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Schedule

Click on the buttons below or scroll down for information about these trainings, posted in this order:
Glendale, AZ (Phoenix) Certification: 2/16 - 2/19
Glendale, AZ (Phoenix) Mindfulness: 2/20
Folsom, LA (north New Orleans) Certification: 3/23 - 3/26
Folsom, LA (north New Orleans) Mindfulness: 3/27
Fallbrook, CA (north San Diego) Certification: 4/3 - 4/6
Fallbrook, CA (north San Diego) Mindfulness: 4/7
Marthasville, MO (near St. Louis) Certification: 5/18 - 5/21
Marthasville, MO (near St. Louis) Mindfulness: 5/22
Holland, MI (Near Grand Rapids) Certification: 7/5 - 7/8
Holland, MI (near Grand Rapids) Mindfulness: 7/9
Jasper, GA (North GA) Certification: 10/19 - 10/22
Jasper, GA (North GA) Mindfulness: 10/23
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.​

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Training Information & Prior Attendee Feedback

Certification Training
Mindfulness
How We're Different
Our Model

COVID Protocol to Protect People & Horses

  • In general, we follow CDC and local guidelines for in-person trainings. Please reference the CDC and state websites for up to date information and requirements.
  • We recommend you stay informed of travel restrictions and quarantine guidelines set forth by the country/state/location of your origin and destination.
  • If you're actively shielding during this pandemic for reasons such as age or illness, please do not attend our in-person trainings.
  • If you're experiencing flu-like symptions you must be tested for COVID and have your results before arriving at our training. If you or someone you've been in close contact with has tested positive for COVID within 3 days of the start of the training, contact EAL Academy by phone and email to discuss your situation and COVID status.​
  • Our hosts may have additional COVID requirements.

EAL Accelerated Facilitation Certification
​Glendale, AZ (Phoenix)

 
When: February 16 - 19, 2023   Arizona/Mountain Time Zone
Venue & Host: The HEART Center at 3735 W Beardsley Rd, Glendale, AZ 85308​
Registration: 
  • Early-Bird Discount through January 4, 2023: $3,247
  • Regular Price: $3,497
  • ​​REGISTER HERE​ until ​February 2, 2023
  • $50 discount when you register for both the Certification and Mindfulness trainings; scroll here​ to learn about other discounts​
Description: Download or scroll through the flyer for specific details about this training.

Facilitating Mindfulness & Mindful Leadership EAL Programs
​​Glendale, AZ (Phoenix)

 
When: February 20, 2023   Arizona/Mountain Time Zone
Venue & Host: The HEART Center at 3735 W Beardsley Rd, Glendale, AZ 85308​
Registration: 
  • Early-Bird Discount through January 4, 2023: $547
  • Regular Price: $597
  • REGISTER HERE​​ until February 2, 2023
  • $50 discount when you register for both the Certification and Mindfulness trainings; scroll here​ to learn about other discounts
​​​Description: Download or scroll through the flyer for specific details about this training.
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.​

EAL Accelerated Facilitation Certification
​Folsom, LA (north New Orleans)

 
When: March 23 - 26, 2023   Central Time Zone
Venue & Host: Equine Reflections, Inc. at 81120 Chenel Rd, Folsom, LA 70437​​
Registration: 
  • Status as of 1/25/2023: This training is 75% filled
  • Early-Bird Discount through February 8, 2023: $3,247
  • Regular Price: $3,497
  • ​REGISTER HERE​​ until ​March 9, 2023
  • $50 discount when you register for both the Certification and Mindfulness trainings; scroll here​ to learn about other discounts
​​​Description: Download or scroll through the flyer for specific details about this training.​

Facilitating Mindfulness & Mindful Leadership EAL Programs
​​Folsom, LA (north New Orleans)

 
When: March 27, 2023   Central Time Zone
Venue & Host: Equine Reflections, Inc. at 81120 Chenel Rd, Folsom, LA 70437
Registration: 
  • Status as of 1/25/2023: This training is 75% filled
  • Early-Bird Discount through February 8, 2023: $547
  • Regular Price: $597
  • REGISTER HERE​​ until ​March 9, 2023
  • $50 discount when you register for both the Certification and Mindfulness trainings; scroll here​ to learn about other discounts
​​​Description: Download or scroll through the flyer for specific details about this training.
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.​

