OUR EQUINE PROGRAMMES
Equine Assisted Psycotherapy and Learning for Individuals, Families, Groups
& Organisations
At Equine Dynamics in rural Tauranga, we offer experiential programmes where horses play a central role in supporting growth, learning, and wellbeing. Working alongside our qualified facilitators, individuals, families, schools, and organisations discover new ways to develop resilience, strengthen relationships, and overcome challenges.
Through Equine Assisted Psychotherapy and Learning, participants build practical life skills including communication, emotional regulation, self-awareness, problem-solving, and leadership. Our psychotherapy programmes provide a dynamic alternative to traditional talk therapy, creating opportunities for meaningful insights and lasting change through hands-on experiences with horses.
Whether you're seeking personal growth, stronger family connections, improved wellbeing, or enhanced team performance, our tailored programmes provide practical tools that can be applied long after the session ends.
Equine Assisted Pyschotherapy
Equine-assisted psychotherapy offers a safe, experiential, and clinically supported approach for individuals, couples, and families seeking growth, healing, and change. Working alongside our therapy herd, clients participate in ground-based activities where horses respond naturally and authentically to what is happening in the moment. These interactions can promote deeper self-awareness, emotional regulation, healthier relationships, and meaningful, lasting change.
Equine Assisted Learning
Equine-assisted learning provides a structured, experiential approach to developing life skills, self-awareness, and personal effectiveness. Through meaningful interaction with our herd, individuals, groups, and teams strengthen communication, confidence, emotional regulation, leadership, problem-solving, and teamwork. The horses' natural and immediate responses create powerful learning opportunities that help participants build practical skills and insights they can apply in everyday life.
Funded ACC Sensitive Claim Groups
Our ACC-funded therapy groups provide a safe and supportive environment for people affected by trauma. Through experiential activities with horses, participants have the opportunity to develop emotional regulation, increase self-awareness, build confidence, and foster a greater sense of connection with themselves and others.
Facilitated by qualified, trauma-informed practitioners, these evidence-informed programmes are designed to meet ACC Sensitive Claims requirements while supporting healing, growth, and recovery.
Experiential Wellbeing
Our unique equine experiences offer nurturing, experiential programmes designed to support wellbeing, connection, and personal growth alongside our therapy herd. These retreats and group experiences provide a peaceful space for individuals, community groups, and organisations to pause, reset, and engage in meaningful hands-on activities with horses.
Through guided experiences, participants have the opportunity to build self-awareness, strengthen relationships, develop resilience, and reconnect with themselves, others, and the natural environment.
Safe & Grounding
A peaceful rural setting where horses support reflection, connection, and self awareness.
Build Confidence
Develop confidence, resilience, and trust in your ability to navigate life's challenges.
Grow, Heal & Thrive!
Foster emotional wellbeing, personal growth, and healthy relationships.
Toolbox of Life Skills
Build a lasting toolkit of skills for life, relationships and wellbeing.
Learn Alongside Horses
An outdoor classroom where horses inspire learning, insight, and self-discovery.
Fun for the Family
Meaningful, hands-on experiences that bring families together.
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Partner With Horses Therapists and Facilitators
For thousands of years, horses have worked alongside humans, supporting us in transport, agriculture, sport, and recreation. Today, they continue to play an important role in Equine Assisted Psychotherapy and Learning, helping individuals, families, and groups develop insight, resilience, and practical life skills.
As highly responsive animals, horses naturally react to human behaviour, body language, and interactions. These authentic responses create opportunities for learning, self-awareness, and meaningful personal growth within a safe and supportive environment.
Therapeutic Interaction
As clients engage with the horses, they often begin to recognise emotional patterns, relationship dynamics, and ways of responding that may also be present in everyday life.
Through guided experiential activities, clients have opportunities to explore new ways of regulating emotions, strengthening relationships, setting healthy boundaries, and responding to challenges. These insights can support lasting change and help participants leave sessions feeling more grounded, capable, and connected.
Skills For
Everyday Life
Our Equine Assisted Learning programmes are designed to create meaningful and practical learning experiences. Through carefully facilitated activities, participants develop valuable life skills including communication, leadership, problem-solving, emotional regulation, teamwork, and self-confidence.
The lessons learned alongside our horses don't remain in the arena. Participants are encouraged to apply these skills in their relationships, workplaces, schools, and everyday lives, supporting positive and lasting change.
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.