Centered Riding’s 15th Annual International
Educational Symposium
“Teaching: Expectations, Implementations and Impacts”
November 5 - 7, 2010

In keeping with the certification process now in place for Centered Riding Instructors, the 2010 International Symposium, to be held Nov. 5-7th at the Putney Inn in Putney, Vermont, will concentrate on various aspects of teaching.

We are hoping to offer a wide range of information from the kinds of learning to teaching styles, lesson plans, theory of teaching, effects, how the brain works and anything else we all can come up with.

This will be the last Centered Riding Symposium in the Northeast for a number of years. The 2011 Symposium will be held in Europe and Canada has asked for the 2012 Symposium.

I am hoping various regions will “bid” for the Symposium for succeeding years.

“Sally’s Hand”, a riding crop with a leather outline and appliqué of Sally Swift’s hand with which she reached up to touch rider’s bodies, will be auctioned off through a sealed bid process at this Symposium. The “hand” is signed by Sally.

Suggestions for speakers are greatly appreciated. Email your ideas to me at Equifin@att.net.

Jami Wallace
Chair Symposium Committee
President Centered Riding, Inc.

 Centered Riding will be conducting a special, sealed-bid auction for the “hand stick” personally used by Sally Swift in her teaching days.  It is made of a leather “hand print” mounted on the end of a short jumping bat.  Sally used it to reach a rider’s shoulder or upper body from the ground.  The leather hand, donated by Centered Riding Level III Instructor, Donna Snyder Smith, is signed by Sally.