Episode 42 Joe Slattery is healing with horses

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Today Mary is talking to Joe Slattery. Joe is an Experienced Addiction counsellor and coordinator of the NorthStar Family Support Project, a community based project in Limerick , Joe is a specialist in-dealing with issues of substance abuse with adolescents and their families.
Joe is the Irish network coordinator and advanced certified in the EAGALA model of Equine Assisted Counselling and CEO of JS Equine Assisted Therapies.
Joe is a public speaker/educator in the area of drug abuse and disadvantage and the important role horses can play in supporting people to heal from emotional and physical distress.
He is TEDx talk is well worth a watch- Joe shares his own experience of growing up in a socially deprived area of Ireland and how horses helped him cope in that environment.
Contact Joe at
https://jsequinetherapies.ie/
Watch Joe's Tedx talk here
https://www.ted.com/talks/joe_slattery_how_horses_can_help_us_to_find_the_answers_from_within
Watch Joe on the Tommy Tiernan Show on the RTE player
Check out the Eagle method on You Tube
https://www.youtube.com/user/EAGALAVideos
Recommended book
Transforming Therapy Through Horses (Eagala method)
By:Lynn Thomas, Mark Little and Brenda Dammann
This episode is sponsored by Martin Bunzl
Check out Martin's new book
Thinking While Walking - Reflections while walking the Pacific Crest Trail
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Thinking-while-Walking-Reflections-Pacific/dp/0578882221