One Heart Wild Education Sanctuary
Mission
We exist to promote the health, well-being and welfare of humans, animals, and nature through mutually beneficial relationships.
Vision
One Heart Wild Education Sanctuary envisions a community that inspires healing, kindness, and advocacy through empathic relationships with all life on earth.
Improving Our Communities One Relationship at A Time
One Heart Wild is committed to recognizing the rights of all individuals to mutual respect; acceptance of others without biases based on differences or status of any kind, including but not limited to, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender, or species.
Upcoming Events
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The importance of the human-nonhuman animal connection is becoming widely understood. What began as casual observations--how aquariums can reduce blood pressure or how petting a dog can reduce anxiety in nursing homes--has grown into exciting scientific disciplines. One of them, trans-species psychology, informs all that we do at One Heart Wild. Within mutually beneficial experiences, Animal Assisted Self Development & Psychotherapy has the capacity to improve social-emotional skills, emotional intelligence, mindfulness, and nonverbal communication.
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Healing and growth is a two-way street at One Heart Wild. Here, animals, many with physical and emotional wounds created by traumatic experiences with humans, are carefully selected to meet our requirements--especially those governed by capacity limitations, quality of care standards & environmental impact. With time, understanding, and a stable social environment, the animals to which we provide sanctuary not only recover, but grow an increasing capacity to help heal our human community.
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One Heart Wild's ROOTS Institute represents a scientific, and ethically sound paradigm shift in equine & animal assisted self development and psychotherapy training. ROOTS qualified professionals enable mutually beneficial social-emotional growth using tested principles of psychology, ethology, and neuroscience while meeting or exceeding the Animal Assisted Therapy in Counseling Competencies developed by the American Counseling Association & Animal Assisted Therapy in Mental Health Interest Network.
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Veterans Get Assistance from Horses through Equine Therapy Program
Posted by Drea Bergquist-Bowen on 02/25/2016North Dakota’s Sitting Bull College has used horse therapists for the past five years to help veterans who have returned from war with physical, mental or emotional barriers. The college’s Equine Assisted Learning Program helps these men and women overcome those barriers.
"I truly believe they've (horses) learned how to protect themselves and keep themselves safe, and as a people we've kind of lost that, how to keep ourselves safe, emotionally, physically, mentally." "When we connect with these horses, we connect with our soul, because we have to change so much, whether we like it or not, to make that connection.” -
Horses that heal: how equine therapy is helping people find peace of mind
Drea Bowen on 02/21/2016Horses Help Heal Emotional Trauma. Being herding animals, horses rely on an acute stream of sensory data to sense safety or danger; they can also hear the human heartbeat within four feet, and research on heart-rate variability indicates that horses have a profound ability to synchronize their own heartbeat with that of human beings.
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Study: Horses read human faces
Posted by Drea Bergquist-Bowen on 02/17/2016Anyone who has spent significant time around horses won't be surprised, but a study published in the journal Biology Letters has found that horses can easily distinguish between happy and angry human facial expressions.
