Upcoming Trainings
Join us to learn how to facilitate and coach learning programs with horses that deliver powerful outcomes for all types of client EAL programs - corporate training, team building, leadership development, coaching, personal growth, wellbeing, self-care, mindfulness, youth programs, etc.
Description of each Training:
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Upcoming Training ScheduleClick on the buttons below or scroll down for information about the trainings, posted in this order:
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Registration & PaymentsPlease review our Cancelation Policy before registering to understand refund timelines.
Register Early to secure your spot! We train in small groups to offer the best possible experience. Space is limited and trainings fill quickly. If your payment isn't accepted when you try to register online, please contact us. We can easily resolve this issue by sending you an electronic invoice via email, which allows you to pay online. Sometimes our private training hosts are looking for a few additional people to join their trainings. Please contact us if you're interested in being notified about these training opportunities.
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Private Trainings
We do private training that are held at your location for 6 - 12 attendees. Private trainings are typically a significant savings on the per person registration cost, plus there's no travel expenses for your team. This is an incredible opportunity to train your entire team to facilitate EAL and offer new EAL programs for your community. Many of our nonprofit clients are successful in securing grant or major donor funding to train their staff. Our schedule accomodates a few private trainings each year. Contact us to learn more.
Facilitating Mindfulness EAL Programs
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* NEW * Heart Connection with Horses
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EAL Accelerated Facilitation Certification
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Facilitating Mindfulness EAL Programs
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EAL Accelerated Facilitation Certification
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Facilitating Mindfulness EAL Programs
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EAL Accelerated Facilitation Certification
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Facilitating Mindfulness EAL Programs
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Information about our 4-day Certification Training
EAL Accelerated Facilitation Certification Training
Become a certified EAL Facilitator! During our 4-day certification training, you'll experientially learn a coaching style of facilitation to conduct EAL programs for varying types of clients. We'll experience how horses, as co-facilitators, provide experiences unlike any other for people to learn and grow. You'll be guided step-by-step as you facilitate activities, and learn best practices to design and conduct effective EAL programs that provide lasting impact for clients. You'll build your competence and confidence in facilitation, and you'll explore how to build and market your program.
Each training typically has 6 - 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, discuss key topics about EAL programs, and facilitate horse activities. 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 with our curriculum:
Register at least 2 weeks prior to the training start date to have enough time to complete the pre-work and our processing of your strengths information.
Certification: After attending the training and meeting all the requirements for certification (documented within the training curriculum), you have 6 months to complete the open-book 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 6 - 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, discuss key topics about EAL programs, and facilitate horse activities. 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 with 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 be sure to purchase a new book. Alternatively you can purchase and take the Top 5 CliftonStrengths on Gallup's website, without purchasing the book.
Register at least 2 weeks prior to the training start date to have enough time to complete the pre-work and our processing of your strengths information.
Certification: After attending the training and meeting all the requirements for certification (documented within the training curriculum), you have 6 months to complete the open-book 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.
During the Certification training, you will:
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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.
Continuing Education Units (CEUs):
We encourage each training class to maintain their strong bonds and continue their 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. Also, you can always contact us to ask questions. |
Prior Certification Training 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."
- "Transformative for myself and my business."
- “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."
- "Incredibly powerful and valuable."
- "Impactful! Transcended from excitement to inspiration to conviction."
- "Exceeded my expectations for content and support materials."
- "Life changing on all levels."
- "This training taught me how to facilitate but may have taught me even more about myself that will carry me to success in my business and my life."
- "I gained life changing tools to assist others."
- "Absolutely invaluable in preparing myself to share my passion."
- "This program exceeded my expectations in preparing me to facilitate and lead EAL experiences. The intentional progression of the learning opportunities was excellent."
- "It was more than a training program; it was a personal transformative experience."
- "I'm leaving this training feeling like we made the very best choice by choosing EAL Academy for our training."
- "This program delivered on what was promised."
- "It is rare to have four days really attain such in depth useful training that leaves a participant ready to implement new programs."
- "This is an incredible experience in expanding knowledge and personal growth, unmatched in my 45+ years of life."
- "It has given me the confidence and clarity to facilitating EAL."
- "This training is the complete package! It provides everything to be successful."
- "A purposeful business in a box that empowers individuals and teams to build their dreams."
- "The best EAL Facilitator training out there. Very well thought out and great support before and after the training."
