Purchase The Icarus Model® 74pg. Manual with 34 interventions:
1. The Icarus Model ® Manual has 34 on-the-ground interventions to do with clients and horses! Designed for children with adaptations for adults! This book also covers equine ethical standards, best practices, safety, therapy horse selection, EAP/EAL qualifications, how to run successful groups, examples of progress notes, case examples, process questions, and how to stay within your scope. We even provide a template for an equine liability waiver drawn up by our AZ attorney!
The best thing is there are QR codes to real-life mock session videos so you can see many interventions in practice, which is unique to this manual!!
2. Group Curricula is 55+ pages with 16 group activities! This book also includes case examples, photos, process questions, what to do when things go awry, key terms of the nervous system, marketing tips, a private trauma-informed safety demo video, icebreakers, 8-week sample group curricula for adults and kids, along with sample release templates.
3. Quick 10 is the top 10 interventions from the main manual. This is a sample for clinicians who don’t wish to purchase the full manual. You can upgrade at any time; just pay the difference!
4. First Responder Edition has a foreword written by a highly regarded first responder specialist in the field. This 35+ page book has 10 EAP/EAL interventions to do with this population. It includes intake screening procedures, key terms, brain chemistry of first responders, how to build rapport, best practices, case examples, how to stay within the window of tolerance, and what to do when the client is overwhelmed or “flooded”. Trauma-informed processing questions, first responder culture, and a trauma-informed safety demo video link so you can explain safety around horses in a way that doesn’t overwhelm the client or hinder the therapeutic process!
*Each book will be sent via email as a PDF, which you can print off or store online*
