Wild Horse Workshop 2002
Meet the Clinicians and Staff
Here is our "Cast of Characters"
that will bring WHW'02 to life.
(Presented in alphabetical order.)
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Frank Bell
Frank is an accomplished horse gentler and trainer. His style
is well suited to anxious and difficult horses and his approaches can be
mastered by any serious horse handler.
Frank's style is catching on and is showing up in many other training programs.
(Jump to Frank Bell's website)
Frank will also be hosting a weekend clinic in Columbia, MO the weekend following the
workshop (Sept. 28-29.) Please call 417.439.4357 for details.
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Robert Denlinger
Robert is an amazing horse handler, utilizing imaginative and low key approaches
in dealing with ungentled and troubled horses. He employs a great deal of
participant involvement and his "human round pen" is perhaps the most popular
activity at the workshop.
(Jump to Denstar Farm website)
(Check out Rosie, a Percheron Hero)
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Cher Eastep
When Cher isn't busy as Workshop Director she actually does a bit of horse training. Teaching behaviors using "clicker training" is one of her specialties, including such useful items as lifting feet and laying down on cue.
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Chris Erlon
Chris is a "home grown" product, attending several workshops, working with BLM promoting
adoptions and doing round pen demos for BLM at satellite adoptions.
Chris sets a fine example as to the kind of mentor we strive to develop. |
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Willis Lamm
Willis considers himself a student of horse behavior and enjoys working with
difficult horses, especially those whom others have given up on. His greatest
enjoyment is the development of the "Dances with Horses" concept using music to
help guide cadence and carriage. His mainstay with wild horses is his "Quiet Hour" approach.
(Jump to KBR Horse Net website)
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Jim Rea
Jim was with us in Golden, CO, in 2000. He's a "natural horsemanship" practicioner in
Colorado and has worked with a number of mustangs.
We're glad to have him back in Lawrence to round out our clinical team.
(Jump to Jim Rea's website)
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John Sharp
John is 88 years old this year and still gentling horses, although he doesn't do
quite as many as he used to. He is the workshop's "Clinician Emeritus" and
much of what we do is based on John's teachings. John has an uncanny sense of
what it takes to get a horse to respond with minimum struggle and stress.
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Hue Simpson
Hue has studied TTEAM and related approaches and brings them together in her own
style of developing body awareness, coordination and surefootedness in young,
inexperienced and injured horses. Her emphasis is in getting the horse to focus
and sense how he should use himself.
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Janet Tipton
Janet has been Workshop Co-Director since 1999. She also headed up the Salt Lake
crew for the Olympic Wild Horse and Burro Project that
involved gentling nine horses and three burros for the Salt Lake Winter Olympic Games.
We're glad to see Janet spend more time in the pens.
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Donna West
Donna is an amazingly versatile trainer who does it all from starting the wild ones
to training police horses.
Donna was with us last year in Corvallis, OR, and we're certainly glad to have her talent
with us in Lawrence.
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Adopter Support
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Volunteer organizations recognized by the BLM provide adopter
support in the form of training information and mentors who can
provide assistance. The LRTC Wild Horse Mentors
can be located Here
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