Groups larger than 5 people can be accommodated for an additional cost, email us for a quote.

If you cannot get 5 people for your group, we can try to find additional participants for your date to help you split the costs.

3-Day Clinics

These can be run over 3 days either from Friday - Sunday, or Saturday - Monday.

With enough notice, we can do a mid-week clinic (Both Tamara and Sam have clients booked during the week, so we need plenty of notice to make these work).

Cost for up to 5 people - $4500

2-Day Clinics

Can be Saturday-Sunday, or mid-week options available with enough notice.

We will get MOST of the content to you in 2 days, with slightly less time dedicated to each area of learning.

Cost for up to 5 people - $3000

1-Day Workshops

These can be organised and content will be tailored to suit your needs - with more focus on the areas that are of most relevance to you and your staff/colleagues.

Cost for up to 5 people - $1500

Catering available

We do have the option to cater your workshops for you.

Prices range depending on dietary requirements, but we generally spend about $100 per day for morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea.

Otherwise, all clinics are BYO (with facilities such as fridge, microwave etc. available).

Accommodation available

We have a limited number of guest rooms available, as well as camping on the property.