Training Calendar

June 13-14, 2009
Atlanta, GA

Facilitated by:
Lisa Baugh, LMFT, EAGALA Adv. Certified
Lissa Corcoran, Executive Director, Flying Change

June 27-28, 2009
Atlanta, GA

Facilitated by:
Michael Dawson, MA, LPC
Ms. Lee Dudley, MA

Facilitated By: Lisa Baugh, LMFT and Lissa Corcoran, ES

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 enhace 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, Clarifiying 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 (including and expanding on EAGALA SPUD'S). 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 (including 'S). 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.

How to register

Facilitated By: Michael Dawson, MA, LPC and Ms. Lee Dudley, MA

This workshop is for anyone who helps another person during their season of grief. Whether you work with children or adults, you are a professional or a volunteer caregiver, or you just want to know how to be a better companion to someone you care about after a loss, you will benefit from this workshop.

Horses are wonderful teachers. Learning experientially (by being actively involved in some way) allows us to learn quickly and apply what we learn right away. Their value to us is that they take a simple metaphor and make it alive and personal.

Horses are also wonderful companions. What people need most from others when grieving is companionship. That companion needs to be non-judgmental, present and free of expectations. The quiet strength of horses, coupled with human compassion, can be just what the mourner needs.

In the dynamic horse/human relationship, powerful things take place. This training is designed to make you aware of your own experiences in ways that will deepen your understanding of yourself and the work of service that you do. My hope is that everyone who completes this training will develop the awareness and the tools to become a more effective servant of humanity.

In this training, you will learn:

• Grief across the lifespan: Developmental differences of those who mourn at different stages of life
• What complicates the mourning process
• The horse/human dynamic: How horses help with healing
• Practical equine-facilitated activities for the bereaved

Touchstones of Horses Healing Grief. The effectiveness of Horses Grief facilitation rests on three touchstones:

• Perspective - Gained through awareness and curiosity
• Process - Honoring the Sacred Moment
• Praxis - Applying Facilitator skills

How to register