Group Programs and Corporate Retreats
Stable Connections offers group programs for children ages 5-9 having challenges getting along with peers.
The occupational therapist will utilize a variety of approaches, including aspects of:
Interoception Curriculum,
Alert Program
Social Thinking Curriculum
Collaborative Problem Solving.
The class will feature:
The group will be co-led by an occupational therapist and speech & language pathologist and involve a professional horse handler, and specially-trained volunteers.
The occupational therapist will utilize a variety of approaches, including aspects of:
Interoception Curriculum,
Alert Program
Social Thinking Curriculum
Collaborative Problem Solving.
The class will feature:
- Interoception skills: Growing the capacity for body awareness & tracking sensations.
- Social skills: Building healthy relationships based in mutual trust and respect.
- Developing recognition of subtle body language within yourself and others.
- Self-regulation skills: tolerating and managing difficult emotions, learning to negotiate & share ressources.
- Physical challenges, including “gymnastics on horseback.”
- Role playing to learn specific skills for problem solving.
- A positive atmosphere, teaching participants to look for the positive and care for one another
- One horse shared among the group. Participants will have some time on the back of the horse, but riding skills will not be taught.
The group will be co-led by an occupational therapist and speech & language pathologist and involve a professional horse handler, and specially-trained volunteers.
Literacy Program - Reading Riders
Reading Riders short video:
Emotional Regulation |
Retreats |
Dialetical Behavioural Therapy |
Corporate Groups |
