PNH not associated with Equine Ethology

[debbie]

I thought this might interest members I received it today!14 December 2005

Equine Ethology Ltd. announces that effective immediately Equine Ethology will no longer be affiliated as a licensee of Parelli Natural Horsemanship USA.

Earlier this year Linda Parelli fully endorsed the need for the change of emphasis to introduce Equine Ethology as a more academic approach with its UK national government accreditation and French Federation approval (see Savvy News Issue 26 p16).

Today Parelli Natural Horsemanship USA decided to terminate our 10 year license agreement.

Equine Ethology recognises that the UK & Australasia have a great equestrian tradition of good riders and with a better understanding of horse behaviour, will continue to improve riding skills.

The need to fit with European and Australasian equestrian culture and upcoming changes in coaching regulations required us to develop new standards in horsemanship.

Together with our partners La Cense in France we have devised a programme that carries both French Federation approval and UK national accreditation moving away from the many self-accredited natural horsemanship programmes.

Our method has been developed by a team of experts and institutions with the credentials to last the test of time and not based on the views of a single person.

Equine Ethology as leader in natural horsemanship in the United Kingdom & Australasia has developed the first nationally accredited Equine Ethology programme that is delivered in the form of 15 certificates carrying national education framework credits. Our new programme was launched under the name 'La Cense method' to great acclaim at Salon De Cheval in Paris last week. The program will be available in the UK in January.

Equine Ethology will offer you more services and better instructors with higher standards.

David Stuart, Master Horseman, and the full team at Equine Ethology are available to answer any questions.

We wish you a very happy holiday
The Savvy Club Team

[kas]

Yep, excellent. They've obviously decided that it makes more business sense to go for the people who find Parelli too inflexible. I think that if this means you can get their OCN accredited qualifications without being forced to do it the Parelli way, then it has to be good for horses and horsemanship.
The Parelli die-hards will be supported direct from the US, so maybe it will also be better for them to be closer to the source.
All they need to do now is change that stupid Equine Ethology label.

[Lisanw]

Kas, I gather from the enlightened equitation site that their 'Equine Ethology' trade mark has been refused ...

Lisa

[anon]

Parelli didnt "terminate our 10 year license agreement" - they just didnt renew it

[kas]

They haven't had the licence agreement for 10 years yet
Yep, the trademark was refused.

[Amanda Dolby]

I'm glad the trademark was refused. I don't think anyone should be able to promote thier company / business under those words they are too profound.

[kas]

This change has really p'd off some Parelli students, to the point that they actually daubed graffiti at the Savvy Conference ( ). As someone who got verbally slapped by Pat for saying I was going to watch Mark Rashid... I think that Dave, Charlotte and Richard have woken up and smelt some roses.

[misty]

How does any body know that E E Ltd will not be inflexible as it is likely to be more regulated. It will also make a lot of money!

[kas]

I hope they do make a lot of money. If they don't then they will probably go out of business and that will be one less alternative available for horse owners. What the heck is wrong with making a lot of money? Who among us can afford to offer our services on a charitable basis?
Reading the information that they have sent out, it appears that they will be more flexible than Parelli. They have already proved that by hosting other trainers. Personally I'm not interested in passing the equivalent of an NVQ 2 in horsemanship, but if at any time I got interested in accreditation then I'd want to be able to use whatever training approach I was comfortable with. So far, the information published by the ee people (I really hope they ditch the name!) indicates that this will be possible. It might have been an email from Richard Marriot, I can't remember as I've read so much, but it specifically said something along the lines of "be it PNH, ANH, whatever training method..." - so I'm keeping an open mind for now.
It occurs to me that this is a sort of return to how Pat Parelli first started his "levels" programme. In the very early days he issues lists of tasks to be completed, people sent him the videos, and if they demonstrated the tasks they passed.

[cokey]

It may be more flexible in the teaching of the elements, but it's going to be a lot more rigid in the assessments. They will have to be done "live" with an instructor, or at to-be-announced colleges on assessment days.

No more doing it in your comfort zone when there's no wind or rain to contend with then!

[kas]

Great - no more cheating then ;D

[Francis Burton]

To what extent will Equine Ethology have to do with equine ethology? Or is it just a name?

[anon]

just a name - for (un)natural horsemanship

rope-wigglers. My horse says that isnt natural (he stood there and looked at the wriggly rope - he didnt have a natural reaction to back off it - so - to my mind - then that isnt naturla, but trained, horsemanship

[kas]

Riding is un-natural horsemanship when you come to that
Francis I think that is a very good question! However, they have been prevented from trademarking the name Equine Ethology. I guess you'd have to get the course materials to find out how much ethology is included, and I'm not planning on doing that - or on taking any of the assessments.

[Lucymj]

lol anon - we call 'em the rope wagglers too! x