MOVING FORWARD

In this program you don’t need to tell your story, instead you will be asked to stay in the present moment. We will help you to understand more about why and how trauma affects us and we will support you to slow-down in order to raise your self-awareness, notice your early warning signs of escalation, identify your triggers and examine your learnt responses.

You will be invited to take part in a series of carefully graded activities which raise your awareness and help you  to read and regulate yourself. Through the ‘reflective’ qualities of these amazing creatures you will learn to build trust and confidence in the new-found relationship. Discussions are carefully facilitated to encourage you to explore and share your experiences without fear of judgement.

This program will help you:

Slow down and “Pause”

Increase self-awareness of your authentic experience

Better regulate anxiety, anger, fear

Enhance your ability to move-forward and start to re-frame historic events

BUILDING BRIDGES

These highly successful, programs are designed for COUPLES where one or both partners have encountered traumatic situations in their working life and now are suffering from PTSD and/or related conditions.

The emphasis of these programs is how to re-build trust and communication in the relationship, break the negative patterns that have formed from ‘walking on eggshells’ and build re-connection. 

For the majority of the sessions you and your partner will work apart, so you both have the opportunity to openly explore your own issues and perspectives.

Our facilitators weave psycho-education about PTSD through the program to help you develop a greater understanding of the affects and impacts at both at the physical and mental level.

This program will help you:

Slow-down and step into the present moment

Build confidence in yourself and your relationship

Re-establish connection with your true feelings, experiences and your partner

Develop positive and constructive communication patterns

Developed for community workers and Mental Health practitioners who are working in the front-line of our communities and dealing with highly challenging and stressful situations on a daily basis. 

This program is a unique blend of Equine Assisted Learning, psycho-education and mindfulness designed to help you recognise the things that cause you to escalate and become triggered and raise your self-awareness around behaviour patterns. Through graded activities with horses and group discussion work we will help you to develop greater resilience and more positive coping strategies to help you stay well.

This program will help you:

Increase self-awareness 

Address issues linked to Accumulative Stress

Support more healthy work-life balance

CONNXION GAME

Raising a teenager is challenging enough at the best of times, but when one or both of the care-givers suffer with PTSD, anxiety or depression caused by traumatic events in their working life – Parenting becomes a whole lot harder.

This therapeutic program is specifically designed for ADF, First Responders and Correctional Workers with family members between the ages of 12 – 17.  Each program is limited to only four care-givers each with a teenager from their family unit.

Through experiential activities and psycho-education about PTSD, you and your ‘teenager’ will be encouraged to step away from historic patterns of behaviour to discover new and more positive ways to communicate.

This program will help you:

Break-down barriers

Provide education around the effects of trauma

Create shared awareness 

Develop new patterns of communication

When the cancer treatment has finished, the journey’s not over – You have been through a life-changing experience on every conceivable level and those around you expect you to be who you were before – Life can feel overwhelming both emotionally and psychologically.

These highly successful group programs are designed to help you, in the aftermath of your treatment, reconnect with your emotions, rebuild your confidence and be able to answer the question – “Who Am I Now?”

This therapeutic retreat has been specifically designed for Breast Cancer Patients POST-treatment. It will help you re-frame your experience, re-connect with yourself and your emotions, develop new resources and move forward with your life.

You will stay on a beautiful rural property, with a small group of other women who have been on the same journey as you.

Each day you will be offered gently guided activities to help you explore the unexplored, reframe the suppressed emotions of the cancer journey and build a new way forward.

This program will include:

Equine Assisted Therapy

Mindfulness

Restorative Yoga

Group Therapy Sessions

The past few years have been demanding, fear-filled and draining.  It’s time now to REBUILD yourself.

These programs are designed to help you slow-down, re-discover who you are authentically and re-build your resilience. 

On our serene rural property, with a small group of like-minded people, you will be encouraged to step away from the frantic day to day life,  slow-down and explore your patterns of behaviour and learn techniques to rebuild your resilience.

Throughout the day you will be supported to step into the present moment to explore your blocks, your stressors and discover new techniques bringing balance back into your everyday life.

This carefully designed program incorporates Equine Assisted Learning experiences, Group Activities /Discussion & Mindfulness.

This program will help you:

Develop greater self-awareness

Quieten negative thinking

Reduce Stress

Find inner- balance

Build Resilience