Share your love of horses and their unique gifts for powerful learning and growth experiences

Join us to experience and learn to facilitate powerful horse experiences. Our approach to Equine Assisted Learning (EAL) is in partnership with horses, where we open, connect, and even commune with them to receive their wisdom and energy. Gain insight in supporting clients ot find their meaning in their experiences. Our train-the-trainer ​programs and certifications:
  • Certified EAL Facilitator: business training, team building, leadership development, coaching, personal growth, youth programs, etc.
  • Certified EAL Mindfulness & Wellbeing Facilitator: mindfulness, meditations, wellbeing, self-care, energy balancing, energetic exchanges, etc.
Be inspired and nurtured as you enhance your coaching skills. Be supported by simple step-by-step techniques, along with extensive tools to to facilitate amazing experiences with horses.

Each training can be taken independently, so there's no prerequisites to take one training before another.
Below you can learn about our model, our approach, and what makes our training experiences different than others.
Our Trainings webpage has our upcoming scheudle along with deeper information about each training and quotes from prior attendees.

EAL Academy's Premier Program:
EAL Accelerated Facilitation Certification

Join us to learn how to facilitate learning programs with horses that deliver powerful outcomes for your clients! Experience the best training available to become a certified Equine Assisted Learning Facilitator.
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​Grow your horse business revenue by offering EAL programs.

​During EAL Academy's 4-day Facilitator Training program you will: 
  • Experientially develop your facilitation skills and a coaching model of facilitation to be an engaging facilitator, including how to bring a strengths-focused perspective to facilitation
  • Lead the facilitation of at least one activity, and experience 18 total activities with horses that you can use with your clients (additional activities are provided)
  • Learn how to integrate the horse-human connection into the learning process through activities with horses, including facilitation of somatic experiences
  • Become proficient in facilitation techniques to guide clients with insight through the change process
  • Gain the step-by-step process and a library of forms and templates you need to conduct professional learning programs
  • Understand the process to design and facilitate learning programs that maximize client impact 
  • Discover your strengths as a facilitator and empower your voice in your EAL program​​

Become a certified EAL Facilitator for these types of clients: 

  • Teams and Groups: Business Training, Team Building, Leadership Development, & Professional Development
  • ​Coaching
  • Personal Growth, Wellbeing, Wellness, Self-care, & Mindfulness
  • Youth Education, Development, & Leadership, including at-risk and all abilities
This is an accelerated training program with pre-work to complete prior to the training.​

EAL Academy's Mindfulness Program:
Facilitating Mindfulness EAL Programs

Join us to experience a mindful day while learning to facilitate inspiring mindfulness programs with horses, including meditations.

​During EAL Academy's 1-day Mindfulness Training you will: 
  • Experientially learn how to integrate a present moment focus with the horse-human connection
  • Learn about what’s happening when people are in the presence of horses (coherence), and why mindfulness practices are even more powerful with them; including high-level research about the physical, cognitive, and emotional benefits of coherence
  • Support teams and groups in experiencing a break from their busy lives through a mindful experience connecting with each other and horses
  • We provide the resources you need to offer meditation and mindfulness programs with horses right after the training, including scripts, techniques, activities, and templates​
  • Discover how to grow your horse business revenue by offering  meditation, wellbeing, and mindfulness programs that some clients will attend repeatedly

Facilitate Meditation and Mindfulness Programs with Horses: 

  • Meditation and Mindfulness tools
  • Coherence with Horses, with benefits proven through research in conjunction with HeartMath
  • Personal Growth
  • Wellbeing
  • Self-care
  • Mindful Leadership for Teams

EAL Academy's Wellbeing Program:
Heart Connection with Horses

Join us to journey into the hidden realm of horse culture where it's revealed that horses move energy to balance and align themselves, their herd, the land, and us. Experience these energetic exchanges, and connect deeper in understanding their messages. You will experience sacred gifts with horses and learn to facilitate them to support others in their wellbeing of mind, body, and spirit.
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​Grow your horse business revenue by offering EAL mindfulness and wellbeing multi-day programs and retreats.

​During EAL Academy's 3-day Heart Connection with Horses Training program you will: 
  • Experience horses as Master ∞ Energy ∞ Movers and the deeper meanings behind their powerful energy exchanges to clear, balance, and ground us and their herd
  • Grow as a facilitator and coach by understanding this deeper realm of energetic exchanges with horses and facilitate the most powerful client experiences
  • Learn a multitude of wellbeing techniques and activities in the presence of horses to support repeat clients and offer multi-day programs and retreats
  • Integrate a process that honors the voice and choice of horses in this work, and learn ways to give back to them for all they give to us
  • Be guided by your inner wisdom to strengthen your facilitation in leading transformative wellbeing experiences​

Become a certified EAL Mindfulness & Wellbeing Facilitator: 

Once you attend both the 1-Day Facilitating Mindfulness EAL Programs and 3-Day Heart Connection with Horses, and complete the required 30 hours of facilitation experience, you’re eligible to complete the Self-Test for certification.
This is an accelerated training program with pre-work to complete prior to the training.​

Share your love of horses to support others in their growth, wellbeing, and self-care.

"I can't thank you enough for furthering my skillset and giving me the confidence to lead really transformative, and in participants words "life changing" EAL programs. I am truly in love with my purpose here and am proud of each experience I lead.”

