My white horse died in April. I learned a lot about grief. From my own feelings, and also from witnessing the brown horse, his stable mate and fellow therapy horse, go through it. Those two were very close. They lived together, worked together, looked after each other. They knew each other's strengths and weaknesses and took them into account when sharing out the work. They had not been apart for many years. My white horse had been with me for 22 years. He came as a 3-year ol

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