{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Equine Assisted World with Rupert Isaacson","title":"An Idea, Not an Agenda: Horses, Bush & Healing | Sinya Nicol | EAW 66","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/4a8b9d48\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":6999,"description":"✨ \"I have an idea, but I don't have an agenda, because they build their own agenda.\" – Sinya Nicol\nSinya Nicol runs Ngara Bush and Life Learning in New South Wales, Australia, an equine assisted practice built on one principle: come with an idea, not an agenda.\n\nNgara is a Worimi word meaning \"listening to one another,\" and the practice works that way. Sinya works from two campuses: a 240-acre farm deep in the bush, about 50 minutes from the town of Foster, and a smaller site about 20 minutes from town with an art space beside the horses. She learns each client's sensory triggers before they arrive and sets up a \"yes environment\" where she rarely has to say no. She works with children and adults, and her horses are trained as colleagues, not equipment.\n\nRupert Isaacson and Sinya cover her path from a stable near Frankfurt to a Kentucky horse farm, a social pedagogy degree, overland guiding across Africa and South America, and a life in Australia. They talk through how she trains her horses, why she involves clients and whole families, what healing means compared with cure, how reframing a person's story can ease shame, and her plans for donations and paid work opportunities for clients.\n\nIf you want to support the show, you can do so at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LongRideHome\n🔍 What You'll Learn in This Episode\nWhat \"an idea, not an agenda\" means in practice, and how Sinya lets clients build their own path\nHow Sinya prepares for each client, learning sensory triggers beforehand and arranging shade, water, and a way out\nWhy she runs a \"yes environment\" and what happens to behavior when there is little to say no to\nHow a social pedagogy degree (psychology, sociology, social work, and educational science) shapes a person-centered, not deficit-centered, approach\nHow she trains her horses as colleagues, from jaw flexion and lateral work to lunging with an \"anarchy phase\" and ridden work\nWhy she uses a long 19-inch Western saddle so a child can ride in front of...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/PuJAXgaKmhfeBRqqEPEATMHDH_c-iN9O1OlaUtqD0-g/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQwMDI3LzE2ODI0/MjQ0MTQtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}