Upcoming Trainings
ScheduleClick on the buttons below or scroll down for information about these trainings, posted in this order:
We're scheduling to be back in Canyon, TX (near Amarillo) later in 2023
Watch this webpage for our upcoming schedule With the private trainings we have schedule, we're to close to full for 2023, and we look forward to scheduling for 2024. We host private trainings with a minimum of 8 attendees and this option may offer a lower price on a per person basis. Please contact us if you're interested in other location(s). |
Registration & Payments REGISTER HERE for all trainings
Please review our Cancelation Policy Payments: If your payment isn't accepted when you try to register online, please contact us. Unfortunately with Square this happens often and is easily solved by sending an electronic invoice via email, which allows you to pay online. All Payment & Discount Information Training Information & Prior Attendee FeedbackCOVID Protocol to Protect People & Horses
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When: February 16 - 19, 2023 Arizona/Mountain Time Zone
Venue & Host: The HEART Center at 3735 W Beardsley Rd, Glendale, AZ 85308 Registration:
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When: February 20, 2023 Arizona/Mountain Time Zone
Venue & Host: The HEART Center at 3735 W Beardsley Rd, Glendale, AZ 85308 Registration:
Prior certification is not required; no experience with mindfulness or meditation is needed. This training includes our webinar, Heart of the Matter: Why Horses are Ideal Partners for Transformation, as the Pre-Study. |
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When: March 23 - 26, 2023 Central Time Zone
Venue & Host: Equine Reflections, Inc. at 81120 Chenel Rd, Folsom, LA 70437 Registration:
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When: March 27, 2023 Central Time Zone
Venue & Host: Equine Reflections, Inc. at 81120 Chenel Rd, Folsom, LA 70437 Registration:
Prior certification is not required; no experience with mindfulness or meditation is needed. This training includes our webinar, Heart of the Matter: Why Horses are Ideal Partners for Transformation, as the Pre-Study. |
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When: April 3 - 6, 2023 Pacific Time Zone
Venue & Host: REINS at 4461 S Mission Rd, Fallbrook, CA 92028 Registration:
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When: April 7, 2023 Pacific Time Zone
Venue & Host: REINS at 4461 S Mission Rd, Fallbrook, CA 92028 Registration:
Prior certification is not required; no experience with mindfulness or meditation is needed. This training includes our webinar, Heart of the Matter: Why Horses are Ideal Partners for Transformation, as the Pre-Study. |
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When: May 18 - 21, 2023 Central Time Zone
Venue & Host: Zenhorse at 3453 Highway T, Marthasville, MO 63357-2006 Registration:
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When: May 22, 2023 Central Time Zone
Venue & Host: Zenhorse at 3453 Highway T, Marthasville, MO 63357-2006 Registration:
Prior certification is not required; no experience with mindfulness or meditation is needed. This training includes our webinar, Heart of the Matter: Why Horses are Ideal Partners for Transformation, as the Pre-Study. |
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When: July 5 - 8, 2023 Eastern Time Zone
Venue & Host: Renew Therapeutic Riding Center at 5080 146th Ave, Holland, MI 49423 Registration:
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When: July 9, 2023 Eastern Time Zone
Venue & Host: Renew Therapeutic Riding Center at 5080 146th Ave, Holland, MI 49423 Registration:
Prior certification is not required; no experience with mindfulness or meditation is needed. This training includes our webinar, Heart of the Matter: Why Horses are Ideal Partners for Transformation, as the Pre-Study. |
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When: October 19 - 22, 2023 Eastern Time Zone
Venue & Host: Angels on Horseback at 1284 Pendley Cir, Jasper, GA 30143 Registration:
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When: October 23, 2023 Eastern Time Zone
Venue & Host: Angels on Horseback at 1284 Pendley Cir, Jasper, GA 30143 Registration:
Prior certification is not required; no experience with mindfulness or meditation is needed. This training includes our webinar, Heart of the Matter: Why Horses are Ideal Partners for Transformation, as the Pre-Study. |
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Our 4-day certification training provides in-person, hands-on experience of experiential facilitation and coaching methods, so that you can facilitate EAL programs for corporate training, team building, leadership development, coaching, personal development and youth. We take you through the process step-by-step. You’ll facilitate EAL activities as well as learn how to design and conduct effective EAL programs that provide lasting impact with clients.
Each training typically has 8 - 12 participants, so this is a highly personal experience with the trainers and other participants.
Pre-Study: This is an accelerated training program with a Pre-Study to complete prior to the training. We've intentionally designed the training so we can move quickly and spend much of our time together with the horses doing activities and practicing facilitation. The Pre-Study includes a document that we provide (with the training curriculum about 40 days before the start of the training) along with these two books that we've integrated into our curriculum:
Certification: After attending the training and if you've meet all the requirements for certification (documented within our training curriculum), you have 6 months to complete the certification self-test. These test results along with facilitation skills demonstrated during the training program will determine your certification status. This is a lifetime certification; you choose your future professional development, which we encourage, but it's not required to maintain your certification status, like many other equine assisted certifying organizations. We believe in earning your continuing education investments. We also don't require ongoing membership.
