The Human Horse Learning Journey

 I never thought when I chose to work professionally with horses and help educate their owners that I'd be "taking on"...

The human emotional chaos

Constant mental distraction in people 

Addressing human trauma and unhealthy coping behaviors sabatoging their equine partnership 

Teaching work ethic, commitment, and follow-through 

Helping people find emotional neutrality

Guiding folks to learn patience- with themselves and their horse 

Helping people learn how to learn

Undoing years of toxic, ego-based judgements of the equine 

Sharing insight and offering empathy into acknowledging the Horse's mental, emotional, and physical feedback 

Teaching Horse Behavior 

Guiding students to see Challenges as Opportunities 

Helping equine enthusiasts realize the Horse Learning journey is not a straight line but an increasingly winding one

Sharing the value in refinement and quality rather than task fixation

Teaching responsibility and accountability for their behaviors... and the consequences they have had on the horse...

That despite hours of coaching, guiding, rational thinking taught to someone on their horse learning journey, it can quickly be obliterated by the all too common and impulsive, "Yeah, but I want to" irrational, emotional equine-related decisions that far more times than not, lead to years of mental, emotional, physical, financial stress.... nevermind the "price" many horses pay for human's self-imposed urgent needs to fulfill emotional indulgences.

I recently had a few folks ask how decades later I'm still happy to help people... There are only so many horses I can logistical educate. The reality is, even of those, if owners aren't learning, they cannot maintain what the horse's education. So, as my motto states,

"Helping Horses, one Human at a Time."

The better the horse-related education a person has,  the increased chances of developing and maintaining curious, willing, adaptable, reasonable horses.

Authored by Alternative Horsemanship with Samantha Harvey The Remote Horse Coach