LEGACY RANCH
This is the vision of Legacy Ranch - Our story is we do not have a ranch in Southern New Mexico where we can do deployment support for Veterans and Family members. We are veterans helping veterans. This money will allow us to get a ranch in Cloudcroft New Mexico. It will be dual purpose
1. Seve veterans and family members when they reunite post-deployment
2. Work with homeless veterans and homeless in tranitional housing, to provide training in ranch life, working with animals, learning skills to develop their own entrepreneurial ventures ventures.
Veterans and families need a place to DECOMPRESS, to get in tune with Nature. Equine-assisted work I pioneer in restorying does just that Veterans Theater work in restorying.
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SAVE THE DATE Nov 7 & 14th 2015 for one-day FREE “Train-the-Trainers” program
Please RSVP to Giovanna (gmusitan@nmsu.edu) or David (drperez@nmsu.edu) for more information and/or to register. THANK YOU!
What: (3 hours in am; lunch; 3 hours in pm) to learn about, experience, and prepare you to offer a unique, conjoint therapeutic treatment approach known as Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy/Embodied Restorying Process (EAP/ERP).
When: The one-day program will take place on November 7 (at Guadalupe Stables in the North Valley of Albuquerque) and November 14 (at the Boje & Rosile Stables in Las Cruces). The EAP session will be in the morning, followed by lunch and the ERP session. The day begins at 8:30 am and wraps-up at 3:30 pm.
Embodied Restorying Process (ERP) is a a novel ontological-psychophysical approach that begins with♥-of-Care. It begins with mindfulness, embodiment practices to understand the FOUR SELVES: Social-Self, Frozen-Self, Mirror-Self, and ♥-Self. These four selves are in dialogue, continual conversation, in our mind's eye.
Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy - EAP is a100% on-the-ground, solution-oriented experiential approach to mental health treatment, and ERP is a personalized “story-sharing” sandtray experience. Military families will be the beneficiaries of this conjoint treatment approach in future clinical trials.
Funding for the one-day program was received from the American Quarter Horse Association Foundation (AQHA). Drs. David Boje, Grace Ann Rosile, and Wanda Whittlesey-Jerome are spear-heading this “Fidelity of Design” training program so the EAP/ERP interventions your organization will offer during the future funded clinical trials will be exactly the same at both Albuquerque and Las Cruces sites.
With this AQHA-funded one-day program complete, you will qualify to sub-contract with New Mexico State University (NMSU) on multi-year clinical trials of EAP/ERP and the well-being of military families. Future funders will be the National Institutes of Health and Mental Health and/or the U.S. Department of Defense.
Continuing Education Units are currently pending from the Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association (www.EAGALA.org).
Legacy Ranch is a concept created by board member, Wanda Whittlesey-Jerome. It is initially one, and in the long-term several ranches dedicated to services and ongoing research that help veterans (& their family members) make the transition after deployment to sustainable- economics, living, health, and community participation. One of the activities is equine-assisted care for veterans (and family members) using groundwork. Veterans and family members stay in cabins for weekend, week-long, or month-long decompression activities. Decompression means being in nature, being with animals, and being with family and friends to decompress after combat or post-combat military experiences. The purpose is to help veterans and family members who experience the stress of deployment to reintegrate. Another activity is 'embodied restory process' that is part of 'material storytelling'. Material storytelling uses sandtray events, and can include equine-arena work, where material objects are places in a space, by facilitators and/or by veterans (& family members) to depict their past, present, and future. Other activities include working with nature, with ranch animals, and having counselors available for confidential help with veteran and family issues.
This (including conferences, seminars, workshops, theater events, equine-assisted ranches for decompression events for military and veterans, and homeless), and ongoing interventions for socioeconomic situations, such as homelessness, veterans in transition from deployment, homeless and veterans (& their families) making transition to sustainabile sustainable family, housing, sustainable economics, sustainable health, and sustainabile community participation.
David M. Boje, Vietnam veteran riding his horse, Silverado
Sun New Article: NMSU Professor working with Veterans & Families
I David Boje am a Vietnam Veteran of the 1969-1970 War. Somehow Silverado cared for my PTSD, something, I was unable to shake after all manner of therapy, counseling sessions, and self-help of every sort. There is something about the relationship of 'care' between a veteran and a horse, that is healing of old wounds. Read More.
Legacy Ranch is one of four progrmas of Antenarrative Foundation:
Antenarrative FOUNDATION Menu
The Horse is a Mirror reflecting Service Members and Family Dynamics
EAGALA Conference March 2015 Boje & Rosile EAGALA military veterans Presentation slikde
Nahdion, an Arabion Stallion, looking in the mirror, at Self. HorseSenseatWork is a posthumanist understanding of inter-species communication between horses and humans that can help people relate to their Ecosystems and to Others, including Other species, Organization worlds, and so forth. Grace Ann Rosile Ph.D. does equine skill training as part of Restorying. See HorseSenseatWork.COM.
Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association (www.EAGALA.org).Our research uses EAGALA ethical standards and practices for working with Service Members and Family members. Dr. Boje and Dr. Rosile are certified in EAGALA Military Services, a designation which indicates the EAGALA Model certified professionals have specialized training and experience in the military community. More
- Read selected articles on EAGALA horse therapy with military
- Watch video on EAGALA Military Services programs
- Read an example of a sample EAGALA session with military
- Introduction to providing EAGALA with the Military
Dr. Rosile uses equine-assisted growth and learning events (EAGLE) to develop leadership, build teams, and improve problem-solving skills. One way to think about EAGLE is that the area is a huge sandtray in which Service Members and Family members can tell their story, silently, without words. It is storytelling and story-listening using human and horse bodies, and material objects (rails, cones, and so on).
Horse Sense At Work.mov
"Horse Sense At Work" is an educational film outlining Leadership, Teamwork and Communication techniques demonstrated with the use of horses. Written by Dr. Grace Ann Rosile. Las Cruces, New Mexico at Dunn Ranch.
OUR INTERVENTIONS AND RESEARCH
Boje, D. M.; Rosile, G. A.; Hacker, K. L.; England Kennedy, E. S.; Flora, J. (2013). Combining Restorying and Equine-assisted skills training in counselor communication designed to help soldiers and their families recover from traumatic stress.
We are researchers. Our objective is to use Random Control Trials (RCTs) to test the efficacy of two widely used interventions. So far, neither approach has been subjected to random assignment of subjects to treatment and control conditions, and there have not been more than one trial or the follow-up after several months to see the long-lasting effects of intervention treatments. Our Interdisciplinary grant was approved for funding by NMSU Office for Research. However, it is under-financed, and only allows us enough resources to work with six Service Members and Family Members in two treatment conditions, and six more families are assigned to the control group (on wait-list for additional funding). This combination of two treatments, in comparison to control condition (no treatment) will let us research the more or less efficacious outcomes.
This next video is a concise statement of why equine-assisted interventions are particularly effective with veterans. Keep in mind that without Random Control Trials (RCTs), there is no way to assess the scientific merit of the antecdotal claims.
Horses that Heal, Veterans - Equine Nonprofit Network NC
Horses that Heal is a 501c3 in Linden, NC that uses horses to help people reach goals. They have an equine assisted ...
In the next video, you can see that Equine qork is widely used by the military across the United States.
How Horses Help an Army Veteran Heal from PTSD - In Deep Shift - Oprah Winfrey Network
Brian Mancini is an Army veteran who battles post-traumatic stress disorder after having served in Baghdad.
The next video is how veterans from Fort Jackson maje use of equine-assisted growtha and learning events, in the EGALA model. However, onece again, we stress there is only non-control, non-random, no trails research results on this. We clearly need to develop RCTs to measure the efficacy outcomes.
Learn how wounded warriors are using horses to help improve their lives.
PART II: WORKING TO HEAL THE VETERANS' STORYTELLING
NMSU Professor Helps Veterans Share Their Story And Move Forward
We use a portable STORYTELLING LAB with Community of Hope Veterans to perfect our Embodied Restorying Process (ERP). Above is a demonstration of the ERP at the Teaching Academy event at New Mexico State University held 27 August, 2014 in Milton Hall, Room 50 (converted to a temporary lab).
Embodied Storytelling Healing for Veterans
Instead of text-based approach to restorying (White & Epston, 1990), Boje and EnglandKennedy, focus is what Brandt and Clinton (2002: 344), refer to as a Latourian approach, “the “capacity to be visible and animate outside the interactions of immediate literacy events. These capacities stem from the legibility and durability of literacy: its material moors, its technological apparatus, its objectivity, that is, its (some)thing-ness.” This is a departure of storytelling form word- and text-contexts, to how people and things “are given the status of social actors” (IBID.: p. 348). ERP incorporates “materiality, its (some)thingness” into the storytelling, story listening, and story noticing processes (p. 353). The material dimensions of storytelling (Strand, 2012) hold together multiple agents (material inanimate things, and in EAGLE the live horses and people).
This is work using the 'Embodied Restorying Processes' and new 'sandplay' methods was originally done to help formerly homeless veterans develop a more efficacious set of outcomes (performance, persistence, outcome expectancy, and motivation) antenarratives.The work was done at Community of Hope by David Boje and Liz EnglandKennedy, and has Internal Review Board approval for the project. Antenarrative is a concept developed by David Boje, to help storytellers make better 'bets on the future' (Boje, 2001, 2011). With the ERP, the veterans develop new 'bets on their future.' Each round of restorying is hypothesized to improve self-efficacy, empowerment, and self-agency. The veteran learns to restory their past-experiences in ways that take them out of the victim-role and into the self-agency role, resulting in developing more possible, and positive futures.
Boje, D.M. (2001). Narrative Methods for Organizational and Communication Research. London: Sage.
