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Our Model:
Partnering With Horses
Equine Connection's certification model for Equine Assisted Learning is to positively impact people's lives through working with horses. Through objectively driven programs, we help people build skills while keeping the horse's welfare at the base of all we do. We need to truly understand their language and culture to interpret how and what they are teaching for the clients! We do NOT pull horses from their heads or try to control our horses; we use the language they know to help humans move forward.
Equine assisted learning is an experiential method of developing life skills. Facilitated by a qualified professional to meet educational, professional, and personal needs (goals) through intentionally designed interactions with horses within a group format or one-on-one and focuses on ground activities rather than riding horses.
The horse provides therapeutic benefits and healing to all in their presence. A connection to the unconscious. Therapeutic programs and exercises to solidify the skills that humans learn with horses about themselves.
As specialists in this industry and leaders in the equine field for equine-assisted, business training, support, and continuous training never end for our professional facilitators at the Equine Connection Certification, as horses need us to be self-aware, live in moments with them, and to use the proper body language to help our horses feel good in their body, mind and spirit!
Our mission is to "partner" with horses versus "using" them as tools. We've seen too many horses shut down in this industry because people are unaware of what the horse is authentically trying to say and not being heard. It's an unparalleled student experience for certified facilitators and the clients they help.
The horse’s welfare is at the foundation of this certification.
Using horses is no way to get results, but rather working with horses as the teachers and understanding what they are saying is how to instill long-lasting learning that is compelling for your clients and safe for your horses. It's about learning the horse's language versus expecting him to understand and adhere to yours. We must thoroughly know how the horse communicates in every way. The welfare of the horse is paramount! We are proud to be partnering with Equine Guelph, the horse owner’s Centre at the University of Guelph to promote the welfare of the horse in this well-established certification.
The horse is known as "the teller of truth" who desires to "do the right thing". It is believed that a horse's spirit will lead individuals in the "right direction" and will assist them in understanding their place in the circle of life. You’ll not only discover that your horse has way more to say, but you’ll also find yourself forming a new perspective on how brilliant they are at being the teacher. This will help you to better understand the “how-tos” for facilitating your clients with success!
As facilitators, if we are willing to listen to our horses, they can assist us with guiding humans to be all they can be in their lives. By including horses in specially designed educational experiences, equine-assisted specialists have significantly multiplied the participant’s rate of success to self-discovery. Through their intuitive nature and innate sensitivity, horses can provide facilitators with a window into the participant’s learning style.
We collaborate with global specialists to ensure the 'Welfare of the Horse' comes first.
We work with the originator and designer of this objectively driven Equine Assisted Learning curriculum!
All of the exercises were created through research on how human beings learn and how wild horses communicate, and then she brought these two research pieces together to create all of these objectively driven programs. Each exercise has an objective that is interlaced into the next program so that your participants keep learning and building stronger skills each week, hence, creating an armour of skills to take into the world! This Certification is research-based and proven to work!
The horse's job is to speak to the clients through their body language to help bring about the client's changes. Exercises are developed to encourage self-confidence through validated, hands-on experiences. The people are empowered to find answers to their own lives and move forward with newly acquired skills.
We don't call for a clinical professional to run our programs/exercises. You don't need to become a therapist or counsellor to conduct these objectively-driven exercises. It is an excellent addition for therapists, counsellors, and psychiatrists who want to work with the horse to aid their customers in treatment, adding a different perspective to helping your clients advance in their own lives. We do know; however, that should you work with these magnificent animals, simply being in the presence of horses will be a therapeutic experience.
We are proud that this course and all of it's Facilitators are governed through the EAL Network to ensure the guidelines for integrity and ethics for working with both humans and horses are followed.
This Equine Connection's Learning Formula is considerably different from any other equine-guided program because there are predictable outcomes that equal results. We allow the horse to be the teacher.
How Our Programs Were Designed To Get Results
Why Certify?
The Equine Assisted Learning Certification Course ensures the technical competence of their trained professional facilitators. Certification exams go beyond training by providing an objective measurement of a facilitator's knowledge and skills. This Horse Certification Course Is designed to establish standards for developing qualified facilitators globally.
What Does Certification Mean?
As defined by the Global Certification Institute: Certification refers to the confirmation of certain characteristics of a person, organization or object. This confirmation is often, but not always, provided by some form of external review, education or assessment. One of the most common types of certification in modern society is professional certification, where a person is certified as being able to competently complete a job or task, usually by the passing of an examination. The purpose of any professional certification is to produce official and public recognition of an individual's competencies and capabilities in a professional subject area.
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