101 Ways to Utilize Volunteers in Your Therapeutic Riding & EAL Program: A guide to help you make the most of your volunteer engagement!

by Sarah Stanley

Overview

101 Ways to Utilize Your Volunteers is your guide to all things volunteers! Whether you are a volunteer coordinator, therapeutic riding instructor, program manager, barn manager, or any other professional responsible for overseeing volunteers in a therapeutic horsemanship setting, this book is a must have!

This book features 101 creative ideas (plus 4 bonus tips) for improving your volunteers' engagement, tips on HOW to actually bring these ideas to life in your program, and methods for improving the quality of their experience with your program!

Enjoy easy to read and conversational-style language that is engaging and entertaining while also getting right to the point so that you can get back to the barn and start implementing these exciting tips into your program!

- 14 pt. large font size!
- Bonus section providing a total of 105 opportunities for volunteer engagement in your program!
- Written by an educated, certified, and fellow therapeutic riding instructor and equine-assisted psychotherapy (EAGALA) practitioner, bringing you real experience and education on what really works!
- Sneak peak at new book coming soon - "Tools for Managing Your Volunteers"
- Meet the author section!
All of the tips in this book provide opportunities for engaging volunteers in your equine program, but they can be easily adapted for any equine-related business, making it a must read for volunteer coordinators, any professional providing therapeutic services through an equine-assisted model or activity, barn managers, coaches, instructors, program managers, and horse trainers alike!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798307844298
Publisher:	Sarah Stanley
Publication date:	01/24/2025
Pages:	116
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.24(d)

About the Author

Sarah Stanley is a certified therapeutic riding instructor and certified EAGALA (Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy) Practitioner. She has worked in the equine industry training horses and teaching riding lessons, both therapeutic and traditional, since 2011. Throughout this time, she has worked for several different facilities, and learned first hand what really works (and what really doesn't!). Sarah has always been passionate about the equine industry and knew from a young age that she wanted to make a career out of helping people through the incredible healing abilities that the relationship with horses can offer. In college, Sarah studied as a double major in Western Equestrian Studies, with a riding and training emphasis, and business. She also rode competitively on both the collegiate english and western IHSA teams. Throughout her extensive research and real life experience, Sarah has accrued several hundred teaching hours and worked closely with a large number of volunteers. Her experience with training and managing volunteers has inspired her to share the best tips for managing and engaging volunteers in a therapeutic or EAL program, and help others in the field maximize their volunteer retention and reap the best possible benefits of your volunteer engagement (while helping the volunteers to have the best experience possible in the process!). Learn from a real world professional who is active in the field and living this life every day just like you. Let's work together to take your volunteer engagement and retention to the next level!