Elysian: providing animal-assisted therapy and learning
Four guinea pigs sitting side by side, looking at the camera

Therapeutic education and animal-assisted intervention

Elysian supports children and young people with SEN across Surrey and Hampshire, through education, therapy and animals.

Two Shetland ponies resting their heads together in a field at Elysian, Shamley Green

The Elysian Approach

The Elysian Approach is individualised, animal-assisted and led by the young person rather than a fixed curriculum. Learning happens through relationship as much as through structured teaching: PACE-oriented, neurodiversity-affirming, and built around nature, sensory awareness and positive risk-taking. It is evidence-based and responsive, adjusting to what each young person needs rather than asking them to fit a single model.

Read about the Elysian Approach in full

Elysian in numbers

2015

Providing therapeutic education and animal-assisted intervention since

34

Different species of animal across all three sites

3

SEND education provisions, each separately registered and separately inspected

17

Different programmes and opportunities available

~100

Multidisciplinary staff across the organisation

2 weeks

Our aim to respond to every referral

A Shetland pony waiting at a gate
A young rider and pony clearing a jump
A young goat standing on an adult goat
A bearded dragon, close up
A ewe with her newborn lambs

Elsewhere in the Elysian group

Ready to refer, or want to talk it through first?

We aim to respond to every referral and enquiry within two weeks.

Or email us directly: refer@elysianuk.org