Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association
At a glance
- Category
- Holistic Healthcare
- How it's listed
- Found in our own research. Its site was confirmed live and serving the military community on . That is a check that it exists, not a judgement that it is good.
- Website
- www.eagala.org
About Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association
Published by Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association on their own website. Quoted here in full as they wrote it.
The Eagala Equine Psychotherapy Model
The Eagala organization (Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association) spans a global network of highly professional and passionate individuals incorporating horses into treatment. Every certified Eagala practitioner is a credentialed Mental Health Professional or Equine Specialist, passing through standardized fundamentals training, assessment, and then certification.
Post-training certified practitioners continue their Eagala training and refinement earning continuing education credits with options to do so through networking meetings that often involve practice with horses, webinars, mentor programs, global member meetings, and other continuing education opportunities.
Eagala provides resources, education, standards, and support for professionals incorporating horses for mental health and personal or organizational development. It’s a global network–the largest, most established professional organization for equine-assisted psychotherapy and personal development.
2023 Fundamentals Participant
“When the focus is on the horses, it goes off of the individual and so the individual is more able to experience some kind of awareness for themselves or understanding in ways that they weren’t able to before as they see the horses.”
Eagala’s Growth
Since its inception 25 years ago, Eagala has provided 1275 Trainings and has trained nearly 14,000 people. Currently, Eagala has 2000 certified members in 40 countries and 75 local networking groups supporting members in the US and Canada as well as South Africa, Europe, Japan, Korea, the Middle East, and the Pacific.
In addition to worldwide opportunities for collaboration and support, Eagala provides a certification training program based on the Eagala model to provide standards, quality assurance, and continuing education.
The Eagala model is both a set of standards and a facilitation style. The fundamentals training will teach participants the skill sets and thought processes of the model. Upon certification, participants can start facilitating equine-assisted sessions with their Mental Health or Equine Specialist partner. The Eagala model is an interactive approach, encompassing different theoretical approaches and methods. Everything Eagala does has a theoretical basis and a specific deliberate purpose.
2023 Fundamentals Participant
“Eagala provides them a safe place. Everybody is going through the same thing pretty much. The horses are gonna pick up on things as humans we can’t. So if there’s some internal feelings going on that maybe are not matching the exterior, the horses pick up on that and whether or not you might be able to fake it with the people around you, you won’t be able to do that with the horses.”
On-The-Ground Therapy
Our write-up
Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association is in our directory because we went looking for resources in this category and confirmed theirs is real and serving this community. What you see above is their own description, quoted from their site. We have not yet added our own write-up — the programs, eligibility and military fit that we check ourselves — and we would rather leave that blank than guess at it.
In the meantime, their official site is the authority: www.eagala.org
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