Webinar #15
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Understanding Equine Mental Health: Prioritizing Welfare in Equine Assisted Services
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What will our webinar be about?
“Understanding Equine Mental Health: Prioritizing Welfare in Equine Assisted Services” This webinar examines the foundations of equine mental health and its critical role in equine assisted services. Participants will learn to recognize the indicators of sub-optimal mental states and to implement practices that promote positive well-being in their equine partners, leading to safer, more effective interactions.
Lucy Rees
Equine ethologist. Equine trainer. Writer and lecturer
Lucy Rees (1943) combines a scientific background in ethology and neuroscience with extensive practical experience in horse training and rehabilitation in many countries, from her native Wales and other European countries to the Americas and Siberia. She has studied different populations of feral horses in Arizona, Venezuela, Ecuador, Patagonia and Australia, seeing that their natural behavior gives us the keys to the welfare and understanding treatment of domestic horses. She shares her knowledge in popular courses and articles, in courses and lectures at universities and international scientific conferences, as well as books and documentaries about her work. She currently lives in Extremadura, where her Pottokas en Piornal project offers researchers and horse enthusiasts the opportunity to study feral horses. Movies: To Ride a Wild Horse (Harlech TV, 1984), in which she tames and trains a mustang stallion in Arizona. Horse Shaman (Catalunya TV, 2002) about her work. Wild (1080 Wildlife Productions) about the life of the pottokas.
Videos: Notes on Horses, with Ish Shadrova: a complete course on Vimeo.
Documentary on Affiliative Behaviour in Feral Horses
https://vimeo.com/kinoismos/notesabouthorses password: pottoka01
Books: The Horse’s Mind 1984 Horses in Company 2017