Articles/Books
Through the Eyes of the Horse

EAGALA newsletter regarding Equine Assisted Psychotherapy 

How do you treat your horse?  Is it the same as you would treat your client or your therapy partner?
What I mean is; do you do any of the following things to your client or therapy partner:

  • Do you hit them?
  • Do you physically pull or push them about?
  • Do you bribe them or feed them treats for good behaviour?
  • Do you beg them to be compliant?
  • Do you kiss either of them? (I guess for a married therapy team outside of a session this would be OK).

If you answered yes to any of the above then there is a congruous or mirrored behaviour going on, if you are also doing these things with your horse.  This in itself would be of questionable professional behaviour on its own.
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True Humanship - By Ian Benson

Introduction to my forthcoming book “True Humanship”

 

There has been a lot written over recent years about horse whispering and natural horsemanship to form a very popular and ever growing wave of awareness about a better way of dealing with horses, which is all very nice and is putting the horseman back into the horsemanship equation.  However the human side of the horse-human-relationship is mentioned but not explored to any great depth.  Sure, there is a lot written about what to do and when to do it and how to do it, all very definitely from the physical perspective. What about what is going on within us at an emotional, mental and spiritual level; what effect does that have on the outcome in forming a relationship with our horses?  When we explore the relationship we have with our horse, how does that reflect the relationship we are having with ourselves and others we are in contact with? 
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