About
Equine Assisted Learning
What is EAL?
To put it simply, Equine Assisted Learning is a learner based educational experience with horses. More specifically, EAL is an effective approach to human development that encourages individual and team growth. Participants engage in objectively driven exercises and find themselves learning valuable life skills in a fun and exciting atmosphere while working with horses. EAL has proven to be effective, powerful, positive, educational, and creative. The Academy of Equine Assisted Learning’s program emphasizes it’s building-block curriculum of facilitating life skills through positively reinforced interaction with horses. Exercises are developed to encourage self confidence through validated, hands-on experiences. Current research has found this experiential form of learning to be most effective.
Why Horses?
Horses are tough and stead fast dance partners. Horses consistently react to stimulus provided by participants. Some of the joys associated with working around horses are – they don’t judge but they constantly assess. Their feedback is honest and instant. Learning to listen to what horses have to say is powerful and can sometimes spur the answer to individual change. By including horses in specially designed educational exercises, equine-assisted facilitators have greatly multiplied the participant’s rate of success to self discovery.
How?
Horses can magnify an individual’s problem immediately and provide a skilled facilitator with an
opportunity to identify an individual’s character. Horses don’t over think a participant’s motive but horses
do challenge their behaviour and leadership.
What is EAL?
Equine-Assisted Learning is a learner based educational experience with horses. More Specifically, EAL is an effective approach to human development that encourages individual and team growth. Participants engage in objectively driven exercises and find themselves learning valuable life skills in a fun and exciting atmosphere while working with horses.
To put it simply, Equine Assisted Learning is a learner based educational experience with horses. More specifically, EAL is an effective approach to human development that encourages individual and team growth. Participants engage in objectively driven exercises and find themselves learning valuable life skills in a fun and exciting atmosphere while working with horses. EAL has proven to be effective, powerful, positive, educational, and creative. The Academy of Equine Assisted Learning’s program emphasizes it’s building-block curriculum of facilitating life skills through positively reinforced interaction with horses. Exercises are developed to encourage self confidence through validated, hands-on experiences. Current research has found this experiential form of learning to be most effective.
Why Horses?
Horses are tough and stead fast dance partners. Horses consistently react to stimulus provided by participants. Some of the joys associated with working around horses are – they don’t judge but they constantly assess. Their feedback is honest and instant. Learning to listen to what horses have to say is powerful and can sometimes spur the answer to individual change. By including horses in specially designed educational exercises, equine-assisted facilitators have greatly multiplied the participant’s rate of success to self discovery.
How?
Horses can magnify an individual’s problem immediately and provide a skilled facilitator with an
opportunity to identify an individual’s character. Horses don’t over think a participant’s motive but horses
do challenge their behaviour and leadership.
What is EAL?
Equine-Assisted Learning is a learner based educational experience with horses. More Specifically, EAL is an effective approach to human development that encourages individual and team growth. Participants engage in objectively driven exercises and find themselves learning valuable life skills in a fun and exciting atmosphere while working with horses.
Pony Rides
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We offer pony rides for birthday parties, events, picnics, etc. There is a miniature horse that is available for little kids, we can bring one for petting and grooming and we also have two full-sized horses for older kids and adults.
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Horseback Riding Lessons
Each lesson is an hour in length, it consists of both riding and theory. The theory portion consists of helping tack/untack the horse, grooming the horse, and learning key components of the equipment we are using and the parts of the horse.