New Trails Learning Systems
Ending the notion that suffering is necessary for learning
A sign on the wall at Rosemary Graff’s Laughing Buck Farm says “Your success and happiness lies in you,” and another at Deb Michael’s HorseBuds reads “Forget the mistake, remember the lesson.” Those words perfectly capture what it means to be part of a Horse Boy Tribe.
Wenn Gleichgesinnten Gesprächspartner sich finden, koennen sie oft die ganze Nacht über bestimmte Themen reden Im Englischen umgangssprachlichen wird dies auch „nerding out“ genannt. Als ich mit Alex Varn, führendem - Truppen Psychologen der deutschen Bundeswehr und seinem Team arbeitete, geschah dies sehr häufig. (Dieses Phaenomen kommt auch oft mit Pferdeleuten und Menschen im Lehrbereich vor.)
Während unserer Arbeit in Colorado bei der Airforce Academy nahmen wir zusammen an dem O.k Corral Training von Greg Kirsten teil und Alex nahm am Horse Boy 1 und 2 Training teil um die Vorteile für individuelle Soldaten mit PTBS und anderen neurologischen Herausforderungen ebenso wie die Wiederverbindung innerhalb der Militärfamilien zu unterstützen.
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.
Bear with me, this is a lot of information- but hopefully interesting and supportive.
In July 2020 a number of educational leaders got together to brainstorm alternatives to educational system solutions that just did not seem to be the proper answer to the needs of students and children in this time of worries and crisis. After hours of intense collaboration and creative outpouring, ideas, and new approaches were developed.
Unsichere Zeiten: Unbeantwortete Fragen - Die Bewegungsmethode „Movement Method", bietet Lösungen
Im Juli 2020 versammelten sich eine Reihe von Bildungsleitern, um Alternativen zu Lösungen des Bildungssystems zu erarbeiten, die in dieser Zeit der Sorgen und Krisen einfach nicht die richtige Antwort auf die Bedürfnisse von Schülern und Kindern zu sein schienen. Nach Stunden intensiver Zusammenarbeit und kreativer Ausgießung wurden Ideen und neue Ansätze entwickelt.