Oh my goodness, this is the best website ever! James is so endlessly patient with his presentation of information. He reminds me of Mister Rogers. High praise! The information is presented so simply. I love watching all the animals and how they each interact with this technique. It is so beautiful and informative. I love the real tough animals. It is so amazing to watch them go all the way through the process, and that the animals are participating. Thank you so very much for all that your organization does for these animals and the non-profits. Thank you also for making this available. Forget the News, the world is truly becoming miraculous!

The first online course confirmed my motivation for my new choice of life helping animals.
I was often moved by the videos : Ares the Lion, Bella, the bears and the last one with the horse in Mane Chance sanctuary (beautiful !).
The session that seemed very long to me, compared to others, was the one with the puddle and the vaccum cleaner !!
I didn’t understand all the english, especially at Hope Pastures because of the accent and all the noise behind.
I have received my camera GoPro and can’t wait to start the course in June, hopping my english will be good enough !

Adrianne (from France)

The system used to deliver this course is excellent because it covers practically all the ideas and concepts needed to convey the key points of the course. I am sure that as we advance in the study I shall be able to expand my opinion quite a bit… meanwhile I have to say: “So far, so good”. Ah! I have to say it, I am delighted to be part of the “Translation Group” and I am sure that many extraordinary experiences await for me in the near future.
Incessant blessings

Federico

This is what I have been waiting and looking for. Not only really helping animals but also feel the heart open and love growing in myself. I‘m adicted. Thank you so much.

“Do animals understand what we are saying? Yes, but you have to make sense”
Vicky Hearne “Adam’s Task”

I am deeply moved by discovering the Trust Technique. I am a Jungian psychotherapist and over the years each learning path I have taken has been a rediscovery that presence and listening are the foundation of what I can offer. I have come to see more fully that human disruption from what we have called nature (as if it is something other than human) and human nature are of course not separate. Eco-therapy has taken me some of the way, what I am learning from the Trust Technique now, joyfully, falls into place.

Trust Technique addresses relations of humans and the animals they are responsible for; it also reaches into human/nature relations in the wild. Essentially it is a well taught practice of meditating alongside an animal and discovering that when the human enters a meditation and is in a state of utter presence and listening, the animal relaxes and can enter a peaceful state that is ,also, healing. When this is repeated, sometimes in small doses if the animal is very sensitive and/or traumatised, the animal comes to recognise it is this human that is enabling the peace, and connection and trust become possible.

However, the method completely gets that the relationship is actually an inter-actional state that the animal may have initiated by catching, (“flirting with”, to use Arnold Mindell’s formation in Quantum Mind) the human. And, that there may be a wound in common. The growth of the relationship, or the process of healing, whichever is the intention, may well depend on the human healing her/his traumas. This is explicitly taught and it’s beautifully shown that the Trust Technique offers healing to both human and animal.

In the first place it is clear (delightfully) that it is humans that needs training!

The teaching of the method, initially online, clearly draws on a wealth of psychotherapeutic knowledge and good practice, on spiritual traditions and indigenous knowledge. And, it has synthesised this with clarity and apparent simplicity, but the kind of simplicity that comes from deep understanding. Following the videos makes me laugh with pleasure as I see them explain in accessible language earnest conceptions of psychoanalysis and all its derivatives. It seems to me the teaching comprises an excellent psychotherapy training, made the more possible by beginning with human/nature relations.

The videos are a masterclass in how to present online.

James Barrett