Why a Professional of Forty Years Promotes Parelli Horse*Man*Ship™

Why would some one who has been a professional horsewoman for forty plus years spend time and effort promoting another horseman and his accomplishments? In my case, it is because I consider that the other person is better at transferring the information I want people to have than I am. This is an extended biography where I explain some of my journey with horses.

I am a generalist when it comes to breeds and uses of horses, but a specialist when it comes to horses. Horses are my passion. They are my focus. I will go so far as to say they are my reason for living.

Horses are so much the center of my being that I never could settle on any one sport or breed because I found the animals themselves so fascinating. Though I will say here I got involved with dressage in 1974 and followed it diligently until becoming involved with the Parelli program in 1995.

I have to honestly say I have seldom learned anything from Parelli that I didn't already know in some form or the other, which has actually made it more difficult for me rather than easier. What the program does for me is organize what I have tried to teach others for the past thirty years. This ability to organized and teach others is why Pat and Linda Parelli are my heroes; why I steer people towards their program.

Another critical aspect of why I am the follower and Pat Parelli is that, were we horses, according to the Horsenality™ he and Linda developed, Pat Parelli would be a Left Brain Extrovert and I would be a Right Brain Introvert. He is intelligent, outgoing and athletic. I am an intelligent, introvert, klutz. I am a good teacher one-on-one or with small groups. To get in front of crowds and demonstrate just how to do the things necessary to create a partnership between difficult horses and people is beyond me. So, recognizing a good leader, I'm not going to waste my time trying to circumvent his accomplishments. Rather, I will try to spread the knowledge he has organized as far and wide as I possibly can.