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Visit the YouTube channels for CADI and Freestyle, and the Bear Spot Foundation! Check out our new website Developing Nations Dressage, our BSFDressage website, and Like us on Facebook! Don't miss a special message from Jane Karol, Founding Director of the Bear Spot Foundation, about the work and focus of the Foundation. Saddle Mattress will donate $30 directly to the Bear Spot Foundation for Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy for each purchase of a Saddle Mattress from their website using the code "BSF" (plus FREE S/H!) From "The Boston Globe": "Sorrows Unsaddled: At Concord’s Bear Spot Farm, Jane Karol and her horses guide students through dressage, patients through therapy." Read more... CADI 2011 Bear Spot Freestyle is part of the SIGNATURE DRESSAGE SERIES alliance. Horses are so often nutritive to those humans who
seek out their company. The work of my foundation honors and draws on the
seemingly mystical nourishing quality of the horse. This nourishing
quality allows bonds to grow between people of diverse backgrounds,
serves as a balm for the disquieted soul, and somehow allows even
the most lost to feel at home in their presence. |
Meet Dr. Karol | Our Program | Meet the Horses | Case Studies Dr. Jane Karol
Psychologist, dressage rider, trainer, instructor, competitor. The Foundation is the culmination of years of ongoing work and professional development Jane Karol, Psy. D., has enjoyed in each of these unique roles. Dr. Karol earned her undergraduate degree at Washington University, and her master’s degree at American University. Her doctorate in clinical psychology is from Antioch University. She completed pre- and post- doctoral work as a Harvard Fellow at Cambridge Hospital in Cambridge, MA. Her training also included extensive internship experience at a number of recognized institutions in the greater Boston area, including Brandeis University and McLean Hospital, a teaching facility of the Harvard Medical School.  Dr. Karol also completed an internship year at the Jimmy Fund Clinic, a renowned treatment and research center at Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. There, she worked with children suffering from life-threatening illnesses, and their families. Her approach to treating children and adolescents was formed, in part, by her work as an intern at the Community Therapeutic Day School in Lexington, MA. This school serves children with emotional and neurological difficulties. The school helps its students learn how to have relationships, how to cope with their environment, how to express themselves and engage with their own families, and how to progress toward healthy development. Years of ongoing work and professional development have enabled Dr. Karol to provide equine assisted psychotherapy, with compassion and skill, through The Bear Spot Foundation. Dr. Karol coaches adult clients and their horses at various stages of development and competitive ability at Bear Spot Farm. She competes throughout New England at dressage’s upper levels. A frequent guest clinician, she is known and well regarded for her compassionate approach to the training of both horse and rider. |