*** Greeneville, TN | Sessions by Appointment Only | Call or Text (423) 268-4126 ***
✓ Self-worth, SELF-CONFIDENCE, mindfulness
✓ TRUST, EMPATHY, responsibility, healthy relationships
✓ COMMUNICATION, LEADERSHIP, INDEPENDENCE
What We Do
We facilitate the interactive engagement of participants with our horses to provide richer and deeper experiential learning opportunities and outcomes for essential social and emotional life skills development. What do we mean by life skills? In short, they are the psychosocial abilities and positive inter-personal behaviors that enable individuals to make informed decisions, solve problems, communicate effectively, build relationships, and deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life. Such skills include trust, assertiveness, self-worth, self-awareness, self-confidence, self-regulation, patience, empathy, healthy relationships, communication, problem solving, and more! And while enjoying activities with horses is fun, experiencing authentic connections and relationships with horses is awesome!
*** We do not offer horse training, clinics, riding lessons or trail riding. ***
Why Horses?
Each horse has its own thoughts, feelings, emotions, and personality. Horses are sociable, non-judgmental, very sensitive to our energy, highly attuned and responsive to our behavior, provide immediate feedback, and they are capable of individualized connections and authentic relationships. Engaging with horses through our programming can yield significant experiential and therapeutic benefits while being more fun, more exciting, more engaging, more powerful, more intense, more effective, and more rewarding than other life skills development approaches!
Our Discipleship with Horses (DWH) program provides biblically based equine assisted activities and experiential learning to teenagers and young adults for essential social and emotional life skills development while helping participants see God’s relational truths reflected in their equine partners, and enabling navigation of their daily lives more confidently and effectively through sound wisdom, healthier relationships, and well-being.
Experience incredible encounters with our horses, connecting, interacting, and partnering with them while discovering the beauty of their grace, intelligence, emotions, personalities, and authentic, non-judgmental cooperation, all while enhancing many basic life skills, including trust, confidence, leadership, better communication, respect for boundaries, healthy relationships, and more!
HEART (Horses Empowering Autistic Resilience Together) is our equine-assisted learning (EAL) Autism & Horses program that helps foster significant improvements in emotional regulation, social communication, and self-confidence through various horse-assisted interactions. The rhythmic motion and calming presence of horses …
Our Path to Freedom (PTF) program is a faithful implementation of Recovery-HUB’s equine-assisted recovery resources, practical skills, and spiritual foundation that augment and enhance Christ-centered, 12-step and comparable approaches to healing from trauma, addiction, and emotional struggles. This is accomplished …
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We thank the Lord Jesus Christ for the blessings we receive daily and the ministry of service we are able to provide both to our horses and to you through Mentoring with Horses!
It is such a privilege to be able to share the joy and passion of horses with you, and a joy to see them receive and enjoy the love, appreciation, compassion, and respect they inherently deserve while helping them have authentic and transformational connections and experiences directly with you.
We want you to have amazing life-changing experiences of your own, and welcome your constructive comments and suggestions as we strive to offer encounters that are inspiring and sensational for all involved, to the glory of God, from Whom all blessings flow!
Sincerely, Victor & Helen Mathis, Mentoring With Horses LLC
Need More Information of Clarifications?
Let’s connect directly! Please call or text us at (423) 268-4126 or email us at MentoringWithHorses@gmail.com