Clady Water Farm - Equine Learning Centre

27/11/2024

Clady Water Farm - Equine Learning Centre are delighted to be sponsoring this weekends Christmas Show with Six Mile Water Riding Club!!
Classes for all and alongside lots of other wonderful sponsors there will be super prizes for all classes!

Get your entires in NOW!!

https://itsplainsailing.com/org/sixmile

08/09/2024

This month will be our 7th webinar! We will be joined by several Equine Assisted Learning practitioners including Anne Brown (https://www.learninginharmonywithdonkeys.co.uk/), Dianne Jones and Amy Robinson (Clady Water Farm - Equine Learning Centre)

To show our appreciation and sympathy, we’ll start with a tribute to Simone McCambridge, who has recently passed, and her incredible work at Tullynewbank.

We’ll then hear from each of the practitioners about their backgrounds, particularly what drew them to the field of EAL, and the beneficial services they offer. While explaining some of the needs specific to NI that they come across in daily practice, we will explore the potential solutions and how we can address the growing needs moving forward.

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27/02/2024

27/01/2024

A horse can hear human heartbeat at least 4 feet away... They hear the intention, they feel the vibe- they are the tellers of self and the mirrors of souls ..

01/09/2023

On rainy, wet and windy days hot chocolate in the cabin is a great way to end a session! ☕️
Rosie likes to join us in the cabin!!!🐾🐾🐶

21/08/2023

All the horses and ponies at Clady Water are always ready to listen ♥️♥️

11/08/2023

🐴 Horses…… what can they do for you!? x

19/06/2023

What do we do at Clady Water Farm - Equine Learning Centre…….

We’ve been some super sunny sessions these last few weeks!!! ☀️🐴☀️🐴
Building obstacle courses and navigating our way through them to allow us to reflect on how we navigate the challenges that life brings our way!
This work never ceases to amaze me how the horses and ponies can help children and young people overcome some of the biggest trauma in their lives.

Equine-facilitated learning (EFL) is a hands-on learning approach that promotes the development of life skills through equine-assisted activities.

Horses don’t judge.

They can teach people so much about themselves

You don’t need any horsemanship skills to take part in equine therapy, just a willingness to engage.

For children and adults who like less talk, more action, equine therapy is a unique and powerful way to engage sensitively with another living creature that can offer insight into our own strengths, difficulties and negative survival patterns.

Equine therapy is growing in reputation and is successfully being used as an intervention to help children and adults to overcome the trauma of adverse childhood experiences.

While there are physical benefits to EFL, its focus is on the emotional and positive mental influence that spending time with horses has on your life. EFL is experiential, meaning you learn by “doing” and the horse is a facilitator, a living breathing being who helps to direct your session, making it a combination of education, therapy and fun.

Get in touch to find out our availability.
Additional session times opening up for summer months !

01/05/2023

Dainty relaxing in the sun today while the young people had a go at labelling the points of a horse.

She is such a valued member of the team at Clady Water Farm - Equine Learning Centre - always up for whatever we ask her to do! 🐴🐴

They were pretty accurate with their labelling too!!!
Well done everyone! 👏👏

22/03/2023

You may wonder, why horses for mental health and not other animals?

Horses have been found to act similarly to humans in their social and responsive behavior. It’s easy for people to connect with the horse as they reflect many aspects of ourselves.

Just being near horses or stroking them can reduce stress and anxiety levels and increase a sense of wellbeing.

It doesn’t involve humans trying to imitate the way horses interact with one another. It’s a symbiotic and dynamic process that recognizes horses as sensitive, decision-making beings.
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Andrea Petitt. Keri Brandt-Off. “Intelligent bodies: Embodied subjectivity human-horse communication” Apr 2022. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290956952_Intelligent_bodies_Embodied_subjectivity_human-horse_communication

07/03/2023

All the horses at Clady Water Farm - Equine Learning Centre love BOTANICA products ! well deserved award for such amazing skincare for both humans and animals ⭐️

14/11/2022

Keep those entries coming in!