What is Equine Assisted Learning?
InBalance believes you hold the best solutions for your life.
Understanding the patterns that keep you stuck is only the beginning. Our approach gives you the time and place to discover solutions. Participants have the opportunity to:
- Learn to take responsibility, confront situations, and recognize non-verbal communication
- Apply creative thinking and problem solving techniques
- Gain insight into how to successfully approach relationships, challenges, and communication.
- Develop effective life skills and improve relationships at home and work
Change occurs through learning by doing.
The process begins by interacting with the horses, then identifying and reflecting with the staff on what transpired. Participants learn and practice new strategies to achieve goals outside the arena. Talking is minimal as the horse provides critical feedback that no human can offer. Horses intuit our emotional states and respond accordingly, and therefore we learn the most valuable of lessons: by changing ourselves, the world around us can change.
Equine Assisted Growth and Learning is an experiential and short-term approach for real and lasting change. It is a unique opportunity that goes beyond the traditional to restore balance in people's lives while teaching problem solving, leadership, clear communication, goal setting, and social skills.
Horses are finely tuned observers of even the subtlest behaviors. Instinctively, as prey animals, their survival depends on their ability to sense any underlying emotional current in their environment. Thus, they are experts at mirroring back what humans project through emotions and behaviors. It is the task of the InBalance licensed professional to invite the client to explore their interactions with the horses, and the metaphors that inevitably emerge, to bring about insight and change.
