Equine-Facilitated Learning Programmes
For young people, families, and professionals seeking calm, connection, and change.
Our equine-facilitated programmes are grounded, trauma-informed spaces where healing and growth begin through relationship - not performance.
We work with individuals and groups who are navigating emotional overwhelm, disconnection, relational challenges, or nervous system dysregulation. With the support of horses - honest, responsive, and deeply attuned animals - participants learn practical tools for emotional regulation, communication, resilience, and trust.
Whether you're commissioning support for a school, family system, youth project, or seeking private sessions for a child, young person or yourself, our offerings provide:
Safe, non-ridden, relational sessions
Somatic and evidence-aligned approaches (including DBT, Zones of Regulation, systemic and neurosequential models)
Skilled, clinically supervised, PSA accredited facilitators with trauma-informed training
Adaptable delivery for schools, community settings, or outreach environments.
Courses are across 4, 6, or 12 sessions.
Therapeutic Courses with Horses
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Zoned In: Emotional Awareness with Horses
Learning to recognise, name, and navigate emotions through equine-facilitated experiences
Zoned In is an equine-facilitated learning programme that helps young people explore their emotions using the Zones of Regulation framework — with the support of the horse herd as calm, honest, non-judgmental guides.
Whether a young person is shut down, overwhelmed, or just unsure how they’re feeling, this programme offers an embodied, interactive space to safely learn what’s going on inside — and what to do with it.
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Clear Connection: Interpersonal Effectiveness with Horses
Learning healthy boundaries, assertiveness, and self-respect through equine-facilitated experiences
Clear Connection is an equine-facilitated learning programme designed to help participants explore and strengthen the way they communicate, ask for what they need, and hold healthy boundaries in relationships—without losing connection to themselves or others.
Grounded in DBT Interpersonal Effectiveness skills, this course uses the relational honesty of horses to offer clean, non-verbal feedback. Participants learn what it means to be clear, calm, and kind—even in emotionally charged or high-stakes situations.
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Settled Self: Hoofbeats for Regulation
A gentle introduction to equine-facilitated nervous system support for caring professionals - 4 sessions
This session offers a calm and grounded space for those working in caring roles—whether in youth work, outreach, or community support—to reconnect with themselves through the unique presence of horses.
You don’t need any horse experience. This is not about riding or horse training. Instead, it's about being with horses—on the ground, safely and mindfully—as a way to settle your nervous system and restore a sense of calm and connection.
Horses are incredibly sensitive animals. They respond to our inner states—stress, calm, tension—not through words, but through body language, stillness, and presence.
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Repair & Realign: Building Self-Awareness and Relational Resilience with Horses
Learning to notice, navigate, and mend disconnection — with honesty, humility, and heart
Repair & Realign is a ground-based equine-facilitated programme that helps participants deepen their self-awareness and develop practical skills for managing rupture and repair in relationships.
Whether it’s a friendship breakdown, a family conflict, or a moment of emotional shutdown, relational rupture is part of life. What matters most is how we notice it, how we respond, and how we repair.
Horses help us do that with honesty and compassion — by showing us exactly how our energy, boundaries, and presence affect the connection.
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Recharge & Restore: Equine-Assisted Support for Burnout
A reflective space for carers and frontline professionals to pause, reconnect, and renew
Recharge & Restore is a trauma-informed Equine-Assisted Programme (EAP) created for those who show up for others — even when their own tank is running low.
Designed for foster carers, social workers, adoptive parents, frontline workers, and mental health professionals, this programme offers a calm, relational space to explore the effects of burnout, reconnect with your own needs, and leave with practical tools for resilience.
In the company of horses — honest, attuned, and non-judgmental — participants are invited to slow down, reset, and remember how to care for themselves as fully as they care for others.
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Hold Steady: Mindfulness & Distress Tolerance with Horses
Equine-facilitated skills for staying present, calm, and connected — even in tough moments
Hold Steady is a ground-based equine programme where young people build practical emotional regulation tools by working alongside horses. Drawing on the core principles of DBT (Dialectical Behaviour Therapy)—especially mindfulness and distress tolerance—this course offers a calm, relational space to explore big feelings without shame or shutdown.
