Kent Equine Facilitated Learning

23/11/2025

IMPORTANT UPDATE: FAMILY ADVICE CLINICS

📢 Gravesend Family Advice Clinic Update

A quick update for this week’s clinic at The City Praise Centre:

🚗 Parking: Due to an event on Thursday, the main car park won’t be available. Please use the side car park, accessed via Dering Way (opposite Kwik Fit).

👋 Staff update: Dez won’t be at the clinic this week, but a family advisor will still be available to assist you. Dez will be back on 27th November.

CLINIC DATES:

Dartford – New Venue
When: Tuesdays, term time only, starting 9 September
Time: 9.30 am – 2 pm
Where: Dartford Valley Rugby Club, Cotton Lane, Dartford DA2 6PD
Final 1-2-1 Advice Drop-in for 2025: Tuesday, 9 December
Restart: Tuesday, 13 January 2026

Sevenoaks
When: Wednesdays, term time only, starting 10 September
Time: 10 am – 2 pm
Where: House in the Basement, Youth Café, Stag Community Arts Centre, London Road, Sevenoaks TN13 1ZZ
Final 1-2-1 Advice Drop-in for 2025: Wednesday, 10 December
Restart: Wednesday, 14 January 2026
Entry via the right-hand side of the Stag Theatre.

Gravesend
When: Thursdays, term time only, starting 11 September
Time: 9.30 am – 2 pm
Where: The Maltings, City Praise Centre, 9-11 Lower Road, Gravesend DA12 2LY
Final 1-2-1 Advice Drop-in for 2025: Thursday, 11 December
Restart: Thursday, 15 January 2026

For more information and contact details, visit our website: www.wearebeams.org.uk/family-advice/

22/11/2025

20/11/2025

Due to the extreme cold and icy conditions this week, we're working to provide emergency accommodation for rough sleepers in the District during this time. If you see any street homeless people, please call 01732 227000 & ask to be put through to the Housing Advice team or, visit https://www.sevenoaks.gov.uk/info/20045/homelessness_and_finding_a_home/379/rough_sleeper_-_advice_and_report

18/11/2025

08/11/2025

Social and emotional interactions not IQ is the strongest predictor of life long sucess.

Read that again. Building these skills into early learning over sats is the change we need to ensure. As parents and families we should demand this from our children’s education.

03/11/2025

28/10/2025

We can be kind, approachable, and open to discussion, but we’re also allowed to draw a line when it comes to welfare.

Education and empathy can exist alongside boundaries. Gentle communication doesn’t mean endless tolerance, and we can stay open to dialogue without blurring the line between different and harmful.

Advocacy and education aren’t the same, but they need each other. Education invites curiosity. It opens doors, builds understanding, and helps people see why change matters. Advocacy draws the line. It says, “This isn’t okay.” It protects the very welfare that education works to nurture.

It’s not unkind to name harm, and it’s not “negative” to take a stand or draw a line.

Choosing to advocate doesn’t make us unreasonable or “too emotional.” It means we’ve seen what species-appropriate care looks like, and we know it’s possible. Advocacy isn’t arrogance, it’s awareness.

If something with advocacy or education feels uncomfortable, it doesn’t always mean it’s an attack. It might just be an invitation to look a little closer at why it feels that way.

That discomfort isn’t directed at you. It’s directed at the system that convinced so many of us that certain practices were good for horses. Questioning that system is VERY important.

Real welfare means drawing the line, even when it feels uncomfortable, for the one saying it or the one hearing it.

26/10/2025

Body scan for people this is a check in with self to see what part of my body is holding onto tension giving awareness

Get the stuck energy out by movement breath acknowledgement .. stored trauma sits in facia connective tissue .. you may dance yoga or imagine / meditate it out.

As the energy shifts and spaces are open in the body repeat the affirmation I am safe in my body I release old negative behaviour and fill my body and soul with amazing experiences.

26/10/2025

26/10/2025

🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🦙🦙🦙🦙🐱🐱 Here’s our liscence from Sevenoaks council to show our diligence and ethics in the care of our herd staff clients and visitors. This doesn’t come easy there are several policies and duties we must comply with including training insurances supervision and a safe space to be in. If you are in Kent and visiting an animal assisted business like a riding school Zoo or even a therapy with a dog you must always have access to this certificate. We have transferred ours onto a metal sign and will display them on the yard. We also will run a training day on this for anyone in the local area who runs animal assisted therapies and would like help to gain this certificate.

Thank you to the team at Kent Equine Facilitated Learning CIC for your continuing efforts to be the best we can be for all concerned Archie and the herd are very grateful.