Charlie's Integrity

If we do not listen to our horses, we might end up rewarding the negative and letting it win. It is important to always listen to what the horse is saying. This was evident through one of the kids Charlie. Charlie came to our program and did not initially have the greatest attitude. Due to his attitude he began to do things that aggravated us but we had to let the process happen.

It was the 3rd or 4th program and Charlie was slowly losing his cool. He began tearing the signs out of the pylons and making a mess in the dirt. We stepped back and just had to watch the whole situation happen. The horses were not doing anything, so since we were listening to our horses we figured it was okay. Man, those horses are good. They were so right. After 5 or so minutes, Charlie began to collect himself and he started to put the cards back into the pylons.

Carolyn walked up to him and gave him an integrity card for him putting them back so nicely. Then he proceeded to clean up the mess he made around him.

Instead of us responding to the negative behaviour, we found the positive. It was definitely something he was not expecting. From that day on he never had that same attitude again. We did not let the negative take over and win but instead we responded to the positive which allowed us all to win.

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