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Kaleidoscope’s Autumn 2005
Train-the-Trainer Series

Helping Facilitators/ Trainers /Coaches /Teachers /Instructors /Educators enhance their skills:

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Information

Programs hours: Friday/Tuesday, 1– 6 pm; Saturday/Wednesday, 8-5 p.m. and Sunday/Thursday, 8-1 p.m. All programs include meals and a workbook of resources. Space is limited to 14 participants per program. Please respond two weeks prior to the program date to ensure your eligibility. EAGALA Level 1 certified or commensurate facilitation experience requested.

Cost of attendance: $425 per person (includes two continental breakfasts, lunch, snacks, and workbook)

DIRECTIONS and ACCOMMODATIONS
Kaleidoscope Learning Center is conveniently located near two of Michigan’s favorite visitor destinations, Frankenmuth and Birch Run. Each offers a variety of local accommodations, restaurants, and activities. Learn more about your lodging and dining options by contacting the Frankenmuth Chamber of Commerce at www.frankenmuth.org or by calling 1-800-funtown. We are also near two local airports, Flint Bishop (FNT) and Saginaw Tri-city (MBS) and only an 1 ½ hours north of Detroit metropolitan airport. Directions to Kaleidoscope Learning Center can be found on our website, www.myklc.com.

Relational Leadership:

An Equine Assisted Learning approach to Relational Leadership
October 14-16

A similar program is being presented at the 33rd Annual International Conference of the
Association of Experiential Education (AEE) in Tucson, AZ in November!!

Horses are natural facilitators, when you understand their messages and cues. Through the guidance of Prescott College’s Paul Smith and Dr. Tracy Weber, you are invited to learn how you can become a more competent facilitator with the help of a horse. Explore integrating feedback from horses to develop your professional facilitation skills. Horses provide powerful living examples, in addition to offering metaphorical illustrations, in the areas of non-verbal communication, instinctual behavior and empathy. Paul and Tracy will also share information regarding available resources and theory relating to Equine Assisted learning and Equine Assisted Psychotherapy. Participants may gain insight relating to assessment, pacing and leading, and new perspectives on how we use pressure as facilitators and educators. This program may also benefit facilitators in non-equine experiential learning programs.

Outcomes:

• Conceptual understanding and ability to apply experiential learning cycle or Adventure Based Learning model to your program’s populations
• Advanced facilitation skills including: structured introductions, working with metaphors, and imbedding reflection and processing within the experience
• Practicing success versus orchestrating and processing frustration and “failure”

Facilitated by Paul Smith, MA and Kaleidoscope founder, Dr. Tracy Weber

Paul is the Director of Prescott College’s (Arizona) Centaur Leadership Service. He brings over 25 years of experience in the field of adventure-based experiential education and oversees a unique Master’s program in Counseling Psychology with a concentration in Equine Assisted mental health. He spent the past 7 years developing curriculum working with horses to help teach relational leadership skills and has established the first Masters Program in Counseling Psychology that specifically focuses on Equine Assisted Mental Health.

~Customer-Centered~

Building Customer-Centered EAL programs
October 25-27

What is “customer-centered” and why do facilitators or equine professionals care? Customer or learner-centered is a way of doing business where you and your customers/clients work together to co-create successful outcomes. It requires skills in inquiry, communication, critical thinking, and problem solving. Learn how you can expand your “tool box” of resources to meet your customer’s needs, improve your facilitation skills, and build your business. Designing programs through a collaborative process with customers/clients who are actively involved creates a program culture that is cooperative, collaborative, and supportive.

Outcomes:

• Explore whether the customer’s needs drive your organization and how to develop that match
• Practice developing realistic expectations (communicate accurately), acknowledge forthrightly what your services can’t do (mean what you say) and communicate clearly how to use your services (say what you mean) through creating an adaptive environment
• Identify core elements of a skilled EAL facilitator, assessing and testing your skills and talents

Facilitated by Dr. Tracy Weber and Kaleidoscope Equine Specialist, Sara Esckelson

Working as an EAL team almost since the inception of Kaleidoscope, Sara and Tracy enhance each others’ ability to facilitate and communicate. Together, they represent a wealth of knowledge and skills about various aspects of effective business, horses, and equine assisted facilitation. They collaborate to provide programs at the new $450,000 Kaleidoscope Learning Center, which they worked together to design. Also, they offer learning opportunities off site for various clients, whether traveling by truck & trailer with the portable roundpen or renting a facility.

Differentiating EAP & EAL

Protecting Emotional Safety: Differentiating EAP & EAL
September 16-18
Protecting Emotional Safety: Differentiating EAP & EAL
November 11-13

Protect your client’s or customer’s emotional safety by defining and exploring the differences between Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP) and Equine Assisted Learning (EAL). Join us to increase your understanding of this important facilitation element. With the help of our four-legged facilitators, we’ll look at the various similarities and differences between learning and therapy, and the “gray” areas in-between. Learn how to sequence your activities and create an environment that gets you and your client where you are trying to go. Skilled therapists and facilitators know how important it is to keep “their stuff” invisible – explore ways of keeping yourself and your clients emotionally safe. Practice, assess, learn, and develop a better understanding of your training/facilitation skills, incorporating the wisdom of the horses, while helping clients effectively reach their goals.

Outcomes:

• Increase your understanding of the differences and similarities between therapy and learning
• Refine and define your skills, identifying techniques and methods of keeping yourself and clients safe
• Learn about sequencing, selecting effective exercises, and partnering with the most effective four-legged facilitators

Facilitated by Stacie Johnson, LMSW, CMW, EMDR trained and Dr. Tracy Weber

Family therapist, Stacie Johnson, work experience includes individual and family counseling, along with Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP) programs for adjudicated youth and other individuals. As a lifelong horse owner, Stacie has long known the benefits of working with horses and their ability to bridge artificial barriers humans create that move us away from finding our true self. She and her husband, Mark, own Chalet Arabians, a breeding facility for Black Egyptian Arabian horses.

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