Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Marriage and Family Therapy Conference





Hello fellow bloggers and blog readers :)

During a weekend in February, I attended a conference in Marriage and Family Therapy. Among the interesting speakers there, there was also an option to attend a section on EQUINE THERAPY

Can you guess what I did?

Our un-mounted session included three problem solving exercises built from the EAGALA model (EAGALA is one of three main institutions available for Equine Therapy Accreditation, the other two are CHA and NARHA)


Anyway, During the session we tried to move the horses without any materials (like halters or lead ropes) and the photographer at the conference caught some neat moments with me and two of the horses (they were following me around the arena)



I was actually thrilled to see this new model of Equine Therapy, and impressed with the Reins of Change Program - maybe I'll be sending blogs from there in the future! Here I am with my "serious" listening face.



6 comments:

Chels said...

Hey! Did you leave Heritage before we started doing EAGALA?!? Did you know that Chelsea and I got certified in it? It's so cool. I know you probably helped with some of the Life's Little Obstacles activities, but yeah... it's awesome. I love EAGALA!!!

Chels said...

Hey! Did you leave Heritage before we started doing EAGALA?!? Did you know that Chelsea and I got certified in it? It's so cool. I know you probably helped with some of the Life's Little Obstacles activities, but yeah... it's awesome. I love EAGALA!!!

Chels said...

Sorry my comment posted twice...

Kelty said...

lol! No prob. Chels - I agree, EAGALA is pretty dang awesome. I miss you! I'll call sometime soon. . .

Ginger said...

Wow. That's quite amazing! How DO you lead them around? A magnetizing aura?

I'm so happy you are gaining even more skills in this groundbreaking field.

YOU ROCK!

Love, Mom

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