Each training typically has 8 - 12 participants, so this is a highly personal experience with the trainers and other participants.
Pre-Study: This is an accelerated training program with a Pre-Study to complete prior to the training. We've intentionally designed the training so we can move quickly and spend much of our time together with the horses doing activities and practicing facilitation. The Pre-Study includes a document that we provide (with the training curriculum about 40 days before the start of the training) along with these two books that we've integrated into our curriculum:
- Open to Outcome 2 Edition: A Practical Guide for Facilitating & Teaching Experiential Reflection
- Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow: this book provides instructions along with an access code to take the CliftonStrengths assessment, the access code can only be used once so purchase a new book to ensure the access code will work
Certification: After attending the training and if you've meet all the requirements for certification (documented within our training curriculum), you have 6 months to complete the certification self-test. These test results along with facilitation skills demonstrated during the training program will determine your certification status. This is a lifetime certification; you choose your future professional development, which we encourage, but it's not required to maintain your certification status, like many other equine assisted certifying organizations. We believe in earning your continuing education investments. We also don't require ongoing membership.
During the Certification training, you will:
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Payment & Discounts:
Lunches: Please watch for an email sent a few weeks before the training that will explain how lunches will be handled; which varies for each training. Electronic Communication: We communicate important training information through email. Our email may arrive in your spam/junk folder, so please check this folder regularly and whitelist our email address to receive future emails in your inbox.
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Prior Certification attendee feedback:
- “Empowering experience that resulted in personal and professional growth.”
- “This training takes the best of everything EAL and puts it into an accessible and well organized package that includes everything a successful facilitator needs.”
- "Absolutely priceless; everything I was taught and experienced was so impactful."
- “Efficient, effective, powerful way to become aware of using your strengths to create meaningful programs with horses.”
- “Without a doubt, the most useful and lasting training I have had in my career.”
- "Absolutely the best training I have ever attended from the leaders to the facility to the pace and arrangement of material presentation."
- "I'm leaving filled with love, gratitude, and inspiration."
- "Impactful! Transcended from excitement to inspiration to conviction."
- "Absolutely priceless; everything I was taught and experienced was so impactful."
Our 1-day mindfulness training provides in-person training to learn experientially how to facilitate mindful meditations, mindful leadership, and other mindfulness activities with horses. Experience a mindful day as you experientially learn how to facilitate Mindfulness and Mindful Leadership EAL programs. Clients are seeking programs to help them find greater balance, better ways to manage stress, self-care, and more heart-centered interactions based on compassion and empathy. There's a movement in the business world for programs to improve employee well-being along with organization culture, productivity, and competitive advantage. Mindful Leadership programs provide all of this. Offering mindfulness EAL programs is a great way to expand your EAL program.
Mindfulness involves simply maintaining focus in the present moment while being intensely aware of what you're sensing and feeling without judgment. Horses are the best mindfulness teachers because they live mindfully in the present moment, typically in a coherent state. They offer an active mindful experience that's very different than typical mindful meditation experiences and clients love these experiences. Facilitating these heart-centered experiences is personally rewarding for all involved.
There's a movement in the business world for programs to improve employee well-being along with organization culture and productivity to support a competitive advantage. Mindfulness programs aide teams with employee well-being.
This program can be taken independently of our certification training; prior certification is not required. No experience with mindfulness or meditation is needed.
Each training typically has 8 - 16 participants.
Pre-Study: This training program has a Pre-Study to complete prior to the training. We've intentionally designed the training so we can move quickly and spend much of our time together with the horses doing mindfulness activities. The Pre-Study is our webinar, Heart of the Matter: Why Horses are Ideal Partners for Transformation, which we provide when the training curriculum about 40 days before the start of the training.
Mindfulness involves simply maintaining focus in the present moment while being intensely aware of what you're sensing and feeling without judgment. Horses are the best mindfulness teachers because they live mindfully in the present moment, typically in a coherent state. They offer an active mindful experience that's very different than typical mindful meditation experiences and clients love these experiences. Facilitating these heart-centered experiences is personally rewarding for all involved.
There's a movement in the business world for programs to improve employee well-being along with organization culture and productivity to support a competitive advantage. Mindfulness programs aide teams with employee well-being.
This program can be taken independently of our certification training; prior certification is not required. No experience with mindfulness or meditation is needed.
Each training typically has 8 - 16 participants.
