This is a wonderfully exciting time...

...when you've first discovered EAP/EAL!

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You've been hearing about Equine Assisted Psychotherapy & Learning, and want to learn more: how does it work, what does it take, how can you get involved? Congratulations! This is the website for you!

Or, you are already getting requests for it at your barn or office, and have just now had the time to check into it. You, too, are in the right place.

I hear from so many who are delighted to learn they can marry their passions of helping people and their love of horses. As you get underway, here's some key actions you might take, and some resources to support you on the journey.

Your help is invaluable to those of us beginning to find our way toward EAP. Thank you for all that you do to promote the professionalism and success of EAP.
--Gina Martin

Key Actions:

• Training & Education: Become familiar with the landscape & develop a vocabulary of terms.
  
• What is EAP/EFP/EGE (aside from alphabet soup?)
  

• What kind of Training is Available, and how can I participate?
  
• Decisions & Set-Up: Some key decisions to be considering are
  
• Do you want to be a for-profit or a non-profit?
• What's your Vision & Mission?
  
• Creating a Business Plan!
  
• The Basics: the Who, What, Where, When of your Program
  
• Who: Create your team of horses & humans
• What: Start-Up Funding/Expenses to Expect: what you need
• Where: Plan your facility for horses & clients, and also for any officework you'll need to do
  
• When: How quickly do you want to get there, and what kind of resources do you currently have
  

Resources to Assist You:

• The Horse Sense Business Sense Vol. 1 book
  
• The Trailblazers Program, for ongoing support and information to support you on your journey. 3-month, 6-month and 1 year packages are available.
• Free Calls: (most every) month, Horse Sense interviews others in the field to bring you the most exciting and provocative news. Check our Calendar of Classes & Workshops for upcoming topics. Visit our Past Guest Telecalls page to listen to many of the more recent calls.
  
• Fundamentals Calls: like our Free Monthly Telecalls, (most every) month Shannon will host a call on an important topic of interest to EAP/EAL businesses. Past topics include All about Pricing, Websites, Emotional Intelligence and EAP/EAL, just to name a few. Check the Calendar of Classes & Workshops for upcoming topics.
  

As you continue to develop, I offer these things to consider, some of which I wish I'd known about when I started!

Although these concepts were developed out of my years of experience starting and running my own EAP Mental Health facility, the basics apply to any good business. Let us know how we can further help you: email me at Shannon@HorseSenseOtc.com.