Horse Sense for Humans

27/05/2023

23/05/2023

What a wonderful day! Horses, people and the weather all made it a special experience!

21/03/2023

Emotional healing can happen most effectively in a safe space. As friends, family members, or therapists, we strive to provide those safe spaces for friends or loved ones to share their traumas, fears and losses, and yet sometimes that isn’t enough. As humans, we bring in our biases, past experiences, and judgments, even when we try not to.

Horses don’t have those biases and can provide a safe space and relationship for emotional healing to occur. By incorporating horses in mental health sessions, clients may feel a sense of peace that they might not have otherwise, allowing them to reach a deeper level of vulnerability.
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03/03/2023

Thank you Coordinare, Mogendoura Farm, the beautiful horses and the wonderful group for making the Learning with Horses workshops possible!

17/02/2023

13/02/2023

LEARNING WITH HORSES FOR BUILDING COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS

🐴FREE WORKSHOPS🤩

A nature and recovery-based approach to Mental Health and Wellbeing in the company of Horses🐴 to:
⭐️Reduce isolation🤗
🌞Build relationships and connections with self and others👬👫👭
😁Learn skills and strategies to build on ability to manage mental health. 🧘‍♀️

Horses have unique personalities, and their heard relationships are similar to people’s relationships. Interacting with horses provides opportunities to develop communication skills, confidence and improve resilience and wellbeing.🧘‍♀️
No horse riding involved 🐎 all activities are ground based and no prior horse experience necessary

3 x 2 hour workshops on consecutive Fridays from 930 to 1130 in a stunning restorative, peaceful and nurturing rural environment 🏞

Maximum 8 people per group 🧑‍🤝‍🧑👭👬👭

Criteria
Over 18
Living in the Eurobodalla
Wanting to work on Mental Health and Wellbeing

Funded by COORDINARE - South Eastern NSW PHN through the Australia Government’s PHN Program

For further information or register please contact
Email: info@horsesenseforhumans.com.au
Phone: 0493 571 614

22/12/2022

Thank you to everyone who attended the Wellbeing with Horses workshops! Ten delivered and four more to go in 2023. Big thanks to for funding these workshops and to the beautiful Farm Stay Moruya for hosting and providing the wonderful horses! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!

06/11/2022

06/11/2022

Another beautiful day at Mogendoura Farm Stay Moruya - for our Wellbeing with Horses Workshop.

It is always enjoyable to see people from our community come together and participate in these half-day workshops.

These workshops are open to South Coast community members who lived through the Black Summer bushfires and who want to move on from the challenges of the past few years.

Mogendoura Farm is a truly magical setting (as our photos show). It is for us an ideal spot to facilitate these workshops.

We have a limited number of spaces available for our next workshop on Friday 18th November.

Want to secure your place - contact Holly on 0413 337 007 soon.

These workshops are funded by FRRR and supported by Mogendoura Farm Stay Moruya.

08/10/2022

Another amazing story of transformation through the power of horses. , ,

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30/07/2022

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19/07/2022

Some unique roles that horses bring to counseling and psychotherapy sessions include:

✔️ Non-judgmental and unbiased: Horses are not biased by the client’s physical appearance or past mistakes, but rather respond to them in the moment without the common biases humans may have. Clients describe this “blank slate” experience and acceptance as being crucial to the therapy effectiveness, strengthening a positive sense of self.

✔️ Feedback and reflection: The instinctual nature of horses is to be vigilant, protective, and attuned to the emotions and signals of the herd, thus making them keen observers. This enables them to respond to the client’s nonverbal messages, behaviors, physical movements and emotions in a way that is more immediate and accurate than what we can tend to do as humans. This feedback provides interesting insights, in an emotionally safe way, reflecting aspects of ourselves we may not have been conscious about.

✔️ Parallel to life stories: The relationships with horses can parallel other relationships and situations in life, making the process applicable to real-life problems. A psychotherapist observing horse and human interactions often helps clients gain insights between what happens with the horses and what happens in real life contexts with humans. As their stories with the horses change, their stories in other areas of life change, too.
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23/06/2022

Thank you and for making these workshops possible for our local communities!

Thank you Janelle White for your wonderful co-facilitation.

Fantastic to have such positive feedback from the workshop participants

07/03/2022

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24/08/2021