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 offer EAL programs and 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: 

• Experientially 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

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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 discount rate to attend our certification training where you participate fully and gain a lifetime certification. 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 our EAL Certification Training is Different

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

1. We provide an accelerated certification training —with a significant pre-study and four-day hands-on experiential training 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.
2. In addition to learning how to facilitate both individual and group EAL experiences, we’ve added specific training related to somatic awareness,  how the relationship between horses and humans is vital to enhance learning, and some activities target a deep connection with the horse.
3. During the 4-days, you'll experience 18 EAL activities, plus receive 3 additional activities in the materials, and have opportunities to practice effective facilitation skills to lead any group - corporate training, team building, leadership development, non-profit organizations and boards, coaching, personal growth, and youth programs.
4. You'll receive extensive training materials that includes tools, templates, and samples designed by EAL Academy to enable you to start your EAL program right after the training and make your work with clients effective, efficient, and seamless. Simply add your logo and business information and you'll have the tools and experience to offer client programs right after the training.
5. 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 client experiences. You'll learn about value-added aspects that will make you stand apart from your competition.
6. We train in small groups so everyone gains hands on experience and coaching on facilitating activities with the horses and receives.
7. ​​​With our EAL Certification training, we provide a lifetime certification, that doesn't require a membership or future training to maintain your certification status. You choose when you want to invest in continuing education and our focus is to earn your continuing education business.

Yes, our EAL Model is Different

• ​We don’t require professional qualifications in order to be trained or certified by us.
• Our model is based on providing learning experiences with horses, which anyone can provide. Although our training is based on experiential coaching model (a non-therapeutic model), the techniques and horse activities can be utilized in a therapeutic model with facilitators with the necessary credentials.
• We recommend, but don't require, 2 facilitators and we believe the best facilitation team is when both facilitators understand horses and have strong facilitation skills.​​
• Certification: There are not any future requirements to maintain certification after you've attended the training and passed the Self-Test for certification as an EAL Facilitator. Certification is from our organization based on our in-depth experience in this industry since 2003 and providing high quality EAL training and certification since 2007. With our model, you make the best decisions for your business and program, not us or a governing body.

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

In 2020, the Equine-Assisted Services industry has aligned terminology 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 although clients of these services will continue to have difficulty connecting with much of this terminology. When describing your business programs and services to your prospective clients, consider simple language that is easy for them to understand, i.e., "learning with horses" rather than "equine assisted learning."

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. Although we teach a non-therapeutic coaching model of facilitation, two of our founders are therapists and we can help you augment your therapy business to incorporate learning programs.

EAL Academy also offers EAL coaching and mentoring services, private in-person trainings, and 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.”

- EAL ACADEMY

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