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 20+ 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

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 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​​

Become a credentialed EAL Facilitator for these types of clients: 

  • Teams and Groups: Business Training, Team Building, Leadership Development, & Professional Development
  • ​Coaching
  • Personal Growth, Wellbeing, Wellness, Mindfulness & Meditation
  • 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 to certify you to be a great EAL facilitator.​

EAL Academy's Mindfulness Program:
Facilitating Mindfulness and Mindful Leadership 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 typically busy lives through a mindful experience connecting with each other and horses
  • We provide everything you need to offer meditation and mindfulness programs with horses right after the training, including scripts, techniques, resources, and templates​
  • Discover how to grow your horse business revenue by offering  meditation, wellbeing, and mindfulness programs that clients will attend again and again

Share your love of horses to support others with their self-care

How our EAL Training is Different
Here are a few important aspects to consider when comparing EAL Academy to other trainings available
  1. Our goal is to be simple, straightforward, and of the highest quality, so it's intentional that we offer "one and done" training experiences, with no future financial investment, although we're here to provide you with future support with your EAL program. We train in small groups so everyone participates and receives personal coaching.
  2. We offer accelerated trainings so you're ready to facilitate and coach EAL programs right after attending. There's pre-work to complete prior to the training. 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 building your EAL business and facilitating your EAL programs; including marketing, business practices, safety, necessary resources, activity design, program design, etc.
  3. In addition to learning how to facilitate both individual and group EAL experiences, we train on somatic awareness and how the relationship between horses and humans is vital to enhance learning. Also, we offer a 1-day training focused on mindfulness and meditation programs with horses (with no prerequisites). During both trainings, some activities are based on facilitating a deep connection between a client and a horse. You'll learn experientially how to do this through your own experience.
  4. We provide extensive training materials that include a library of forms, templates, tools, and samples, designed by EAL Academy and based on our 20+ years of experience providing our own EAL client programs and 15+ years of experience training others to facilitate EAL. This is a "business in a box" with a library that enables 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 to have the necessary materials for your client programs.
  5. With our 4-day EAL Facilitator Certification training, the path to certification is straight forward and doesn't require multiple trainings and/or steps to gain certification status. You'll experience 18 EAL Activities, plus receive additional activities with the materials. The training with horses is hands-on and you'll experientially learn how to facilitate group activities. You'll 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. All activities target group programs, and we provide a reference table indicating which activities we feel best target individual and youth experiences. 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 out from your competition.
  6. We provide a lifetime certification that doesn't require future investments, membership or continuing education 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. While we value continuing education, we don't require it for you to remain certified and we believe in earning your future education investments. This makes our program much more cost effective over time and allows you to invest in future learning that interests you most and when you want to make that investment.
  7. Our EAL Facilitator model is different, so please see the information below.
Simply put, there isn't another EAL training organization that provides this experience, at our price point, within this timeframe, and with this simplicity.
Many attend our training after attending competitor trainings; with us they gain confidence in their facilitation skills and discover new ways to grow their EAL businesses.
We're confident that if you host 1-3 EAL programs with paying clients based on a pricing model we share, you'll likely recoup your training expenses.

Yes, our EAL Facilitator Model is Different
  • Prior Experience: We don’t require professional qualifications or degrees to be trained by or certified by us. Our model is based on providing learning experiences with horses, which anyone can legally provide within the learning or coaching context. Specifically, our model does not require a licensed mental health professional as part of the EAL facilitation team. During our EAL Facilitator Certification training, we review the professional importance of staying within the learning context and we teach techniques to do so. Although our training is based on an experiential coaching model (a non-therapeutic model), all the techniques and horse activities can be utilized in a therapeutic way by facilitators with the necessary credentials to offer therapeutic services.
  • Facilitation Team: We recommend, but don't require, the best practice of 2 or more facilitators to have the most effective facilitation team and effectively manage safety for group programs, where all members of a facilitation team to understand horses and have strong facilitation skills. Also, all humans and horses are equal co-facilitators in the client experience; we partner with the horses to translate their wisdom for clients. Horse wellbeing and safety of both humans and horses is of greatest importance in EAL experiences.
  • Future Certification Requirements & Accreditation: With our EAL Facilitator Certification, intentionally there aren't any future requirements to maintain certification after you've attended the training and have passed the Self-Test for certification as an EAL Facilitator. Certification is issued from EAL Academy based on our in-depth experience with EAL since 2003 and providing high quality EAL training and certification since 2007. Our training quality differentiates us from our competitors and our prior training attendees have told us that 99% of them recommend our trainings and rate our trainings a 6.9 on a 7 point scale. Based on these results and our values, we have intentionally decided not to be governed or accredited by another organization. We don’t require a long term investment and training attendees can recoup their training expenses by holding a few programs with paying clients, there’s very low risk with investing in our trainings. The advantage is you're empowered to make the best decisions for your program rather than being required to meet certain requirements and continuing to make financial investments to maintain certification status. Although we value continuing education, it’s not required by us, a governing or an accrediting organization. We believe strongly in earning all future continuing education investments.
  • Voice and Values: We believe the best EAL program is one built based on your voice and values. We believe the best facilitation and coaching experiences happen when you are authentic and integrate your passions. During our trainings, we'll review how to bring this to your EAL program!

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 known 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 is an improvement for our industry, although clients of these services will continue to have difficulty connecting with much of the industry 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." We cover this important topic during our training programs.

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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