Maryland Therapeutic Riding ("MTR") uses the healing power of our horses, farm, volunteers and professional staff to help individuals seeking physical, mental. spiritual or emotional healing.
CORE VALUES
OUR RIDERS ARE ALWAYS OUR PRIMARY FOCUS.
HIGHEST ATTAINABLE QUALITY - Affects every aspect of our activities: riders, horses, training, safety, volunteers, environment, facilities and the therapeutic experience.
STEWARDSHIP - Making the best use and caring for all of our resources while both sustaining quality and growing our programs.
ACCOUNTABLE LEADERSHIP - Providing proactive leadership tempered with sound judgment, maintaining clear priorities, and controlling growth without compromising quality.
COMMUNITY ADVOCACY - Promote understanding of the benefits and successes this form of healing brings throughout the region.
Vision Statement
MTR believes that equine-assisted therapy is a unique and highly effective, holistic healing modality that affects each of the three fundamental dimensions of human health: mind, body and spirit. During the past thirteen years of organizational growth, MTR has created a high quality therapeutic riding and hippotherapy program. Along this journey we have witnessed the potential for this form of healing to help many others, not just the individuals with special needs who benefit from the gentle three-dimensional movement of the horse, but also others.
We have witnessed volunteers dramatically improve their lives because of their participation. We have witnessed the rejoining and strengthening of the bond between family members torn apart by tragedy. We have witnessed participants use MTR as a sanctuary to heal their spirit from life’s setbacks and open the eyes of their heart. We have seen others use the emotional nature of the horse as a metaphor for reversing destructive emotions caused by family dysfunction.
As our modern society continues to separate from the natural world, MTR can help heal and balance the human mind, body and spirit in many ways. This part of our vision involves formalizing and integrating new healing, learning and educational components into revenue generating programs for new populations of clients such as wounded warriors, terminally ill children and adults, cancer patients, people (particularly women) with psychological issues involving lack of self-esteem and self-confidence, people wanting peace from life’s hectic pace, and corporate employee’s looking to improve leadership and communication skills.
As we broaden our programs and increase our program revenue to assure the sustainability of MTR, we will never compromise our core purpose of providing high quality therapeutic riding and hippotherapy to individuals with special needs.
