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Build a Connected Brain
(11.5 CE Credits)
Learn the principles and practices of “bottom-up regulation” through activities that engage and organize each functional region of the brain in a sequential fashion.
Building a Relational Brain with Rhythm
(4.5 CE Credits)
Harness the power of rhythm to help yourself and others heal and connect. Learn ways to use a drum & other tools to create rhythm in sessions with or without horses.
Business Building 101
(3 CE Credits)
Building a business in equine-assisted services can be daunting. Industry experts, Shannon Knapp and Bettina Shultz-Jobe, address the multiple considerations that can make or break an EAS business.
Ground Work for Business Building
Shannon Knapp and Bettina Shultz-Jobe walk you through the ground work necessary for building a successful EAS business.
Ethical Dilemmas Specific to the Field of Equine Assisted Practice and Psychotherapy
(1 CE Credit)
Learn about the many ethical dilemmas specific to Equine Assisted Services. It is critical for practitioners to embrace strong ethical values and guidelines as they navigate the inevitable complications that arise.
NL for Veterans and First Responders
(5.5 CE Credits)
While the basics of trauma-informed care are the same, there are unique things to consider when building EA programs for veterans and first responders.
The Disease of Disconnection: Applying NL Principles to the Treatment of Substance-Use Disorders
(3 CE Credits)
Addiction is a disease of Disconnection. Learn the underlying factors that create and perpetuate the addiction cycle and how connection supports recovery.
Journey Into Self Leadership: Integrating the Internal Family Systems (IFS) Model with EAS
(4.5 CE Credits)
You will gain a fundamental understanding of Internal Family Systems and how to effectively integrate IFS with equine assisted services based on Natural Lifemanship.
Rainy Day Activities
(4 CE Credits)
Learn facilitation skills, games, and exercises that can be used in the office or the arena to help a wide range of clients with regulation, connection, communication, and more. learn facilitation skills, games, and exercises that can be used in the office or the arena to help a wide range of clients with regulation, connection, communication, and more.
Trauma Informed and Developmentally Sensitive Schools
(2.5 CE Credits)
Becoming “trauma-informed” requires learning about trauma and how it impacts the brain while acting on that knowledge in effective ways. Equipped with NL's trauma-informed training and principles for relationships, educators are empowered to rethink the ways they have approached teaching, classroom management and discipline in the past.
Introduction to Equine Connected EMDR (EC-EMDR)
(3 CE Credits)
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an effective, extensively researched method for helping people recover from trauma. The NL process of Trauma-Focused Equine Assisted Psychotherapy can be utilized by EMDR and NL trained mental health professionals who wish to conduct EMDR with the help of the client's therapy horse. We call this process, "Equine-Connected EMDR" (EC-EMDR).
Conversation with Bonnie Badenoch, Author of The Heart of Trauma
(2 CE Credits)
NL co-founder, Bettina Shultz-Jobe, engages in a rich, two-hour conversation with Bonnie Badenoch, PhD, LMFT, and best-selling author of The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships. Learn about receptivity, co-regulation, Polyvagal Theory, the gut-brain connection, and much more!
Preparing the Horse and Client for (Mounted) Trauma Processing
(4 CE Credits)
Learn how to employ Rhythmic Riding, the mounted component of NL, to help clients experience the sense of connection and the regulation they need to process trauma. Understand how to determine if and when it is appropriate to do mounted work and how to safely and effectively prepare your horse and your client for trauma processing on the back of a horse.
Interconnected Curated Collection: Critical Foundations of Trauma- and Attachment-Focused Therapy
(24 CE Credits)
This collection examines the critical foundations of trauma- and attachment-focused therapy paying special attention to services in which clients interact and build relationships with horses. The course underscores the imperative of an approach that prioritizes attunement and connection intentionally cultivated by members of the therapy team. Attuned connection is both a skill and a state of being that must be practiced, developed, and embodied.
Equine Essentials: Body Language, Posture, Expressions, and Movement
There are a lot of opinions in the field about what various horse behaviors and physical cues mean; but in any relationship, and especially those with our equine companions, understanding body language and behavior is actually very nuanced. Gain skill and confidence in your interactions with horses. Learn the essentials to better understand, care for, and connect with horses.
Relationship Basics with Frieda
NL co-founders, Tim Jobe and Bettina Shultz-Jobe, demonstrate the Natural Lifemanship process while building a connected partnership with their rescue horse, Frieda. Watch as the relationship is progressively built and strengthened. Learn the nuances of the NL principles of connection.
Haltering with Connection
Haltering is one of the routine requests made of a domestic horse. When we need to catch our horse or lead our horse, we frequently grab a halter, approach the horse, and simply put the halter on. How might we approach this routine as an opportunity to build connection in our relationship with the horse?
The Complexity of Touch
In our relationships with horses as well as with humans and other animals, we always strive to put connection first. In daily life, we often have to accomplish goals and tasks that involve the cooperation of others. In these situations, we must balance a focus on goals with an awareness and responsiveness to the needs of the others with whom we are working - be they human or horse.
Connected Horsemanship Deep Dive Workshop
Learn how the process of building a connected relationship in Natural Lifemanship is guided by principles and by a particular responsiveness to THIS relationship, rather than by techniques uniformly applied to all relationships. Each horse, each human and each relationship is unique, and therefore connection is always a question of being receptive and responding to what this horse and this relationship need in order to build safety, trust and cooperation.
Distance Doesn't Have to Mean Disconnection
(1 CE Credit)
Developmentally, how is connection with distance built? What does this look like as small children grow and how can this understanding help as we support people throughout the lifespan. Why and how are things like exploration, distance, challenge, risk, and differentiation so important in our understanding of attachment? How can we help clients feel connected to self, others, their community, and their world even when they are physically alone?
Doing Attachment-Based Work In-Person or Online
(1 CE Credit)
What does it really mean to do attachment-based work? How does a deep understanding and embodiment of this become even more important when doing services online? Bettina Shultz-Jobe delves into what it takes to effectively provide attachment experiences with and without the help of horses, whether connecting with clients and others in-person or online.