Way of the Horse Coaching Incorporated
Evaluations from our Semester 2 2023 Equine Learning and Wellbeing Programme. The attendance was 80% for the 8 week course, students were asked at the beginning, middle and end to score out of ( 1 being lowest and 10 being highest) on the following areas: Horsemanship Skills, Confidence, Calm in situations, Understand and communicate feelings, sticking with challenges and Happy & Positive. All students scored higher at the end of the programme
Evaluations Semester 2 2023 Equine Learning and Wellbeing Programme.
Research
A recent review suggests that Equine Assisted Learning (EAL) is an effective treatment program for at-risk youth with a variety of backgrounds and needs, and further reveals limited existing evidence for the use of EAL specifically with Indigenous youth populations.
School of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
To sum up the above, the most important results of our investigation are the following: Equine students have fewer emotional and behavior problems, and their prosocial behavior is significantly—about four times—better than that of the control group. Equine students have fewer behavior problems already upon admission to the institution (all of them had regular contact with horses before), and the rate of decline in these problems is more significant than in the other group. The total difficulty score and the prosocial scale score correlate negatively. Considering the scores referring to the different types of behavior problems and prosocial behavior all together, the difference between equine and non-equine students—independently of gender and age—is even more remarkable.
How Equine-Assisted Activities Affect the Prosocial Behavior of Adolescents Imre Zoltán Pelyva,1,* Réka Kresák,2 Etelka Szovák,1 and Ákos Levente Tóth3