{"id":12737,"date":"2019-11-04T22:49:46","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T22:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/11\/04\/horse-whisperer-helps-veterans-with-ptsd-on-military-channel\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:49:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:49:05","slug":"horse-whisperer-helps-veterans-with-ptsd-on-military-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/military-honor\/2019\/11\/04\/horse-whisperer-helps-veterans-with-ptsd-on-military-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Horse whisperer\u2019 helps veterans with PTSD on Military Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Discovery Communications owns and operates Military Channel and Animal Planet<i>,<\/i> cable networks with different programming mandates. It seems unlikely that their content would overlap, yet it does in a new documentary. \u201cHorse Sense and Soldiers\u201d follows a \u201chorse whisperer\u201d working with Iraq War veterans suffering from PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arranged psychological encounters as \u201cinfo-tainment\u201d are a well-worked angle of reality television, and one must always approach these programs with a bit of skepticism. \u201cHorse Sense and Soldiers\u201d pays off, however, because it stays true to its design and succeeds in its execution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"195\" height=\"160\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Horse-whisperer-2.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29981\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three Iraq War veterans, two men and a woman, are introduced to the Join-Up concept of horse training by the concept\u2019s innovator and trademark owner, Monty Roberts, at his Solvang, California, Flag Is Up Farms. The three veterans all suffer from PTSD and have voluntarily decided to devote a few days of their lives trying to relate to horses as therapy. In the documentary we learn that their success in coping with life back home, their families and surroundings is not going well, so they are willing to try something new.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montyroberts.com\/\">Monty Roberts<\/a> grew up around horses and made his passion a life\u2019s work in show riding, movie stunt work and horse training. In this program he is billed as \u201cThe Original Horse Whisperer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The term \u201chorse whisperer\u201d comes from the concept that wild or untrained horses are coaxed into human direction and goals through non-violent training and interaction. Communication with the horses is through subtle body language, similar to how horses communicate with each other, says Roberts. He studied the interaction of wild horses while rounding them up for his family\u2019s riding school and wild-horse racing business. From this beginning he developed his style of \u201cbreaking\u201d wild horses and ultimately training them for riding. Join-Up is deemed to be the moment that the horse voluntarily comes to the human and establishes trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the three veterans arrive at the expansive facility, Roberts first spends a little time acclimating them to the farm and him. That\u2019s not hard to do. The farm is absolutely gorgeous and impeccably maintained. With doctorates in psychology and behavioral science, Roberts immediately creates a connection with each of the three prospective students individually. Then it\u2019s time to introduce them to the horses. Each begins by learning how to communicate orders to a willing horse in a closed corral and advance the interaction as each reaches a better comfort level with the process. One of the vets is eventually introduced to working with a much wilder horse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Roberts has many supporters who have learned to use his horse-breaking and training philosophy, but he is not without detractors among horse people. Rather than being \u201cThe Original Horse Whisperer,\u201d he\u2019s really one among a number of trainers who have made names for themselves using similar methods. Some people say the basic technique goes back hundreds of years. The term was popularized by a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Horse-Whisperer-Nicholas-Evans\/dp\/0440222656\">book by Nicholas Evans<\/a> that inspired a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0119314\/\">1998 Robert Redford movie<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other critics, including members of his extended family, also claim that Roberts\u2019 stories about how his father violently abused horses in his business and applied that violent abuse to Monty himself are greatly exaggerated or false. The truth is debatable beyond the limits of this documentary, however, and has no import in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With a twinkle in his eye Roberts, the psychologist and showman, demonstrates he knows how to get more out of people and horses than they might be capable of doing themselves. As the program goes through the steps taken by the three veterans during their sessions at the horse farm, a perceptible change develops in each of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joe, the first student to work with the horses, goes from displaying a permanent frown to smiling a lot as he succeeds in getting the horses to do what he wants them to do. All three vets express how the experience affects their fears, memories and current feelings. They leave the farm happy, at least for the moment. Back with their homes and families the documentary shows them doing much better three months after their four days at the farm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"195\" height=\"160\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Horse-whisperer-3.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29993\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The filmmakers do their best to stay out of the way and let the background story and verit\u00e9 style of action drive the program. The narration is soft and unobtrusive. The cameras follow the action without influencing it. The program also shows the failures, such as when Joe\u2019s wife refuses to try interacting with a horse, and the female vet, Alejandra, leaves the training temporarily. These issues all seem to get resolved without Roberts or the filmmakers pressing them with phony TV devices. The one exception to this is the journey into Roberts\u2019 own controversial past that introduces some flimsy reenactment and uncredited archival scenes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whether or not Join-Up is a breakthrough horse training method or Roberts is just one among many horse whisperers trying to sell his expertise, I\u2019ll leave to those who spend much more time than I watching Animal Planet. 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