Equine Assisted Learning session for Adults - 1:1

The Hollies Horse Sense - Equine Assisted Learning: 1 hour session

Equine Assisted Learning for adults.

Improve your emotional well-being and work on essential life skills through experiential learning.

With the help of therapeutic support offered by our human horse team, participants are encouraged to engage in an experiential learning processes that enables growth in self confidence, improvement in managing emotions and building life- skill capacities such as boundary setting and developing trust.

Our sessions offer opportunities to playfully ‘try out’ new behaviours, strengthen relationship building skills, and grow your potential.

You are welcome to also just “be”, getting to know a horse, give her hugs and feel the impact of connection.

We aim to create a safe space for clients to experience contentment, and we embrace developing goal focused positive outcomes for each participant.

Our work takes us outdoors to nature, which has an intrinsic affect on people, offering an environment that is calm, nurturing and supportive.

No previous horse experience required.

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Introduction - Get to know us workshop

Come along to The Hollies Horse Sense to meet the herd and have a chat.

This is an opportunity for individuals, parents, or families to visit The Hollies Horse Sense and meet us in person and for you to meet the horses, have a look at our facilities and find out what we offer.

This session is designed to help you to decide if the Hollies Horse Sense fits your needs and requirements, and for you to consider if it is a space that you can feel safe and comfortable in.

Follow on sessions are non-obligatory.

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Kid's Horse Connection - 1:1

The Hollies Horse Sense - Equine Assisted Learning: 1 hour session

Equine assisted learning for children and teenagers aged 7 - 18 years.

Ground based experiential learning activities to support children and young people through mindful interactions with horses and nature.

Through structured learning sessions with our horses, participants are encouraged to develop strengths in life skills such as self and social awareness, self-management, problem solving, decision making, communication and relationship skills.

Interacting with our horses can have a calming and grounding effect on participants. We will explore how they can help us to understand the importance of respect and kindness to ourselves and to others as well as developing coping strategies for dealing with social and peer pressure.

Luna, Gary & Co. Invite you to take part in activities such as:
                   
Observing and Understanding horse language and behavior - Being, walking and leading a horse whilst building a trust-based connection - Exploring the horse’s needs such as feeding and grooming - Overcoming obstacles and small challenges in a fun and non-competitive way - Nature walks and mindful practice walking with the horse in The Hollies woodlands.
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These sessions are suitable for children and young adults up to the age of 18. We recommend a parent or guardian attends the first session for those that are below 12 years, or for children with additional needs.

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Time-Out with Horses

The Hollies Horse Sense - Equine Assisted Learning: 1 hour session

Mindfulness, Nurturing and Nature Connection.

Take time out to be in nature, switch off and focus on trust building and meaningful engagement with the horse.

During this session, participants have the opportunity to deepen their relationship with their natural environment with the help of our equine team. Horses can help us greatly to slow down, clear our minds, be in the moment and ground ourselves.

Engaging with our equine partner, participants can gain personal insights while receiving feedback from the horses in a non verbal, authentic and non judgmental manner.

This process creates a safe setting for touching base with yourself, your feelings and your needs.

We will also use creative interventions such as journaling, working with natural materials, drawing and we will explore grounding techniques such as basic breath work.

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Pony Tribe - Team Activity*

Equine Assisted Educational Activity Program in a small group of four children, aged 8-13 years.

Join the Pony Tribe to learn about horses, yourself and other children and make friends with the Hollies Equine Team: Luna, Gary and Podge.

The Hollies Pony Tribe brings children together to promote acceptance of self and others, provide team-building experiences, and encourage self-expression while having fun learning about and interacting with horses.

The activities will cover basic horsemanship skills such as leading, grooming, tacking up, groundwork and stable management. There will be horse games, natural horsemanship, horse communication, mindfulness with Luna, horse cart driving, pony treasure hunt and much more.

This program runs for one month, every Saturday or Sunday morning, 10 -12 pm.

No previous horse experience required. All 4 mornings must be booked together.

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Creating Together*

Teamwork and Communication Workshop for groups.

Equine Assisted Learning is great for team-building. Working with our horses and being in an outdoor environment is an innovative and fun way to promote problem solving, improved communication and trust building.

We offer a space for participants to connect with horses to be our guides, helping us to develop a deeper sense of self awareness and reflection skills. Get non-judgmental feedback from other than human beings, explore your potentials and build leadership skills.

This experiential learning process can also help in moving forwards with an idea or vision whilst fine- tuning collaboration and group dynamics.

This type of training is not about horsemanship skills. All activities will take place on the ground in a supported and safe environment, our facilitator will use feedback and guided discussions reflecting on behaviours, emotions and interactions.

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Learning with Podge*

Riding lessons with a difference!

One to one riding and horse handling lessons for beginners, based on the principles of natural horsemanship.

Our lessons are suitable for anyone who enjoys a gentle and slow introduction to a new skill, based on respect and connection with the animal.

When practicing horse handling, we apply some of the basics of natural horsemanship such as the use of pressure and release, timing and clear body language.

People with a fear of horses extra welcome.

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Human Horse Connection for Families

The Hollies Horse Sense - Equine Assisted Learning: 1 hour session

Connect the family by doing something completely different!

For families who want to experience first hand the positive impact of the human horse bond on emotional and mental well being.

Find out more about yourselves and your family dynamic by engaging in some fun and experiential learning with the horses.

In the session, we might work on objectives that such as communication, emotional literacy or problem solving and we give time and space to simply be together in a supportive, understanding and encouraging environment.

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