Block 1 – Mentor: Elizabeth Appleyard

Elizabeth Appleyard

Block 1 Focus: The focus of your Case Studies will be on practicing all the techniques as you learned them in the Advanced 5-Day Course, performing them properly and becoming proficient in the practice of those techniques. In each write-up, you must articulate clearly each technique, creating a picture for the mentor, so as to ensure that you understand the basic order of techniques, evaluations and proficiency in the practice. Be as specific as you can as to what exactly you did and how the horse responded. For more about the focus of this block, please review your Fieldwork Student Manual

Students must incorporate mentor feedback from the first session of a case study in the second session (i.e., if your mentor has suggested improvements in a technique or asked why you didn’t do a specific technique in the first session, you need to show that you did the technique differently or used the technique in the second session). If you don’t incorporate your mentor’s suggestions in the follow-up session, the session will not be accepted as part of the case study and you will have to do it over.

After completing your 10 case studies (2 sessions per horse), please work with Elizabeth to find a Coach. Refer to the Fieldwork Student Manual or the links in this website for information on setting up a coaching session.

Contact Elizabeth: [email protected] | Phone: 630-877-4968