Lexington, Ky. – US Equestrian is happy to announce that the following DEI Community Conversation, “Horses and the Military: A Long-Standing Partnership,” will likely be on Monday, November 7, from 4:30 – 5:30 p.m. ET through Zoom.
This DEI Community Conversation, held in recognition of Veterans Day, explores the longstanding partnership between the navy and horses, with a concentrate on how horses are supporting navy veterans and households right now. This relationship has modified through the years and horses at the moment are incessantly seen working with service members for therapeutic functions – bodily, emotional, and psychological. Panelists embrace Dr. Sally Broder, Dr. Prudence Fisher, Dr. Yuval Neria, LCDR Tanya O’Brien, and Lynne Phipps.
The session is free to attend and open to all folks. You don’t must be a USEF member to attend the dwell session.
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Meet the Panelists
Dr. Sally Broder (Bagdad, Ky.)
Dr. Sally Broder, PsyD, is a licensed scientific psychologist in California and Kentucky, in addition to the Executive Director of HorseSensing, a USEF-recognized Community Outreach Organization. Broder based HorseSensing in 2010 to assist veterans with post-traumatic stress dysfunction, now known as post-traumatic stress, using the equine-assisted private growth (EAPD) information system. Services are specialised for navy veterans, in addition to folks navigating dependancy.
Broder is a lifelong horsewoman and started her profession as an expert on the age of 15. She has all the time felt the therapeutic energy in horses and was dedicated to sharing this with others. Broder launched into her psychology profession a number of years later within the fields of substance abuse remedy, scientific psychology, and the remedy of trauma. She brings collectively this data together with her horsemanship abilities to profit HorseSensing’s purchasers.
Dr. Prudence Fisher (New York, N.Y.)
Dr. Prudence Fisher, PhD, is an affiliate professor of scientific psychiatric social work within the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Research Scientist on the New York State Psychiatric Institute. She has authored or coauthored greater than 80 articles and ebook chapters, primarily targeted on diagnostic evaluation, PTSD, and suicide.
Fisher produced the first-ever remedy handbook for offering equine-assisted remedy for PTSD in partnership with Dr. Yuval Neria known as the Man O’ War (MOW) remedy protocol, they usually just lately accomplished a big open trial on this novel remedy with veterans with PTSD. Two papers from the venture have been printed and a 3rd is in press.
Dr. Yuval Neria (New York, N.Y.)
Dr. Yuval Neria, PhD, is a professor of medical psychology within the Departments of Psychiatry and Epidemiology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Director of the PTSD Research and Treatment Program and the Military Family Wellness Center on the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Dr. Neria grew up in Israel and took part within the Yom Kippur War and the Lebanon War. His navy expertise impressed his scientific and analysis profession finding out the consequences of trauma throughout totally different contexts and utilizing neuroimaging analysis to develop and check customized therapies for PTSD.
In addition to his work with Dr. Fisher and the Man O’ War remedy protocol, Dr Neria has authored or coauthored greater than 200 articles and ebook chapters and edited 4 textbooks specializing in PTSD, trauma, and the psychological well being penalties of publicity to trauma.
LCDR Tanya O’Brien (Tampa, Fla.)
Lieutenant Commander Tanya O’Brien is a veteran of the U.S. Navy, the place she served for 12 years. A registered nurse by occupation, O’Brien cared for injured service members in Iraq and Afghanistan from 2002 by 2012. O’Brien is working in the direction of her Doctorate of Nursing Practice.
O’Brien is a latest graduate of HorseSensing’s veterans program the place she had immersive periods studying work with and look after horses. A life-long animal lover, O’Brien volunteers for each a horse rescue and information canine coaching group in her house state of Florida. She is a mom of 4, a spouse, and a 100% disabled veteran with a service canine named Charley.
Rev. Lynne Bryan Phipps (Charlestown, R.I.)
Reverend Lynne Bryan Phipps (MDiv, IET, LEED AP) is the Executive Director of Beachwood Integrative Equine Therapy, a USEF-recognized Community Outreach Organization primarily based in Rhode Island, Florida, and Pennsylvania. Phipps has spent the final eight years creating Integrative Equine Therapy, a protocol distinctive to Beachwood’s companies for therapeutic with horses. Beachwood offers IET companies for folks of all ages and backgrounds navigating trauma, despair, nervousness, and extra.
Phipps is a lifelong equestrian, mom to 2 daughters, an award-winning designer, and an educator and healer. She acquired her Master’s diploma from the Andover Newton Theological School. Phipps was the primary Interfaith Chaplain at Mount Ida College and the founding father of The Compass School.
About the DEI Community Conversations Series
US Equestrian’s DEI Community Conversations collection will function a discussion board for elevating consciousness concerning the varied experiences and points affecting equestrians from under-represented or under-served communities. The collection goals to elevate historically marginalized voices from the equestrian group, and past, whereas constructing group throughout the broad community of horse sport fans. The collection is an initiative of the DEI Action Plan’s complete advertising plan technique, considered one of 10 methods to advance DEI within the sport over the following three to 5 years.
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