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EAL Programs
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Welcome to "Strength in Strides," a unique Equine Assisted Learning (EAL) program designed for everyone aged 7 and up. Whether you're a family, couple, work team, or group of friends, our programs offer an interactive experience that is proven to strengthen communication, teamwork, and trust through games with horses.
These unmounted activities require no prior riding experience.
Everyone participates with the same purpose: to learn and grow together.
Core Programs
One Off or 4 Week Series focusing on Key Life Skills
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Exploring Relationships and Making Connections
In this program, participants will engage in activities that reveal subconscious patterns and fears affecting relationships, and how to forage new connections. Through various activities and interactions, participants will learn valuable lessons about trust, communication, and empathy.
Key benefits of the program include:
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Improved Communication Skills
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Enhanced Ability to recognize and manage relationship patterns
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Greater Empathy and Understanding
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A safe and supportive environment for personal growth
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Managing Fears and Insecurities
In this program, participants will engage in interactive exercises and guided activities that foster a deep sense of trust and confidence. By connecting with these animals, participants will gradually overcome their limitations and discover their inner strength.
Key benefits of the program include:
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Building trust and confidence
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Developing a sense of security and self-assurance
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Confronting and overcoming fears in a supportive environment
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Managing Anxiety
with Horses
In this program, participants will engage in activities and interactions with horses that reveal their anxiety triggers and patterns. Horses, being highly sensitive animals, provide immediate feedback, allowing participants to gain valuable insights into their own emotional states.
Key benefits of the program include:
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Enhanced self-awareness and understanding of anxiety triggers
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Development of effective coping strategies
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Improved emotional regulation and resilience
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Healing from Burnout
Burnout often results from excessive responsibility and a lack of control. This program offers a unique opportunity to reconnect with nature and experience the therapeutic power of interacting with horses.
Key benefits of the program include:
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Reconnecting with nature to find inner calm
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Gaining insights into stress management and burnout prevention
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Restoring a sense of control and balance
Additional Programs
Youth Program - Ages 8+
Family Workshops
This experiential program with horses is designed to support the development of youth.
Participants will work with the horses and their teammates to achieve goals, which we then link to their own experiences at school, home and in the community.
Non-verbal communication, assertiveness, creative thinking, leadership, responsibility, confidence and teamwork are several examples of the skills the youth will develop.
Leadership and Team Building
Equine-Assisted Learning (EAL) is an emerging field in which horses are used as an instrument for personal growth, learning and life-changing leadership skills
Our workshops are designed to be client centered. Your group or team may have a goal of building relationships, increasing the effectiveness of your communication, or developing leadership skills. Whatever your focus, we will work closely with you to custom build a program.
Strength in Strides will customize a unique experience for your family, using selected exercises that will help you improve communication, and give each member of your family the opportunity to experience leadership and team-building skills.
Ladies Night
Painted Hilltop Farm offers a unique girl’s night – an opportunity to play with horses!
You will have fun and laugh, develop a self-awareness that only horses can teach, and even learn some new communication skills.
Make it a monthly thing with your besties, and we will learn something new each time!
Couple's Night
How about a unique horse experience for your next date night?
The horses will teach us in a very fun way to improve communication and build trust.
You are guaranteed to discover some new things about each other!
