Equine Assisted Learning
LEAP’s equine-assisted learning experiences invite participants to engage with horses on the ground in non-clinical, trauma-informed settings. Sessions focus on awareness, regulation, communication, and relationship rather than performance, history or outcome.
Through guided interaction and reflection, participants explore patterns of connection, boundaries, and presence—supported by the honest and responsive nature of horses. Healing for horse and human happen in an environment free of expectation, judgement, or grudges born of past mistakes. Horses always let us try again.
Learn critical life skills and integrate lessons learned through equine activities into real-life experiences. Interactions with the horses are based off of Natural Lifemanship principles, attachment theory, and the Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship (PATH) International safety standards.
Sessions can be offered to individual, couple, or group options.
The Lore Project
The Lore Project is LEAP’s long-term, relationship-based initiative focused on the development of exceptional therapeutic riding and program horses—while supporting meaningful healing experiences for the people involved in their training.
Rescue horses are partnered thoughtfully and developed over time using trauma-informed, relationship-based methods refined through more than a decade of practice. Participants are actively involved in the process, gaining skill, confidence, and agency alongside the horses they work with.
Participation in the Lore Project is by invitation and reflects a shared commitment to the work involved. Individuals are considered for this phase after spending meaningful time within LEAP’s program and demonstrating the readiness, confidence, and consistency required for long-term horse development.
This work calls for skill, presence, and follow-through. Participants must have the desire to engage deeply, the emotional steadiness to support a horse through complex learning, and the scheduling flexibility to show up reliably over time. The Lore Project is not a short-term experience—it is a commitment to relationship, responsibility, and care.
Horses developed through the Lore Project may eventually be placed with, donated to, or made available to equine-assisted and therapeutic riding programs that share LEAP’s values—helping address a widespread shortage of truly suitable therapy horses.
PATH Certification Mentorship Program
Regina is a PATH certified Mentor able to offer mentorships for the Equine Specialist for Mental Health and Learning (ESMHL) and Certified Therapeutic Horsemanship Instructor (CTRI) certification process through the Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship.
Originally certified as a riding instructor to individuals with disabilities in 2016, Regina became certified to facilitate equine assisted learning sessions in 2022. With 20 years of horse experience across multiple disciplines and theologies, there are many avenues of education to explore and a sliding scale for affordability.
This industry needs more diversity and people who have a fire in their heart for healing and a strong love for horses. In this program, there is a strong emphasis on foundational learning, groundwork, hard work, empathy, patience, and Natural Lifemanship principles to understand equines and the people commonly worked with in this industry,
Contact us to set up a meeting to see if our Mentorship program is a good fit for you!
