Nervous Riders - would this appeal to you?

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A member of our riding club committee has been seeing a hypnotherapist due to acute anxiety when riding her horse - in a few sessions she seems to have improved so much she is now cantering and doing trotting poles (a month ago she would not even ride the horse). Now, I have no experience of hypnotherepy, and couldn't honestly say if it has worked, or if it is a placebo effect, but the chap she has been seeing has now offered to do a free sports pyschology lecture for the riding club.

We are still to arrange a date/location (prob around Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk) for this, but I wondered if anyone on here would be interested in attending such an event? The lecture itself is free but we would need a small donation to cover a venue (talking about £2 per head to cover venue, tea, coffee, biscuits etc). It would be a couple of hours one evening. Do you think we would get interest for this sort of thing? Would anyone here be interested in coming along once we have arranged a date etc? Just trying to thrash out the details at the moment, but it would be good to know if it would appeal to people.

PS - Admin, I am not advertising, as there is no date/location etc even arranged yet, I just want to see whether people would be interested.
 
It would be too far away for me. But if it was in my area then yes, I'd be interested in this kind of thing.

I lost my confidence for a while years back and I was lucky enough to have just one session of NLP with a practitioner in training. I didn't think immediately after the session that it had done anything, but in actual fact, that session turned out to be the turning point on the road to regaining my confidence.
 
If I was in your RC I would attend a lecture on a subject like this - I think most of us get the wobbles when we get older. I lost my lovely horse in May and I am having to sit on strange horses with a view to buying them. So far I have felt OK about it, in fact much better than I thought I would feel. I did refuse to get on two 4 year olds that were having a bad hair day. I watched them and I just thought "noooo" can't do that.
 
Sounds like a good plan.... but a little too far for me.... I wonder if I could convince a local club to do something similar
 
I'm not even nervous (plus live overseas) but would be really interested in something like this..
For what it's worth, our local body for riding (kinda like BD/BSJA/BE but all discipline and done by province instead of discipline) organised something similar with the sports psychologist for the city's (successful) rugby team, and it was pretty darn expensive. They also used her for our region's pony rider nationals team and they cleaned up (though to be fair...our region wins most often at nationals at most levels anyway).

I'm fairly sure they got a good turnout because there's another one organised in a couple of months.
 
I know plenty of people who would be interested BUT they are not the type of people who would be members of a riding club. I can't help feeling you've maybe got the wrong audience? The majority of RC members are riders and often competitors, so presumably aren't particularly nervous. The very nervous riders who would benifit most from the talk are unlikely to be in the RC.

So maybe worth doing a good advertising campaign at local riding schools and stables?
 
For anyone thinking about it it really does work - or it did for me.

I had lost my confidence totally with my youngster so much so I wouldn't even tack her up. I went to an NLP Hypnotherapist and it put me on the road to getting my confidence back.

Straight after the session I went to the yard, tacked her up and took her in the arena, it didn't sort me out completely but it definately put me on the right path.:D
 
I would love to come along and listen :) - would be happy to travel - as for it being a friday or Saturday night thing - if some one really wants to improve their riding/get over their nerves they would happily give up a night out.:)

As some one else has already said your Riding club may not give you a big enough audience alone so put ads up in local tack shops, feed merchants, compettion venues etc - the more the merrier!:)
 
I would be interested although its a bit of a trek for me I sometimes have to go to BSE for work so if I could do the 2 together wouldn't be a problem. I will soon be getting back in the saddle after a nasty accident so although at the moment I don't remember anything about it so am not nervous who knows what will happen once I actually get in the saddle!
 
Definately be interested, but it is rather a trek.

As a thought, people may be prepared to travel - and pay more - if they were getting a little bit more than just an 'introductory talk'.

If I was organising I would wonder if he could add a bit more content and make it a 'taster session'. Would suggest if you went this route you could strictly limit the numbers .... and charge up front in case they can't make in 'on the night'.
 
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