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Char,
My take on this is a little different.You have been working with her in sessions for three months. My understanding is that this did not come up during a session but rather a training. Did you ask her what she meant by what she said? You will either trust her judgment as the Equine Specialist or not...I believe that is the issue at hand.
Everyone's horsemanship journey is different. I'll compare it to dog ownership for clarity although it in no way is the same. Some dog owners allow their dogs on the furniture and some do not. Some people keep their horses in stalls all day except when taking them out to school them. Others think that is close to abuse considering it denies the horse the opportunity for social interactions, a more natural eating pattern and is better for their hooves. Some people pull to stop, others exhale and their horse stops. Others kick to go, others lift their energy.
I'm saying this to show you that there is a wide range of horse handling methods used. Do you see the differences and how they would bring differences to the Equine Specialist role? I'm not as familiar with the therapeutic modalities but I know there are many and various. As Equine Specialists, we don't have the body of research behind our techniques.
It would perhaps be helpful for the two of you to work with a horse together and allow her to show you the horse behavior aspects while you show her the therapy opportunities of the horse being a horse. The more training in this field each of you gets the clearer your role and the other person's role becomes. There are a myriad of methods that 'get the job done' in helping others, utilizing the unique abilities of the horse.
Just my thoughts, take what you can use and leave the rest. :-)
Betsy
J_ranch2002 <jj_ranch2002@...> wrote:
J_ranch2002 <jj_ranch2002@...> wrote:
I would like to get some of you horse people out there who run riding
lesson programs along with EAP programs. My question is do you use
your horses that you use for riding lessons and also use them for
EAP? Or do you have horses you use for riding lessons and seperate
horses you use for EAP? And why??
I have only been at my new job for 3 months. It is a residential
program for kids and they have been doing EAP for 4 years. They have
a new horse person who is doing the riding lessons, she may have been
there for a year or less. This person went to one of the trainings
for OK Corral but did not like it and felt it was too hard on the
horses. She observed an activity during one of the EAP sessions
(using only the older mares who are no longer used for riding
lessons) and observed a group of male adolescents using a piece of
PVC pipe and a plastic milk crate to make noise to make the horses
move (Lesson was Equine Billiards) She felt that the noise the boys
made was too disturbing to use the lesson horses and that it would
ruin them as they are younger horses and would react more to the
noise.
I am just wondering how other people see EAP used and if any of you
feel there is any "damage" that might be done to lesson horses for
riding and should not be used for EAP.
Courious.........Char
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