Equine-Assisted Therapy Introductory Workshop (Wild At Heart Horses)
Schedule
Tue, 07 Apr, 2026 at 11:00 pm to Fri, 10 Apr, 2026 at 05:00 am
UTC+10:00Location
Upper Caboolture | Upper Caboolture, QL
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3-Day Equine-Assisted Therapy Workshop for Allied Health Professionals🐴 April 8th, 9th & 10th 2026.
🐴 Learn how to facilitate Equine Assisted Therapy as an Allied Health professional. We cover NDIS, Medicare & AHPRA requirements while teaching you how to prepare horses for therapy work and how to design and facilitate an evidence-based intervention that meets the high professional standards required in the allied health field.
🐴 Facilitated by Samantha King - Psychologist & owner of PAAW (multi-disciplinary canine assisted therapy clinic), owner & head trainer at Therapy Dogs Australia (therapy dog training @therapydogsaustralia), assistant trainer for The Brumby Project @thebrumbyproject, qualified horse handling instructor.
🐴 Work with 5 brumbies - all transitioned from wild living to domestic for a career in equine assisted therapy.
🐴 Upper Caboolture, QLD
🐴 $880 incl. GST
🐴 6 spaces per workshop (4 spaces left)
🐴 IMPORTANT NOTE🐴
This workshop is for allied health professionals who are already working within their scope of practice. An allied health professional is typically at a minimum Bachelor trained in their field.
'Allied Health' fields typically relevant in this context include:
Physiotherapists
Occupational therapists
Speech pathologists
Psychologists
Social workers
Counsellors
Exercise physiologists
If you are in a field different to those mentioned above, please reach out to see if this workshop is suitable for you before booking.
**International attendees are welcome.
We will be teaching you horse-handling skills, however this 3-day workshop does not equip you with enough horsemanship to provide equine therapy on your own. This workshop will serve as either an introduction to the field, or a professional development opportunity for those already in the field. Your core training to become and equine-assisted therapist will be extensive, it is not something that can be covered in a 3-day workshop.
Previous horse handling experience is a benefit, but not compulsory.
The workshop is all ground work (as is our equine-therapy style).
This workshop is suitable for clinicians who are already working with horses in therapy, who want to start their equine therapy journey, or who are working/wanting to work alongside an equine specialist in their therapy sessions.
We will be spending 3 days together getting to know the horses (brumbies, who have been trained specifically for therapy), teaching you how to structure an equine-assisted session, doing role plays and skill development in ethical horsemanship. Topics such as equine body language and learning theory will be applied to horsemanship skills.
This is a hands-on workshop, expect to be up and about for 3 days!
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