- EAL ACADEMY TRAINING ATTENDEE

EAL Academy is Different

When comparing EAL Academy with other trainings, there are a few important distinctions

At EAL Academy, we do things differently. Our accelerated and experiential trainings are designed to be simple, effective, and transformative, so you can start facilitating right away without ongoing fees or hidden costs. Plus, we provide ongoing support for your EAL program. This is what sets us apart:

✔ Simple, Fast, High Quality Training
We have been training others to facilitate EAL since 2007. We provide complete, straightforward, and practical training experiences, with no future financial obligations. We train in small groups (typically 6 - 12) where everyone can get to know each other, has the opportunity to have their questions answered, and has a personalized experience.
✔ Comprehensive Materials & Immediate Readiness
Pre-work ensures more hands-on time with horses during the trainings. Our resources include step-by-step guides, forms, templates, tools, and samples built from 20+ years of experience. Simply add your branding and you're prepared to lead EAL programs right after each training.
✔ Lifetime Certification
Knowledge-based certifications rooted in a coaching model. No memberships or ongoing fees required. You choose when and how to invest in continuing education and our goal is to earn your future education investments.
✔ Proven Results
99.9% of past attendees recommend our trainings
98.6% overall satisfaction rating
You can recover your investment by hosting a few EAL programs
✔ EAL Business Building Support
Running an EAL businesses requires the same dedication as any other business. While we focus on EAL aspects - marketing, pricing, program design - we also encourage you to seek out local resources for general business development and professional services. Together, this combination sets you up for success.
✔ More than Training - Ongoing Support & Community
We're transparent, supportive, and share everything we've learned since 2003 so you can succeed. At any point we'll answer your EAL questions. We encourage the groups that train together to continue to be a support to each other, and, after attending any of our trainings, we'll connect you with our community of past attendees. Our goal is simple: to help you create meaningful experiences where people learn and grow through the wisdom of horses.

Yes, our EAL Facilitator Model is Different

Prior Experience
We welcome adults from all backgrounds - no professional degree or qualifications are required to attend our trainings. If you do have professional experience, you'll likely find it enhances the way you work with clients and build your programs.
Educational, Not Therapeutic
Our model is educational rather than therapeutic, using an experiential coaching approach. Many programs in the field lean on medical or therapeutic models, while our focus remains firmly within the learning context. In our EAL Accelerated Facilitator Certification, we emphasize the importance of maintaining this boundary and we provide simple, effective techniques to ensure you do so.
Our model does not require a licensed mental health professional as part of your facilitation team. However, if you hold therapeutic credentials, all of our horse activities and facilitation methods can be easily used in a therapeutic setting.
Facilitation Team
For the best client experience - and to ensure safety - we recommend at least two human facilitators for group programs. It's best when all facilitators understand horses and possess strong facilitation skills. We partner with horses as sentient beings and equal co-facilitators. We honor the horse's voice and choice in participation. All activities are on the ground (no riding) focused on the connection of people and horses, and the horses' feedback is the heart of the learning experience, translating their wisdom for clients, when needed. Above all, horse consent, wellbeing, and the physical, emotional and energetic safety of both horses and people remain our priorities.
Your Voice and Values
We believe the strongest EAL programs are built on your voice and values, your horsemanship approach, passions, and unique perspectives. Authenticity is at the heart of effective facilitation. During the trainings, we'll explore how to weave your voice into your program so your work feels natural, aligned, and impactful.

The Equine-Assisted Services Industry
​​Many different names have been used for learning experiences based on the horse-human connection, some of them are:
Equine Assisted Learning, Equine Experiential Education/Learning, Equine Facilitated Experiential Learning, Facilitated Equine Experiential Learning, Equine Facilitated Learning, Equine Facilitated Wellness, Equine Facilitated Interactions, Equine Assisted Interactions, Equine Assisted Activities, Animal Assisted Activities, Horse Assisted Education/Learning, ​Equine Guided Learning/Education, Equine Guided Interactions, Equine Assisted Coaching, Equine Guided Coaching, Equine Facilitated Coaching​
A related field of psychotherapy/counseling with horses has been referred to by many names and here are a few:
Equine Assisted Psychotherapy, Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy, Equine Guided Psychotherapy, Equine Therapy, Equine Assisted Counseling, Horse Assisted Therapy, Animal Assisted Therapy & Therapy with Horses
Therapeutic Riding has been referred to as:
Hippotherapy, Equine Assisted Therapy, Equine Therapy, Horse Assisted Therapy, etc.
In 2020, the Equine-Assisted Services industry aligned terminology for services with horses in the areas of learning, psychotherapy, therapeutic riding, and horsemanship. You can learn more here. The new terminology supports our industry with common language, although clients of these services will continue to have difficulty connecting with the industry terminology. When describing, promoting, and selling your equine programs and services to prospective clients, we highly recommend simple language that is easy for prospects to understand, i.e., "learning with horses" rather than "equine assisted learning." 

POWER OF PRESENCE

​You don’t ride.
You don’t need to speak.
You simply show up, as you are.
And the horse – gentle, present, intuitive – meets you there.
This is an invitation to pause, breathe, and return to calmness.
An opportunity to align with the horse.
You’ll feel and witness a shift.
You’ll commune and reconnect with yourself.
And the horse grounds, regulates, and shows where to bring your awareness.
This is a sacred journey that calls you into your next level.
Oneness, knowingness, respite.
There’s a certain feeling that stays with you long after the experience.
It’s found in stillness, in touch, in presence.
​It's souls connected.

~ Partially from Miraval - In honor of their 30th anniversary of the Equine Experience
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