Strides to Success hosts a number of in-person learning opportunities each year. These immersive workshops are packed full of information that will help you elevate your EAL skills. From one-to-one training to group sessions, and hand-on learning, there are a variety of ways we work to teach core and advanced training in EAL. Take a look below at some of our in person workshops.
Coaching Skills for EAL
2025 dates will be announced soon!
For the last twenty years, our colleagues have looked to Strides for processes and techniques that can be duplicated to develop sustainable businesses. After this three-day experience, you will have a plan, the knowledge to build a program that meets a community need, know how to evaluate that program and know how to keep your business from being vulnerable to unforeseen changes. The HorseWork program development model has kept Strides to Success running for many years. Our methods are practical and, while grounded in empirical evidence, are practical and easy to replicate. All our workshops are hands-on and interactive, with activity and curriculum demonstrations and active discussion. Leave this workshop with a complete evaluation of your community needs and a basic plan to hit the ground running.
Learning Objectives:
- Give each participant a comprehensive “how-to” guide for planning, implementing, and evaluating programs that get funded.
- Provide participants with program forms, samples of lesson/session plans, evaluation methods, budgets, sample contracts, sample grants, and much more.
- Teach you how to position yourself in the community to connect with participants, partner organizations and funders.
- Explore how to provide diverse services that can follow community funding to support your center financially.
Cost: $575 includes course materials sent to you.
Facilitators: Debbie Anderson and Blair McKissock with special guest speakers.
Professional Immersion
Do you need hours to complete a certification, or are you the type of learner who just needs to step into the work and learn? Strides to Success is so excited to introduce a new opportunity to equine-assisted professionals. This unique immersion experience was an exclusive training immersion only available to HorseWork trainees but has now been opened to all interested professionals. We get daily phone calls from professionals who are just starting to those who are looking to learn more about what we do. Well, now you can! This condensed immersion program is a 4-day intensive program designed to give you a peak behind the curtain at Strides to Success and learn alongside our fantastic staff. This is not for the faint of heart but is early mornings helping get the barn settled for the day, all-day groups and one-on-one sessions with active clients, one-on-one time with Debbie and Blair, and tucking the horses in bed at the end of the day. Learn more about our facilitation techniques in equine-assisted learning, how we partner with mental health professionals, how we work with groups ranging from schools and veterans to trauma victims, and more about the Strides business model. This opportunity is meant to be hands-on but does not replace the HorseWork workshop content; rather, it shows you HOW it works. We don’t believe in operating in a fishbowl and don’t allow “observers.” You will be part of the session. How much hands-on horse time depends on your level of horse experience and certification status. This is considered a residential program, we have partner hotels where you can make arrangements. Our hotel partners will provide all transportation to and from the airport and to and from the barn daily, breakfast and dinner Mon-Thursday and a clean, comfy bed to crash each night! Think about how much you can take back to your barn and apply.
Interested? Complete the application and check the four-day immersion option. We will reach out to you personally to help create a customized program experience.
Details
Cost $1,000
“I wish I had these learning opportunities when I first started my program! I had my basic certification but was hungry for practical and sound skills and business strategies in which to grow my business so I could actually make a living! ” Thank you to all the HorseWork instructors! I left the workshop and within one month, I had a contract with a school and had written two funded grants!: Top-notch instruction that gave me a college education in a nutshell!”
