Tue, 27 May 2025, 10:00 - 15:00
Greengates Stables
Mays Lane
Barnet
London EN5 2AQ
FAILURE TO PROVIDE THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IN YOUR APPLICATION WILL RESULT IN YOUR APPLICATION BEING AUTOMATICALLY REJECTED.
Please explain in detail why your child would benefit from this session, the child's full name and their age.
Priority is given to young people who have never experienced any horse experience days or programmes.
Priority will also be given to families on a low-income, in receipt of benefits, children who are excluded from school, families who are working with an Early Help professional, or are connected to the Youth Justice Service team. Please include in your enquiry if any of the above statements is true. If there are any other circumstances not listed above, please include 1 or 2 sentences giving your reasons.
Spend the day learning how to care for and train horses and learning how a horse’s mind works. Through working with the horses the young people will improve in confidence, communication skills and teamwork skills.
Join the Strength & Learning Through Horses team to spend a day learning to train horses. Our staff team of horse behaviourists will teach you how a horse thinks, what worries him and what motivates him. You'll use this knowledge to building a relationship of trust with them and train them to undertake a number of fun activities. Activities include:
All the work is from the ground, not ridden.
We use Equine Therapy to provide an alternative psychotherapeutic experience and treatment for clients who find it difficult to engage with a therapist or professionals around their mental wellbeing in a conventional way. Our team combines the expertise of Clinical Psychologists with Equine Behaviour Specialists to provide Equine Therapy in a private and confidential facility.
Young people are encouraged to work with the horses in an unstructured way, usually the horses are loose so they can demonstrate their natural behaviours.
The horses naturally respond to the emotional issues people bring to sessions and reflect the emotions of people in their own behaviour. The young people are asked to reflect on the behaviour they see from the horses and their own role in influencing this behaviour.
By projecting their emotions on to the animals, the young people open up about their own emotions and life experiences; giving the mental health staff the opportunity to facilitate therapeutic conversations to help the young person think about their personal challenges, learn to identify and manage their emotions and develop coping strategies for the challenges they face.