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Why Horses?
Equine Facilitated Learning
Equine Facilitated Learning
Working with horses can have a calming effect that helps clear the mind, leading to better thought processing and increased emotional awareness. Horses offer unconditional acceptance, without judgement. Horses have an ability to mirror our feelings and they never hide their emotions. Horses also give immediate feedback to our actions.
Working with horses can have a calming effect that helps clear the mind, leading to better thought processing and increased emotional awareness. Horses offer unconditional acceptance, without judgement. Horses have an ability to mirror our feelings and they never hide their emotions. Horses also give immediate feedback to our actions. Research has shown that partnering with horses also:
*Improves Trust
*Decreases Anxiety
*Improves Self-Acceptance and Social Skills
*Increases Problem Solving Skills
*Improves Impulse Control
*Improves Communication Skills
Horses also give us better understanding of healthy boundaries and the importance of assertiveness.
Equine Facilitated Learning
Equine Facilitated Learning
Equine Facilitated Learning
Equine Facility Learning (EFL) provides facilitated opportunities while partnering with horses to learn more about yourself and how you relate in the world. Bonding with horses helps people develop self -awareness and promotes emotional healing. EFL involves ground work activities to build a relationship with the horse and work on individual goals.
Horse Powered Reading
Equine Facilitated Learning
Horse Powered Reading
Horse Powered Reading (HPR) is partnering with horses, in ground work activities, to assist the student in integrating social-emotional learning with academics. Students see and experience reading with their entire mind, body and emotions by creating metaphors for the skills involved in reading. HPR is a form of experiential learning wh
Horse Powered Reading (HPR) is partnering with horses, in ground work activities, to assist the student in integrating social-emotional learning with academics. Students see and experience reading with their entire mind, body and emotions by creating metaphors for the skills involved in reading. HPR is a form of experiential learning which focuses on the learning process for the individual. All sessions are tailored to individual needs. Partnering with the horse helps students externalize their reading challenges in order to explore and practice new skills or solutions in an emotionally safe space. HPR research has discovered that it only takes a few key reading skills combined with motivation, self-efficacy/confidence, persistence, all of which are taught by the horse, to create exponential growth in learning!