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| Bruce Anderson with a friend |
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| Bruce Anderson grew up on the West Indian Islands of Trinidad and Tobago and began his lifelong relationship with horses on the family cocoa and coffee estate. As a youngster, he represented his country on the National Show Jumping Team. Leaving his home, he worked on breeding farms in the U.K. and earned an agricultural degree. He later moved to the U.S. and started working racehorses in Florida. Establishing his home in South Carolina, he uses his expertise to help train world class champion hunter/jumpers and is widely known in the horse community as a "horse whisperer."
What Bruce discovered between relationships of horses and owners are the qualities that make him a "hose whisperer" or a "horse gentler." Bruce prefers to see himself, as a "horse helper." Rather than simply "training a horse," he found "training the owner" to be even more important as he developed a step-by-step system used in training a young horse or working with the "problem" horse.
Equine Assisted Psychotherapy, (EAP), is used to address behavioral problems or assist as adjunctive therapy sessions for more traditional psychotherapy. After taking an Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association (EAGALA) certification course, Bruce recognized that while certain principles of EAP were in line with his own discoveries, it was his understanding of, perhaps less psychologically challenged, horse owners that created Bruces's unique perspectives and learning programs.
Unlike traditional EAP, where the horse is used to help people, Bruce found that in addition to horses helping people, people could help horses. Just like in business when a servant leader, (the "alpha" to quote Bruce), helps employees, employees help the organization, and leader, in return. By teaching others to help others, a leader reduces egocentric behavior and discovers a different world. A world where you can stop trying to keep up with a changing market by running with the herd and become a trendsetting herd leader.
When Bruce first applied these principles to organizational development he began working with police departments for officer training. Using the "horse as a mirror" produced substantive and lasting changes in how officers used body language, anger management, and pressure application. These cumulative experiences over his lifetime, bring a wealth of human as well as horse sense to business executives and managers today to help develop their most valuable asset, their minds.
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