Aloha, Once again IETA - UK and the NCC in the form of Adele Neighbour did a magnificent job. The conference was excellent from start to finish, the enthusiastic support for all presenters as well as the IETA Committee was impressive indeed. The first morning started of with a Ladies Self Defense Class, which started out with a few raised eyebrows, and ended up with the girls rolling on the floor kicking the living daylights out of their imaginary attackers. Great fun and everyone enjoyed it as a team building exercise. They then made me do did my bit on three horses, one after another all revealing unique and chronic problems that I had to work on and with the most critical audience ever. I was then followed in the afternoon by the excellent Gillian Higgins with her painted horse, an amazing demonstration, which entranced all who attended. The day ended with a questions and answer session with Ivana and I, which resumed over dinner and into the wee hours of the morning. The second day saw different members turn up to catch the AGM as well as the lectures by the equine iridologist, the small business advisor, the osteopath and Ivana's excellent presentation on Equine Touch and Detoxification, I know she is my lady, but I am still astounded, and proud of what she achieves. The passion, time, effort, and research that she puts into every subject she is asked to work on provided once again an end result that as always held the audience gob smacked. The conference was attended by IETA members from all over the UK as well as from Germany, Holland and Ireland . In this time of economic hardship it was indeed gratifying to see so many people dedicated to the horse ET and IETA turning out for this annual occasion. By the way the facilities were excellent at the Newmarket Racing School, the food - five star, and the staff a pleasure to work with. Hope they hold it there next year.

Once again the NCC - UK provided us with a capacity clinic at Hartsop Farm, the UK home of Intelligent Horsemanship. To see these clinics packed with caring students and practitioner shows us all that the message is getting over. Horsemanship is not just about riding, competing and playing, it is also about caring for the horse in a way that has never been contemplated before. ET is helping horses worldwide and every year we send out more ET ambassadors to make certain that even more people contine to hear our voice!

With the interest explosion in VHT and the development of VHT for Family and Friends a new logo was envisaged. While it was felt essential that we retained our ETF Logo we should attempt to give it a different appearance so the above is what we have come up with. We hope it meets your approval. Both modalities were given birth to in Scotland. Each one is supported by the other, the human bodywork giving birth to the equine bodywork and then the latter helping us developing the former even farther. The thistle is recognized as having healing properties and is actually eaten by many horses. So there you have it. Jock will be teaching the very first VHT for Family and Friends clinic in the UK this Thursday to qualified VHT Practitioners to iron out any hiccups in the manual before putting it out to the general public. The uniqueness of F and F is the fact that a complete body address can be completed in 4.5 minutes, or if it is decided to include observation periods, then it may take around 20 minutes and can be taught to novices in only two days.