What is TEC University?

​TEC University is the unparalleled, hands-on training and coaching division of Trinity Equestrian Center; the Mid-West’s leader in Equine Assisted Therapy.

We know the sustainability and success of any Equine Therapy Practice is anchored in your understanding and proficiency in four key areas; Your Practice, Your Business, Your Marketing & Your Fundraising.

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Why TECU?

TEC University (TECU)  is our team helping your team with a hands-on, from start to finish approach that will set you up for success and assist you in launching or relaunching your practice.

​We hold contracts with 22 counties and 5 residential and out-patient facilities in our region to provide our services. In addition, we are in the process of developing therapeutic collaboration with our state’s VA hospital for our Veteran services and a regional hospital for our Therapeutic Riding program. We can help you cultivate, grow and maintain the key relationships you will need to have a successful Equine Assisted Therapy Practice.

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Equine-Assisted
​Program

With our 4-Day Intensive Training,  From Passion to Purpose, you will receive face-to-face personal training.

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Veteran Wellness
Program

Join us for a 3-Day intensive for hands-on training and learn the essentials in the healing process for a veteran.

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Youth Mentoring
​Program

Learn the keys to developing a sustainable youth mentoring program.
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Personal & Professional
Development

When we go through transitions in life, such as a job or maybe a relationship, it often shakes us to the core. 
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Many people look at this transition as overwhelming, un-nerving and full of uncertainty.  Oftentimes it helps to have an outside perspective, a coach that can help empower you to redefine your purpose, pursue it and ultimately live it.
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Your TECU personal growth development takes place in-office and in the arena.  It’s effective, experiential and unapologetically enjoyable.

Step 1: Discover Your Purpose

Proverbs 29:18 reads, “Where there is no vision (purpose), the people perish”.

We start with the DISCOVERY (3-4 hours on-site, including a 1-hour Equine Assisted Growth and Learning.  You share with us who you are, where you came from, and most importantly, where you want to go.  We walk you through our very own Purpose Matrix – helping you to evaluate and assess your 6 key categories of life; Spirit, Mind, Body, Relationships, Career, and Finances.

We Help You:

• set specific, strategic and doable new goals
• design new habits that help you quickly achieve those goals
• break it down even further and help you dissect what it will take, what resources you need, and how quickly you will achieve it
• identify your biggest obstacle and take THAT into the arena and allow the horses to help you work through it and make a plan to overcome it.

Step 2: Managing Progress

We do an on-site follow-up 2 weeks later to help you manage and measure your PROGRESS.  We assist in assessing your process and progress, further refining it and adjusting it as needed. Once again, we partner with the horses to help clarify and avoid the avoidable pitfalls.
Your time with us will help you learn how to increase your personal effectiveness and success by creating strategic goals, as well as, developing and maintaining new habits that create change and re-invention.

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​Personal & Professional Development Package Pricing

A two-session, on-site program (Discovery & Progress). View more information about our Business Development Tools here.
Step 1 – Discovery; 3-4 hours, including 1 hour Equine Assisted Development session - $425
Step 2 – Progress; 2 hours, including 1 hour Equine Assisted Development session - $250

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Business Consulting

Just dreaming? Wonderful! Let’s talk about what it takes to develop, launch and maintain your dream of an Equine Therapy Practice.
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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.
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Fee:  First hour is free, $100/hour thereafter.  On-line, by phone or in-person.

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TECU Tools of the Trade

Business Development Package
(Hard Copy Binder with Digital/Editable Content)

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Complete Tool Kit

• Policies and Procedures
• All required intake documents and assessments templates
• Example grant budgets and narratives for submitting successful grant requests
• A comprehensive library of equine based curriculum and therapeutic activities
• Our unique and incredible “Purpose Matrix” therapeutic tool developed by TECU​

Pricing - $1300 

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Policies and Procedures
(Hard Copy Binder with Digital/Editable Content)

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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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The Purpose Matrix Package
(Worksheets & Guide)

An incredible discovery tool that evaluates & assesses your 6 Key Categories of Life: Spirit, Mind, Body, Relationships, Career, & Finances.

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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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“The Purpose Matrix is what gives Vets and clients alike, the structure to apply what they’ve learned in the experiential equine activities. It helps to take their learning forward and gives us the opportunity to focus on the “hot spots” that bubble up while completing the Purpose Matrix.

We find it to be an amazing tool and believe it has literally saved lives.”

Pricing - $250

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L.I.F.E Skills (Learn, Involve, Forgive, Engage)
(8 Week Equine Assisted Learning Group)

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.

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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.
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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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Wounded Women Program
(8 Week Group Curriculum)

Our 8-week Wounded Women program help women regain their self-confidence, image and esteem. 

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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.
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How We Help:
Our 8-week Wounded Women program help women regain their self-confidence, image and esteem by building a relationship with 1100-pound furry therapist and our Treatment Team. We have three teams on staff that consists of a WI Lic. Therapist, a Certified Equine Specialist and one or more therapy horses. These teams help them redefine their identity, their God-given purpose and what their future holds.
This uncommon progress is entirely based on trust, the highest and most valued commodity for both horses and women survivors of violence.  To be transparent, vulnerable and authentic are high priced traits that must be utilized in order to begin the healing process.

​P.D. James said “When you change how a person sees themselves, you change their future.”
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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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Equine Wellness and Management System
(Hard Copy Binder with Digital/Editable Content)

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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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Volunteer Recruitment & Retention System
Recruit, Retain & Reward
(Hard Copy Binder with Digital/Editable Content)

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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

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Toni Mattson - Speaker
Key note Speaker - $1000, Plus Expenses
Panel Speaker - $500, Plus Expenses

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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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