Berkshire Horseworks Inc

Equine Assisted Learning emphasizes education, personal and professional growth, and developing life skills that can influence team dynamics. Outcomes often include more effective communication, increased assertiveness, enhanced creative thinking, improved problem solving, and more effective leadership and team building skills. Increased confidence is also typically realized after participating in EAL sessions.

Berkshire HorseWorks™ uses the EAGALA Model to facilitate Equine Assisted Learning sessions for individuals, couples, families and organizations. Typically, we offer 60 minute sessions for individuals and couples; 90 minute sessions for couples, groups, families; and half-day, full-day and extended customized workshops and retreats tailored for learning goals and staff development programs for organizations.

Berkshire HorseWorks’ eight week Sister Sense program utilizes EAGALA Model Equine Assisted Learning /Equine Assisted Psychotherapy to provide a support group for women facing change who are looking to open up new possibilities in their lives with a fresh perspective. It is designed to help women become more self-aware while making empowered choices. Participants will explore important skills such as asserting healthy boundaries, managing obstacles, challenges and distractions, and developing positive body image. Issues such as anxiety, depression, codependency, grief and anger are addressed and positively transformed into strengths. Sessions are designed to foster self-reflection and target key strengths including leadership, independence, confidence, and perseverance.

Women bring their goals and challenges to the arena, where they:

Find a safe environment to feel respected by others
Gain a new sense of self-worth
Find a balance between assertiveness and femininity

Berkshire HorseWorks utilizes EAGALA Model Equine Assisted Team building to assist associates explore their individual and overall team effectiveness in the following ways: enhancement of effective communication, cohesion both intra and inter office, development of conflict resolution and customer satisfaction tools and identification of roles within the corporate arena.
Equine Assisted Team Building:

Cultivates empathy within the workplace, Navigates multicultural differences, Improves client services
Augments tolerance and respect among coworkers, Develops focus and goal-based thinking, ncreases productivity, balance, and concentration, inspires non-traditional problem-solving techniques, Fosters confidence and highlights personal strengths, Improves communication skills working cooperatively, Encourages individuality while accommodating collective goals, Stimulates mindfulness and clarity,

Girls Rule!
Berkshire HorseWorks’ eight week Girls Rule! program geared toward young women ages 12-20, utilizes EAGALA Model Equine Assisted Learning/Equine Assisted Psychotherapy to help them learn how to stand their ground when needed, practice self-care, and know when to ask for help. It is our intention to provide a safe, fun and challenging environment in which the participants may learn and grow. Through the powerful interaction with horses, young women explore important skills such as asserting healthy boundaries, managing obstacles, challenges and distractions, developing positive body image, and making empowered choices. Sessions are designed to foster self-reflection and target key strengths including leadership, independence, confidence, and perseverance.

Berkshire HorseWorks’ eight week Bully Prevention / Intervention Program utilizes EAGALA Model Equine Assisted Learning and Equine Assisted Learning to increase a child’s self-confidence, nurture empowerment through appropriate conflict-resolution, explore assertive communication, develop anger management skills, and provide a safe environment to have fun and strengthen self-care skills. The key goals of the program are to develop and explore emotional self-awareness through the use of perception, identify how problems are viewed and what strengths can be utilized to overcome challenges, explore control and the display of emotions to self and to others, look at differences and how to create tolerance in our lives, and finally to explore observations and perceptions and how they affect group dynamics.

Berkshire HorseWorks’ Life Skills program utilizes EAGALA Model Equine Assisted Learning practiced in 50 countries by over 4,500 professionals to increase self-confidence, foster creative thinking, encourage problem-solving, nurture empowerment, explore effective communication, enhance time management techniques, develop healthy boundaries, strengthen self-care skills, cultivate mutual respect, and provide a safe environment to have fun and build friendships.

This eight week program decreases academic truancy, teen pregnancy, and juvenile delinquency and provides students of all ages tools to work through any obstacle that presents itself as well as to cultivate social skills, thereby thriving in school, at home and in the community. The time spent with the horses in the arena can be either a standalone program or a complement to an existing Life Skills initiative in the district.

60 Minutes
Individual: $175.00 , $225.00, $275.00
Couple: $250.00-$400.00

90 Minutes
Individual: $250.00-$350.00
Couple: $350-$475.00
Group
Corp:$85.00-$115.00 (up to 8 ppl)
$85.00-$125.00 (over 8 ppl)
NP: $50.00-$75.00
Max 10 people
Family: $425.00-$600.00 (Max 8 ppl)

Half Day (3 hr. arena + snack)
Individual: $500.00-$700.00
Couple: $625.00 $850.00
Corp Group: $350.00-$450.00/person (Max 10 ppl)
NP Group: $600.00-$1,000.00 (Max 10 ppl)
Family: $700.00-$900.00 (Max 8 people)

Full day (6 hr arena + lunch)
Individual: $800.00-$1,200.00
Couple: $1,000.00-$1,500.00
Corp Group: $550.00$800.00/person (up to 8 ppl)
$450.00-$550.00/person (over 8)
NP Group: $1,200.00-$1,500.00
Family: $1,500.00-$2,500.00