Boje, D. M. (2011). The Future of Storytelling in Organizations: An Antenarrative Handbook. London: Routledge.
The Embodied Restorying Process (ERP) begins with recharacterize, so the problem becomes the problem, not the person (Rosile, 2007; Rosile & Boje, 2002). We became interested in adapting ERP to the field of 'material storytelling' when we bagan working with Anete Mikkala Camille Strand (2012), who has founded a lab in Denmark for Material Storytelling at Aalborg University.
Photo: Anete Mikkala Camille Strand, Ph.D. at the Material Storytelling Lab at Aalborg University, Denmark (Photo by D. Boje, 2014).
Dr. Strand has trained the sandplay method extensively for several years and translated it to bring together the two areas (sandplay and storytelling) in the 'material storytelling' mode ‘stories of artifacts’ and in doing so it reconfigures from a therapeutic field to a storytelling field within organizations and teaching/research. Dr. Strand works with adults. Her lab focused on helping companies resdesign and change work processes. Boje, in particular, has been working with Strand since 2009, and served on her dissertation committee (Boje, Jørgensen, & Strand, 2013). Dr. Strand is a frequent presenter at the annual conferences devoted to storytelling research (Standing Conference for Management and Orgnaizaitonal Inquiry sc'MOI, and Quantum Storytelling Conference in New Mexico.
Strand, Anete Mikkala Camille (2012) Enacting the Between - On dis/continuous becoming of/through an Apparatus of Material Storytelling.(More on Material Storytelling Lab). Download summary in English
Download summary in Danish
Download PhD thesis: Book 1 /// Book 2Boje, David; Jørgensen, Kenneth Mølbjerg; Strand, Anete Mikkala Camille (2013). Towards a postcolonial storytelling theory of management and organization. Journal of Management Philosophy. Vol 12 (1) 43-66.
"The Material Story Lab offers a process-oriented and holistic approach to practices of knowing and becoming" (Material Storytelling Lab, Denmark). It is our intention to work closely with Dr. Stand to develop a storytelling lab here in New Mexico.
This is work using the 'Embodied Restorying Processes' and new 'sandplay' methods was originally done to help formerly homeless veterans develop a more efficacious set of outcomes (performance, persistence, outcome expectancy, and motivation) antenarratives.The work was done at Community of Hope by David Boje and Liz EnglandKennedy, and has Internal Review Board approval for the project. Antenarrative is a concept developed by David Boje, to help storytellers make better 'bets on the future' (Boje, 2001, 2011). With the ERP, the veterans develop new 'bets on their future.' Each round of restorying is hypothesized to improve self-efficacy, empowerment, and self-agency. The veteran learns to restory their past-experiences in ways that take them out of the victim-role and into the self-agency role, resulting in developing more possible, and positive futures.
Boje, D.M. (2001). Narrative Methods for Organizational and Communication Research. London: Sage.
Boje, D. M. (2011). The Future of Storytelling in Organizations: An Antenarrative Handbook. London: Routledge.
The Embodied Restorying Process (ERP) begins with recharacterize, so the problem becomes the problem, not the person (Rosile, 2007; Rosile & Boje, 2002). We became interested in adapting ERP to the field of 'material storytelling' when we bagan working with Anete Mikkala Camille Strand (2012), who has founded a lab in Denmark for Material Storytelling at Aalborg University.
Photo: Anete Mikkala Camille Strand, Ph.D. at the Material Storytelling Lab at Aalborg University, Denmark (Photo by D. Boje, 2014).
Dr. Strand has trained the sandplay method extensively for several years and translated it to bring together the two areas (sandplay and storytelling) in the 'material storytelling' mode ‘stories of artifacts’ and in doing so it reconfigures from a therapeutic field to a storytelling field within organizations and teaching/research. Dr. Strand works with adults. Her lab focused on helping companies resdesign and change work processes. Boje, in particular, has been working with Strand since 2009, and served on her dissertation committee (Boje, Jørgensen, & Strand, 2013). Dr. Strand is a frequent presenter at the annual conferences devoted to storytelling research (Standing Conference for Management and Orgnaizaitonal Inquiry sc'MOI, and Quantum Storytelling Conference in New Mexico.
Strand, Anete Mikkala Camille (2012) Enacting the Between - On dis/continuous becoming of/through an Apparatus of Material Storytelling.(More on Material Storytelling Lab). Download summary in English
Download summary in Danish
Download PhD thesis: Book 1 /// Book 2Boje, David; Jørgensen, Kenneth Mølbjerg; Strand, Anete Mikkala Camille (2013). Towards a postcolonial storytelling theory of management and organization. Journal of Management Philosophy. Vol 12 (1) 43-66.
"The Material Story Lab offers a process-oriented and holistic approach to practices of knowing and becoming" (Material Storytelling Lab, Denmark). It is our intention to work closely with Dr. Stand to develop a storytelling lab here in New Mexico.
Read KRWG story online; YouTube Link address
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