When you find mind-like people, you can spend all night talking about nerdy stuff- folks call it “nerding out”. When I work with Alex Varn, leading troop psychologist of the German Bundeswehr, and his team, this happens frequently (by the way, also happens to horse and education people all the time).

During our work in Colorado at the Airforce Academy, we took the O.k. Corral training by Greg Kirsten together, and Alex joined in for Horse Boy 1 and 2, seeing the benefits for individual soldiers with PTSD and other neurological challenges, but also in reconnecting and supporting military families.

Since then, we have had multiple occasions...

Equine-assisted interventions

I was recently invited by Alexander Varn, a German military psychologist, and friend, to observe his first part of an interesting research study on the effectiveness of equine-assisted interventions.

 Creativity often drained, resilience at the end of capacity, feelings of defeat- many of our Horse Boy Tribe, friends, and families have experienced this in the days of COVID 19. Now, this is not another relentless reflection on all the negative things that have happened in the last year, but actually a story of hope.

Autism Haiku

May not have the words

to share my experience

Understand me still

What an interesting Haiku and how fitting- This experience cannot truly be described in a few words- and the connection to autism will soon be obvious in more than one way.