Bøger af Rebecca Cook

Managing Stress With Horse Sense, 12 Steps to Integrity With Your Horse!In-teg-ri-ty (noun)1. the quality of being trustworthy, sincere, decent, honorable, fair.2. the state of being whole, together, in unity. Horses are herd animals and experience stress when separated from others, it's their survival instinct, dangers lurk away from the protection of the herd. How do you get your horse to trust in your safe leadership in your herd of two?Take a grounded and spiritual approach to leadership! Here are the 12-steps: * STEP 1 - BE HONEST ABOUT YOUR FEAR * * STEP 2 - KEEP STRESS FROM HOME OR WORK OUT OF THE BARN * * STEP 3 - LOVE IS MAINTAINING GOOD BOUNDARIES * * STEP 4 - UNDERSTANDING HORSES AS FLIGHT ANIMALS * * STEP 5 - RISK MANAGEMENT AND ACCIDENT "AFTERCARE" * * STEP 6 - LEARNING NON-VERBAL HORSE COMMUNICATION * * STEP 7 - EVOLUTION OF THE HORSE AND CAUSES OF EQUINE STRESS * * STEP 8 - DOMINANCE AND WHO MOVES WHOM * * STEP 9 - HOW TO HELP YOUR HORSE WANT TO COME TO YOU * * STEP 10 - SPOOKING, LOOKING THROUGH THE EYES OF A HORSE * * STEP 11 - HERD HIERARCHY AND LEADERSHIP * * STEP 12 - STRESS RELIEF FOR THE IDEAL PARTNERSHIP * Why a coloring book? Research shows that focusing on something that's concrete and repetitive (coloring), relaxes the portion of the parietal and frontal lobes in your brain, the same areas connected to spirituality and those that are associated with meditation and prayer. Coloring not only decreases anxiety, it's opens your connection and relaxation to help you with problem solving.If you are a new horse owner, or seeking to increase your confidence around horses, or perhaps interested in the equine assisted activities and therapy industry, then this book will help you discover how to display leadership when your horse steps into your space, problem solve why a horse pins his ears, and give you ways to display confidence when you're not feeling that way.Judging your horse as behaving badly leads to acts of punishment. Whereas thinking of your horse struggling to handle a difficult situation encourages you to go into problem solving mode.12 Steps To Integrity With Your Horse is a different type of adult coloring book with a learning purpose focused on deepening your relationship with horses. It is a coaching book, a teaching book, and a personal journal. The book is short and to the point (less than 50 cents a page), each of the 12 steps has a page of description and a coloring page. The result is a whole brain learning activity designed especially for adults (and teens too) ... to assist in becoming a trustworthy and fair partner in unity with your horse.Rebecca Cook is an Occupational Therapist and Equine Professional with over 30 years of experience in the arena. She is also the author of The Brown Pony Series.What books are available in the Brown Pony Series?Book One: Introduction to Hippotherapy Book Two: Risk Management and Safety in Hippotherapy Book Three: Considering Hippotherapy in Your Career Plans Book Four: The Business of Hippotherapy PLUS these companion book titles ... Barn RulesTally UpSafe Horse HandlingIncorporating Games in Hippotherapy

