11/12/2025
First snowfall in The Berkshires and our herd loved it! ❄️🐴🩵
Berkshire HorseWorks,Inc.
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The ranch has a dual focus on horse-centric mental health and wellness services, utilizing the transformative power of horses to facilitate change. Why Horses?
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101 Patton Road
Richmond, MA
01254
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The interaction between people and horses is the basis for personal growth and exploring group dynamics, utilizing the proven, effective and powerful EAGALA Model of Equine Assisted Learning(EAL), Equine Assisted Psychotherapy( EAP) and Equine Assisted Team Building. All are ground-based and no riding is involved. EAP addresses a broad spectrum of mental health and behavioral challenges including ADD, depression, eating disorders, anxiety, substance abuse, relationship problems and effective communication.
A key focus of the Berkshire HorseWorks curriculum is corporate team building for businesses both locally and from fly and drive in cities. Funds garnered from these staff development initiatives are earmarked to support programming for those at risk in the community.
Team building and Leadership: Horse and human are brought together to address a range of challenges and learning goals. Led by EAGALA trained and certified professionals, the Berkshire HorseWorks™ approach is extremely effective in motivating a corporation’s sales force or cultivating anti-bullying techniques in schools. Sessions can be applied to a wide range of situations: • Defining how employees can work as a team toward a common goal such as increased productivity or landing a new client. • Working with staff to adapt to a company’s new management style. • Helping struggling students deal with bullying at school or issues at home. • Navigating cultural differences and cultivating empathy. • Assisting military personnel and vets with PTSD to reintegrate into their family and community. • Providing support to adolescents and adults with drug and alcohol abuse issues. Why Horses? The intuitive animals are able to read and mirror the emotions and energy of the individuals, couples or groups around them, providing vast opportunities for metaphorical learning. Participants, gain awareness and are able to make positive changes in their lives. The healing power of the horse/human interaction is evidence-based and well documented. The EAGALA Model is a collaboration between an equine specialist, a licensed mental health professional and horses working with you and your team. Berkshire HorseWorks’ programs offer the tools to cope, heal, compete, challenge, communicate, lead, empathize and thrive in today’s world. We bring the amazingly powerful modality of Equine Assisted Psychotherapy and Equine Assisted Learning to the community to help augment, in a new way, the wellness and vitality of one's own heart, the heart and soul of others, and the heart of our vibrant workforce. Berkshire HorseWorks operates out of a 7 acre ranch located at 101 Patton Road, in Richmond, Massachusetts, with hiking trails, outdoor paddocks, a vernal spring and sun patio, walking meditation trails and quiet reading hamlets. To learn more about programs available at Berkshire HorseWorks please call (310) 488-9777 or email hayley@berkshirehorseworks.com