This isn’t therapy with horses, and it’s not horse riding either. Instead, it's about learning how to stay grounded, present, and choiceful when life gets hard—by working in partnership with highly attuned animals who respond to our emotional states in real time.
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Brave Belonging: Equine-facilitated pathways to trust, safety, and self – for young people at risk of exploitation
Brave Belonging offers a powerful, relational approach for children and young people at risk of criminal exploitation, exclusion, and social withdrawal.
By creating a calm, trauma-informed environment with horses, this programme helps participants:
Regulate their nervous systems; Rebuild trust and emotional safetyStrengthen self-awareness and ; boundaries; Experience authentic connection without pressure
This approach is especially effective for young people who may struggle to engage with traditional services. In the presence of horses — honest, attuned, and non-judgmental — many begin to feel seen, safe, and ready to re-engage with life and learning.
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Clear Connection: Interpersonal Effectiveness with Horses
Learning healthy boundaries, assertiveness, and self-respect through equine-facilitated experiences
Clear Connection is an equine-facilitated learning programme designed to help participants explore and strengthen the way they communicate, ask for what they need, and hold healthy boundaries in relationships—without losing connection to themselves or others.
Grounded in DBT Interpersonal Effectiveness skills, this course uses the relational honesty of horses to offer clean, non-verbal feedback. Participants learn what it means to be clear, calm, and kind—even in emotionally charged or high-stakes situations.
Horses are incredibly tuned in to how we approach them—not just what we do or say. They don’t respond to performance, people-pleasing, or posturing. Instead, they reflect our intention, clarity, and congruence.
Designed with Intention: Why Each Course Has a Specific Focus
At first glance, it can look like all equine-facilitated programmes are doing “the same thing”: being with horses, slowing down, reflecting, regulating. But in practice, the focus, intentional design, and therapeutic lens of each course make them very different in purpose and outcome.
Course Core Focus
Brave Belonging Safety, trust, and connection for CYP at risk of exploitation or exclusion
Recharge & Restore Emotional recovery and nervous system repair for burned-out caregivers and professionals
Clear Connection Assertive communication, boundaries, and self-respect (DBT interpersonal skills)
Hold Steady Coping with emotional overwhelm and staying grounded (DBT distress tolerance & mindfulness)
Zoned In Emotional literacy, awareness, and self-regulation using the Zones of Regulation framework
Repair & Realign Self-awareness and relational rupture/repair — learning how to mend disconnection
Who It's For & Why It Matters
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Who It’s For:
Children and young people at risk of criminal exploitation, school exclusion, or social withdrawal, especially those disengaged from traditional services or support systems.Key Transformation:
“I can trust again.” -
Who It’s For:
Foster carers, social workers, adoptive parents, frontline workers, and mental health professionals experiencing burnout, compassion fatigue, or emotional depletion.Key Transformation:
“I can rest and feel again.” -
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Workplace teams, leaders, and professionals navigating high-stress relational dynamics, people-pleasing, conflict avoidance, or unclear communication patterns.Key Transformation:
“I can speak up and hold my ground.” -
Who It’s For:
Children, young people, or adults who experience emotional overwhelm, shutdown, or difficulty staying present in distressing situations. Often suitable for those with trauma or dysregulation.Key Transformation:
“I can stay with myself when it’s hard.” -
Who It’s For:
Children and young people who are building emotional literacy, learning to recognise their feelings, and develop strategies for self-regulation — particularly those who are neurodivergent or struggle with behaviour in school settings.Key Transformation:
“I understand what I feel and what to do with it.” -
Who It’s For:
People of any age who struggle with relational conflict, emotional shutdown, or fear of rupture — including those in family systems, care roles, or high-empathy professions.Key Transformation:
“I know how to repair connection after conflict.”