Social Media Intern Kerrin Koetsier shares more of her favorite links.

Living in Parelliville has made me aware of how I need to develop and increase my Parelli-based knowledge! I’ve been aware of concepts such as the 8 principles, the responsibilities, and the 7 keys to success for quite some time, and I’m sure that if I REALLY  racked my brain, I’d even be able to recite a couple of them back to you… but, I don’t know them in order, and I certainly wouldn’t be able to recite them to you off the cuff! My 3-in-1 friends, fellow-interns, and cabin mates-Gina and Sharon-happen to be in the same boat as me… so we’ve all endeavoured to learn some of these principles and keys by heart! Most mornings, we test each other on our way to and from the offices, which is a fun way of learning!

The first ‘Law of Parelli’ is to ‘Put the Relationship First.’ I can honestly say that across the board, this is what the Parelli program prioritizes on. Relationship with customers, employees, instructors, students, and of course-our horses! Putting the relationships first sounds like a wonderful ideal, but how do we put this concept to practice? Les Freeman, the author of the blog ‘Equuality’, questions this topic in her blog post: What the Heck does ‘Put the Relationship First mean?

Staying at the Colorado Parelli campus gives me a good idea of what life is like for many of the Externs, Interns, and Mastery students. If you’d like a first hand account of the life in a day of a Parelli extern, this blog post by Zoe van Kruiningen–Coade is a good read. Many of us struggle with bringing our dreams to the threshold of reality, and in the following blog post, young Priscilla expresses the limits that she experiences: Life Long Apprenticeship

You’ve got to admit that many of us are suckers for horse-themed movies. Pre-Parelli days, I would be amazed at the mysterious relationship between horse and human that was so often captured in these movies. Nowadays, I’ll sometimes see through the trick training or commonly used methods with horses in movies, but I still enjoy a good horse-based story! For a behind the scenes review of the movie Secretariat (due to come out later this year) click here.

Horse welfare is a subject of interest to me… all too often we’re not aware of the different types of horse abuse. In this video, I was reminded of the fact that obesity in horses can be just as bad as starvation! Dangers of obesity video…

On a side-note, I came across this information on an off-road toll ride in Nottinghamshire, UK. I think this toll-ride system will certainly make off-road riding more accessible across England.

I like to think of our Social Media office as a happy place, where we’re all free to express ourselves! You’ll regularly hear music coming from our Itunes, and this week, my co-workers had to put up with me singing along to Veggietales for an hour or two! You’ve got to love the Veggietales hairbrush song!

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