Building Stable Foundations
An Equine-Assisted Grief Curriculum for Adolescents
A structured, six-week educational group curriculum designed to help adolescents understand grief, explore emotions, develop healthy coping strategies, strengthen connection, and move toward hope.
Grief Doesn't Follow a Straight Line
Grief doesn’t come with a timeline, a checklist, or a right way to experience it. For adolescents especially, it can be difficult to understand why their emotions seem to change from one moment to the next, or why their grief may look so different from someone else’s.
Building Stable Foundations was created to give young people the space to explore those experiences at their own pace. By combining grief education with conversation, reflection, and meaningful interactions with horses, each session offers a different way to understand what they’re feeling, discover what helps, and recognize that moving forward doesn’t mean leaving the person they lost behind.
What’s Inside?
Six Weeks. One Intentional Journey.
1
Understanding Grief
Making sense of grief and understanding that everyone’s experience can look different.
2
Feelings
Identifying, understanding, and making space for the emotions that accompany loss.
3
Coping & Self-Care
Exploring healthy strategies for navigating difficult moments.
4
Remembering
Finding meaningful ways to honor memories and maintain connection.
5
Support & Connection
Identifying sources of support and recognizing that grief doesn’t have to be carried alone.
6
Hope & Moving Forward
Looking toward the future while honoring what, and who, will always be a part of the story.
Everything You Need
To Facilitate Each Session
Building Stable Foundations provides ready-to-use materials to save you time and give you confidence, so you can focus on showing up for the adolescents you serve.
Ready to Bring Building Stable Foundations to Your Program?
Give adolescents a structured, meaningful way to understand grief, build coping skills, and discover hope through horse-centered learning.
Your purchase includes the complete six-session Building Stable Foundations curriculum, including facilitator guides, lesson scripts, horse-centered activities, printable participant worksheets, weekly take-home challenges, and a certificate of completion.