THE NEW STANDARD IN TRAUMA-FOCUSED
EQUINE-ASSISTED PSYCHOTHERAPY
Natural Lifemanship for the mental health field facilitates a process whereby clients are able to address and move through past or present damaging life circumstances, understand how those circumstances affect their current interactions, and make the personal changes necessary for healthy, fulfilling relationships in the present and future.
WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT?
Objects are metaphors, relationships are not. The horse is not a metaphor for other relationships. The relationship between horse and human is a real relationship.
Natural Lifemanship views the horse much, much differently than many other forms of equine-assisted psychotherapy and Natural Horsemanship. In Natural Lifemanship, the horse’s value is as a real relationship partner. Furthermore, rather than viewing the relationship as a hierarchical one, where the human strives to dominate, lead, or “think for” the horse or act as the “herd leader”, we assert that the most beneficial horse-human relationship accrues from a partnership in which each partner chooses to ‘do the right thing’ for the other because it is the right thing to do, not out of fear or submissiveness.
Reprinted with expressed permission © 2018 Natural Lifemanship
THE NEW STANDARD IN TRAUMA-FOCUSED
EQUINE-ASSISTED PSYCHOTHERAPY
Natural Lifemanship for the mental health field facilitates a process whereby clients are able to address and move through past or present damaging life circumstances, understand how those circumstances affect their current interactions, and make the personal changes necessary for healthy, fulfilling relationships in the present and future.
WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT?
Objects are metaphors, relationships are not. The horse is not a metaphor for other relationships. The relationship between horse and human is a real relationship.
Natural Lifemanship views the horse much, much differently than many other forms of equine-assisted psychotherapy and Natural Horsemanship. In Natural Lifemanship, the horse’s value is as a real relationship partner. Furthermore, rather than viewing the relationship as a hierarchical one, where the human strives to dominate, lead, or “think for” the horse or act as the “herd leader”, we assert that the most beneficial horse-human relationship accrues from a partnership in which each partner chooses to ‘do the right thing’ for the other because it is the right thing to do, not out of fear or submissiveness.
Reprinted with expressed permission © 2018 Natural Lifemanship
EQUINE-ASSISTED PSYCHOTHERAPY
Natural Lifemanship for the mental health field facilitates a process whereby clients are able to address and move through past or present damaging life circumstances, understand how those circumstances affect their current interactions, and make the personal changes necessary for healthy, fulfilling relationships in the present and future.
WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT?
Objects are metaphors, relationships are not. The horse is not a metaphor for other relationships. The relationship between horse and human is a real relationship.
Natural Lifemanship views the horse much, much differently than many other forms of equine-assisted psychotherapy and Natural Horsemanship. In Natural Lifemanship, the horse’s value is as a real relationship partner. Furthermore, rather than viewing the relationship as a hierarchical one, where the human strives to dominate, lead, or “think for” the horse or act as the “herd leader”, we assert that the most beneficial horse-human relationship accrues from a partnership in which each partner chooses to ‘do the right thing’ for the other because it is the right thing to do, not out of fear or submissiveness.
Reprinted with expressed permission © 2018 Natural Lifemanship
THE NEW STANDARD IN TRAUMA-FOCUSED
EQUINE-ASSISTED PSYCHOTHERAPY
Natural Lifemanship for the mental health field facilitates a process whereby clients are able to address and move through past or present damaging life circumstances, understand how those circumstances affect their current interactions, and make the personal changes necessary for healthy, fulfilling relationships in the present and future.
WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT?
Objects are metaphors, relationships are not. The horse is not a metaphor for other relationships. The relationship between horse and human is a real relationship.
Natural Lifemanship views the horse much, much differently than many other forms of equine-assisted psychotherapy and Natural Horsemanship. In Natural Lifemanship, the horse’s value is as a real relationship partner. Furthermore, rather than viewing the relationship as a hierarchical one, where the human strives to dominate, lead, or “think for” the horse or act as the “herd leader”, we assert that the most beneficial horse-human relationship accrues from a partnership in which each partner chooses to ‘do the right thing’ for the other because it is the right thing to do, not out of fear or submissiveness.
Reprinted with expressed permission © 2018 Natural Lifemanship
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