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Visit the YouTube channels for CADI and Freestyle, and the Bear Spot Foundation! Saddle Mattress will donate $30 directly to the Bear Spot Foundation for Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy for each purchase of a Saddle Mattress from their website using the code "BSF" (plus FREE S/H!) From "The Boston Globe": "Sorrows Unsaddled: At Concord’s Bear Spot Farm, Jane Karol and her horses guide students through dressage, patients through therapy." Read more... Plan on joining us for 2010's CADI and Freestyle...Serious Fun! Learn more on the CADI and Freestyle websites, and . Bear Spot Freestyle is part of the SIGNATURE DRESSAGE SERIES alliance. Horses are so often nutritive to those humans who
seek out their company. The work of my foundation honors and draws on the
seemingly mystical nourishing quality of the horse. This nourishing
quality allows bonds to grow between people of diverse backgrounds,
serves as a balm for the disquieted soul, and somehow allows even
the most lost to feel at home in their presence. |
Meet Dr. Karol | Our Program | Meet the Horses | Case Studies The Bear Spot Foundation The Bear Spot Farm Foundation to Benefit Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (the Foundation) was established in 2004 to provide therapeutic services for children, adolescents and their families. Jane Karol, Psy.D. is the Foundation’s executive and program director. She is a psychotherapist with extensive experience treating children and adolescents. She is also an accomplished dressage rider, and has been a professional trainer, instructor and competitor for more than ten years. The Foundation is based at her Bear Spot Farm, located in Concord, MA. In her work as a psychotherapist, Dr. Karol began to incorporate equine assisted psychotherapy, in the form of dressage riding and horse care, into her clients’ therapy programs several years ago. Our MissionThe Foundation’s mission is to bring the profound presence of the horse – the trust he can engender, the joy he can bring and the sense of collaboration and accomplishment that comes from working with such a powerful animal – into a directed therapeutic program. Here, client and therapist draw upon the capability and talents of the living horse. The Foundation is distinct in the field in the way in which it combines these elements. Share in the work of the Foundation and in its successes by reading more about its programs and case studies. How You Can HelpThe Bear Spot Foundation to Benefit Equine Assisted Psychotherapy is a 501(c) 3 charitable organization. Your generosity helps the Foundation to provide and to expand these vital programs. Take a moment to learn more about the Foundation and how you can help. |