

Horses as "facilitators"
Recently, LEAP and other organisations have changed the name of the game from Equine Assisted Learning (or Equine Assisted Therapy) to Equine Facilitated Learning. This seems idle word play to many, but from my experience of the work I do with clients and horses, it is an important change. Horses "assisting" the human facilitator is a different scenario from horses as facilitators. Of course the human faciltator guides the session by planning it, setting it up, holding the
One of my trainers, Mike Delaney, talking about Equine Facilitated Learning
Mike has over 25 years of experience with EFL/P. He has worked with a huge variety of client groups, corporate managers, people struggling with addiction, teenagers in care, to name but a few. Mike, together with Ella Bloomfield, trained me, and both their deep humanity and consumate skill gave me a wonderful start in the field (pun alert). #EquineFacilitatedLearningandTherapy