Equitots

Equitots is a Equine Assisted Learning Program for children.

Equine assisted learning reaches physical, cognitive, social and emotional development.

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth learning can be taught.” – Oscar Wilde

Traditional education focuses on teaching, not learning. 

EAL is a non-formal educational process in which horses play a key educational role. EAL activities incorporate horses to create situations where transferable skills can be learned. This form of education is experiential in nature, is hands on but it also a whole body approach to learning incorporating all the senses. It is inherently holistic in that it involves the cogitative, emotional and spiritual aspects of self. Although we are all qualified riding instructors and we teach our children to ride it is often ground based.

 Children learn a great deal on their own, in independent study or play. They learn appropriate behavior and social skills by interacting with ponies and horses informally — sharing what they are learning with their instructor and vice versa.

Children learn by doing, through trial and error and we need to allow for this.

Long before there were schools as we know them, there was apprenticeship — learning how to do something by trying it under the guidance of one who knows how.

 Equitots provides an environment in which children can playfully learn and grow around ponies as individuals whilst becoming natural and empathetic riders.