Group Programs
Designed for Children and Adults
Kids Country After School Program
6-12 Years
Our Kids Country Program has been designed for children to connect to themselves, to others, and to the earth. With those focuses in mind, we really focus on building social skills and meeting new friends, along with self-regulation and how to control our emotions through various strategies.
Through our 8 week program, we cover:
- Mindfulness (Breathwork, grounding, connecting to self)
- Rewilding (growing vegetables, raising chickens, etc)
- Survival Skills (navigation, peripherals, building structures)
- Social skills (Team building games and activities)
- Horsemanship & Liberty (advanced and beginners available)
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8 Week Program (Term to Term)
This program runs on Monday's and Tuesday's - 4pm-5pm
Teen Liberty Connection Program
13-16 Years
Our Liberty Connection Program is one-of-a-kind. This program is filled with mindfulness connection with our horses and each other. We use horses as our way of learning more about ourselves and others. During this program, not only do we really connect, but we use natural horsemanship skills to embrace kindness.
What's included:
- Learning how to connect with horses at liberty
- Arts and crafts alongside the horses (painting, crafting, etc)
- Learn some fundamental techniques in Liberty
- Learn some powerful mindfulness strategies to connect back to self and to regulate our emotions
- Build new friendships with others
- Care for our farm animals
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8 Week program
This program runs from 4:00pm - 5pm (Term-to-term)
DIY Self-Sustainable Projects After School Program
8-12 years & 12-15 Years
There are many ways that we can help regulate our emotions. Sometimes, we can 'do' things to help regulate our emotions. This program has been designed to help kids build things to regulate their emotions. We build self-sustainable, interesting projects that really engage with the kids.
What this program includes:
- Building self-sustainable projects
- Tool handling
- Social skills
- Survival skill projects
- Self-regulation
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8 Week program (Term to term)
This program runs Wednesday's and Friday's 4:00pm - 5pm
Adult NDIS Farm Day
18+ Years
Our adults NDIS Farm Day is to assist participants in connecting and caring for our animals, which has been shown to be very therapeutic. In this program, we also develop some incredible life skills, learning how to maintain a farm, care for animals, and develop skills in building children's structures & activities for our kids programs.
These programs do require support workers to attend also.
- Feeding the animals
- Maintaning animal areas
- Working the ponies & horses (leading)
- Brushing & Grooming the ponies and horses
- Watering our gardens and harvesting our veggies
- Collecting the chicken eggs
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Every week on Mondays and Thursdays from 9:30am - 11am
Kids Country Club Program
6-12 Years
Join the ultimate program that has been specifically developed to assist children in learning strategies to help regulate emotions, nurture new friendships and overcome daily challenges, along with supporting families to further nurture these strategies, implementing them into our daily lives.
What does this program involve?
- Weekly kids circle zoom session
- Weekly parents circle zoom session
- Monthly day on the farm to nurture friendships, regulate emotions and overcome daily challenges using our horses and other farm animals
- Resources and strategies emailed weekly
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Term-to-Term (10 weeks)
Zoom sessions run Wednesday and Thursday evenings. Day on the farm runs monthly on a Saturday, whilst 1-1 support can vary.
Emergency Services Group Program
Adults 18+
Working alongside Horse Whispering Youth Program, we host an 8-week Equine-Assisted Learning program to assist emergency services and veterans by supporting them through trauma, support and emotional regulation. We focus on fostering trust, a safe space where we can be ourselves, and a place where we can work on challenges that we face in our lives.
Our program includes:
- Equine-Assisted Learning
- Horses at liberty
- Emotional Regulation
- Mindfulness
- Boundaries
- Overcoming our daily challenges
- Self-confidence/competence
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This is an 8-week program running Wednesdays 12:30pm-2pm
Equine-Assisted Learning Group Program
Adults and emergency services
Working alongside Horse Whispering Youth Program, we host an 8-week Equine-Assisted Learning program to assist adults by supporting them through trauma, support and emotional regulation. We focus on fostering trust, a safe space where we can be ourselves, and a place where we can work on challenges that we face in our lives.
Our program includes:
- Equine-Assisted Learning
- Horses at liberty
- Emotional Regulation
- Mindfulness
- Boundaries
- Overcoming our daily challenges
- Self-confidence/competence
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This is an 8-week program running Wednesdays 12:30pm-2pm
Boundaries and Healthy Relationships
Adult men
This program aims to assist with developing awareness regarding different levels of relationships and closeness as well as recognising appropriate social boundaries to support healthy relationships with others.
As herd animals, horses are orientated towards connection and relationship. All horses are unique with their individual personalities and ways of interacting. They often clearly communicate their boundaries with others and as such, they provide great experiential learning opportunities to explore relationship, expression, and boundaries in a safe and fun way. This program will incorporate experiential learning activities with the horses and ponies to support learning of relationship boundaries and social skills.
The following will be covered:
- Learning about different levels of relationships and different expectations regarding social behaviour.
- Becoming aware of other people’s talk and touch boundaries.
- Recognise nonverbal and verbal cues in others.
- Recognising personal boundaries and learning ways to communicate this with others.
Practical strategies and support will be provided to each participants support team to continue the learning in other environments.
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Programs run as per group bookings.