Pre-Study: This training program has a Pre-Study to complete prior to the training. We've intentionally designed the training so we can move quickly and spend much of our time together with the horses doing mindfulness activities. The Pre-Study is our webinar, Heart of the Matter: Why Horses are Ideal Partners for Transformation, which we provide when the training curriculum about 40 days before the start of the training.
During the Mindfulness training, you will:
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Payment & Discounts:
Lunch: Please watch for an email sent a few weeks before the training that will explain how lunch will be handled; which varies for each training. Electronic Communication: We communicate important training information through email. Our email may arrive in your spam/junk folder, so please check this folder regularly and whitelist our email address to receive future emails in your inbox.
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Prior Mindfulness attendee feedback:
- "Beautifully, mindfully, and spiritually done."
- "Wonderful experience from both participating and as a facilitator."
- "The whole world needs this!"
- “Amazing experience that allowed me to learn and grow personally while providing me with the tools and confidence to share this with others.”
- "Absolutely amazing and powerful experience that I can apply to all areas of my life."
- "It's valuable, powerful, insightful, and meaningful."
- "I experienced deep personal mindfulness as well as insights, ideas to create my own program."
- "I cannot say enough about the collective experience today. The meditations left me feeling balanced, free, and open."
REGISTER HERE for all trainings; when you go to this webpage and select a training you'll see pricing with the discounts available (described below)
Please review our Cancelation Policy
Payments:
If your payment isn't accepted when you try to register online, please contact us to help you. Unfortunately with Square this happens often and it's easily solved by sending an electronic invoice via email, which allows you to pay online with a credit/debit card or your bank account through a "Pay Online" link in the email. To send an electronic invoice we need this information: your first name, last name, email address, training location, which trainings you want to attend (Certification and/or Mindfulness), and, if applicable, whether the Previously Certified, Group, or Host Affiliate discounts apply (see below).
Also, we can manually process your credit/debit card payment with this information: your email, name on your card, card #, expiration date, CVV, and zip code.
We offer Afterpay so you can buy now, pay later, for purchase amounts up to $2,000, paid through 4 interest-free installments over 6 weeks.
In-person Training Discounts Available - Select these Options when Registering:
Please review our Cancelation Policy
Payments:
If your payment isn't accepted when you try to register online, please contact us to help you. Unfortunately with Square this happens often and it's easily solved by sending an electronic invoice via email, which allows you to pay online with a credit/debit card or your bank account through a "Pay Online" link in the email. To send an electronic invoice we need this information: your first name, last name, email address, training location, which trainings you want to attend (Certification and/or Mindfulness), and, if applicable, whether the Previously Certified, Group, or Host Affiliate discounts apply (see below).
Also, we can manually process your credit/debit card payment with this information: your email, name on your card, card #, expiration date, CVV, and zip code.
We offer Afterpay so you can buy now, pay later, for purchase amounts up to $2,000, paid through 4 interest-free installments over 6 weeks.
- You can register for our 1-day Mindfulness using Afterpay.
- For Certification or Certification bundled with Mindfulness, please contact us to first pay the amount over $2,000, and the remainder through Afterpay, with 4 payments over 6 weeks.
- This feature is offered by Afterpay through Square. Afterpay sets the payment amounts and due dates.
In-person Training Discounts Available - Select these Options when Registering:
- The Early-Bird discount is available when paid in full 6 weeks prior to the training (the Early-Bird date is specified above for each training).
- There's a $50 discount when you register for both the Certification (4 days) and Mindfulness (1 day) trainings. When you register for Certification, use the "Add-on Mindfulness 1-day" to get this discount.
- For those that have been certified by us or another EAL, EAP, EAC, or Equine-Assisted organization, we offer a Previously Certified discount* for the certification training. Prior certification does not need to be active or current, although it must be from a program based on facilitating experiences with horses, integrating the horse-human connection. Submit your prior certification documentation when you register by email. This is not an audit experience, rather all training attendees have the exact same experience.
- We offer a Group discount* when 2 or more register together. Please inform us by email as to who is attending together when you register. The registrations do not need to be purchased at the same time.
- We offer a Host Affiliate discount* for host staff, volunteers, partners, board members, or any other affiliation with the host. Please confirm with us or the host that you qualify for this discount before registering.
- *You must meet the discount eligibility requirements and provide the discount information explained above at the time of your registration (submit by email or through our contact form, found here: contact us). If you don't meet the discount requirements, you'll need to pay the difference for the correct registration rate.
- Please contact us if you have questions about our discount rates.
We want to talk with you about our training programs so we can share more information that's specific to your goals - please contact us!
Explore why horses, as co-facilitators of learning, provide an experiential learning experience with value and benefits unlike any other learning or growth experience. The field of EAL has progressed beyond horsemanship and into the realm of human development through facilitated experiences with horses. Learn about the key aspects of facilitating this work with horses in a conscious and responsible manner to fully integrate the wisdom of our horse partners.
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