Heartland

From Monty's Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Series:
What is Join-Up and why do you send the horses away from you when you begin to work with them?

Monty's Answer: Join-Up is the training of horses using their language to establish trust. As I do Join-Up, I am dealing in the language of equus. I have learned that horses use 'sending away' within the family group. I have concluded that they do not regard this as an act of violence, but a use of temporary isolation as a form of discipline. There is no hitting and there is no force. The horses do not resent me for this, and they soon come to me as a friend. The horseman who does not understand why I send horses away has not yet learned the language of the horse. It is a part of their natural communication process. If I regarded it as violent, I would stop it at once, but it is not.

Monty Roberts was born May 14, 1935 in Salina, California. While watching wild mustangs in Nevada as a teenager, he realized that the horses communicated with each other through body language. He began developing training methods that took advantage of these observations, culminating in his "Join~Up" method, which he bills as a joint partnership between trainer and horse. He has written several books about his training theories, as well as his best-selling autobiography, The Man Who Listens to Horses. His life and methods have been featured in documentaries for the BBC and PBS, and he has received awards over the years from organizations such as the ASPCA, the British Horse Society and the Federation Equestre Internationale. He and his wife Pat run Flag Is Up Farms in Solvang, California. They have one daughter, Debbie, and have served as foster parents to almost fifty children over the years.

Source: Bookbrowse.com

Dr Edward Bach studied medicine in London, England at University College Hospital where he was a House Surgeon. He also worked in general practice and as a bacteriologist. Later, as a pathologist he worked on vaccines and a set of homoeopathic nosodes still known as the seven Bach nosodes.
Although he achieved success in his work with traditional medicine, he was dissatisfied with the way doctors were expected to concentrate on diseases and ignore the people who were suffering from them. He was inspired by his work with homoeopathy and sought to find remedies that were less reliant on the products of disease and more pure. In 1930 he gave up his regular practice and left London, determined to dedicate the rest of his life to a new system of medicine; one he was sure could be found in nature.

In addition to abandoning his traditional life with medicine in London, so now he abandoned the scientific methods he had used up. Instead he opted to depend on his natural gifts as a healer, and allow his intuition to guide him. One by one he found the remedies he sought, each aimed at a particular mental state or emotion. His life followed a seasonal pattern: the spring and summer was spent looking for and preparing the remedies, and the winter months spent dispensing help and advice to all who came looking for them. He found that when he treated the personalities and feelings of his patients their unhappiness and physical distress would be alleviated as the natural healing potential in their bodies was unblocked and allowed to function properly once more.

In 1934 Dr Bach relocated to Mount Vernon in Oxfordshire. In the surrounding land he found the remaining remedies that he needed to complete the series. Through great personal suffering and sacrifice, he was able to complete his life's work.

Source: Bach Centre