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Adventures In Awareness
Internship Program
The Adventures In Awareness Internship Program (AIA IP) is designed to prepare professionals for work in the field of Equine Guided Education and/or Equine Facilitated Mental Health. Adventures In Awareness is defined as Equine Facilitated Experiential Learning (EFEL) process work.
The AIA Internship Program provides therapists, coaches, educators and individuals with a practical curriculum, including theory, principles, practicum inner-activities and equestrian skills for wellness work with horses. The AIA model is based on the premise that conscious awareness is key to healthy change. Awareness coupled with exploration of consciousness creates an atmosphere for openness and connectedness where the responses from our equine facilitators may move us at a very deep level.
Individuals enrolled in AIA IP core courses explore consciousness and its role in the healing process. Students train experientially (learning through doing) in AIA’s EFEL process work, as well as a variety of other EFEL formats. The breadth of the AIA IP offers excellent preparation to the clinician and educator interested in national competence certification. Students completing the AIA IP receive a Certificate of Completion. Those students completing with *“merit” earn the approval to use the Adventures In Awareness name and materials. Adventures In Awareness certificate holders have a commitment to adhere to AIA standards of safety and ethical humane practices.
Adventures In Awareness Internship Program
Core Courses
The Adventures In Awareness Internship Program (AIA IP) core domains of study are: Taste of Adventures In Awareness, The Energy of Relationships, The Equine Perspective, AIA Facilitation Skills Seminar(s), and AIA Journey Ride. Courses 1 – 3 are offered as 3 separate 2 ˝ day courses or 1 longer 7-day week. Facilitator Skills Seminar is 4 1/2 days and AIA Journey Ride is 3 days. A second facilitator skills seminar may be substituted for AIA Journey Ride. Some of the AIA IP course work is residential – HAT RANCH ADVENTURE. (additional fee – meals, lodgings)
In addition to the core AIA IP domains of study, interns attend 3 elective “Enrichment” workshops of their choice, in key areas of Horsemanship Skills, Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy, and Equine Facilitated Experiential Learning. The Horsemanship Skills category is mandatory. The other two enrichment workshops may be selected from any two categories.
There are requisite reading assignments, journaling, 2 reflection papers, individual focus essay, and a minimum of 300 hours of work (volunteer or paid) in related fields of animal assisted activities or therapy. Permission to publish student writing, if selected, for AIA teaching manual. Co-facilitation of a TASTE of AIA workshop; your place or ours.
Undergraduate and graduate credit is available through the University of Arizona’s Department of Educational Psychology and Rehabilitation Counseling. Admissions and additional fees for University credits are arranged prior to first AIA core course.
**Course Calendar Information: www.adventuresinawareness.net
Course #1. Taste of Adventures In
Awareness:
This is the basic introduction to the AIA
principles, theory and practice. Areas
of study are: safety agreement, centering and mutual choosing exercise, heart
scanning process, Con Su Permiso, imaginary lead line, elementary equine
physiology and psychology, metaphor and round ring congruent message sending.
Course #2. The Energy of
Relationships:
In this course we focus on life skills,
listening and allowing, exploration of the Field with the help of the horse,
round ring dancing gestalts and Trust Walk.
The emphasis here is generalizing the AIA principles to facets of
everyday life.
Course #3. The Equine Perspective:
In the third course we focus on building
communication skills, basic AIA interactive exercises, the mechanism of
projection, principles of transference and counter transference, further round
ring dancing and AIA’s Developmental Feelings Process. The principles inherent in a schooling
barn’s training regime are explored.
Course #4.
AIA Facilitation Skills
Seminar(s)
This is a 4- ˝ day course. The AIA
facilitation skills seminar offers Depth practice with equine facilitated
experiential learning process work. We
continue to explore how these principles and practices generalize to everyday
life.
Curriculum content includes Depth work with AIA equine facilitated inter-actives:
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Course #5
AIA Journey Ride
AIA Journey Ride is a 3-day workshop. Interns may either take 2 Facilitation Skills Seminars or 1 Journey Ride and 1 Facilitation Skills Seminar to earn their AIA IP completion credits. Horses facilitate an inward journey during this workshop. AIA Journey Ride provides an opportunity to intentionally access non-ordinary states of consciousness for the purpose of serving an individual's health and healing. Workshop focus is on the gifts of feelings, the influence of attention and intention, and the significance of energy principles. The workshop goal is expansion of awareness, enhancement of intimacy skills and growth in consciousness. Participants in AIA Journey Ride may expect increased confidence in their intuition, experiential knowledge of multiple realities, and practice reading the Unified Field
Additional Enrichment
Workshop List
An additional 3
enrichment workshops are required to obtain the AIA IP certificate of
completion. There are three categories:
Equine Facilitated Experiential Learning, Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy and
Horsemanship Skills. Interns are required to attend one course from the
Horsemanship Skills category.
While the AIA
internship student may select alternative studies, AIA recommends the programs
offered in the list below. Barbara Rector has experienced the educated teaching
staff, both human and equine, of the choices in this suggested list. The horses
and their human professionals are well schooled and capable, offering a wide
variety of learning experiences. The
Horsemanship category is mandatory.
Horsemanship:
Lynn Palm School of Horsemanship – Ocala
Florida and Bessemaer, Michigan
www.lynnpalm.com Contact: Lynn Palm
Week long residential group lessons
Aim High – Tucson Arizona
annaCalek@aol.com Contact: Anna Calek @ 520.326.2281
Week long sessions in ground schooling,
stable management and dressage riding
L Lazy E Ranch – Pearce Arizona
www.llazyeranch.net Contact: Ann Alden @ 520.826.1648
aca@vtc.com
Balanced seat riding skills on a 15,000 acre
on working cattle ranch.
EquuSatori Center – Sebastopol California
www.equusatori.com Contact: Lisa Walters @ 707.824.2834
lisa@equusatori.com
Dressage riding and how it bridges to EFEL.
Interstate Horse Center – Stoughton Wisconsin
healinghorseman@aol.com contact: Nikki and Bob Cohen-Wichner 608.873.0572
Adult horse camp
Strozzi Ranch – Valley Ford, CA
www.leadershipandhorses.com contact: Ariana Strozzi 707.876.1908
Equine Facilitated
Psychotherapy:
Minnesota Linking Animals Nature and Critters – Mpls. Minnesota
www.mnlync.org contact: MollyDePrekle, Tanya Welsh and Maureen Fredrickson
Full range of animal assisted therapy & training. 763.972.8046 / 763.972.5919 ***training in the MNLYNC protocols of practice and participation in MNLYNC professional development course counts for 2 menu choices.
Falconwood Farm - Covington, Georgia maureenfv@worldnet.att
Contact: Maureen Vidrine and Priscilla Faulkner 770.784.9777 770.786.7283
Full range vaulting, groundwork and riding. University credits for internships
Derby Pond Farm – Newport Adolescent and Adult Program, Vermont 802.334.5085
Contact: Susan M. Taylor staylor@naapinc.org Record keeping, clinical parameters, animal selection and care, development of treatment team, and supervision.
Equine Facilitated
Experiential Learning:
Epona Center – Tucson, Arizona
www.eponacenter.com Contact: Staff 520.730.8599
Individual sessions, 3-day workshops and
Apprentice program. Apprentice program counts for 2 enrichment credits.
EquuSatori Center – Sebastopol, California
www.equusatori.com
Contact: Lisa Walters 707.322.4955
Individual sessions and practical training in
one on one FEEL work.
Rancho Strozzi – Valley Ford, California
www.leadershipandhorses.com
Contact: Ariana Strozzi 707.876.1908
Leadership and horses, corporate program