ReStart

Service Description

​We provide the ReStart course at Full Circle Horsemanship using certificed facilitators of this method The ReStart course, is usually delivered in 5 consecutive days, working for approx 2 hours per day with 1-to-1 facilitator support. We teach, rehearse and repeat key resilience skills in an intensive and challenging, but fun way with feedback in-the-moment from specially trained horses. There is no discussion of the past. All sessions take place in action with the horses, there is no classroom content or talk-based therapy/counselling. Development of skills is embedded in work towards a horsemanship groundwork certificate. Tasks are guided by the facilitator and the horses are selected and trained to provide especially clear and easily observed physical feedback to participants, many of whom will not have interacted with horses prior to taking part in the programme. The methodological focus is on social/emotional shifts being made ‘in the moment’, in response to difficulties encountered. On the last day, each participant has a robust reflective session with their facilitator – looking at their progress in each of the areas of the Skills Star. Upon successful completion of the course, participants are presented with a certificate. Refferal process for fully funded places below, contact us for a referral form. Referrals are accepted by professional services such as: - Mental Health Teams -Social Services -Children's Services -Schools, PRU's and Virtual Schools -Troubled Families -Offending Services -Other Specialist Agencies ​ Criteria for referrals: -Unable to progress or engage with talk based services -Age 7yrs+ -Difficulties with anxiety, isolation, mental health, domestic abuse, substance abuse, challenging behaviour, offending, problematic family dynamics, school refusal ​