What is EFW/EAL?

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In Equine Facilitated Wellness/ Equine Assisted Learning sessions (EFW/EAL), horses are the teachers, and a certified Coach/Facilitator supports participants' learning experiences.  At Equine Arts, adaptable session lengths and an open-air, forest-farm environment set the stage for multi-sensory learning.

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Communicating with horses is powerful.  They are nonjudgmental, authentic, and present-minded. A unique horse-human bond can serve to help people develop patience, trust, interpersonal skills, respect, empathy, acceptance, confidence, assertiveness, and responsibility.  Best still, all of this learning feels like horseplay!  As prey animals, horses provide nearly immediate feedback to participants through nonverbal cues, guiding discoveries and future goal-setting.

 

In EFW/EAL, learning is ground-based, so the horses are not ridden.  The horses and humans are both grounded and growing on Mother Earth throughout their experiences with one another.