Wilderwood Equine Therapy and Rescue

Wilderwood Equine Therapy’s program is a unique equine-assisted curriculum designed by autistics for autistic teens and adults with input from other professionals. The three-semester (9-month) curriculum assists autistic teens and adults to:

develop independent life skills;
achieve career and employment goals; and
better navigate the neurotypical world while remaining true to their autistic selves.

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NEW! SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE FOR 2021

Now accepting enrollment inquiries for the first cohort beginning March 2021.
Please complete the Participant Interest Form (below) and email to wilderwoodequinetherapy@gmail.com.
Prefer a mailed copy? Call or text (505) 459-9813.

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Looking for a volunteer opportunity? Come join us!
Volunteers appreciated in multiple different areas. Contact us for more information or complete and submit our Volunteer Form.

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Please note: In keeping with the preference of the *actually autistic* community, we use and prefer the term “autistic person” rather than “person with autism” and do not engage in any work performed under the auspices of ABA therapy.

7 Wildwood Lane, Peralta, New Mexico
Email: wilderwoodequinetherapy@gmail.com
Tel: (505) 459-9813
http://www.facebook.com/wilderwoodequinetherapy

Wilderwood Blog

Hautism in Strides!

HAUTISM IN STRIDES! Very proud and excited to announce that our article, “Hautism,” has been published in PATH International’s Strides! magazine. A couple of editorial corrections … Wilderwood is located in Peralta, New Mexico (not “Peralita”) and even though our preference is to refer to autistic people (not people with autism), the editorial house-style of […]

The School of Lightness

The School of Lightness We are very fortunate here at Wilderwood as we bring along Vivaldi and Desperado (Viv and Des) to be receiving assistance from instructor James Riedeman, one of only a handful of licensed instructors in the USA in the principles of the Ecole de Légèreté (trans. the “School of Lightness”). Here is […]

The Piloteers

The Piloteers We have just finished an amazing Pilot program with wonderful participants! Lots of useful and practical input and the incredibly valuable opportunity to “test run” many of the curriculum’s activities by and for the people who will be completing the program. For three hours each week over six weeks, our participants attended every […]

Wilderwood Feature Article!

Wilderwood Feature article! We are thrilled that the Valencia County News Bulletin has featured Wilderwood in an article. Anna Padilla has written a wonderful piece. http://www.news-bulletin.com/news/features/wilderwood-therapy-and-rescue-provides-more-than-hope/article_6d30d840-cc3b-11ea-b736-4337b9f6f2eb.html

Opening the Pilot

OPENING THE PILOT Wilderwood’s Pilot program opened on June 20. We are so appreciative of the participants who are piloting the curriculum and providing incredibly valuable insight to strengthen it with their contributions and ideas. We were also honored to have visitors to Wilderwood on our opening Pilot day as well: Congresswoman Xochitl Torres Small […]

Documentary

Wilderwood Documentary is a go! We are delighted to announce that Wilderwood has been awarded a grant to assist us in making a film documentary featuring one of our program participants! We are enormously thankful for the generosity of the granting Foundation and look forward to the development of this project. More on this soon. […]

Rescue

Rescue The core of Wilderwood is its equine-assisted curriculum to work therapeutically with autistic teens and adults. By therapeutically, we mean in its original sense of the word: to heal, to restore health — whole body health encompassing elements of the physical, psychological, sociological, philosophical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual — from Greek therapeutikos, which in […]

Run freely, darling

Tragically, at 2:12 p.m. on May 22, 2020 our darling boy Saeed left us. He fought heroically for five days. His indomitable spirit did not let him down, nor did the overwhelming love that we have for this horse let him down, nor the veterinary care he received and the numerous outcalls and treatments and […]

Desmond has graduated!

Desmond, at age 4, has now graduated. He is considered what is colloquially known as being “green broke”; that is, he is ready to start the next phase of his schooling — now under saddle. He chose some unique, Desmond-like ways to celebrate!

A Little Joy

Excited to announce that Joy has arrived and is available! All proceeds from this memoir will be donated to Wilderwood Equine Therapy to help develop and deliver its programs for — and with — autistic adults. Like everyone, we are doing our best to keep the joy at Wilderwood during the corona quarantine and stay-at-home […]