What is TEC University?
Why TECU?
Equine-Assisted
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Veteran Wellness
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Youth Mentoring
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Personal & Professional
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Business ConsultingJust dreaming? Wonderful! Let’s talk about what it takes to develop, launch and maintain your dream of an Equine Therapy Practice.
Ready to dive in? Fabulous! Let us help you cut through the confusion, prioritize and laser focus your efforts and step-by-step help you create your custom plans; business, practice, marketing and fundraising. Together these plans insure your sustainability and ultimately your success. Fee: First hour is free, $100/hour thereafter. On-line, by phone or in-person. |
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Complete Tool Kit
Pricing - $1300 |
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Our Policy & Procedures Package is a comprehensive template covering everything from Attendance and Punctuality to Workman’s Compensation. From Business Expenses and Reimbursement to Use of Restraints, this material covers it all in an easy to use and editable format. Pricing - $250 |
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TEC’s focus for years has been on suicide prevention among Veterans with PTSD and youth struggling with their identity, bullying and their place in life. We know that if a person has no purpose in life, they have no “lifeline” and are at a monumentally higher risk of suicide.
Proverbs 29:18 reads, “Where there is no vision (purpose), the people perish”. We searched for an effective tool to help combat this and found nothing. So we created our own, The Purpose Matrix. Finding Your Purpose: The Purpose Matrix is a tremendously effective discovery tool that helps assess the present condition of a person’s State of Purpose. While systematically walking through the 6 Key Categories of Life; Spirit, Mind, Body, Relationships, Career, and Finances, it helps to identify where you might be “stuck” and what is preventing you from living your purpose. It tells you unequivocally, where you are now and gives our treatment teams a roadmap in the arena and with the horses to help you get to where you want to be. We have many clients who attribute their stability, hopefulness, progress AND even the destroying of their long-held suicide note directly to their work in The Purpose Matrix.
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Our youth today are exposed to and struggle with so many different issues than ever before. Internet bullying, teen drug abuse, alcoholism, gang involvement, human trafficking, teen pregnancy, violence and crime. These things are present in nearly all communities, not just in the metro and inner-cities. Studies show that nearly ALL youth and teenagers are “at-risk”. The expression “at risk youth” refers to a youth or teen who struggles with emotional and behavioral issues that can lead them into areas and situations which risk their personal development and ultimately their future. Skills that last a Lifetime: Equine Assisted Therapy is a very effective treatment modality perfectly suited for at risk or underprivileged youth and teens. Studies show spending time with a horse reduces stress, anxiety and invites new learning and engagement. Enjoyable as it is, it is not merely recreational or haphazard. This method is structured and very intentional and it produces measurable positive outcomes. How Our Program Works: Trinity Equestrian Center’s L.I.F.E. Skills is an 8-week Equine Assisted Learning group that helps at-risk youth and teens on many levels. It helps them combat defiance, anger, low self-esteem and mood disorders and helps fosters empathy and compassion by working with horses. Horses have a uncommon way of breaking down barriers and well-built defense mechanisms. Youth and teens who struggle with relationships and authority surprisingly accept the horse’s presence and feedback seemingly without question. A new relationship is developed based on respect, trust and patience which then, with these new skills, helps the youth form and maintain healthy relationships with people outside the arena. Horses are amazing teachers and therapists. We use an experiential therapy model (learn by doing and doing differently). Students quickly learn that a patient, calm approach is rewarded by the horse’s acceptance of them and willingness to cooperate. They quickly find out that anger and aggression only produces distance and disappointment. But if they are willing to try doing it differently, many positive things begin to happen. Horses are perfect examples of “living in the moment” and the law of cause and effect. By working with horses, students learn their actions and behaviors have consequences, good and bad. The way they communicate, their body and how they approach the horse all have a bearing on the ultimate flow and results. They learn that taking a different approach produces different results. That’s a game changer for most! L.I.F.E Skills can help at-risk youth to: • Improve problem solving and social skills • Learn and practice empathy and compassion • Accept consequences of their actions • Learn better ways to manage stress and anger and what their triggers are • Increase feelings of hopefulness, hope and overall well-being • Learn better ways to communicate and that we each may do it differently • Improve self-esteem, self-confidence and self-image • Grow and maintain healthy relations with appropriate boundaries. • Realize that their future is in their hands and control and there is a purpose to it Pricing - $300 |
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Relationships can be a double edged sword. A source of healing and growth, or pain and injury.
Did you know that: • 1 in 4 women will experience domestic abuse in their lifetime • 1 in 6 have experienced an attempt or completion of rape • Only 25% of physical assault is reported to the authorities • 83% of the children in the home have likely been abused as well Regaining a Sense of Value and Worth: Horses are superb at cultivating relationships. They deeply desire to connect. This unique connection with something so majestic, empowering and so non-judgmental, seems “too good to be true” for the ladies in our Equine Assisted Therapy Group for Wounded Women. These ladies are victims of domestic abuse and sexual violence.
P.D. James said “When you change how a person sees themselves, you change their future.” The women who go thru our program, will walk away with a new positive foundation of “SELF”. They will be different women, not victims but survivors in every sense. Pricing - $600 |
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Our Equine Wellness & Management System includes all you will need to develop an effective tracking system of horse care, health maintenance and equine special needs, all critical information that affects the performance and resilience of your fury teammates. This system will also tabulate and track which programs each of your horses are working in, how many sessions and the revenue they produce. It is a comprehensive tracking and management system. Pricing - $100 |
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Our Volunteer Program package includes all you will need to develop an inventory of volunteers, including: volunteer contact management and hours-tracking method and volunteer reward systems. Pricing - $100 |
Toni Mattson - Speaker
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Toni graduated with a degree in marketing and merchandising following which she co-managed her family’s 90-year-old men’s clothing store for six years. Toni left retail for a position reorganizing the advertising department at a newspaper office and later served as Director of Marketing for an area national bank for four years. When Bill and Toni decided to move to Eau Claire, Toni became a successful area Realtor as well as an entrepreneur in internet sales and contact management services. In 2002, she became a co-owner of Trinity Equestrian Center with her husband and sister. She obtained a degree from University of St. Thomas in fund development for non-profit organizations, received her certification from EAGALA as a Certified Equine Specialist, and then, in 2005, initiated Trinity’s horse therapy programs for underprivileged and special needs kids, adults, families, and veterans. Toni has been a speaker for God’s Great Outdoors traveling the country and Canada since 2002 and in 2009, became an ordained Christian chaplain. One of Toni’s greats passions is to help other Equine Centers fulfill their dream by developing a successful, effective and purpose-filled equine therapy program. She devotes much of her time these days to training, business development and consulting across the US and has development Trinity’s TEC University. Toni’s primary responsibilities at Trinity are managing, marketing, fund development, and director of all programs and ministries. |
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