EXERCISE 5: DISCUSSION
You are an REMT. You are confident with your abilities and their effectiveness. You have just finished a treatment on a horse which has a very swollen leg due to an injury. During the treatment session the swelling visibly reduced, and the horse is moving its leg much more freely now. As you are leaving the stall, someone approaches you and asks what you are doing. “I have just finished a massage treatment on this horse,” is your reply. “I don’t believe in that stuff,” he/she responds. “I rub my own horses’ legs rather than waste my money”
1. Describe how this interaction makes you feel.
2. Would you feel differently if the person was an older man or a young woman?
3. Describe three different responses which you could make: one which would trigger a confrontation, a second which would be neutral and end the conversation, and a third response which would create a different scenario from the first two . . . use your imagination!
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