Cultivating Hope Mentoring
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Memory Lane Farm offers a 12-week farm & faith-based mentoring program for children, teens, and adults (ages 8+) who are experiencing significant life challenges or feeling overwhelmed by their emotions.
Who We Serve:
✔ Ages 8+
✔ Facing trauma, hurts and difficult life situations that have led to:
• Isolation, school avoidance, or struggles with daily functions
• Anxiety, depression, or grief
• Lack of confidence or social skills
✔ Desiring positive change and willing to engage in the mentoring process
Our mentoring sessions provide a safe, supportive, and hands-on environment where participants can build resilience, develop coping skills, and find hope through meaningful farm experiences.
During mentoring sessions, mentees are invited to participate in activities with one or more of our horse partners. After the horse and farm activities, mentees and their mentor have a debriefing conversation to help integrate and transform experiences with the horses and other activities into personal breakthroughs and measurable action steps towards reaching goals. Weekly sessions run approximately 60 minutes.
Mentoring activities include meaningful time with horses and other farm animals (goats, dogs, chickens), light chores, nature walks, crafts or other activities. Each session is designed to be a relationally-based time and focused on personal goals.
Our horse partners naturally and intuitively facilitate human healing, personal growth, and the development of important life skills, including assertiveness, trust, healthy boundaries, willing partnership and emotional intelligence. Horses are unbiased, non-judgmental and see us and accept us exactly as we are, without judgment or bias. Our horse partners challenge us to step up in a non-threatening way. You do not need to have any horse experience whatsoever to participate in or benefit from the Cultivating Hope Mentoring program. ​
We are not a professional counseling agency or offer therapy. We believe that counseling/therapy is an important aspect of healing and encourage professional counseling, if needed or desired.
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​Participation
Our main requirement is that the participant wants to come. While we do not wish to turn any individual away, there are a limited number of sessions available. Although we cannot guarantee a session for everyone who wants one, MLF does its best to accommodate as many participants as possible.
We also understand that each participant has his or her own unique challenges and our Mentors work hard to adapt sessions to meet the needs of each individual.
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