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Horse Sense:
What a Horse Can Teach Me
about Me
June 27-28, 2008
Fri 7pm - Sat 4pm
Fee: $80
Facilitator: Jan Jantzen Limit: 12 women
Learn about the psychology of a horse and how attitudes, body language, motivations, and assumptions are relevant when working with a horse. Discover how a better understanding of this magnificent animal can lead to better understanding of ourselves and our human relationships. You'll catch, feed, groom, lead, and trailer load horses at Grandview Ranch. Photo ops atop a horse will be possible, but no actual riding. We'll have lunch at the ranch, and hear true stories from an old time bronc buster.
Tallgrass Spiritual Retreat Center:
Where Women Find Their Way
1780 Thurman Creek Road
Matfield Green, Kansas
620.753.3465
Rev. Billie Blair, Director
Tallgrass Spiritual Retreat Center
Where Women Find Their Way
Because horses are so different from us, they have so much to teach us about ourselves and our relationships with others. Women seem extraordinarily attracted to horses yet some characteristics of women present special challenges for a successful human-horse relationship.
Beginning midmorning Jan Jantzen, owner of Grandview Ranch, will introduce participants to several horses. Everything we do in this hands-on retreat (feeding, catching, petting, smelling, leading, tying, grooming, trailer loading, etc.) will provide opportunities to observe and discuss the horse's physical characteristics, its attitudes, behaviors, body language, and instincts. Participants will have the opportunity to learn how to relate more purposely to this very different animal.
"There's a little horse in all of us from time to time," says Jan. Understanding the real horse gives us a "leg up" on understanding ourselves and others.
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About the Facilitator
Jan grew up in the small western Kansas town of Hill City, in the 50’s and 60’s. Roaming the pastures, fields, and creek bottoms, Jan spent his time with a few other bare footed, barebacked buddies creating dugouts, tree houses, and Tarzan swings.
Academic and athletic scholarships brought Jan first to Kansas University and then to the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. A twenty some year career in college administration at Emporia State University and
then at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, did nothing to dilute his love for the natural world of plants and animals and for the rural way of life.
Now retired for fourteen years, Jan lives in the tallgrass prairie at the end of a Flint Hills road. His current teachers include six horses and four dogs as well as an endless variety of prairie plants and animals. Some of the native critters are anxious to teach more than he cares to learn. He now holds a reluctant Masters Degree in SNAKE, and an honorary Ph.D. in SKUNK.
Jan’s enthusiasm for sharing his world with others grew into a business called Kansas Flint Hills Adventures. He takes adults on short leisurely horseback rides through the beautiful Flint Hills where he shares information about the natural and cultural history of the area.
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