The training will pay particular attention to:
- The underlying ecocentric vision
- The creation of a new counseling context in which both humans and animals can thrive and recover.
- The use of narrative elements and therapeutic mirrors
- The conscious and purposeful contextual use of nature elements in a counseling process
- Selection and management of animals. Enrichment of collective and individual habitat.
- Human and animal health and safety criteria.
- Legal criteria.
The methodology
Counseling through animals is a methodology that seeks to work causally in a counseling context purposely designed to enable a restoration of existential trust.
The methodology itself is universal and applicable/translatable to any target group. However, this course aims to emphasize the involvement of animals with children, adolescents and adults with psychosocial problems.
The training will pay particular attention to
The welfare of the animals – within the vision of this training – is of equal importance, as the assistance goals of the clients. We work within an ecocentric vision. Animals that play along in this story :
Dogs
Horses
Donkeys
Goats
Sheep
The training profile
The training in counseling work with animal assistance is an interactive course in which each student – based on the theoretical offerings – chooses his or her own angle of approach and has to work it out substantively and practically within an existing assistance framework. We also deliberately choose an ecocentric perspective.
Request the full training profile at info@patraschevzw.be
The teacher
You’ll be taught by people who have been doing this work for many years
You will receive theoretical lessons , as well as workplace learning and a comprehensive methodology section (management animals).
You will finish the course with your own animal program that is viable in form and content.
Practical
The next class series will start in September 2024.
Before you register, we ask that you first fill out an application form and forward it to: info@patraschevzw.be.
For more info on the course and enrollment, and to set up an intake time, contact Katrien Kintaert at 0479/22.55.08 or at info@patraschevzw.be.
You can be sent the full training profile upon request.
Teaching environment
The course – after 16 years housed at VSPW Ghent – was redesigned in 2021 and now has an additional elective module: Methodology Dogs. The location has also changed. The classes now take place at a beautiful nature reserve in Oostakker, among the animals.