EAL Accelerated Facilitation Certification
​Fallbrook, CA (north San Diego)

 
When: April 3 - 6, 2023   Pacific Time Zone
Venue & Host: REINS at 4461 S Mission Rd, Fallbrook, CA 92028​
Registration: 
  • Status as of 1/29/2023: This training sold out. If we've recently communicated with you, then contact us to possibly fill a remaining spot. Contact us to join the wait-list in case an opening becomes available.
  • ​Early-Bird Discount through February 19, 2023: $3,247
  • Regular Price: $3,497
  • REGISTER HERE​​ until ​March 20, 2023
  • $50 discount when you register for both the Certification and Mindfulness trainings; scroll here​ to learn about other discounts
​​​Description: Download or scroll through the flyer for specific details about this training.​

Facilitating Mindfulness & Mindful Leadership EAL Programs
​​Fallbrook, CA (north San Diego)

 
When: April 7, 2023   Pacific Time Zone
Venue & Host: REINS at 4461 S Mission Rd, Fallbrook, CA 92028​
Registration: 
  • Status as of 1/29/2023: This training sold out. If we've recently communicated with you, then contact us to possibly fill a remaining spot. Contact us to join the wait-list in case an opening becomes available.
  • Early-Bird Discount through February 19, 2023: $547
  • Regular Price: $597
  • REGISTER HERE​ until ​March 20, 2023
  • $50 discount when you register for both the Certification and Mindfulness trainings; scroll here​ to learn about other discounts
​​​Description: Download or scroll through the flyer for specific details about this training.
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.​

EAL Accelerated Facilitation Certification
​Marthasville, MO (near St. Louis)

 
When: May 18 - 21, 2023   Central Time Zone
Venue & Host: Zenhorse at 3453 Highway T, Marthasville, MO 63357-2006​
Registration: 
  • Early-Bird Discount through April 5, 2023: $3,247
  • Regular Price: $3,497
  • REGISTER HERE​​ until ​May 4, 2023
  • $50 discount when you register for both the Certification and Mindfulness trainings; scroll here​ to learn about other discounts​
​​​Description: Download or scroll through the flyer for specific details about this training. Also, scroll here (past the training listings) for more information about our certification trainings.​ ​

Facilitating Mindfulness & Mindful Leadership EAL Programs
​Marthasville, MO (near St. Louis)

 
When: May 22, 2023   Central Time Zone
Venue & Host: Zenhorse at 3453 Highway T, Marthasville, MO 63357-2006
Registration: 
  • Early-Bird Discount through April 5, 2023: $547
  • Regular Price: $597
  • REGISTER HERE​​ until ​May 4, 2023
  • $50 discount when you register for both the Certification and Mindfulness trainings; scroll here​ to learn about other discounts​
​​​Description: Download or scroll through the flyer for specific details about this training. Also, scroll here (past the training listings) for more information about our mindfulness trainings.
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.

EAL Accelerated Facilitation Certification
​Holland, MI (near Grand Rapids)

 
When: July 5 - 8, 2023   Eastern Time Zone
Venue & Host: Renew Therapeutic Riding Center at 5080 146th Ave, Holland, MI 49423
Registration: 
  • Early-Bird Discount through May 23, 2023: $3,247
  • Regular Price: $3,497
  • REGISTER HERE​​ until ​June 21, 2023
  • $50 discount when you register for both the Certification and Mindfulness trainings; scroll here​ to learn about other discounts​
​​​Description: Download or scroll through the flyer for specific details about this training.​

Facilitating Mindfulness & Mindful Leadership EAL Programs
​​Holland, MI (near Grand Rapids)

 
When: July 9, 2023   Eastern Time Zone
Venue & Host: Renew Therapeutic Riding Center at 5080 146th Ave, Holland, MI 49423
Registration: 
  • Early-Bird Discount through May 23, 2023: $547
  • Regular Price: $597
  • REGISTER HERE​ until ​​June 21, 2023
  • $50 discount when you register for both the Certification and Mindfulness trainings; scroll here​ to learn about other discounts​
​​​Description: Download or scroll through the flyer for specific details about this training.
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.

