Meet the herd at Burringbar Equine Centre and experience a range of learning and personal development opportunities

​Providing Equine Assisted Learning and Therapy for children/adolescents, individuals and groups. 

​Supervised experiences with horses and other animals can support clients to work toward 
​- increased awareness of patterns that no longer serve us  
- an increased awareness of self in relationship to others and to the world around us
- further developing social and emotional skills
- physical skill development
- becoming more present and grounded  
- understanding and learning to create clear and healthy boundaries 
- improved capacity to make appropriate choices
- building resilience and resources for self-support in an ever changing world 
- deepening our connection with the wisdom inherent in the natural world
- problem solving and building capacity to cope with change, transitions and challenges
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Horses live in the present moment. They are emotionally congruent and authentic and can teach us much about ourselves, and ourselves in relationship to others.  

Horses have a strong sense of belonging and live in constant connection with each other. They remind us of the interconnectedness of all things. 

Horses have an instinctual and intuitive nature and can help us re-connect with our own instincts, feelings and intuition. They sense and respond to thoughts as much as feelings and can remind us of the power of our thoughts and how they create our experience. 
        Horses have unique characteristics that can and do impact people.

The Paradoxical Theory of Change

“Change occurs when one becomes what he is, not when he tries to become what he is not”  (Beisser 1970)


Horses offer us a unique opportunity to understand ourselves better.
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​And Allah took a handful of the south wind, 
breathed into it and created the horse
"You I have created without compare. 
All the treasures of the world lie between your eyes. 
Virtue is braided into the hair of your forelock . . .  
I have given you the power to fly 
without wings and triumph without sword . . . "  
             - Ancient Bedouin legend