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01 Using Horses to Teach Us Peacemaking with Maja Ramsey
Many people face the chaos of internal personal conflict and conflict with others. It seems that we are expected by our society and culture to deal with conflict as adults, yet we for the most part are not taught the skills necessary to find inner or outer peace in our lives. Imagine if those skills could be taught through horses. My guest Maja Ramsey does just that. Her Steadfast Clinic uses horses to teach people inner and outer peace skills. Maja Ramsey is a mediator and former trial lawyer. She was acclaimed by TIME Magazine as one of the top 10 women lawyers in America. Maja is a graduate of California Poly Technic University and received her law degree from La Verne Law School. She, with three other distinguished women lawyers from the San Francisco Bay Area, founded the Rock Rose Institute, which supports, promotes and advances non-violent conflict resolution through education, improved communication and a deeper understanding of justice. The Steadfast Clinic, for both experience horsemen and people who have never seen a horse before, teaches people to be present, to observe, to be in the flow. Horses are great teachers and communicators. As Maja explains, horses work best with collaboration, and learning to collaborate with horses teaches us much about conflict transformation.