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

Join us to experience and 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 in finding their meaning in their experiences.
  • 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. See our model, our approach, and what makes our trainings different than others, found below.
Our Trainings webpage has our upcoming scheudle along with deeper information 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 Certification 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
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. Obtaining certification status with us is straight forward. We offer a knowledge based Certification that is issued from EAL Academy based on our in-depth experience with EAL since 2003 and providing high quality EAL training and certification programs since 2007. We're one of the first to provide EAL certification not based on a coaching model rather than a therapeutic model. We provide 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. Regarding accreditation, we intentionally chose to not be governed or accredited by another organization although PATH Intl. has pre-approved CEUs for our 4-Day Facilitator Certification and 1-Day Mindfulness trainings. If accreditation is important to you, then consider our trainings as experiences to develop your skills and gain access to unique EAL offerings. There's low financial risk with the short term investment of attending our trainings, and training expenses can be quickly recovered by holding a few programs with paying clients following the methods we teach.
  6. Our strength is high quality EAL trainings with advanced content through sharing our best practices and tools to get started quickly. 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 collectively all attendees have rated our trainings at 98.6%.
  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. We offer these other resources. We highly recommend seeking local resources to build your general business skills and to find service providers that have needed expertise for your location.

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 can be 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 to receive 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." 

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 the energy shift.
You’ll commune with the horse, and reconnect with yourself.
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 this experience.
It’s found in stillness, in touch, in breath.
​It's souls connected.

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