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Unlock your potential with Equine Assisted Learning. Discover how working with horses can boost personal growth, enhance relationships, and teach life skills that last a lifetime.
Have you ever considered how horses can enhance your relationships, personal development, and self-awareness? This practice has been utilized for decades and serves as a valuable resource for many individuals and groups. According to The Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship International (pathintl.org), Equine Assisted Learning (EAL) is a non-therapeutic approach that leverages interactions with horses to cultivate life skills relevant to professional, personal, or educational objectives.
How Equine Assisted Learning Works
At Horses Help, our Equine Assisted Learning (EAL) programs focus on simple yet impactful groundwork exercises, eliminating the need for riding to ensure safety and reduce any intimidation associated with horse riding. These groundwork lessons are crafted to help individuals engagingly develop crucial life skills, such as building trust and connection with the horse, understanding the horse's non-verbal communication, and recognizing internal personal conflict and dissonance.
Real-Life Benefits of Equine Assisted Learning
The tangible benefits of Equine Assisted Learning observed among our participants include improved personal hygiene through understanding the significance of grooming a horse and relating it to self-care, identifying internal stressors and their effects on emotions and actions, learning to step back from stressful situations, taking deep breaths, clearing the mind, and approaching the situation with a fresh perspective (illustrated by a horse not responding to cues when a participant is out of sync with the horse), and attentively listening to instructions and feedback. Equine Assisted Learning sessions aim to achieve goals set by the participant and Equine Specialist, offering a range of potential benefits.
Who Can Benefit from EAL?
Those who benefit from Equine Assisted Learning include individuals with adjustment disorders, autism, ADHD, family and relationship conflicts, low self-esteem and confidence, among other groups. We are committed to using our facility, horses, and resources to support individuals in their journey toward developing and maintaining life skills.
Upcoming blog posts will explore key aspects of life skills related to Equine Assisted Learning. EAL offers a unique, hands-on approach to gaining insights about yourself and the world around you.
Why Choose Horses Help?
At Horses Help, we are passionate about using our facility, horses, and resources to support individuals on their journey toward self-discovery and skill development. Each of our Equine Assisted Learning (EAL) sessions is structured to last one hour, with one lesson per week over six weeks.
Ready to Begin Your Journey?
If you are interested in participating in Equine Assisted Learning or believe someone you know could benefit from these services, please review the EAL application and contact the Program Manager at lauren@horseshelp.org for more details and any questions.
Upcoming Topics
Equine Assisted Learning, specifically:
Coaching/Personal Development
Education
Corporate/Professional Development
Discover how this unique approach provides hands-on insights into yourself and the world around you.
By Lauren Smith,
Horses Help Therapeutic Program Manager
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