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> Competent teachers find a way to present information in such a way that
> their students will benefit from it and use it; they don't make excuses
> for why none of their students seem to be able to learn from them.
>
> kat
> Orange County, Calif.
> :)

kat, you make a broad statement about "none of their students" benefit from 
their program.,  That is so untrue.  You need to take a hard look at that 
statement.

You have several people here on Ridecamp stating the have benifitted from 
the program whether or not they label themselves a "Parelli-ite".  I doubt 
that Becky Hart would have a Parelli trainer coming to Lightfoot all the 
time if people weren't benefiitng from the program, and this is even before 
Linda Parelli came on the scene and made the program more systemized and 
achievable.  But if one had passed the levels before Linda came aboard, they 
are incredible horsepeople becasue it was soo much more difficult back then. 
I have had a couple of Parelli trained instructors that are incredibly 
gifted in their horsemanship abilities.  The one I passed Level 1 with was 
on tour with the Parellis all this year and I consider her an excellent 
instructor that pushed my envelope all the time, which I truly appreciated.

I certainly wouldn't bother continuing with it if I didn't see the value of 
the program in dealing with my particularly over-reactive horse.   To tell 
you the truth, I probably wouldn't even bother with the Parelli program if 
it wasn't for this horse.  And it is making a difference with him.  I have a 
horse that listens to me now. Or at least the majority of the time!

The "Parelli-ites" certainly believe they are benefitting from the program, 
in anything, they get the support they feel they need in overcoming their 
fears.  They are simply coming from a different baseline than the folks here 
on this forum.  To tell you the truth, as much as I think spending hours on 
the ground wiggling their finger at their horses is ridiculous, they are 
still spending a lot more time with their horses than a lot of people, in a 
safe way, so that they can theoretically gain trust in their horses.  These 
owners would have been spending their time blaming their horses for being 
bad instead of looking for ways to communicate with them if it wasn't for 
this program.

A lot of them are not getting coaching outside the CD course, so there is a 
lot of room for misinterpretation of the materials.  I also get a lot of 
regurgitation of "Linda says" and have no experience to back that up 
themselves.  Like religion there is a lot of misinterpretation of the 
original message.   Like you're gonna burn in hell if you're not a Christian 
(or a Parelli-ite) or you load your horse by walking them into the trailer 
with them.  So I think Linda's attitutude is just based on a reality that 
you cannot have total control about how a person is going to accept and 
utilize any teachings.

K.



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