Brown Pony Series Book Two: Risk Management and Safety in Hippotherapy, illuminates ten years of research both published and unpublished that has been completed by the author on safety and managing risks when combining horses and people with disabilities in a therapy milieu. This book is for therapists, riding instructors, facility owners, horse owners, trainers, family members, physicians, insurers and all stakeholders who are concerned about the risks associated with horses.The insights will help to guide your decision-making in your own work with horses. You won't want to miss the valuable information provided in each chapter!IMPORTANT NOTE: This book was updated on September 1, 2017 with a summary of the safety data collected from a ten-year study that ended January 15, 2017. You'll find this information in the section titled Appendix II.Rebecca Cook is an Occupational Therapist and Equine Professional with over 30 years of experience in the arena. She has authored 12 Steps to Integrity With Your Horse, Saddle Fit Simplified, and is also the author of The Brown Pony Series. What books are available in the Brown Pony Series? Book One: Introduction to Hippotherapy Book Two: Risk Management and Safety in Hippotherapy Book Three: Considering Hippotherapy in Your Career Plans Book Four: The Business of Hippotherapy PLUS ... Barn Rules: A Companion Book to the Brown Pony Series - A teaching tool of basic barn rules in social stories and pictures for instructors, riders, parents, and volunteers. Tally Up: A Companion Book to the Brown Pony Series - Checklists created from a task analysis of showmanship and riding skills that can be used to improve understanding of a Judge's class placings and to provide a foundation of skills to practice for competition. Also, a great breakdown of skills for an instructor to use in lesson planning. Safe Horse Handling: A Companion Book to the Brown Pony Series - Increase awareness of common sense safety to implement when working around horses. Some of the tips may be inadvertently overlooked until there is an accident. Great for equine instructors, therapeutic riding volunteer training, and equine assisted activity and therapy programs. Incorporating Games in Hippotherapy: A Companion Book to the Brown Pony Series - Play is the "work" of the child (and the de-stressor of the adult). Play engages the whole person: imagination, emotion, cognition, and engagement, along with the physical skills components of the game activities. Games can build in a reason for completing various ring figures, speed changes, stops and starts. Learn ideas for layering on goal-oriented game activities in a hippotherapy session.

The Brown Pony Series Book Four: The Business of Hippotherapy was written primarily for therapists and business managers who are gathering information about operating a therapy business for their human clients that includes partnering with horses in their treatment planning. The author writes, "When I began offering hippotherapy treatment in 1993, there were no employers and I was compelled to create a private therapy practice. In those early years it felt as though I were forging a path into the unknown." This book is an accumulation of all the investment, trial and error, and experience from those years, distilled to help you move forward and realize your dreams. The book is laid out logically ...Beginning with information on Common Practice on how other therapists incorporate hippotherapyProceeding to a section on "Starting Out, " which highlights the importance of a legal structure, risks and limiting your liabilityMoving onto hippotherapy specific horse and facility considerationsFollowed by a section on how to budget and set therapy feesThen an entire chapter on session cancellationsAnd finishing with dozens of samples of business formsRebecca Cook is an Occupational Therapist and Equine Professional with over 30 years of experience in the arena. She has authored 12 Steps to Integrity With Your Horse, Saddle Fit Simplified, and is also the author of The Brown Pony Series. What books are available in the Brown Pony Series? Book One: Introduction to Hippotherapy Book Two: Risk Management and Safety in Hippotherapy Book Three: Considering Hippotherapy in Your Career Plans Book Four: The Business of Hippotherapy PLUS ... Barn Rules: A Companion Book to the Brown Pony Series - A teaching tool of basic barn rules in social stories and pictures for instructors, riders, parents, and volunteers. Tally Up: A Companion Book to the Brown Pony Series - Checklists created from a task analysis of showmanship and riding skills that can be used to improve understanding of a Judge's class placings and to provide a foundation of skills to practice for competition. Also, a great breakdown of skills for an instructor to use in lesson planning. Safe Horse Handling: A Companion Book to the Brown Pony Series - Increase awareness of common sense safety to implement when working around horses. Some of the tips may be inadvertently overlooked until there is an accident. Great for equine instructors, therapeutic riding volunteer training, and equine assisted activity and therapy programs. Incorporating Games in Hippotherapy: A Companion Book to the Brown Pony Series - Play is the "work" of the child (and the de-stressor of the adult). Play engages the whole person: imagination, emotion, cognition, and engagement, along with the physical skills components of the game activities. Games can build in a reason for completing various ring figures, speed changes, stops and starts. Learn ideas for layering on goal-oriented game activities in a hippotherapy session.