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The Power of the Whisper

Submitted by ron richard on Fri, 2009-10-02 07:41
11/05/2009 19:00
11/05/2009 21:00
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Location: Thompson Thrift farm in Illinois
 
These programs are free and open to those who RSVP.  Seating is limited. 
Send reservations to Dixie.Brown@indstate.edu or call 237-3031.
 
Sponsored by Leadership Wabash Valley, ISU Foundation, Sunrise Coal and Thompson Thrift. 
 
Thursday, November Thursday, November 5 (7:00 – 9:00 p.m.) and
Friday, November 6 (9:00 – 11:00 a.m.)
Location: Thompson Thrift farm in Illinois
 

 

Sponsored by Leadership Wabash Valley, ISU Foundation, Sunrise Coal and Thompson Thrift. 
 
Meet Sam Powell
Sam Powell looks like a cowboy…with steely eyes, leathered hands and a stance that reveals he’s suffered a number of broken bones. But, when Sam Powell walks into a room, his energy fills it like an empty cup. With the demeanor of a polished gentleman, his presence is magnetic and his spoken word enchanting, captivating and hypnotic. Sam Powell has the power of communication—spoken and unspoken.
 “Over the years, I’ve made a lot of mistakes and the horse has taught me a lot. The horse saved my life and this is my way of paying the horse back for what he helped me to learn about myself and my relationships with others over the last sixty some-odd years of my life.”
A horse relationship therapist and interpreter, Sam Powell “thinks horse.” His lessons are derived from 50 years’ life experience and observation—all from the horse’s perspective.
“It’s important to understand that human’s attach everything that a horse does from a human standpoint. We are asking him to conform to our standards. A horse knows how to be a horse. He already knows how to run, stop and back up. It’s up to the human to learn how to ‘ask’.”
A consultant, clinician and horse philosopher, Sam is an equine elementary school teacher who teaches by asking. As a horse advocate, he counsels from the horse’s point of view so that humans can learn the “horse language.” The translation is to bring the horse and owner together in mutual communication and understanding, under mutual circumstance, on mutual ground.

 

About Lisa Wysocky
Lisa Wysocky is an author, equine clinician, and motivational speaker who also trains horses for and consults with therapeutic riding programs across the country. Born in Minneapolis and raised in a nearby suburb, in her teens a riding instructor taught Lisa that by striving to be the best you can be, you often become the best anyone can be. That concept of success, and the instructor's insistence that how you won in the show ring--or in life--was more important than what you won, changed her life.
Lisa is the co-author, with Brad Cohen, of the uplifting and motivational Front of the Class: How Tourette Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I Never Had. Front of the Class has been seen on Oprah and Inside Edition and in People magazine. It was the winner of Best Education Book at the 2006 IPPY and the 2006 Foreword book awards and aired as a Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie on CBS. The Front of the Class movie was also nominated for a Faith & Freedom award by MovieGuide.
Many of Lisa's accomplishments, and those of her clients and students, have come through her book Success Within: How to Create the Greatest Moments of Your Life. Success Within shows how true success is being the best you that you can be and incorporates these concepts into fifty-two fun ideas that have transformed thousands of lives.
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