OUR FEATURED PROGRAMMES
A Comprehensive Service for Kids, Youth
& Families with Challenges
At Equine Dynamics, located in rural Tauranga, we provide results-driven programmes with horses as the teachers. Our programmes for youth and families are designed to leave you empowered with a toolbox of sustainable life skills. Our mission is to provide positive change and help prepare you and your family for a successful future.
Programmes for Schools & Organisations
Tailored to suit the school or organisations specific requirements for their children and youth who are facing challenges or difficulties. Teaching life skills that help to overcome barriers, and to improve physical, mental, and social wellbeing, creating positive behaviour changes. These new life skills learnt alongside horses will complement the goals the group is working towards though their school or organisation.
Individual Kids & Youth Programmes
These programmes are perfect for children and youth who attend school, or who are home-schooled. This group programme aims to help participants develop as individuals by teaching essential life skills such as teamwork, leadership, communication skills, social skills and self-awareness, all while building confidence, alongside a horse.
Programmes For Families
With our family programmes, we improve important skills like communication, problem-solving, trust and respect, flexibility, and self-awareness. These life skills are essential for improving relationships - both the ones we have with others in the family and the ones we have with ourselves. Join us as we help your family navigate through life's challenges together!
Holiday
Programmes
Learn how to communicate with horses, navigate obstacles, and gain confidence, all while having fun with horses!
Specialising in young people who prefer small groups rather than conventional holiday programmes. These programmes allow participants to connect with a horse, learn new skills, have fun and make new friends in a relaxed, small group environment.
HORSES HELPING OUR COMMUNITY THRIVE
Partnering With the Power of the Horse, to Build Skills for Life!
We believe that every person has the potential to thrive, regardless of the challenges they may face. By partnering with horses, we can help our youth and families with challenges to develop the skills they need to overcome obstacles and create a brighter future.
We guarantee that you'll learn useful skills that will stay with you long after you leave our arena.
BENEFITS OF OUR LIFE-CHANGING PROGRAMMES
Unrivalled Programmes That Teach Sustainable Life Skills for a Prosperous Future!
At Equine Dynamics, we assist you and your family in developing vital social skills that will help you to construct valuable relationships, gracefully adapt to different settings, and navigate through life's transitions. Partnering with our horses allows you to experience and learn new life skills, and teach you about awareness, confidence, resiliency and much more. With this opportunity, you will have the chance to reach your full potential and
build skills for a successful future!
Safe & Relaxing
Experiential learning in a beautiful rural setting.
Build Confidence
Feel empowered to take on life's hurdles with confidence.
Fun for the Family
Fun, meaningful learning for the whole family!
Toolbox of Life Skills
Leave with an armour of vital skills that apply directly to life.
Communication Skills
Improve communication and social skills while having fun.
Grow & Thrive!
Develop healthy, supportive relationships.
GET IN TOUCH
Let's Connect
If you have any questions, or if you are ready to book, please fill out this contact form and we will reply to you within 24-hours. Thank you!
DEDICATED TO HELPING OUR COMMUNITY
A Life-Changing Experience Designed To Help Our Community Thrive
If you want your kids to have the opportunity to grow and thrive, make friends and have fun while learning important life skills, then you are in the right place. That’s exactly what we offer. We provide an environment in which kids and youth can socialise, build self-confidence, challenge themselves and improve their behaviours, relationships and anxiety levels. We’re dedicated to helping children, young people and their families reach their full potential, and we’d love to welcome you into our community.
Partner With Horses As Your Teacher
Horses have been helping humans since the dawn of civilisation. They've been our partners in war, in transportation, sport and recreation. Now, horses are helping us to grow and heal. Horses are non-judgmental and are also very attuned to body language and energy, which makes them excellent partners for developing essential life skills, like self-awareness and confidence.
All Skills Will Transfer Back To Life
We not only are setting our participants up for success in the arena, but we also help them to build an armour of skills that will parallel and transfer back to everyday life. With the help of our amazing teachers, the horses, we are able to apply the lessons we learn in the arena directly to our own lives. Thanks to the valuable skills learned through these experiential programmes, our participants leave better equipped to handle whatever life throws their way.
Guaranteed Outcome Every Time
Through our Fundamental Principals and Form of Delivery, we can guarantee an outcome every time. The learned skills don’t just stay in the arena. All objectives are paralleled back to everyday life, which in turn will help our participants to gain vital life skills to learn life, relationship and leadership skills for a brighter future. How do we know this? Because its proven! See research study here:
Equine dynamics is a wonderful program designed to help a student to learn and implement values and skills, which they can use to guide their behaviour and choices, as they develop and mature.
It is learning outside of the traditional classroom, and taught in a way where a student can apply what they learn with a horse, into their everyday life and situations.
Not only is the learning fun, but it is challenging, informative and rewarding. And you don’t need to know anything about horses before you begin.
It allows for a variety of situations where a student needs to feel, see, touch, hear think and read, along the way and also encourages them to manage their behaviour, their mood, and their intention, in order to reach a goal, with their horse as a valuable team member.
My favourite sessions usually involve watching my daughter manage difficulties, stopping to think, changing the plan that is not working, and asking for help and support when she needs it. Skills that will be imperative as she navigates the teen years.
The program has also been beneficial in helping our parent/daughter relationship develop and strengthen.
It has been wonderful watching my daughter have more awareness of herself (and of myself, as a parent), and see her become more independent and self-confident.
Leanne is a great communicator, has a great “staff” of horses, and is herself a brilliant coach and teacher.
This is a unique program, and one I would highly encourage others to attend.
- Suzy P
WHY WORK WITH HORSES?
Lasting Change Because You
Can't Fool Our Teachers
Horses have very keen senses, and can immediately tell when our thought processes or emotions are out of sync. They can hear our heartbeat, and react to even the slightest changes within us. As facilitators, this allows us to find moments when you're receptive to change so that we can help you make a transformation. Quite simply, the horse does the teaching; we, as facilitators, are only there to offer an explanation and provide guidance as you work through the solution. Working with horses creates memories that can be applied to our lives in real-time and can be retained far longer than sitting in ‘just another classroom.’
Our Equine Assisted Learning Programmes help to develop empathy and empowerment as well as improving;
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Behavioural problems,
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Confidence,
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Problems with bullying,
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Social skills,
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Emotional issues,
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Communication skills,
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Family issues,
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Assertiveness skills.
All youth can benefit from our skills programmes, but we specialise in helping children and youth who have challenges and difficulties.
We have been trained by the world renowned Equine Connection - The Academy of Equine Assisted Learning Inc, who certify all over the world through the Academy of Equine Assisted Learning BuildingBlockâ„¢ course. You will see Equine Connection instructors in the videos provided, these will give a better understanding of the value of our programs and workshops.
