• NL for Clients in Early Childhood Parts 1-3
• Presented by Rebecca Hubbard and Kate Naylor

Working with early childhood, children 5 and under, requires unique knowledge, and skills and a different approach. Rebecca J. Hubbard, MS, LMFT and Kate Naylor, MA, LMFT have over 30 years of combined expertise in providing services to young children. They will assist you in developing the skills you need to apply NL to this population.

• NL for Clients in Early Childhood – Lessons 4-6
• Presented by Rebecca Hubbard and Kate Naylor

Working with early childhood, children 5 and under, requires unique knowledge, and skills and a different approach. Rebecca J. Hubbard, MS, LMFT and Kate Naylor, MA, LMFT have over 30 years of combined expertise in providing services to young children. They will assist you in developing the skills you need to apply NL to this population.

• Zoom discussion meeting
• Playfulness IS the Treatment
• Presented by Robyn Gobbel

When feeling stressed, uncertain, or afraid, our brain works hard to protect us by reaching for tools and techniques to use in the therapy room. We can honor our fear and then rest into the truth that presence is the most powerful intervention and playfulness IS the treatment. Playfulness doesn’t need games or props or toys or even for us to be in the same room together! Playfulness is experienced and shared through the resonance we co-create (even virtually!). Robyn takes you on a journey to explore the benefits of playfulness for our physical and mental health, grow your confidence that playfulness IS the treatment, and jump-start your creativity on how to cultivate the spirit of playfulness in your connection with clients.

• Hoof Beats + Heart Beats = A Whole Lotta Regulation
• Presented by Michael Remole and Marti Smith

A fully integrated brain is critical for success. But how do we help our clients, our horses and ourselves work towards that goal in our sessions? This workshop will take a deeper look into how we can focus on interconnectedness through rhythm, movement and creative ways to assist in bottom-up regulation for humans and horses.

• NL is Secure Attachment in Action
• Presented by Bettina Shultz-Jobe and Kate Naylor

Bettina Shultz-Jobe and Kate Naylor discuss and demonstrate the Natural Lifemanship process as it relates to building a more secure attachment style.

• Zoom discussion meeting
• Attachment Styles and Earning a Secure Attachment
• Presented by Bettina Shultz-Jobe and Kate Naylor

Bettina and Kate review attachment theory, describe attachment styles, and discuss how you can act on what you know about your attachment style and earn a secure attachment.

• What Does it Really Mean to Do Attachment-Based Work?
• Presented by Bettina Shultz-Jobe

Learn what a secure attachment is and how it is formed. Bettina discusses the importance of doing attachment-based work and how a deep understanding of this informs our work in every setting.

• Keeping Families Together: Tools for Parenting and Working with Children from Hard Places – Part 1
• Presented by Ann O’Brien and Kendra Twitty

This workshop takes you through the process of understanding how trauma focused therapy principles can be brought to life through playfulness while implementing Equine Assisted Therapy and Learning. You will learn about the traumatized brain and why making a connection with a horse helps parents and children move out of their “Survival Brain and into their “Thinking Brain to achieve an integrated “Whole Brain.”

• Zoom discussion meeting
• Keeping Families Together: Tools for Parenting and Working with Children from Hard Places – Part 2
• Presented by Ann O’Brien and Kendra Twitty

This workshop takes you through the process of understanding how trauma focused therapy principles can be brought to life through playfulness while implementing Equine Assisted Therapy and Learning. You will learn about the traumatized brain and why making a connection with a horse helps parents and children move out of their “Survival Brain and into their “Thinking Brain to achieve an integrated “Whole Brain.”

• Rhythm, Music, and Movement in Your NL Sessions
• Presented by Mary Oliver and Reccia Jobe

What does a Natural Lifemanship practitioner do to incorporate regulation, rhythm, and movement when circumstances prevent partnering with a horse? Join Mary Oliver of Spirit Rhythms and Reccia Jobe of Pecan Creek Ranch in learning rhythm facilitation skills, games, and exercises that can be used in the office or arena to help a wide range of clients with co-regulation, communication, connection, impulse control and more.

• Working with Children and Families who have Experienced Loss
• Presented by Michelle Holling-Brooks

Just like adults, children learn the practice of grieving day by day and moment by moment. Being in nature and in relationship with animals provides a beautiful space for this learning to happen. How do our own perspectives on grief impact the way we support grieving children and their families? Michelle guides you in exploring not only best practices for working with grief in children and families, but also the beliefs and experiences that keep us from fully showing up for them.

• Zoom discussion meeting
• Helping Young Children Grieve
• Presented by Rebecca Hubbard

Over the past quarter of a century, we have gained a new understanding of the psychological and developmental impact of trauma and grieving on young children. We used to believe that young children did not grieve and were too young to remember these events, so it was unnecessary to do anything to assist them during this phase of life. Young children do grieve, and though they may be too young to form narrative memories, their bodies remember. In this workshop, Rebecca explores through case studies how young children experience death and loss, how to discuss death with them, and how to assist them in grieving.

• Invisible Glass Children
• Presented by Sara Sherman

Join Sara Sherman in this exploration into the world of Glass Children and their unique dance with grief. Glass Children are commonly defined as individuals with siblings that are differently abled. Sara, as a self defined Glass Child, only became aware of the classification 3 years ago. This experiential conversation not only introduces best practices for working with Glass Children, it also invites you to examine your own perspectives on strength, support, and loyalty and how that may impact your relationships, personally and professionally, with Glass Children.

• Zoom discussion meeting
• Always Saying Goodbye: The Grief of Motherhood (and Mothering)
• Presented by Lisa Marchiano

Motherhood is a path that can lead us deeper into knowing and becoming our most authentic selves. From the day our children arrive our worlds are turned upside down – our hearts, bodies, and minds will never be the same. From the day our children arrive, they begin separating from us, in small ways, every day, until it is time for them to launch into their own adulthood, leaving us behind. The journey of motherhood is an experience of ongoing loss, big and small. How do we reckon with these losses so that we may become who we were always meant to be, who our children need us to be? And what does this have to do with our clients? Join Jungian therapist and author, Lisa Marchiano, in exploring the grief of motherhood.

• Make Your Own Instruments (optional)
• Connect to Your Child Within through Music (optional)
• Presented by Mary Oliver

Learn how to create instruments from items you have on hand (found sounds). Mary teaches simple ways to make shakers and bells and your own specially designed frame drum with a beater. You will learn rhythm games and silly songs to bring out the inner child, connecting to our playful nature which is so important to healing.