The Power of the Herd (74 page)
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Authors: Linda Kohanov
Past and current board members who influenced the book include Eponaquest Instructors Anna Carnathan, Dale Carnathan, and Terry Murray, as well as Barbara Rector (Adventures in Awareness), Lisa Walters (founder of California's EquuSatori Center), Howard Shenk, and Laura Brinkerhoff (who currently heads the equine-facilitated therapy program at Cottonwood de Tucson, a respected residential treatment center). Several of the board members have served as either faculty members or guest presenters for Prescott College's innovative undergraduate and graduate concentrations in equine-facilitated therapy and experiential learning. I also thank Ann Linda Baldwin, a professor of physiology and psychology at University of Arizona, who oversees our research division. Much gratitude goes to Seth Grossman, who did significant early organizational work, and Richard Lang, a pioneer in the technology field who helped us communicate more effectively long distance through the collaborative communication program Collaborize Classroom. (For more information on the foundation, see
www.eponaquestfoundation.org
.)
I'm grateful for the intricate work undertaken by the 2012 Eponaquest Ethics Committee, including Melanie Dallas, Eve B. Lee, Holli Lyons, Anne Steuart, and Patricia Cameron Vitiello. Under the direction of Mary-Louise Gould, this dedicated group of professionals spent months researching and perfecting the Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice that have truly raised the bar for our instructors, asking them to uphold some of the highest standards in the field.
Endless appreciation goes to a number of other people who have supported my work over the years, playing crucial roles in helping me to complete this book: Sandra and William Sell-Lee, Jacque and Rip Gellein, Laura Barrett, Sid Brinkerhoff, Larney Otis, Eva Reifler, Lori Wilson Kinzbach, Devorah Coryell, Ulrike Dietmann, Martin Rosen, Therese Capozzola, and Sandra Mazzocco. I'm also grateful for the research that Ann Baldwin, Bob Wall, and Meg Daley Olmert shared with me through conversations, emails, and consultations.
And I cannot forget my equine friends and colleagues, who have influenced me as much or more than any human I could name. Merlin's sons and granddaughter, mentioned earlier, are just this year stepping into teaching roles. I must also acknowledge Panther, El Dia, Sage, Mystique, Cimarron, Leyla, Brandi, Savannah, Sunny, and Pharrah, who have proven to be exceptional equine professors.
I'm deeply indebted to my friend and colleague Mimi Meriwether, who passed away shortly before this book was completed. One of the purest, most compassionate people I've ever known, Mimi fought a battle with cancer that
exemplified physical as well as emotional heroism. An accomplished competitive rider, businesswoman, visionary, and philanthropist, Mimi maintained a relentlessly positive, appreciative attitude toward life and the many people she met along the way, and she continues to inspire me, even as I grieve this unexpected loss.
And finally, this book is dedicated to my husband, Steve Roach, who has stood by me no matter what was happening, sharing the joys and successes, comforting me through numerous losses, and encouraging me to keep going through the uncertainty of creating what was, especially in the 1990s, a controversial approach to working with horses as teachers. Like the equine members of our family, he too is a master of nonverbal communication. From the day we met, his music became the soundtrack of my life, articulating feelings and insights that words could never express.
I'm very happy, after completing this long writing journey, to have more time to be quiet and listen to the many beautiful pieces Steve has composed over the years, some of which were inspired by the original members of our herd who have since left this earth: Rasa, Comet, Noche, Merlin, Shadowfax, and Max, horses whose stories continue to teach and inspire those who have been kind enough to read my books.
