Are you looking to start or grow your business by offering clients faciliated experiences 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 processes 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 techniques and the forms, tools, and templates, we provide with each training.
Knowing how to create powerful experiences with horses is essential if you want a successful business. Hanging out with horses just isn’t enough. Clients are looking for outcomes that make a difference in their lives, so facilitators need to be skilled in supporting their clients in this process. 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 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 credentialed 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 to certify you to be a great EAL facilitator.​

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 typically 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 proven by research
  • Personal Growth
  • Wellbeing
  • Self-care
  • Mindfulness Leadership for Teams

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
A few important aspects to consider when comparing EAL Academy with other trainings

  1. Our goal is to be simple, straightforward, and of the highest quality, so we purposely offer "one and done" training experiences, with no future financial investment. We train in small groups so everyone participates and receives personal coaching. We provide future support for your EAL program by answering your questions, providing consultation before and after the training, and connecting you with our community of past trainees where we all share our knowledge and experience to support each other.
  2. We offer accelerated and experiential trainings where you're prepared to facilitate and coach EAL programs immediately after attending the course. There's pre-work to complete prior to each training. By studying materials ahead of time, there’s more time to spend learning with the horses and for discussion to cover the important core topics such as marketing, pricing business practices, safety, necessary resources, activity design, program design, etc.
  3. We partner with horses through ground activities (no riding) with horses on leads or at liberty. The coaching model of facilitation focuses on the horse-human connection, where the horses' feedback and wisdom are the heart of the learning experience. In addition to facilitating group EAL experiences, we also train on somatic awareness and deep one-on-one experiences with horses. These are unforgettable experiences of connection that you will learn to facilitate with your clients. 
  4. We provide extensive training materials that include step-by-step processes plus a library of forms, templates, tools, and samples, designed by EAL Academy and based on our best practices from 20+ years of experience providing EAL client programs and 15+ years of experience training others to facilitate EAL. Prior attendees refer to these tools as a "business in a box" which enables starting right after the training by simply adding your branding.
  5. With our 4-day EAL Facilitator Certification Training, the path to certification is straight forward with a single training to gain certification status. There is more information here about our Certification Training, along with the certification requirements to become a Certified 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. This is a lifetime certification that doesn't require future investments for membership or continuing education to maintain your certification status. You choose when you want to invest in continuing education and our goal is to earn your future education investments.
  6. Our strength is high quality EAL trainings that are engaging and based on sharing our best practices. We share everything we know and have learned through our experience. We're transparent and we don't hold back any secrets. We want you to be successful so more people can learn and grow through meaningful experiences with horses. 99.9% of our prior training attendees say they would recommend our trainings to others and have collectively rated our trainings at 98.6%. Feedback we often receive is there isn't another EAL training that provides this depth of experience, at this price point, within this timeframe, and with this simplicity. Many of our clients have attended other trainings and with us they gain more confidence in their facilitation, experience many more horse activities, and discover new ways to grow their EAL business.
  7. Building and running any business is challenging. EAL businesses require the same knowledge, skills, time, and financial investment as any other business. We'll support you on the EAL aspects of your business, including marketing and pricing, and recommend local resources to build general business skills.
  8. Intentionally we are not governed or accredited by another organization. Our trainings are intended to support facilitation skill development and provide a wide range of differing experiences with horses. There's low financial risk with the short term investment of attending our trainings and training expenses can be earned quickly by holding a few programs with paying clients following the methods we teach. We believe in business owners and leaders making the best decisions for their businesses, rather than other organizations, as long as horses are honored and have safe experiences and therapeutic and mental health services are provided with the necessary therapeutic credentials.

Yes, our EAL Facilitator Model is Different

  • Prior Experience: We welcome all adults to attend our trainings, and we don't require professional qualifications or a degree. Other professional experience is valuable when working with clients and building your program.
  • Non-Therapeutic Model: Our approach is educational rather than therapeutic, utilizing an experiential coaching model of facilitation. During our EAL Facilitator Certification training we cover the professional importance of staying within the learning context and we teach techniques to do so. Specifically, our model does not require a licensed mental health professional as member of the EAL facilitation team. If you're a professional with the necessary therapeutic credentials, all the techniques and horse activities we teach can be adapted for a therapeutic setting.
  • Facilitation Team: We recommend 2 or more human facilitators for the most effective client experience and to adequately manage safety for group programs. It's best for all facilitators to understand horses and possess strong facilitation skills. Horses are equal co-facilitators. We partner with horses as sentient beings for their wisdom and, when needed, we translate their feedback for clients. Horse consent and wellbeing, along with physical, emotional and energetic safety of horses and people are the most important priority.
  • Voice and Values: We believe your best EAL program is built based on your voice and values, including your approach to horsemanship. 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 your voice and values 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 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." 

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 of the stronger financial model and income potential. Plus, many therapists find facilitating learning programs to be very rewarding. Although we use a non-therapeutic coaching model of facilitation, two of our founders are therapists and we can help you add learning programs.

"Horses typically 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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