Upcoming Trainings
Watch this webpage for our up to date schedule for trainings open to the general public.
In addition, we hold private trainings at your location for 8 - 12 attendees, which saves approximately 20 - 40% on a per person basis, plus travel costs. Please contact us to learn more.
Join us to learn how to facilitate and coach learning programs with horses that deliver powerful outcomes for all types of clients!
In addition, we hold private trainings at your location for 8 - 12 attendees, which saves approximately 20 - 40% on a per person basis, plus travel costs. Please contact us to learn more.
Join us to learn how to facilitate and coach learning programs with horses that deliver powerful outcomes for all types of clients!
- Become a certified Equine Assisted Learning Facilitator with our 4-day Accelerated Facilitation Certification Training.
- Facilitate powerful mindfulness programs with horses, including guided meditations and mindful leadership with horses, with our 1-day Mindfulness Training.
ScheduleClick on the buttons below or scroll down for information about these trainings, posted in this order:
A list of our prior trainings can be found here.
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Registration & PaymentsREGISTER HERE for all trainings. Please review our Cancelation Policy for timelines and refund fees before registering online.
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 Feedback |
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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:
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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:
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When: November 1 - 4, 2023 Central Time Zone
Venue & Host: Dove Creek Equine Rescue at 16201 Gordon Cummings Rd, Canyon, TX 79015 Registration: |
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When: November 5, 2023 Central Time Zone
Venue & Host: Dove Creek Equine Rescue at 16201 Gordon Cummings Rd, Canyon, TX 79015 Registration:
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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. 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-Work: This is an accelerated training program with pre-work 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-work includes a pre-study document that we provide (included with the training curriculum sent approximately 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 meeting all the requirements for certification (documented within the training curriculum), you have 6 months to complete the certification self-test. Your self-test results along with facilitation skills demonstrated during the training program will determine your certification status. This is a lifetime certification that doesn't require future investments, membership, or continuing education to maintain your certification status.
Each training typically has 8 - 12 participants, so this is a highly personal experience with the trainers and other participants.
Pre-Work: This is an accelerated training program with pre-work 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-work includes a pre-study document that we provide (included with the training curriculum sent approximately 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 online, the access code can only be used once so purchase a new book
Certification: After attending the training and meeting all the requirements for certification (documented within the training curriculum), you have 6 months to complete the certification self-test. Your self-test results along with facilitation skills demonstrated during the training program will determine your certification status. This is a lifetime certification that doesn't require future investments, membership, or continuing education to maintain your certification status.
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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 add our email address to your address book (or whatever method you use to whitelist) to receive our emails in your inbox.
Post Training Collaboration: We encourage each training to continue their sharing and collaboration after the training. Plus, you'll be invited to join our free online community to connect with others that have attended our in-person trainings to collaborate about EAL tools, techniques, resources, facilitation opportunities, and in many other ways. |
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.” "It's an EAL business in a box."
- "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. Offering mindfulness programs with horses is a great way to expand your horse 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 that clients enjoy. 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 aid teams with employee well-being.
This program can be taken independent of our certification training; prior certification is not required. No experience with mindfulness or meditation is needed. The scope of this training targets the facilitation aspects of mindfulness and meditation programs with horses. It's during our 4-day Certification training where we review and provide tools for equine liability risk, business planning, marketing, pricing, as well as the ongoing management and operation of an EAL business. Also, many of the certification training activities can be used for mindfulness EAL programs.
Each training typically has 8 - 16 participants.
Pre-Work: We encourage completing the pre-work prior to the training to enhance the experience. We've intentionally designed the training so we can move quickly and spend much of our time together with the horses doing mindful activities. The pre-work includes our webinar, Heart of the Matter: Why Horses are Ideal Partners for Transformation, which we provide when the training curriculum is sent approximately 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 that clients enjoy. 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 aid teams with employee well-being.
This program can be taken independent of our certification training; prior certification is not required. No experience with mindfulness or meditation is needed. The scope of this training targets the facilitation aspects of mindfulness and meditation programs with horses. It's during our 4-day Certification training where we review and provide tools for equine liability risk, business planning, marketing, pricing, as well as the ongoing management and operation of an EAL business. Also, many of the certification training activities can be used for mindfulness EAL programs.
Each training typically has 8 - 16 participants.
Pre-Work: We encourage completing the pre-work prior to the training to enhance the experience. We've intentionally designed the training so we can move quickly and spend much of our time together with the horses doing mindful activities. The pre-work includes our webinar, Heart of the Matter: Why Horses are Ideal Partners for Transformation, which we provide when the training curriculum is sent approximately 40 days before the start of the training.
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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 add our email address to your address book (or whatever method you use to whitelist) to receive our emails in your inbox.
Post Training Collaboration: After the training, you'll be invited to join our free online community to connect with others that have attended our in-person trainings to collaborate about EAL tools, techniques, resources, facilitation opportunities, and in many other ways. |
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."
Please review our Cancelation Policy for timelines and refund fees. Consider paying by Venmo, PayPal or check to minimize the refund fee.
Online Payments: REGISTER HERE for all trainings. Select the training you want to attend and you'll see the available pricing, including discounts (described below).
If your payment isn't accepted when you try to register online, please contact us so we can resolve this for you. Unfortunately with Square this happens often and it's easily solved by sending you 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).
Payment Plan: We offer Square's Afterpay for payment plans so you can buy now, pay later, for purchases up to $2,000, paid through 4 interest-free installments over 6 weeks.
Alternative Payment Methods:
In-person Training Discounts Available - Select these Options when 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.
Online Payments: REGISTER HERE for all trainings. Select the training you want to attend and you'll see the available pricing, including discounts (described below).
If your payment isn't accepted when you try to register online, please contact us so we can resolve this for you. Unfortunately with Square this happens often and it's easily solved by sending you 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).
Payment Plan: We offer Square's Afterpay for payment plans so you can buy now, pay later, for purchases up to $2,000, paid through 4 interest-free installments over 6 weeks.
- You can register online for our 1-day Mindfulness and select 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.
Alternative Payment Methods:
- You may register using Venmo (@EALAcademy), PayPal (https://paypal.me/ealacademy), or by mailing a check (address here). Before paying with these registration methods, please contact us to confirm availability and we'll need this information for your registration: your name, email address, phone number, training location, and the training(s) you're registering to attend.
- 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.
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 end date is specified above for each training). For some trainings this discount is extended beyond the end date.
- There's a $100 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 the certification training, we offer a Previously Certified discount* for those that have been certified by us or another EAL, EAP, EAC, or Equine-Assisted organization (including equine facilitated, equine guided, etc.). Prior certification does not need to be active or current; however, it must be a certification and not a certificate of attendance. Prior certification must be based on facilitating experiences with horses and integrating the horse-human connection. Submit your prior certification documentation when you register by email. Note: This is not an audit experience, rather all training attendees participate fully and 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 other host affiliation. 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.
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PRICING
Regular Rate: Early-Bird Discount: Group Discount (per person): Previously Certified Discount: Add Mindfulness to Certification: Host Affiliate Discount: |
4-day Certification
$3,497 $3,247 $2,997 $2,747 NA $2,497 |
1-day Mindfulness
$597 $547 $497 NA $497 $447 |
Certification + Mindfulness
$3,994 $3,744 $3,494 $3,244 NA $2,944 |
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!
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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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