Introduction
Page 3,
“non-human animals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical⦔
: The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness
was written by Philip Low and edited by Jaak Panksepp, Dianna Reiss, David Edelman, Bruno Van Swinderen, Philip Low, and Christof Koch. It was publicly proclaimed in Cambridge, England, at the Francis Crick Memorial Conference on Consciousness in Human and Non-Human Animals held at Churchill College, University of Cambridge, by Low, Edelman, and Koch. It was signed by the conference participants on July 7, 2012, in the presence of Stephen Hawking in a ceremony memorialized by CBS's
60 Minutes.
Page 7,
For GaudÃ, Sagrada Familia (Holy Family) was a mission
:
A variety of books, articles, and documentaries are summarized in this chapter's overview of GaudÃ's life, most notably Gijs van Hensbergen,
GaudÃ: A Biography
(New York: Harper Perennial, 2003); Juan Bassegoda Nonell,
Antonio GaudÃ: Master Architect
(New York: Abbeville Press, 2000); and “God's Architect: The Story of the Vatican and the Visionary,”
Belfast Telegraph,
April 24, 2007.
Page 10,
“a graphic illustration of the almost absurd misfortune⦔
:
The quote appears in an Internet discussion, “The Unfinished Cathedral (Sagrada Familia)â¦Should It Be â¦Finished?” March 5, 2008, Digital Spy,
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=757344
.
Page 16,
The willingness to relinquish personal comfort
:
Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee,
Resonant Leadership
(Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2005), 6.
Page 18,
“If you are successful, you win false friends⦔
:
After the publication of her 1995 autobiography,
Mother Teresa: A Simple Path,
this quote was widely attributed to Mother Teresa. However, it was later recognized as an excerpt from “The Paradoxical Commandments”
by a then-nineteen-year-old Harvard College sophomore, Kent M. Keith. Although there is some confusion, the version I quote here is most likely the version Mother Teresa used. See
www.paradoxicalcommandments.com/mother-teresa-connection.html
.
Page 18,
“the Cycle of Sacrifice and Renewal”
:
Boyatzis and McKee,
Resonant Leadership,
61.
Page 19,
“I'd worked just dozens and dozens of jobs ⦔
:
Mike Judge, interview by Terry Gross,
Fresh Air,
NPR, August 25, 2009.
Page 20,
great leaders “deliberately and consciously step⦔
:
Boyatzis and McKee,
Resonant Leadership,
7â8.
Page 25,
The request for backup was unprecedented
:
John R. Barletta,
Riding with Reagan: From the White House to the Ranch
(New York: Citadel Press, 2005), 3.
Page 26,
“Our chief supervisor at the time rightly said ⦔
:
Ibid., 3.
Page 26,
“When the gunshots echoed through the air⦔
:
Ibid., 171.
Page 27,
He was so feisty, Barletta reports
:
Ibid., 112.
Page 27,
El Alamein was so intense and flighty
:
Ibid., 59.
Page 31,
In the 1980s, researchers at the University of Parma
:
G. di Pellegrino, L. Fadiga, L. Fogassi, V. Gallese, and G. Rizzolatti, “Understanding Motor Events: A Neurophysiological Study,”
Experimental Brain Research
91, no. 1 (1992): 176â80.
Page 32,
“Mirror neurons have a particular importance ⦔:
Daniel Goleman and Richard Boyatzis, “Social Intelligence and the Biology of Leadership,”
Harvard Business Review
(September 2008): 3 (reprint).
Page 32,
“the delivery was more important than the message ⦔
:
Ibid.
Page 32,
researchers from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
:
Linda J. Keeling, Liv Jonare, and Lovisa Lanneborn, “Investigating Horse-Human Interactions: The Effect of a Nervous Human,”
Veterinary Journal
181, no. 1 (July 2009): 70â71.
Page 33,
“This ultrarapid connection of emotions, beliefs, and judgments...”
:
Goleman and Boyatzis, “Social Intelligence and the Biology of Leadership,” 4.
Page 34,
not only does a person's blood pressure escalate
:
Daniel Goleman,
Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships
(New York: Bantam, 2006), 21.
Page 35,
In 1990, psychologists Peter Salovey and John Mayer
:
Daniel Goleman, “Emotional Intelligence: Issues in Paradigm Building,” in
The Emotionally Intelligent Workplace: How to Select for, Measure, and Improve Emotional Intelligence in Individuals, Groups, and Organizations,
ed. Cary Cherniss and Daniel Goleman (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2000), 17.
Page 36,
The authors argued that “emotions are contagious”
:
Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee,
Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence
(Boston: Harvard Business Press, 2002), summation on front flap.
