What is Equine Assisted Learning (EAL)?

Equine-Assisted Learning (EAL) is an effective approach to human development through horsemanship. Participants engage in team emphasized exercises and find themselves learning valuable skills in a fun and exciting atmosphere while working through the dynamics of horses.

EAL has proven to be effective, powerful, interesting, exciting, therapeutic, positive, educational, and creative. Equine-Assisted Learning can be a very powerful journey of facilitating participants learning alternative skills to draw from when faced with difficult challenges in an effort to overcome negative influences.

This particular building block style of learning helps individuals better understand themselves as they participate in exercises designed around understanding the nature of "the horse". We call it, "Using Horse Sense".

When one has learned the fundamental principals of EAL, it is easy to understand why individuals with compromised moral values or ethical standards find it difficult, if not impossible, to keep their secrets hidden when they start to work through exercises with horses.

By recognizing a horse's ability to read and understand human body language, it is equally understandable how one can use EAL to provide leadership development opportunities, as well.