EAL Accelerated Facilitation Certification
​Jasper, GA (North GA)

 
When: October 19 - 22, 2023   Eastern Time Zone
Venue & Host: Angels on Horseback at 1284 Pendley Cir, Jasper, GA 30143
Registration: 
  • Early-Bird Discount through September 6, 2023: $3,247
  • Regular Price: $3,497
  • REGISTER HERE​​ until October 5, 2023
  • $50 discount when you register for both the Certification and Mindfulness trainings; scroll here​ to learn about other discounts​
​​​Description: Download or scroll through the flyer for specific details about this training.​

Facilitating Mindfulness & Mindful Leadership EAL Programs
Jasper, GA (North GA)

 
When: October 23, 2023   Eastern Time Zone
Venue & Host: Angels on Horseback at 1284 Pendley Cir, Jasper, GA 30143
Registration: 
  • Early-Bird Discount through September 6, 2023: $547
  • Regular Price: $597
  • REGISTER HERE​ until ​​October 5, 2023
  • $50 discount when you register for both the Certification and Mindfulness trainings; scroll here​ to learn about other discounts​
​​​Description: Download or scroll through the flyer for specific details about this training.
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.

Information about our EAL Accelerated Facilitation Certification Training

 
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: 
  1. Open to Outcome 2 Edition: A Practical Guide for Facilitating & Teaching Experiential Reflection
  2. 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
     The two books together cost about $35

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:
  • Receive extensive training materials that include a library of forms, tools, templates, and samples to use with client programs.
  • Work on integrating the horse-human connection into facilitating client learning experiences and shift into powerful debrief questions.
  • Practice great facilitation skills to lead any group - corporate training, team building, leadership development, coaching, personal growth, well-being, and youth programs.
  • Gain hands-on experience facilitating EAL horse activities, a safety review, and an end of day program debrief.
  • Experience 18 EAL horse activities plus 3 additional activities are provided with the materials, including somatic awareness and some a deep connection with a horse.
  • Learn how to select and design powerful horse activities that align to client goals.
  • Experience CliftonStrengths (f.k.a., StrengthsFinder) assessment tool and a strengths focused training experience that you can use with your clients.
  • Gain deeper understanding and experience in facilitating clients through the change process; learn how to guide clients to identifying actions for change to carry the experience forward.
  • Grow revenue through offering professional EAL programs; learn the process for designing and conducting professional EAL programs that deliver lasting client outcomes.
  • Receive valuable coaching on your facilitation.
  • Discover your strengths, develop your skills, and gain confidence in facilitation; empower your voice and values in your EAL program.
Payment & Discounts:
  • REGISTER HERE for all trainings.
  • Scroll here for all payment and discount information.

​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.
  • The curriculum and pre-study information is sent about 40 days before the training.
  • Other communications are sent a few weeks leading up to the training and right after.
​Also make sure that we have your mobile number so we're able to text you just in case there is something that needs to be coordinated.
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."

Information about our Mindfulness Training

 
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.
During the Mindfulness training, you will:
  • Learn mindfulness techniques and become proficient at designing  and facilitating these types of programs, especially for personal well-being, leaders, teams, and equestrian clients.
  • Explore mindful leadership concepts and how to apply them with leaders and teams.
  • Understand why people shift into positive emotions and experience physical benefits when they reach a state of coherence, which is a state of resilience and an outcome of heart-centered meditation techniques.
  • You'll learn about meaningful research that shows horses elevate positive emotions in people, along with other cognitive and physical benefits, by simply being in their presence. You'll learn how to engage this heart-based coherent state through mindful activities.
  • We'll guide you step-by-step with processes and we provide meditation scripts, forms, tools, and templates to facilitate your own mindfulness programs with horses right after the training.
  • Offer highly sought-after mindfulness programs. You'll be prepared to grow your equine business by offering EAL mindfulness programs. We've found EAL mindfulness programs to be a great way to grow revenue with a program that clients often want to attend multiple times. This type of program is also a great addition to horseback riding and for equestrian clients.
Payment & Discounts:
  • REGISTER HERE for all trainings.
  • Scroll here for all payment and discount information.

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.
  • The curriculum and pre-study information is sent about 45 days before the training.
  • Other communications are sent a few weeks leading up to the training and right after.
​Also make sure that we have your mobile number so we're able to text you just in case there is something that needs to be coordinated.
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."

Payment & Discount Information

 
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.
  • 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!
EAL certification facilitation training
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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