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Equine Assisted Learning for Creatives
EAL SESSIONS DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY FOR ARTISTS
Healing After a Difficult Creative Endeavor
Creation is an emotional experience, and for many artists, it can be an incredibly taxing and triggering journey. Those who are not engaged in artistic expression may not fully grasp how exhausting this creative process can be. Some artists power through their projects, often neglecting self-care and the importance of artist support along the way. Upon completing a project, many artists experience feelings of grief, confusion, anxiety, and loss, which can be overwhelming. It’s essential to recognize when you may need to reset your nervous system and seek support for the emotions that have surfaced. Creative coaching, along with Equine Assisted Learning (EAL) sessions, can be excellent tools to help navigate these challenges.
Seeking Help with Creative Blocks
Often, artists face challenges in compartmentalizing their thoughts and emotions. In today's world, many individuals with empathy, sensitivity, and compassion struggle to focus and create. This is where Equine Assisted Learning (EAL) sessions come into play, offering vital artist support that helps participants reconnect with their bodies, regulate their nervous systems, and uncover new insights. Many clients report feeling grounded, calm, centered, and peaceful after just one session of creative coaching.
Focusing Energy Between Projects
Whether you are managing several projects in your medium, switching between mediums, embarking on a career shift, or struggling to decide which project to pursue, Equine Assisted Learning (EAL) can provide the artist support you need. Through creative coaching, EAL can enlighten, inspire, and clarify your path.
Refining Existing Work
Perspective is everything. EAL sessions, combined with creative coaching and integrative coaching, can illuminate the path and foster a new relationship with self-analysis, allowing us to critique without harmful messaging. Horses, being non-judgmental, enable us to connect and observe them, helping identify patterns and behaviors that may be holding us back, ultimately supporting our journey as artists.
Exploring New Work
Spending time in the presence of horses opens us up to ourselves, our future, our healing, our development, and our relationships. This practice, which is a form of Equine Assisted Learning (EAL), is about being curious and wondering. It honors the process of questioning and exploring, much like the support provided in artist support and creative coaching. Time moves more slowly for horses, and this EAL practice allows us to slow down, too. This gives us the space to dream, imagine, and let our minds wander to different landscapes and worlds.
Finding Your Authentic Voice
If you feel unsure of your authentic voice in your work and seek a deeper connection with that voice, consider the gift of EAL sessions and creative coaching. These integrative coaching experiences offer invaluable artist support. Horses act as mirrors, and spending time with them can reveal aspects of ourselves that we wish to understand better and bring forward.
Elise is a dedicated Recovery and Life Skills Coach with over 15 years of extensive experience guiding individuals through addiction recovery, mental health challenges, and life transitions. She is a certified Equine Assisted Learning Facilitator and a graduate of the highly lauded Shakti Ranch program in Malibu, California.
Skilled in goal setting, personalized support, and fostering sustainable growth, Elise emphasizes adaptability, communication, and problem-solving. Her commitment to empowering clients helps them build authentic, fulfilling, and resilient lives, particularly through her unique artist support initiatives.
As a Life Skills Coach, Elise integrates creative coaching into her practice, using creativity and creative expression as tools to develop critical thinking skills, problem-solving abilities, empathy, emotional regulation, self-soothing techniques, cognitive reappraisal, and more. Familiar with various therapeutic modalities including DBT, CBT, and Harm Reduction, she has been fortunate to participate in trainings at UCLA with Dr. Timothy Fong, Dr. Georgina Smith, and other well-respected leaders in the treatment community.
A proud graduate of Pitzer College at the Claremont Colleges with a BA in Media Studies, Elise is also an award-winning writer and producer. Her creative work embodies themes related to trauma, trust, truth, and transformation.
Always a believer in the healing power of the arts, she encourages the creation and sharing of artistic expression as a path to recovery and continued discovery. Her EAL facilitation practice is solely focused on supporting artists and creatives.