SIRE PROGRAMS
EQUINE ASSISTED LEARNING (EAL)
Equine Assisted Learning (EAL) is an experiential approach that promotes the development of life skills for educational, professional and personal goals through equine-assisted activities. The process guides participants through building a relationship with a horse, facilitated by specially trained staff.
VETERANS
The EAL program also serves military veterans with many of the same benefits. Staff are trained in trauma-informed principles to help participants interact with horses in a way that creates healthy patterns for interacting with others in their lives and their community.
BENEFITS OF EAL:
- Increased self-confidence
- Increased ability to regulate emotions and calm the body
- Increased ability to connect with yourself and others
- Increased ability to develop and maintain healthy relationships
WHAT EAL IS:
- Focuses on developing a relationship with a horse
- Changing the way you view yourself and others
- Working on identifying and changing relationship patterns you wish to change
- Sometimes difficult and challenging
- Understanding how experiences shape our nervous system, brain, beliefs, emotions, and behaviors
WHAT EAL IS NOT:
- Just grooming and hanging out with the horses
- Riding lessons
- Therapy
- Using the horses to help you feel good
- Manipulating a horse to move around obstacles
- Always easy and comfortable
SIRE offers individual and group EAL sessions throughout the school year, including a summer session.
RIDE
Maximum of 4 riders.
Minimum age required 3 years old.
DONATE
Provide scholarships for riders
and equine care for SIRE horses.
VOLUNTEER
Sign up to volunteer inside or outside
the arena today.