- "This training touched my heart, uplifted my soul, and opened my mind to what's possible. I now feel equipped to launch and lead a successful EAL business."
Information about our 1-day Mindfulness Training
Facilitating Mindfulness EAL Programs
This mindfulness training provides an experience to learn how to facilitate mindful meditations, mindful leadership, and other mindfulness activities with horses. Clients are seeking programs to help them find greater balance, better ways to manage stress, more self-care, and heart-centered interactions based on compassion and empathy. Offering mindfulness programs with horses is an incredible way for your clients to experience coherence (a meditative state with many positive benefits).
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 although our certification training supports facilitating all types of EAL programs. No experience with mindfulness or meditation is needed.
Each training typically has 6 - 16 participants.
Pre-Work: We encourage you to complete 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 a pre-study document that we provide (included with the training curriculum sent approximately 40 days before the start of the training) with important information that is backed by research about what's happening when people are in the presence of horses.
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 although our certification training supports facilitating all types of EAL programs. No experience with mindfulness or meditation is needed.
Each training typically has 6 - 16 participants.
Pre-Work: We encourage you to complete 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 a pre-study document that we provide (included with the training curriculum sent approximately 40 days before the start of the training) with important information that is backed by research about what's happening when people are in the presence of horses.
During the Mindfulness training, you will:
Note: 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 provide tools for managing equine liability risk, marketing, pricing, and selling EAL programs. Also, many of the certification training activities can be used for mindfulness EAL programs. |
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.
Continuing Education Units (CEUs):
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 Training 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."
- "This program is a beautiful thing and the world needs more."
- "Soul renewal."
- "Absolutely life changing."
- "The program was powerful, insightful, and touched my heart."
- "I cannot say enough about the collective experience today. The meditations left me feeling balanced, free, and open."
- "This day of training changed my outlook on the true sensitivity the horse offers - HRV/HeartMath proves it, I got to experience it!"
- "This program exponentially increased my mindfulness practice and moved me to a new level."
- "I found a way to connect my intuition to my business."
- "This training is very useful as a first experience as a meditator or to experience how the horses can power it up for experienced meditators."
- "One of the most moving experiences I have ever encountered."
- "It has been transformational and natural to implement."
- "I have new awareness of using mindfulness to make the world better for horses and humans."
Information about our 2-day Mindfulness Training
Heart Connection with Horses
This expanded mindfulness training builds on our 1-day mindfulness training to provide more than 15 additional activities with horses, which will support repeat clients and offering multi-day programs and retreats for mindfulness, wellbeing, self-care, and personal growth programs.
Journey into the hidden realm of horse culture that is unknown to most, where we'll experience horses as Master ∞ Energy ∞ Movers. Horses move energy to balance themselves and their herd. They also do this to us.
Most interactions involve being in the presence of horses where they decide how to interact with us. You'll expand your understanding of horses as spiritual beings, how they move energy, and ways of connecting deeper to understand their messages. Most activities are one on one experiences with a horse, which you can use with individual clients or in a group settling like you'll experience during this training.
To support you in facilitating these experiences, we'll also cover these foundation topics:
You’ll experience these sacred gifts while learning to facilitate these experiences for your clients to support their wellbeing of mind, body, and spirit. We’ll guide you step-by-step with processes along with all the meditation scripts, activity descriptions, forms, tools, templates, and sample agendas to facilitate your own programs right after the training.
This program requires attending our 1-day mindfulness training before this training.
Each training typically has 6 - 16 participants.
Pre-Work: We encourage you to complete 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 foundation information and research about energy systems of people and horses.
Journey into the hidden realm of horse culture that is unknown to most, where we'll experience horses as Master ∞ Energy ∞ Movers. Horses move energy to balance themselves and their herd. They also do this to us.
Most interactions involve being in the presence of horses where they decide how to interact with us. You'll expand your understanding of horses as spiritual beings, how they move energy, and ways of connecting deeper to understand their messages. Most activities are one on one experiences with a horse, which you can use with individual clients or in a group settling like you'll experience during this training.
