CHANGING LIVES FOR A BETTER FUTURE

Horses have an extraordinary ability to read the body language and mirror the inner struggles of clients.
They are large sometimes unpredictable, animals - a connection to the instinctual selves of the people with whom they work.

Horses mirror, and help us recover, the beauty, power, and nobility of our own spirit - a presence so easily lost in the frenzy and disconnection of civilized life.

This work is all about a mirror with which to look
into your own existence and examine your
most profound and fundamental beliefs.
As they say, "A dog looks up to you, a
cat looks down on you, but a
horse looks into you."

Now that horses are no longer
obliged to work in our fields and
carry us to war, they're free
to do something arguably
more important:
work on us.

- From the book
"Way of the Horse"

The level of activity taking place at Montrose Equine could almost fill up an entire year, so we’re taking this opportunity to bring you up to speed with everything that’s currently happening!

Montrose Foundation

Our first group of youth at risk from Beth Uriel graduated through the Equine Assisted Youth at Risk Development program with flying colors on the 4th of December 2009. The changes witnessed in these boys has been phenomenal and a real testament to the value of the program. We are very grateful to the Ackerman Family Trust for making this achievement possible through their donation to the Montrose Foundation Youth at Risk Program.


L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate Race

The Montrose Foundation Equine Assisted Youth at Risk Development Program has been selected as a key beneficiary of the L’Omarins Queen’s Plate Horse Race which will be taking place on the 9th of January 2010 at the Kenilworth Race Course in Cape Town. This opportunity is a great honor for us and will allow us the platform to share the powerful impact that horses have on restoring human beings!


Teletrack

We have also been privileged to spend 3 days with Jessica Slack for a Teletrack film shoot, which will be broadcast on DSTV channel 232 on Monday the 21st of December at 8:00pm. This opportunity allowed us to take viewers through a detailed process of how our Youth Groups, as well as individual psychotherapy sessions unfold. It also showcases the incredible sensitivity of our thoroughbred horses!


Mental Health Professional

Montrose Equine is very excited to welcome Tessa Kuret to the team. Tessa is a well respected Counseling Psychologist with a number of years of Equine Assisted Psychotherapy work to her credit.  Tessa comes from the position of Director of Counseling at the Summerfield Recovery Centre in Plettenberg Bay and will be taking up the position as the Mental Health Professional Representative for EAPISA Western Cape.


Corporate Development Programs

We’ve spent a considerable amount of time enhancing and refining the Corporate Development Programs this year and have received remarkably positive feedback. We will be partnering with leaders in their relevant fields of expertise to deliver some compelling opportunities for corporate groups in 2010 – watch this space!


Ode to the Horse

Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy or beauty without vanity? Here, where grace is laced with muscle, and strength by gentleness confined.

He serves without servility; he has fought without enmity. There is nothing so powerful, nothing less violent, there is nothing so quick, nothing more patient.

England’s past has been borne on his back. All our history is his industry; we are his heirs, he our inheritance.

Ladies and Gentlemen, may we present to you…….The Horse!