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Bonnie Ebsen-Jackson

Bonnie Ebsen-Jackson has always believed in giving enthusiastic youngsters a chance to prove themselves. This is because, not long after exiting a career in performing, she happened to answer an ad for a part-time equine writer and associate editor. “I brought along to my interview an essay that I’d won second prize with in a Professional Choice Sports Boots contest a few years earlier. The Managing Editor of The Western Horse magazine loved it and hired me, with no other professional experience to my credit.” Five years later, Bonnie would take over the Managing Editorship of Trail Blazer magazine and help adapt its readership from a small group of distance riders to a readership that reflected the 85% of horse owners who recreationally ride.Bonnie Ebsen Jackson brings several decades of experience in raising, riding, and writing about horses to her new work as an equine-assisted learning and psychotherapy facilitator at T.H.E. Ranch (Teaching Humans with Equine). Inspired by the horsemanship teaching of Monte Foreman, Pat Parelli, and Linda Tellington Jones, Bonnie is equally in awe of the tremendous work being done by such organizations and individuals as EAGALA (Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association), Linda Kohonov’s Epona, Barbara Rector’s Adventures in Awareness, and many others in the field of experiential learning and therapy. She feels tasked with the challenge of staying true to her own equestrian roots while learning from and applying the best practices of others. “The most important aspect of helping others,” she explains, “is not blindly following any one ideology, but discovering what works best for a given person in a given situation. You can find Bonnie under HEALTH in our member directory.