Definitions
Graduates – Students who have completed the coursework, passed all quizzes and the final exam with an 80% or better, and have completed the hands-on training in Florida with the instructors. Their graduation dates follow their name. They are listed alphabetically (with their country, if not the USA). Veterinarians are indicated with their degrees.
Certified Graduates (5 Levels) – Graduates who have passed the certification testing in Horsemanship Dentistry™ are listed within their level. Their date of graduation and date of certification follows their name. The terms apprentice, creative active, and master are from the book “Mastery” by Robert Greene.
- Level 1 – Apprentice – Graduates have achieved competence in the basic techniques of Horsemanship Dentistry, including basic horsemanship skills and dentistry techniques.
- Level 2-4 – Creative Active – Graduates clearly understand the theories, principles, and techniques. Their actions and reactions are measured and correct based on a more comprehensive understanding of what they have learned. They have improved through practice on 2,000 to 5,000 different horses and have moved from competent to confident. Their techniques are very good, and their horsemanship skills for each horse are very good.
- Level 5 – Master – Graduates have moved from thinking and using measured movements to reacting correctly and instinctively without thought and even proactively without thought before the horse does something. They have become true and humble leaders from working with at least 5,000 horses. Their techniques and horsemanship skills are flawless and smooth.
Level 5 Master:
- Jenniffer Bennett – December 15, 2014, Certified Level 5 January 2023
- Taylor Lewing – September 2, 2016, Certified Level 5 July 2023
Level 4:
Level 3:
- Olivia Arciolla – October 5, 2018, Certified Level 3 January 2023
Level 2:
Level 1:
- Debra Freiberg, DVM – October 3, 2014, Certified Level 1 November 2017
- Chloe Hatch – May 27, 2016, Certified Level 1 June 2017
- Eleni Ingalls – August 3, 2018, Certified Level 1 July 31, 2020
- Rosie Pope – December 6, 2019, Certified Level 1 February 2021
Graduates:
- Megan Anderson – October 28, 2016
- Hannah Berger – April 28, 2017
- Jamie Chatham – March 24, 2023
- Wendy Curry – April 27, 2016
- Siera Ellis – October 5, 2018
- Jacqulin Fagan – March 24, 2023
- Tina Gragg – December 31, 2015
- Jaxson (Jax) Heffes, DVM (Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago) – June 29, 2018
- Ceanna Johnston – July 8, 2022
- Kim Kauranen – April 28, 2017
- Kristi Luehr (British Columbia) – June 29, 2018
- Dakohta (Duck) MacEachern (Nova Scotia) – January 6, 2023
- Tricia Mackey – December 2, 2016
- Chelsea Marko, DVM – January 13, 2017
- Nicole Meyer – August 3, 2018
- Hailey Nottage – June 28, 2019
- Julie Patnode – December 2, 2016
- Amanda Rodriguez – May 1, 2015
- John Smith (The Dominican Republic) – September 30, 2017
- Kaleigh Volz – June 12, 2017
- Virginia Zuban – December 3, 2016