We offer our members ongoing training addressing specific aspects of developing and delivering an equine assisted learning program. Explore our current slate of classes.
Clifton Strengths
Discover how to combine equine-assisted learning with a strengths-based approach to bring about transformation in individuals and teams.
1. Introduction to Using CliftonStrengths to Enhance Client Results in Your EAL Business Webinar
Note: A recording of this class can be purchased in your member portal.
This workshop is designed to build your confidence in incorporating the CliftonStrengths Assessment Tool into your EAL workshops. CliftonStrengths is an online assessment instrument created by researchers at Gallup that identifies an individual’s unique skills, talents, and knowledge allowing them to leverage their strengths and talents to become more productive and engaged.
- Become familiar with the CliftonStrengths assessment tool.
- Understand how a strengths-based approach can deepen the learning experience for clients in an equine-assisted program.
- Learn how to apply the CliftonStrengths assessment within an Equine Experiential Education program working with groups and individuals in Corporate, Education, and Personal Development.
This class uses the book StrengthFinders 2.0 by Rath or Strengths-Based Leadership by Rath and Conchie (2008). Each book has a code allowing you to go online and take the CliftonStrengths inventory. A report that explains your top 5 strengths is issued and explained in the 1.5 hour teleclass. (You must purchase a NEW book copy to receive the assessment code.)
Prerequisites
- Read the book "Strengths Based Leadership Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow" by Tom Rath and Barry Conchie.
- Take the Clifton Strengths assessment (directions and access provided with the book). NOTE: Used books do not have an access code in them.
To purchase the book and assessment:
Length/Format: 1.5 hour webinar
Cost: $100
Note:
A recording of this class can be purchased in your member portal.
2. CliftonStrengths in the EAL Arena
- April 23 - 24, 2024 in Singapore
- June 7-8, 2024 at Timber Valley Ranch, Bellville, Ohio (registration closes April 25, 2024)
View Ohio Travel Information.
Format: 2-day arena experience
Ready to experience firsthand how our equine partners utilize the CliftonStrengths in the horse-human connection?
Discover how the CliftonStrengths Assessment can create deeper learning for your clients in their interaction with the horses.
The CliftonStrengths in the EAL Arena experience is a fantastic opportunity to explore the CliftonStrengths method in an EAL context. It is a 2-day arena equine assisted learning experience on how to use CliftonStrengths to enhance your client results in your EAL business.
See why horses, as co-facilitators of learning, provide value and benefit to your clients in exploring their strengths.
- Gain an experiential understanding of incorporating CliftonStrengths into programs with horses.
- Understand the unique power horses bring to a strengths-based EAL event and learn how to fully realize their potential to help clients use their strengths to develop the horse-human partnership.
- Understand how a strengths-based approach can power a team's productivity, improve leadership skills and empower your clients to achieve desired results.
Special Notes:
It is highly recommended that non-E3A practitioners at least complete E3A's Introduction to Equine Experiential Education Facilitation Teleclass before attending this 2-day arena class. Click here for more information about Facilitation Teleclass.
CliftonStrengths in the EAL arena is an enrichment class not part of the E3A certification program. It will not be presented in the same format as the E3A certification training. E3A's Master Trainers will facilitate it. Participants will participate in activities and debriefing sessions with limited opportunities to facilitate activities with the horses.
For facilitation skills development, it is recommended that participants attend our Level 1 Certification.
Prerequisites: CliftonStrengths Webinar
Cost: $950
Special note:
Registration for the Ohio Clifton Strengths Arena Experience closes on April 25, 2024.
Personal Development and Wellbeing (PDW)
1.Introduction to E3A Personal Development and Wellbeing (PDW) Webinar
August 15, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. ET
Explore and clarify the tools and dynamics of a Personal Development and Wellbeing Equine Assisted Learning Program.
This webinar introduces some essential tools EAL facilitators/coaches use to create, prepare and conduct Personal Development and Wellbeing (PDW) group workshops and individual sessions using Equine Assisted Learning (EAL) techniques.
