CREF Method Practitioner

With the CREF Method Practitioner training, you learn how to restore damaged basic trust. Basic trust can be diminished due to many causes. You learn to recognize various causes stemming from, among others, prenatal and postnatal attachment issues, or to recognize (less identifiable) trauma.

You learn many different forms of interventions, and a great deal of practical attention is paid to your own internal process. The training is entirely practice-oriented. Horses are used for interaction, reprinting, and as a mirror during practice sessions. Even if you do not work with horses yourself, you learn the interventions together with the horse. Later, you can implement these in your practice without a horse. In this way, you become acquainted with the role and added value of the horse, particularly for resolving attachment issues.

CREF Method Practitioner study information

The course consists of:
  • 7 training days at an IKEV location
  • 7 half-days working with the horse as an actor
  • 2 learning therapy sessions
  • access to an interactive learning environment for the input of case studies
  • two literature assignments “The Unrecognized Child Within Us” “When Cherishing Means Hope”
  • practical exam
Course program:
Training Day 1 CREF Model, the protocol, the Reprint
Training Day 2 Intake according to the CREF Model, Systemic Work
Training Day 3 Interventions in the CREF Model (Prenatal and Postnatal)
Training Day 4 Interventions in the CREF Model
Training Day 5 Reprint, collaboration with the horse
Training Day 6 Working on the CREF Reprint
Training Day 7 Working on the CREF-Reprint

Results:
  • Ability to break through old patterns and old survival mechanisms of the client;
  • Being able to offer tools to restore/heal basic trust;
  • Ability to apply various interventions in the appropriate manner;
  • Teaching the client to receive love and to learn to bond;
  • Being able to direct requests for help towards internal capacity (developing personal strengths);
  • Overwriting an old print by performing a reprint using the CREF Model;
  • Ability to treat or support healing processes for many different diagnoses.
Study load:
  • Literature assignments approx. 5 hours
  • Teacher contact hours: 45 hours
  • Contact hours with actor: 24.5 hours
  • Video homework assignment approx. 1.5 hours
  • Self-reflection & book reports approx. 6 hours
  • Peer supervision & practice & with the CREF Model approx. 12 hours
  • Learning therapy approx. 3 hours
  • Exam approx. 6 hours
Total study load 103 hours

128, 128, 0.5)"> The misunderstood child within ourselves – Gaby Stroecken
When cherishing hope means – John Bradshaw
For whom Experienced first responders
Eligibility requirement Basics and CREF-EMDR
Certificate yes, provided all assignments and 100% attendance requirement have been met
Number of class days7 day further training
Number of participants min. 5 people up to max. 10 persons
Costs€ 2,950.- exempt from VAT (installment payment possible) (CRKBO) Included lunch and Syllabus
Not included 2 learning therapy sessions and literature.
ProgressionYou can qualify for license holder after this program
View our calendar page for an overview of currently scheduled course days. You can register via our registration page , even if no course days are scheduled yet!
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