

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