Skills For Life Programs
4 - 12 Week Building Block Curriculum Programs
The Building Block Curriculum Process is where each program has an objective, yet all objectives are built into each program. It sounds complicated but it really isn’t. We work with one solid objective at a time and keep building on these skills each week – hence the building block curriculum. Building skills for life!
Some great examples of participants developing skills in problem solving, negotiation and communication are in the picture on the left. The picture below shows participants developing communication skills and building trust. If you’re going to lead a 500kg animal while blindfolded, you’ll need good communication and trust right?!
Let's break that down some more
YOU set the time frame of delivery – anywhere from 4 weeks to 12 weeks. Delivery is approx 2 hours each week. An example might be that the program delivered in week 1 is about “Building Relationships”. What skills are required to build relationships? Trust, honesty, transparency, fairness -the program for week 1 would include exercises that facilitate the participants’ learning in those areas. By week 12 we’ve established life skills including team building, negotiation, problem solving, communication and decision making plus HEAPS more.
Program Possibilities and Opportunities
Youth
Suitable for school or community groups, our fun and interactive programs offer kids and teenagers (8-16 years) the opportunity to work with our beautiful horse ‘teachers’ building strong healthy relationships, self-confidence, trust, leadership and communication skills, and much more!
Women
Programs are designed for women who are recovering from difficult and challenging life events. These programs can return you to a life lived with joy, courage, self-confidence, leadership, assertiveness and self-awareness. Women can rebuild strength and learn to trust themselves.
Trauma Recovery
While EAL isn’t specifically a ‘therapy’, no one can be around horses and not have some experience of healing. Programs support participants acknowledge their emotions and manage them in a calm, mindful and empowering way. They provide the opportunity for reflection, acknowledgement, acceptance and release of those events which do not serve us in a positive way.
Corrections
Reducing recidivism can’t occur without offenders learning new skills to live life. Programs support individuals to develop better ways to have healthy relationships, to communicate, negotiate and solve problems. Participants learn about awareness of and managing their own ‘energy’ and how that energy affects them and the people around them.