hillview farm

What we achieve

Here’s a list of outcomes that can be achieved through equine, animal and horticultural therapy learning.

Physical Objectives

  • Identify safety issues
  • Re-conceptualize what is safe and not safe
  • Maintain physical boundaries
  • Demonstrate safe behaviour
  • Maintain personal space around horses & animals
  • Improve interpersonal boundaries
  • Reduce impulsivity
  • Improve body awareness

Language Objectives

  • Engage in small talk while interacting with another
  • Talk in a soft, calm, gentle voice
  • Describe actions as your doing them
  • communicate to a horse
  • understanding a horse
  • Sign to a horse

Emotional Objectives

  • Experience acceptance from another
  • Increase self-esteem
  • Increase self-confidence
  • Overcome one’s fear of horses & animals
  • Recognize emotions in others
  • Reduce loneliness from social isolation
  • Experience animals as a source of relaxation
  • Develop an appreciation of animals
  • Respond to another with feeling
  • Experience pleasure and comfort in the comfort of horses & animals
  • Accept affection from a horse & animals
  • Demonstrate patience
  • Manage one’s mood around the horse & other animals
  • Demonstrate confidence and a more positive attitude
  • Assert oneself with a horse & other animals

Social Objectives

  • Experience non-judgmental interaction with another
  • Demonstrate greeting behaviour
  • Anticipate another’s needs, wants, feelings, and actions
  • Take turns with another
  • Cooperate with another
  • Interact with another
  • Encourage and praise another
  • Set limits with another.
  • Learn how to give and take in a relationship
  • Increase social skills
  • Seek out animal companionship
  • Experience a warm and accepting relationship
  • Care for another living being
  • Nurture another living being
  • Avoid conflicts with others
  • Respect the horse’s power
  • Avoid power struggles with the horses

Cognitive Objectives

  • Increase attention
  • Increase goal-directed behaviour
  • Increase mental agility
  • Integrate speech, emotions, and cognitive problem solving
  • Anticipate the consequences of one’s actions
  • Describe a horse’s or other animal’s positive qualities
  • Eliminate hostile aggressive behaviour toward horses & other animals

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