Riding Course Newsletter Press Kit Volunteers

Our Herd

Ongoing volunteer orientation, weather permitting Mon-Fri 3 to 6 PM and Sat 10-12 AM - Call to let us know you are coming to volunteer so we can send you the volunteer orientation information via email before you arrive. We will send you directions to our facility, a volunteer information sheet and our volunteer release/agreement. We will give you a one-hour safety orientation on how to work with a horse on the ground and help you practice these procedures when you come out later for a second visit. After that, you are ready to fly on your own.

Private instruction in ESCT for spooky horses or private PEAT energy psych sessions for fearful humans - Call Barbara Wright to schedule an appointment at (303) 816-0766 or email her at harmonyhorsewrks@aol.com.

Clinics at your equestrian facility in ESCT and/or PEAT - Call Barbara Wright to schedule an appointment at (303) 816-0766 or email her at harmonyhorsewrks@aol.com to schedule a one, two or three-day clinic at your equestrian facility.

Our Mission

Harmony HorseWorks is a horse sanctuary for special needs horses with good dispositions and otherwise general good health. Some cannot be ridden but can serve as companion horses and horses in programs involving humans on the ground in horse/human interactive learning programs. Some horses are rehabilitated for light riding. A few are adopted out to carefully screened individuals who have the capability to care for special needs horses. A few more are completely healthy and serve as riding education horses in our horse/human programs. Periodically, we take on a special rehabilitation case requiring extra medical or rehabilitation attention in consultation with our veterinarian. We focus on making the sanctuary horses comfortable and useful in educational programs involving high school students, local crisis centers, and other community outreach programs.

We teach Equine Stress Control Therapy (ESCT), a method for de-spooking horses using bilateral brain integration with bilateral body tapping. Proceeds are donated to the horses. Our program is conducted by the ESCT teaching and certification division of Harmony HorseWorks.

We also coach fearful riders back to courage using a riding coaching technique called Equestrian Perfomance Coaching (EPC) based on PEAT energy psychology that removes the energetic charge around riding and performance issues. It brings riders to optimum activity and restores them to confidence and courage using methods originally created by Zivorad Slavinski and modified for the horse/human riding relationship. Proceeds are donated to the horses. Our program is conducted by the EPC teaching and certification division of Harmony HorseWorks.

Using these two processes, ESCT for the horse and EPC for the human, we create a sound and trusting riding partnership. Several times yearly, we offer clinics in each of these processes. Clinic proceeds are also donated to the horses.

We help place unwanted horses in cyber-space by networking with the USA horse rescues and sending out special newsletters for these deserving horses to our 15,000 name email list. Because we cannot take on rescue horses here at our property, we try to do what we can for the unwanted horses by supporting the cyber-rescue coalition. We receive no funds from these efforts and do this on a voluntary basis.

We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation registered in Colorado and our IRS FEIN is 200763702. We received our nonprofit status from the IRS on February 23, 2004. Our fundraising efforts bring in almost all our annual revenues to support and maintain our herd with feed, grain, supplements, veterinary care and farrier care. We are run by volunteers.