Equine-Assisted Activities
Equine-Assisted Mental Health
Nature-Based Activities
Therapeutic Music Activities
Therapeutic Art Activities
“Clients can feel more engaged, interested and motivated to address challenges in their life, if animals, nature, music and art are supporting, facilitating, assisting and engaged alongside them.”
Featuring our own “Ranch Hand” therapeutic in hand program, “Healthy As A Horse” educational program, “Ride Em’” - therapeutic horseback riding, Hippotherapy, and our “Buddy Reading Program” Horse Powered Reading & “MoJoe’s Mighty Magic Math” Horse Powered Math.
We are ALL born with innate needs for safe connection, attunement, love, belonging, trust and safety. Horses can support to satisfy these basic human core needs. This all takes place on the farm setting, in the moment, with no judgement. “If we listen to horses, we have an opportunity to re-learn what we already know in our hearts, our bodies, our minds, and our beings. Allow horses to guide you back home to yourself, towards greater fulfilment and engagement in your relationships, and in life.” -Meg Kirby
Featuring experiential, educational and therapeutic processes that value the concept of “biophilia”, through our own “Nature of Hope” program. Biophilia is recognized by scholars from Aristotle to Fromm, as the deep affiliations humans have with other life forms and nature as a whole that are simply rooted in our biology. The “biophilia hypothesis” demonstrates how humans possess an innate tendency to seek connections with nature and other forms of life.
Therapeutic music activities and interventions can address a variety of healthcare & educational goals and many can benefit from music therapy services.
Art therapy is a therapeutic approach that puts art at the service of health and well-being for participants of all ages, stages, and differing abilities.
All experiential offerings take place on one of Horses of Hope’s magical 40-acre horse farm, including either the "Hope Trail" or "Hope Grove"
Animal-Assisted Therapeutic Experiences
Animal-assisted therapeutic activities is an alternative or complementary type of therapy that includes the use of animals in a treatment. The goal of this animal-assisted intervention is to improve a participant's social, emotional, physical or cognitive functioning. Farm animals at the farm currently include dogs, goats, lambs, horses, donkeys and more additions on the horizon.
