Equine Facilitated Learning
Equine Learning provides people with opportunities to heal and know themselves better through interaction with horses and a skilled facilitator. Just the size and proximity of a horse brings about a heightened sense of awareness in a person, and the horse’s slower biorhythms can affect a positive change to a person’s heart rate, and their psychological and emotional well being.
At Red Horse, our Equine Learning facilitators use specifically designed exercises and tools to assist the process of learning and discovery, while also allowing plenty of space for the natural healing and growth that happens between people and horses.
Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy
Equine Psychotherapy at Red Horse is a custom-designed program suited to the needs of a specific client group or individual. It differs from Equine Learning in that it provides possibilities to look into a person’s past to better understand their present situation. In this way it is more akin to a counselling session, and facilitated by a minimum of two professionals: a qualified counsellor or psychotherapist, and a qualified Equine Therapy practitioner. Many of the exercises and tools are the same as those used in Equine Learning, but the emphasis is somewhat different.
Equine Care
Equine Care at Red Horse is a less structured approach than Equine Learning or Equine Therapy programmes. We offer our clients the possibility to spend time with the horses, and can groom, feed and care for them in a non pressurised environment. If a client has a preferred choice of horse or has begun to make a relationship with a particular horse, we support and encourage this wherever possible. In Equine Care sessions clients are offered the opportunity to take some time just to be with their chosen horse. They are enabled to choose a low-key activity of their choice (not riding), or just simply spend unstructured time with their horse and the other herd members in a safe environment. This relaxed time with the horses enables relationship-building to occur, and the client will quietly absorb the therapeutic benefits of being in close proximity to the horses. Clients may release worries, fears and anxieties during these precious times with the horses.
