Equine Fusion Equine Assisted Personal Development
Community Service in East Gippsland

It is well documented that the presence of an animal - even fish in an aquarium reconnects people with nature and their inner sense of calmness.
Animals are non judgemental and accept people regardless of gender, race, culture, skin colour, verbal capacity. Acceptance is the basis for building trust.
Physiologically, dogs and horses lower blood pressure and heart rate and therefore stress levels. Domestic animals allow clients to give and receive safe touch. Equine Fusion's dogs and horses have no inhibitions or ethical or legal ramifications to keep them from expressing their love through physical closeness.

Horses model self awareness and awareness of their environment. They pick up subtle changes and respond authentically. Horses do not lie or pretend.

Equine Assisted Personal Development is an experiential program with the horses where participants work together to find solutions. EAPD improves leadership capacity and team communication.

Horses are authentic relational beings who react in the moment. Participants see immediately how their actions impact the horses behaviour. The learning is immediate as participants see that one way will work with one horse but not the next.
Change becomes possible through awareness of self - how we interact with each other and communicate.

Clients participate in activities with horses where the goal is to help the client develop resiliency, coping skills and overcome social barriers.
Clients learn life skills and self empowerment through mindfulness and the emergent self awareness.
EAPD addresses human development needs directing the client to advance specific life skills, such as creative thinking, responsibility, leadership, relationships and problem solving.