MANE SOCI-EMOTIONAL
THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM

Horses are sentient beings with feelings, thoughts, emotions, memories, and empathetic abilities. Horses can be active facilitators, evoking emotions in those who work with and around them. Socio-emotional classes give riders the opportunity to enhance self-awareness and re-pattern maladaptive behaviors, feelings and attitudes by working with the horses. By developing riding skills and using the intrinsic bonds that horses create, this type of class aims to increase self-esteem, develop patterns of responsible behavior and create productive relations between the rider and other people.

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RIDER REQUIREMENTS
Independent sitting, balance, reasonable age-appropriate behavior, ambulation with or without assistance. This program will benefit individuals with socio-emotional difficulties

BENEFITS INCLUDE
Development of riding skills, increased fitness, coordination, balance, focus, problem solving skills, increased ability to set goals, and an increased sense of accomplishment as independence is acquired.

GOALS
• improving self-esteem and self-awareness
• developing trust in a safe environment
• providing social skills training
• encouraging sensory stimulation and integration
• combining body awareness exercises with motor planning and verbal communication • developing choice-making and goal-setting skills
• developing sequencing and problem-solving skills
• encouraging responsibility
• Promoting pro-social attitudes through care-giving experiences

Please check carefully and include the following with your registration:
(Registration is on a first come first served basis only).
• Participants Application and Liability Release completed
• MANE Physicians Statement
• MANE Student registration/update card
• Check (made payable to MANE) for $300