Rosalyn W. Berne, Ph.D. explores the intersecting
realms between emerging technologies, science, fiction and myth, and
between the human and non-human worlds. As a university professor she
writes and teaches about engineering and technology in society and the
ethical implications of technological development, often using science
fiction material in her classes. In her personal life she continues to
discover the transformational nature of human-equine relationships, and
offers facilitation and translation services for enhancing communication
between horses and their owners.
be teaching a “Deep Listening Workshop” where she will use guided
meditations listening exercise, and brief lessons on how, when and why
we listen, or not, for our desire to hear what others are trying to say.
Dr. Berne will also be signing her book, When the Horses Whisper: The Wisdom of the Wise and Sentient Beings.
shows the capacity of horses to help us heal the human heart. It
expresses human language what horses have to say when given the chance
to speak. It is a story about the bond between horse and human, and the
communication made possible when the bond is based on love.
Conversations with fifteen horses, most of whom live and work in Costa
Rica, are featured along with their photographs, capturing them as
individual beings in service to humans on a shared evolutionary journey.
This journey amounts to the remembering of our whole selves in the
wholeness of creation, especially the parts we split off, deny, and
place in shadow because they are too painful. Horses, as the book shows,
can help us see these lost parts, and call forth our courage to reclaim
them. For the author, these included the loss of a newborn daughter,
the mental illness of an adult son, letting go of a thirty-year
marriage, and childhood sexual abuse. The story recounts the equine
healing work that helped in reclaiming her authentic self. This book is
testimony to the power of horses and equine healing work in
transforming life’s losses into a deeper human wholeness and a further
communion with the non-human world.