FEEL: Equine Assisted Therapy and Coaching based on Experiential Learning

Coaching founded on equine assisted therapy challenge us mentally and physically...

...and engage us emotionally.

FEEL (equine-facilitated experiential learning) is a learner-centred experiential coaching process with horses “teaching” us about ourselves.

When you enlist a 1200-pound animal as your life coach, the dynamic of the coaching relationship changes dramatically.

With out any intimidation (of either the horse or the client!) fresh new options are uncovered...realisations that would have taken months to unveil in the traditional therapy environment.

With FEEL, clients engage in a dialogue with the coach while interacting with a horse that is at liberty in an enclosed area, a paddock, school or a round pen.

Discussing issues while the client directs the horse to perform simple activities (ex. allowing the client to approach , haltering, leading - nothing strenuous and NO RIDING!) creates a dynamic that allows the coach and the client to identify and address key elements that multiplies the client's coping skills.

FEEL truly is a very remarkable form of equine assisted therapy.

and the mystery of their noble being. It’s been that way throughout recorded history.

Recently, it has been clinically documented that just being around horses changes the brain wave patterns of humans!

We calm down and become more centred and focused in the present when we are with horses.

My mission is to bring horses and humans together to increase awareness, understanding, and empathy.

Clients are provided with opportunities for professional development and personal growth, connecting people to their passion through the often unexpected insights interacting with horses offer us. Horses are masters at reading each other's emotional state...and ours too. Often long before we have registered it ourselves.

Humans, however, are experts at hiding their emotional state from each other.

During a FEEL workshop, clients can reconnect to their real feelings because of the clear, non-judgemental, and instantaneous mirroring that horses provide.

What if I hate (don't like, am scared of, have never met one I like) horses??

Fear not, you have come to the right place.

In addition to taking care of your physical safety, we will also paying attention to your emotional safety.

All of our experiential activities are based on the "challenge by choice" philosophy.

Each client, from the initial goal setting phase to actually joining an initiative, is responsible for deciding whether they want to accept the challenge or not. Even if you "hate horses" we are convinced that you will appreciate FEEL...one of the most effective variants of equine assisted therapy. If you would like to discover equine assisted therapy in book form...