Facilitator Training for A Hero's Journey

BECOME A WORKSHOP LEADER! Now you can be an Endorsed Trainer for a workshop that will change the lives of youth and teens who take it! Have you always wanted to work with children and teens but didn’t know where to begin? Finally, there is a training to teach you how to lead a workshop that you can present to adolescents and teens that is easy to learn and lead yet will make a profound difference in the lives of those you teach!

The workshop is called A Hero’s Journey and A Hero’s Journey with Horses. They are essentially the same exact workshop but one has the addition of group exercises with horses for the Equine Partnered professionals who desire to work with youth and horses, yet, horse experience is not necessary. The horse exercises are safe and easy to supervise. They are an extra added delight for those wishing to add the equine dynamic to the work or for those who already have an equine based program.

In 5 two and a half to 3 hour sessions this workshop changes lives! Through the use of games, art, puzzles and other fun yet meaningful exercises the participants in the workshop learn strategies for conflict resolution and effective communication. The kids have fun while learning how to cope with the issues in their lives. They learn what kinds of thing damage self-esteem and what the can do to repair theirs once it is damaged. Through role-playing and acting out scenarios with people in their lives deemed either unsafe or unavailable they learn to say how they feel and what they need to props, mentors and fellow participants. This role playing will help them resolve their conflicts. Trouble with bullies, teachers, parents and even from time to time, friends that cause hurt feelings can be worked through and released in the safety of the workshop. The exercises with the horses adds a dimension of understanding through the group dynamic that is acted out by a scenario designed to go along with the theme of the particular session.
The themes of the 5 sessions are this:
Session One – Introduction to a new situation and how to understand identity and one’s place in a group.
Session Two – how to speak in front of a group and how to listen with respect.
Session Three – What damages self-esteem?
Session Four - how to repair one’s own self-esteem
Session Five – discovering the Hero inside.

There is a proven outcome of success in A Hero’s Journey as hundreds of children, adolescents, teens and even some adults have been guided through the exercises in this workshop over the span of ten years. The workshop itself has been so successful that, in an effort to reach more participants, it’s designer and primary leader, Lauren Munger, is determined to train others to lead participants through the series of 5 sessions. This work is important and essential to the young people of the 21st century with all of the stresses they now face as they are on their journey to adulthood.

The workshop has been taught successfully in various situations such as schools as an after school program, hospitals working with Leukemia patients and their siblings, in a camp setting with camp counselors, as part of a day camp, as a self-confidence builder for a group of housewives in Atlanta, at a residential treatment center for abused children, to foster children, autistic children, and to hundred regular school aged children in the Denver/Boulder area of Colorado.

If you are attracted to working with youth, teens and a few select adults in a way that will help them move forward in their lives and are ready to be trained into a new profession of working with them, with or without horses, then this training is for you!

The A Hero’s Journey Facilitator’s Training is a 3 day intensive course taught by founder and director, Lauren Munger, in various locations throughout the United States and Canada. To learn more about the programs offered, about Lauren or to find out where the Trainings are currently scheduled please visit our website at www.sacredhoofprints.com .