To support you in facilitating these experiences, we'll also cover these foundation topics:
- Energy systems of people and horses (energy centers, chakras, and meridians)
- Energetic exchanges between people and horses and their deeper herd culture
- A process for horse interactions that honors their voice and choice
- Techniques to strengthen or reconnect to your inner wisdom and intuition
- Practice techniques you and your clients can use to give back and express gratitude for the beautiful gifts the horses give to us and our clients
You’ll experience these sacred gifts while learning to facilitate these experiences for your clients to support their wellbeing of mind, body, and spirit. We’ll guide you step-by-step with processes along with all the meditation scripts, activity descriptions, forms, tools, templates, and sample agendas to facilitate your own programs right after the training.
This program requires attending our 1-day mindfulness training before this training.
Each training typically has 6 - 16 participants.
Pre-Work: We encourage you to complete 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 foundation information and research about energy systems of people and horses.
During this Expanded Mindfulness training, you will:
Note: 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 provide tools for managing equine liability risk, marketing, pricing, and selling EAL programs. Also, many of the certification training activities can be used for mindfulness EAL programs. |
Lunches:
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: You'll have access to 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. |
Payment & Discount Information
Please review our Cancelation Policy before registering to understand refund timelines. Consider paying by Venmo or check to minimize the refund fee.
Payment Methods:
In-person Training Discounts Available - Select these Options when Registering:
Prior Attendees: For those that have previously attended one of our trainings and want to attend again as a refresher, we may be able to offer a deeper discount if there are available spots 2-3 weeks before the training start date. Those that attend a second time find it extremely beneficial in gaining new insights and strengthening their facilitation skills. We would love to have you join us again, so please contact us to learn more.
Payment Methods:
- 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. We can easily resolve this issue by sending you and email invoice (see below). We sincerely apologize for this inconvenience.
- Payment Plan: We offer Square's Afterpay so you can buy now, pay later, for a purchase amount up to $2,000 paid with 4 interest-free installments over 6 weeks. Each payment is 25% of the total purchase amount. You make the first payment with your purchase and the following payments are due every 2 weeks.
- Email Invoice: Square uses a separate system for email invoices which overcomes issues with online purchases made here. The email invoice allows you to "Pay Online" through a link in the email. We need the following information to send you an email invoice:
your name, email address, phone number, training location, which trainings you want to attend (Certification and/or Mindfulness), and inform us if there's another discount that applies other than the Early-Bird discount (for Certification, Previously Certified, Group, or Host Affiliate - see below).
For your convenience, we're happy to send you an email invoice rather than paying online. - 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 there are spots available for the training you want to attend and provide the following information: your name, email address, phone number, training location, and the training(s) you want to attend.
- We can manually process your credit/debit card payment with this information: your name, your email address, phone number, the training(s) you want to attend, name on the 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 and that is indicated above with each training.
- There's a Bundle 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 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 together in the same transaction; select the Group Discount and then inform us who's attending together by email.
- We offer a Host Affiliate discount* for host staff, volunteers, partners, board members, or other host affiliation. Please confirm you qualify for this discount with us or the host before registering.
- *There are discount eligibility requirements (explained above). Provide the requested information when you register (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.
Prior Attendees: For those that have previously attended one of our trainings and want to attend again as a refresher, we may be able to offer a deeper discount if there are available spots 2-3 weeks before the training start date. Those that attend a second time find it extremely beneficial in gaining new insights and strengthening their facilitation skills. We would love to have you join us again, so please contact us to learn more.
Cert & Mind
2024 PRICING Cert Mind Bundle^ Heart
Regular Rate: $4,497 $697 $4,994 $2,297
Early-Bird Discount: $3,497 $597 $3,994 $1,497
Group Discount (per person): $3,247 $497 $3,744 $1,297
Previously Certified Discount: $2,997 NA $3,494 NA
Bundle Mindfulness with Certification^: NA $497^ See above NA
2024 PRICING Cert Mind Bundle^ Heart
Regular Rate: $4,497 $697 $4,994 $2,297
Early-Bird Discount: $3,497 $597 $3,994 $1,497
Group Discount (per person): $3,247 $497 $3,744 $1,297
Previously Certified Discount: $2,997 NA $3,494 NA
Bundle Mindfulness with Certification^: NA $497^ See above NA
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Explore why horses, as co-facilitators, provide insight and benefits unlike any other learning or growth experience. EAL has progressed beyond horsemanship and into the realm of human development through facilitated experiences. Join us to learn about the key aspects of facilitating these experiences in a manner that honors and fully integrates the wisdom of our horse partners.
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