Includes a brief introduction to facilitative coaching, Personal Development & Wellbeing’s foundational tools, definitions, and horse activities in combination with a PDW workshop process model.
- Define the meaning of how human personal development and wellbeing occurs
- Understand the difference between equine experiential coaching vs. equine-assisted psychotherapy
- Understand the E3A Transformative Model: Awareness, Alignment and Action
- Understand how individual change occurs – the Personal Change Model
Prerequisites: None
Length/Format: 2-hour webinar
Cost: $100
2. Creating Personal Development and Wellbeing (PDW) Workshops Arena Experience
October 10 - 12, 2024
Spirit Song Youth Equestrian Academy
Anna, Texas
This training gives you everything you need to design and deliver a successful event confidently.
Equine Assisted Learning is powerful. During this 3-day arena class, learn how to create and set up personal development workshops successfully. We cover:
- Boundary setting
- Overcoming obstacles
- Goal-setting
- Relationships
- Spiritual growth
You will also learn to utilize dynamic debriefing questions to successfully and effectively help your clients navigate clarity and growth. You’ll learn new horse activities designed especially for that context, how to modify existing horse exercises for this type of workshop, and how to facilitate and debrief exercises without ending up in “therapy territory.”
Learning Objectives:
- Apply and practice E3A’s facilitation approach to Personal Development & Wellbeing workshops.
- Learn new horse activities, adapt existing activities, and conduct debriefs appropriate for the Personal Development and Wellbeing model.
- How to select and use various assessments with your clients to promote growth and development.
Prerequisites:
- E3A membership
- Personal Development and Wellbeing Intro webinar.
- Be an E3A-certified equine experiential education practitioner, or have an EAL facilitation certificate from another organization (PATH, EAGALA, EGEA, EPONA, EAHAE).
- If not certified by E3A, also must complete Introduction to the Equine Experiential Education Facilitation Method webinar.
- Participants are asked to upload a copy of their EAL certificate or send a copy to staff@e3assoc.org when they register.
Length/Format: 3-day arena experience
Cost: $1,350
Inner World of the Facilitator
Take your work with the horses from ordinary to extraordinary in this powerful, hands-on, two-day arena experience.
E3A master trainers Jennifer Kaplan, Kathy Milbeck, and their horse partners will show you how to deepen your connection to self to develop the high-level relationship skill of interdependence. A healthy blend of independence and dependence defines interdependence. It is also an essential skill in an exceptional EAL facilitator’s toolbox.
Through this arena experience, you will:
- Receive the horses’ gifts of clarity and focus on creating successful forward momentum for your clients – and clarify any resistance you may have to meet their desired outcomes.
- Hone your ability to set a firm intention for your relationship with your horse partners.
- Locate and eliminate tension and resistance between you, the horses, and the work.
- Develop trust in your horse partners’ abilities to “see the unseen.”
- Facilitate BIG results for your clients – gaining enthusiastic advocates for your EAL business.
- Experience real connection, a healthy balance of giving and receiving, and increased trust in your core relationships with all beings – both two-legged and four-legged.
- Live more comfortably in your skin.
Prerequisites:
You must be a current member of E3A in good standing and have completed Level 1 training.
This program does not cover the E3A Facilitation Model, which is part of the E3A certification training program for Level 1 Certification. This enrichment class focuses on providing participants with the information they need to use Interdependent relationship-building skills in facilitating their EAL programs.
Please note: This program is an enrichment class, is not part of the E3A certification program, and is facilitated differently than the E3A certification training. E3A’s Master Trainers will facilitate it, and participants will participate in arena activities and debriefing sessions. For facilitation skills development, it is required that participants have completed E3A’s Level 1 Certification.
Watch for future dates.
Unlock your equine potential with Equine Assisted Learning. Join our webinars and arena experiences to enrich your professional journey. Contact us at 775-376-2530.
