Equine Learning Experiences Australia

Equine Learning Experiences Australia offers equine assisted learning sessions primaily for school groups, women who are wanting to stand in their true authentic power, the disability sector and youth. We run 10 week programs for groups and also cater for individual 1/1 sessions.

Equine Learning Experiences Australia offers programs that assist people to learn about themselves through interactions with horses.

Through specific activities and interactions groups or individuals are given the opportunity to increase important life skills such as self esteem, increased personal and social awareness, problem solving and communication skills. The activities can also assist in areas such as anger management, or depression.

Learning with the assistance of horses is becoming popular worldwide as it is proving to help individuals with a range of social , emotional, physical and developmental challenges. It is proving to be particularly effective for those with autism, ADHD and other learning difficulties.

Clinical research shows that even being in close proximity to horses changes brain wave patterns, allowing humans to be transformed in a very positive way.

All sessions are non riding and involve participation with the horses in a safe, supervised space. The activities are designed to achieve a higher level of engagement from participants increasing self awareness and improving the ability to relate to others.

Horses give us feedback without filters. Their only agenda is safety. A person who is consistent, respectful, congruent, compassionate, purposeful, honest, responsible, confident, and communicates effectively – both in expressing and listening, is considered by a horse to be safe. Horses and non-judgmental and will show us what we need to know and learn to develop these qualities. In fact, these are the very same qualities that humans look for in colleagues, leaders, and personal relationships.

Equine Assisted Learning is experiential, and therefore learning is accelerated because clients ‘learn by doing’.

Being in the presence of horses promotes a sense of presence and produces a feeling of well-being. The horse’s biorhythms such as heartbeat, breath and brain rhythms are almost always in sync (operating at optimum efficiency) to ensure they are ready to deal with threats and danger. According to the studies of Heart Math Institute, the electromagnetic field produced by these biorhythms is five times as strong as humans’. When we are within the electromagnetic field of the horses for even a short period of time, our own heart and biorhythms entrain with the horses’, thus producing an overall feeling of well-being and aliveness.

This state of presence and well-being also creates optimum conditions for learning.

Classroom-based learning and talk therapy and counselling have limited effectiveness compared to experiential learning. With experiential learning participants learn with all their senses, their mind, emotions and body. Through learning by doing, new neural pathways can be created to change behaviour patterns and learn new, more effective ones.

With horses as learning partners, participants get immediate, real-time, honest, unbiased feedback. Consequently learning can be faster and go deeper than other forms of learning.