Center for Experiential Learning
In the J-Bar Ranch, Center for Experiential Learning, horses and other four-legged teachers help participants improve their literacy and life skills, their self-esteem, and their leadership abilities. Horses co-facilitate the lessons, many of which are about the horses themselves.
Participants at J-Bar Ranch learn horsemanship, information about horse behavior, information about horse breeds and about individual horses. But their most important learning is about themselves.
Learning takes place in comfortable settings in a barn classroom, around a 60-foot covered round pen and in an outdoor arena, as well as off-site, by contract.
Equine-Facilitated
Learning (EFL)
Equine-Facilitated Psychotherapy (EFP)
Equine-Facilitated Learning (EFL) and Equine-Facilitated Psychotherapy (EFP) are carefully designed therapeutic interventions in which horses serve as co-facilitators.
In J-Bar EFL, human members of a facilitation team are professional educators, trained assistants and equine specialists. The goal of an EFL session may be improvement in reading comprehension, writing, science, art, social studies, culture, socio-emotional interaction or other personal growth. K-12 and adult participants in J-Bar EFL may be struggling in traditional classrooms or they may simply prefer experiential learning in the outdoors, with horse and human teachers. In any case, they benefit from high-interest, research-based experiential learning tailored to meet their needs.
Equine-Facilitated Psychotherapy (EFP)
Equine-Facilitated Learning (EFL) and Equine-Facilitated Psychotherapy (EFP) are carefully designed therapeutic interventions in which horses serve as co-facilitators.
In J-Bar EFL, human members of a facilitation team are professional educators, trained assistants and equine specialists. The goal of an EFL session may be improvement in reading comprehension, writing, science, art, social studies, culture, socio-emotional interaction or other personal growth. K-12 and adult participants in J-Bar EFL may be struggling in traditional classrooms or they may simply prefer experiential learning in the outdoors, with horse and human teachers. In any case, they benefit from high-interest, research-based experiential learning tailored to meet their needs.
Program
Overview
Horse & Reader and Horse & Writer:
Workshops or year-long programs for kids or adults in reading
comprehension, writing, creativity and publishing, while
participants learn about horses and become skilled in groundwork
and/or riding. Particularly effective for helping kids who are not
passing required state tests or are failing in traditional
classroom settings. Can be custom-designed as autobiographical
narrative workshops for adults who wish to write personal or family
histories or explore other topics in their lives.
There is nothing better for the
inside of a person than the outside of a horse.
—Will Rogers, 1879-1935
—Will Rogers, 1879-1935
