Grow your horse business with Equine Assisted Learning

Are you looking to start or grow your business with learning programs with horses?

If so, we're here to help and we created EAL Academy to make it easier for people who want a successful business. We know you need simple step-by-step systems along with tools and templates. We offer these solutions, along with the exact strategies and techniques that will help you reach your business goals. Our 45+ years of expertise in Equine Assisted Learning (EAL) is behind all our products and services.
Knowing how to create powerful learning programs with horses is essential if you want a successful business. Hanging out with horses just isn’t enough. You must be able to deliver outcomes your clients need. The secret is leveraging our best practices so your clients achieve their goals; which leads to referrals and return business.
We're here to help you reach your goals!
Join our herd to discover how to grow your business with learning programs with horses.

EAL Academy's Premier Program:
EAL Accelerated Facilitation Certification

Experience the best training available to develop your facilitation skills for Equine Assisted Learning (EAL) programs

Grow your horse business revenue by offering EAL programs

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During EAL Academy's 4-day certification training program with horses, you will:

Develop your facilitation skills and grow your confidence in being an engaging facilitator, including how to bring a strengths-focused perspective to facilitation
Learn how to integrate the horse-human connection into the learning process through activities with horses, including facilitation of somatic experiences
Master facilitation techniques to take clients through the change process with insight
Gain the step-by-step process and a library of templates 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

This is an accelerated training program with a Pre-Study to complete prior to the training to certify you to be a great EAL facilitator.

If you've been certified by an EAL, EAP, or equine-assisted organization, we offer a reduced rate to attend our certification training where you participate fully and gain a lifetime certification. The spaces are limited for each training. We do this because we value your experience and what it brings to others attending our trainings.

Become a credentialed EAL Facilitator for these types of clients:

Teams and Groups: Corporate Training, Team Building, Leadership Development, & Professional Development
Coaching
Personal Growth, Wellbeing, Wellness, & Mindfulness
Youth Education, Development, & Leadership, including At-Risk Youth

Unlike other Equine Assisted certifications through other organizations, with us you'll earn a lifetime certification without future requirements, investments, or memberships to maintain your certification status. While we value continuing education, we don't require it for you to remain certified and we believe in earning your future continuing education. This differentiates us from many of our competitors and makes our program much more cost effective over time. This allows you to invest in future learning that interests you most and when you want to make that investment.

How We're Different

Here are a few ways we’re different from other organizations providing EAL certification:

We provide an accelerated certification training —with a significant pre-study and four-day hands-on workshop with horses. By studying materials ahead of time, there’s more time to spend learning with the horses, and for discussion of the important core topics that affect EAL businesses, their staff, horses, and clients, including marketing, business practices, safety, necessary resources, activity design, etc.
In addition to learning how to facilitate both individual and group EAL experiences, we’ve added specific training related to somatic awareness, and how the relationship between horses and humans is vital to enhance the real learning of EAL.
You'll experience 18 EAL activities, plus receive 2 additional activities in the materials, and have opportunities to practice effective facilitation skills to lead any group - corporate training, team building, non-profit organizations and boards, youth education, coaching, and personal growth; while being coached by highly experienced EAL Facilitators.
You'll receive extensive training materials that include tools, templates, and samples designed by EAL Academy Master Trainers to make your work with clients effective, efficient, and seamless.
You’ll learn a step-by-step process for designing and conducting powerful EAL programs that achieve client goals, deliver lasting impact, and provide amazing experiences, including value-added activities that will make you stand apart from your competition.
We train in small groups, typically 8 - 12 and only up to 15 people, so everyone gains hands on experience facilitating activities with the horses.

Our model is different. We don’t require professional qualifications in order to be certified by us. We also believe the best facilitation team is when both facilitators understand horse communication and have strong facilitation skills. We believe strongly in furthering skill development; however, we provide a lifetime certification, so you choose when you want to invest in continuing education and our focus is to earn your continuing education business.

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, Equine Assisted Coaching, Horse Assisted Education/Learning, Equine Guided Learning/Education & Equine Guided Interactions

A related field of psychotherapy/counseling with horses has been referred to by many names and here are a few:

Equine Assisted Psychotherapy/Therapy, Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy/Therapy, Equine Therapy, Horse Assisted Therapy, & Therapy with Horses

Are you a therapist looking to grow your business by offering learning programs with horses?

Many therapists are looking to expand into learning programs because Equine Assisted Learning has a stronger financial model, and many therapists find facilitating learning programs to be very rewarding. EAL Academy can help you augment your therapy business to include learning programs to achieve your financial goals!

The Equine-Assisted Services industry is aligning with optimal terminology that was defined in 2020 for services with horses in the areas of learning, psychotherapy, therapeutic riding, and horsemanship. You can learn more here. The new terminology is an improvement; however, keep in mind that your clients of these services will continue to have difficulty connecting with much of this terminology. When promoting and describing your business programs and services, consider simple language that is easy for others outside the industry to understand, i.e., learning with horses.

EAL Academy also offers EAL coaching and mentoring services, along with other training programs.

Horses are sentient beings. Our programs only incorporate ground activities with horses (no riding) and a facilitation approach that focuses on the horse-human connection, where the feedback and wisdom of horses are the heart of the learning experience.

"Horses live in the present moment; to be a great EAL facilitator we need to join them there and be courageously authentic.”

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