Page 36,
“Great leaders move us ⦔
:
Ibid., 3, 5.
Page 36,
“The notion that effective leadership is about⦔
:
Goleman and Boyatzis, “Social Intelligence and the Biology of Leadership,” 3.
Page 36,
Goleman and his colleagues continue to search
:
Ibid.
Page 37,
anthropologist E. Richard Sorenson's concept
:
I first encountered Sorenson's work in an article by Christian de Quincey: “Consciousness: Truth or Wisdom?
IONS (Noetic Sciences Review),
no. 51 (MarchâJune 2000).
Page 37, affect contagion,
a term I came across
:
Elio Frattaroli,
Healing the Soul in the Age of the Brain: Becoming Conscious in an Unconscious World
(New York: Viking, 2001), 44.
Page 39,
“whose only job is to detect other people's smiles ⦔
:
Goleman and Boyatzis, “Social Intelligence and the Biology of Leadership,” 3.
Page 40,
“Being in a good mood, other research finds⦔
:
Ibid.
Page 40,
As Winston Churchill once said
:
Richard Langworth, ed.,
Churchill by Himself: The Definitive Collection of Quotations
(New York: PublicAffairs, 2011); and Robert Andrews, ed.,
Famous Lines: The Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1997).
Page 41,
polo was a game that Churchill himself played
:
Wyatt Blassingame,
His Kingdom for a Horse
(New York: Franklin Watts, 1957), 144.
Page 41,
Sword drawn, racing toward the enemy
:
Ibid., 154, 156.
Page 41,
As horse and rider careened through
:
Ibid.
Page 42,
“without the leadership of Churchill, World War II ⦔
:
Ibid., 157.
Page 43,
Plutarch wrote that “in Uxia, once, ⦔
:
Lawrence Scanlan,
Wild about Horses
(New York: HarperCollins, 1998), 117.
Page 43,
“During the final battle in India⦔
:
Ibid.
Page 44,
“psychopaths are often witty and articulate ⦔
:
Robert Hare,
Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths among Us
(New York: Guilford Press, 1999), 34â35, 52.
Page 44,
For most people, Hare explains, “the fear produced⦔
:
Ibid., 54.
Page 46,
the “dinosaurs of the future will be those who keep⦔
:
Robert K. Cooper,
The Other 90%: How to Unlock Your Vast Untapped Potential for Leadership and Life
(New York: Three Rivers Press, 2001), 12.
Page 47,
“In the 1990s,” Cooper reports
:
Ibid., 16.
Page 47,
As author and researcher Dr. Candace Pert asserts
:
This is the working premise of Candace Pert's engaging audio book
Your Body Is Your Subconscious Mind: New Insights into the Body-Mind Connection
(Louisville, CO: Sounds True, 2004).
Page 52,
“Lord Cornwallis was on the march⦔
:
Edwin M. Stone,
The Life and Recollections of John Howland, Late President of the Rhode Island Historical Society
(Providence, RI: George H. Whitney, 1857), 74.
Page 52,
“The bridge was narrow⦔
:
Ibid., 73.
Page 53,
“Horses were screaming on the battlefield”
:
James Parrish Hodges, interview by author, winter 2009.
Page 53,
“the best horseman of his age ⦔
:
Thomas Jefferson,
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson,
ed. H. A. Washington, vol. 6 (New York: Riker, Thorne, and Co., 1855), 287.
Page 54,
“The weather being fair,” Chastellux wrote
:
Chastellux's
Travels in North-America: In the years 1780, 81, 82
was translated by Scottish-born traveler and writer Basil Hall and appears to have been first published in English in 1828. A paperback version was published by Applewood Books, Carlisle, Massachusetts, in 2007. The quote is featured on
page 69
of that edition.
Page 54,
Joseph J. Ellis describes him riding around the farm
:
Joseph J. Ellis,
His Excellency: George Washington
(New York: Vintage, 2005), 241â42.
Page 55,
When he returned to the mansion around two o'clock
:
Ibid., 242.