HCHY List: Is anyone using the Developmental assets with adolescents and horses

[DEREK PETERSON]

Hi Becky,
I am a long time "asset builder" and true believer in the work of the  =

Search Institute. I currently am on contract with several  =

organizations that support youth development and children's rights and  =

development.  (I have a contract with the Arizona School Board  =

Association and have spent a great deal of time there, in the past  =

couple of years. I live in Flagstaff and Prescott in the late 1980's.)

Anyway, I took a summer of lessons from a "horse whisperer" near my  =

family's ranch in northern idaho, while I was cowboying up there in  =

2004-2005. I took the lessons for precisely the reasons you are  =

writing about; learning how to use the wisdom of people with "horse  =

sense" in a youth development context.

Here are some links that I know of:
http://www.loneeagleranch.com/
http://protectyourself1.org/arrowhead.htm
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-115125687.html
http://nativeharvest.com/node/9

Phil Lane, Jr does some of this work... http://www.4worlds.org/4w/SWISS%20A=
WARD/laudatory.html

Monty Roberts has a human/youth development component to his work. (We  =

hired him to work with one of our horses... He is darn good at what he  =

does.) _  http://tiny.cc/VGdFB

There is a woman who works at Mesa United Way, who was pursuing this  =

in her work. If you want me to make the connection, let me know.

Yes, horse whispering has ALL KINDS of insights into human whispering,  =

and youth whispering... Lessons:
1) Rather than breaking the horse, see the strengths in the horse,  =

form a relationship with the horse, and then change your own behavior  =

to guide the horse to its highest potential.
2) By working with the youth, we change... we grow... we get deeper  =

insights into ourselves.
3) and, of course, hundreds more...

I wish you all the best.

Onward,
Derek Peterson
International Child/Youth Advocate
derek at icar-us.com
701-212-1214



On Apr 8, 2009, at 12:21 PM, andy richey wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I have been receiving the HSHY info on a regular basis for quite  =

> some time. I am a PhD candidate in the midst of completing my  =

> dissertation and with my research interest is in at risk youth and  =

> the use of horses as an intervention strategy utilizing a strengths  =

> based perspective or developmental assets.  My question to the list  =

> serve is if anyone knows if this type of programming is going on  =

> such as part of a ymca program, etc.  I have contacted the search  =

> institute and they suggested that I pose this question to the group.
>
> Thank you in advance for your response.
>
> Becky Richey
> P.S. I live in the greater Phoenix area) but that does not hinder  =

> the demographics of my research- it can be wherever.
>
> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:18:11 -0500
> From: mtremper at jbsinternational.com
> Subject: HCHY List: fact sheet on positive connections
> CC: hchylist at lists.search-institute.org
> To: rarichey1 at hotmail.com
>
> A brief summary of the importance of positive connections in  =

> children=92s lives.
>
> Neighborhood Support and Children's Connectedness
> http://www.childtrends.org/Files/Child_Trends-2008_02_05_ConnectednessFS.=
pdf
> This fact sheet from Child Trends, based on findings from the  =

> National Survey of Children's Health, shows that children benefit  =

> from positive connections to parents, peers, the community and other  =

> societal institutions, and that neighborhood connectedness is  =

> related to being connected in other ways, as well.
>
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