Live the Change - Ecotherapy, Integrative Psychotherapy & Peer Psychotherapy. Rewilding, Mindfulness & Expressive Arts. Trauma & Dissociation.
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Survivorship & Thriving. Advocacy & Activism. Peer Mentoring & Peer Supervision. MiMer Centre is an international non-profit education and research center. We connect the practical aspects on working with horses and horse assisted activities and interventions, with research and theory. MiMer Centre - Equine-Human Education and Research Centre, was founded in 2013. Our mission is to do and promote research on horses as biological, emotional/affective, social and cognitive beings. It means both seeing the individual, as well as putting the horse in their environment and asking questions about horses from perspectives other than the equestrian. We also do and promote research on and spread knowledge about horse assisted activities and interventions. Our vision is to, by acquiring and sharing new knowledge and by using new angles on old knowledge, contribute to a better world for horses, to increase their overall welfare, as individuals, as a species and as a part of existing and developing ecological systems. To better understand what the relationship between humans and horses is and what goes on in human-horse interaction, especially in horse assisted activities and interventions. MiMer Centre offers trainings, seminars, supervision, mentoring, assistance with program development to individuals and organizations online and as in person events. We also build networks and organize events for knowledge sharing and create educational and inspirational material.
12/01/2026
JANUARY NEWSLETTER!
I just sent out my own first newsletter since 2018 I think... Have been sending them in the name of other organizations in the meantime - but it feels good to be back to deciding for myself what to send out!
As usual I am about mixing passions and interests - my newsletter will contain all that I work with - which spans from ecotherapy - rewilding - trauma & dissociation - writing, photography and art, advocacy and activism - and some more :-)
I hope you find something interesting to read about, or to sign up for.
This is a 20 page long PDF with an article on how the Przewalski horse was reintroduced in Mongolia after having been extinct in the wild, or the Takhi, which is the Mongolian name on this horse.
To learn about wild living horses helps us understand the welfare as well as the behaviors of our domestic horses.
I have had the privilege to travel to Mongolia twice and been traveling the country both with Mongolian friends and visited with Mongolian wildlife researchers in Hustai National Park.
I have added pictures and an extensive bibliography to the story. In this article you get a good introduction to many topics as rewilding, the horse culture of Mongolia, equine life lived without human management, equine welfare, equine cognition, equine welfare and so on.
Enjoy! I will add more articles to the library on both rewilded/wild living horses, equine welfare, equine assisted interventions - and the usual mix that is my hallmark (since I see the world as connected...).
Przewalski horses (or Takhis), picture taken by me on my study visit in Hustai National Park.
Warmly,
Felicia Katarina
23/11/2025
WHAT IS "REWILDING YOUR HEART"?
Two years ago I lived in Italy for a year. I explored the possibility of setting up my non-profit/NGO there to work with rewilding, ecotherapy, equine assisted interventions, nature assisted mindfulness etc.
It did not happen. But I explored. And learned, and rewilded myself some more.
In this short film clip I am taking about what rewild your heart means to me, what it is to rewild oneself, on the inside, and the outside.
It was a pretty wild thing to do - to go to Italy to try to find a place and people to set up a rewilding/ecotherapy place. And I loved it there! And maybe I will come back, who knows?
You can also check my webpage out, it is a bit more updated and have some more info about me and who I am, if you are curious: https://livethechange.se/index.php
I am being interviewed about what rewilding is to me. And I reflect a bit on it. Sitting on the wall, looking out over the hills at the place in Italy I live...
12/11/2025
Lucy Johnstone: 'The aim is to move, in simple terms, away from the “What is wrong with you?” towards the “What has happened to you?” question. To put it at its briefest, we’re evidencing, we hope, the idea that peoples’ distress is understandable in context, but we wanted to think about context in its broadest form.'
"In 2018, Lucy Johnstone, Mary Boyle, and their colleagues in the UK launched the Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF). This framework shifts the notion of 'What is wrong with you?' in the DSM to 'What has happened to you?' and by doing so rejects medical process of diagnosing 'disorders' in favour of a narrative response that tells of contexts, power dynamics, and systems.
At a time when the Global Mental Health Movement is exporting the Western biomedical model around the world, Johnstone, Boyle and the PTMF project team, which includes those who identify as service users/survivors, are seeking to promote a radically different way of understanding distress.
Johnstone, a consultant clinical psychologist who has experience working in adult mental health settings for many years, believes that the current mental health system has failed, and we are now in the process of witnessing the crumbling of the medical paradigm of emotional distress.
She believes we need an approach based on fundamentally different principles. The PTMF, which draws on a wide range of evidence and examples of existing alternatives, is an attempt to outline what that might look like. The PTMF project team hopes that it can be a contribution to the much needed revolution.
Lucy Johnstone: 'The aim is to move, in simple terms, away from the “What is wrong with you?” towards the “What has happened to you?” question. To put it at its briefest, we’re evidencing, we hope, the idea that peoples’ distress is understandable in context, but we wanted to think about context in its broadest form.
One of the things we wanted to do was to really make very clear the link between personal distress and social context, social inequality, and social injustices. In other words, to put power on the map. Power is not only missing from psychiatric thinking, but it’s also missing from a lot of psychological thinking, and it’s missing from much psychotherapeutic thinking.
In the Power Threat Meaning Framework terms, one of our core arguments is that instead of understanding distress through biological patterns, patterns that are borrowed from the kinds of patterns that we see when things go wrong in our bodies, we need to understand distress through patterns that are organized by meaning. They’re organized by meaning, not by biology, which is a big conceptual leap, one of the fundamental conceptual leaps I think we made. We need to be thinking about how those patterns are based on or organized by social and cultural meanings, not by biology and something that’s gone wrong with our bodies'."
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MiMer Centre is an International Education, Research and Treatment Organization with its head centre outside Lund in Skåne, Sweden. We strive to connect the practical aspects on working with equines and Equine Assisted Interventions, with research and theory, founded on solid ethical principles and ideas.
MiMer Centre - Equine-Human Education and Research Centre - was founded in 2013. Our mission is to do and promote research on equines as biological, emotional, social and cognitive beings. It means seeing the individual, the subject, but also putting the equine in its environment and asking questions about equines from perspectives other than the equestrian. We also do an promote research on equine-human interaction, with a special focus on Equine Assisted Interventions by taking part internationally in several research projects.
We also work actively to spread knowledge and research about equines, equine-human interaction and Equine Assisted Interventions, especially Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP) and Trauma Therapy (EATT), by organizing and offering educations, seminars, workshops, symposiums, writing articles, presenting at conferences etc.
We also offer Equine Assisted Learning (EAL) and Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP) to private individuals and groups, as well as to corporations and organizations.
We work internationally and offer our services both here at our centre and at your place.
You find more information about our services and our trust at www.mimercentre.org
If you have any question about us or our services, please contact us at info@mimercentre.org
Katarina Felicia Lundgren
