First Responder Resilience Training
- Leadership
- Self-Awareness
- Mindful Readiness
- Bias Awareness
- Situational Awareness
- Adrenaline Resilience
- Listening Skills
- Anger Management
- Stress Management
- Team Building
- Critical Thinking Skills
- Emotional Intelligence
Training
Scenario training for subconscious competence
LEO TRAINING
Experiential learning to maintain self-control and awareness during a critical incident, therefore reducing community complaints and career or life altering mistakes. The unpredictability of horses creates the emotional and physical mindset of self-preservation that occur before, during and after a call. Scenarios using the horses, trains the brain to stay balanced between the mindset, conscious and subconscious. The goal is to attain internal resources for self-de-escalation.
FIRE FIGHTERS
Achieve positive behavioral coping skills to negative outcomes. Horses are tolerant and compassionate. Understanding how to use these traits in life will reduce risky behavior and create a more forward-thinking mindset and positive lifestyle choices.
EMS
Cognitive skills for self-control to reduce adrenaline overload. Working with horses on the ground gives EMT personnel that adrenaline rush that occurs before, during and after an emergency calls. Monitoring one’s emotional and physical state of mind will reduce the physical and mental after-effects of any critical incident.
DISPATCH
Dispatch is a mentally difficult job. Listening to the chaos on the other end of the phone, has no end for a Dispatcher. Learning how to cope with these haunting calls is about living in the moment.
CORRECTIONS
The most difficult part of the job is to have compassion with boundaries. Compassion has nothing to do with granting items inmates are not allowed to have. How not to pass judgement or “poke the bear.” Understanding what “poking the bear” looks like. Learn how to be tolerant and compassionate with boundaries will make life easier for you and your co-workers. How we present and communicate with the horses will make the scenario difficult or easy.
It is all about the adrenaline For class information contact Donna Marotta ealtcdm@yahoo.com or call 316-641-4403
Self-Control Awareness and Resilience Training
Certified by IADLEST National Certification Program
TM
WHY HORSES
Working with horses on the ground is stressful because horses are unpredictable and fast. This is similar to what one can experience at a critical incident.
Horses are resilient to their environment. When we make needed changes they will respond to the changes
Horses have different personalities. Some can be more difficult to work with than others. When we adjust to the different personalities we can do the same for different members of the community.
Horses do not care who you are or what you know but they do know what you are thinking and how fast your heart is beating.
Working with horses on the ground can be frustrating, one must be aware of the level of frustration in order to work work with anyone. When our mindset changes, so do the horses.
Working with horses on the ground we can see what we are thinking, doing and feeling. Any changes we make in their presents will be obvious by the horses response or reaction.
What happens in the arena with the horses happens in the arena of life.
Equine Assisted Training
Goals
- Develop internal resources to self de-escalate
- Maintain self-awareness to prevent adrenaline overload
- Use patients and empathy as a resource
- Experience resilience before, during, and after a stressful situation
How one reacts or responds to a horse is how they react or respond to others in the community, at home, or work. Come see your reflection in a horse and practice emotional intelligence