"Horses Inside Out" In Person - worth it?

[Knubbsy]

Gillian Higgins/Horses Inside Out is coming to my area the day before I leave for a multi-day show and my barn is trying to put a group together. With the 5-person group discount, tickets are ~$105 (plus gas, time, dinner, etc). I’m going to need to get up at 6 am the next morning and wouldn’t get home until 10 pm (it’s an hour each way without traffic) so I’m trying to justify not being home that last night before ditching my spouse for most of a week.

For those that have seen her in person, did you feel like you got your money’s worth? Would paying 150 for a webinar be more worth it?

[Scribbler]

@Knubbsy

Gillian Higgins/Horses Inside Out is coming to my area the day before I leave for a multi-day show and my barn is trying to put a group together. With the 5-person group discount, tickets are ~$105 (plus gas, time, dinner, etc). I’m going to need to get up at 6 am the next morning and wouldn’t get home until 10 pm (it’s an hour each way without traffic) so I’m trying to justify not being home that last night before ditching my spouse for most of a week.

For those that have seen her in person, did you feel like you got your money’s worth? Would paying 150 for a webinar be more worth it?

The anatomy stuff looks fun. What’s your current knowledge base in anatomy? I expect the clinic will be more basic beginner friendly stuff.

For me, at this point in my life I couldn’t see attending an information dense clinic for the whole day before I leave on a big trip. Are you responsible for any horse shipping logistics or is trainer doing it all for you?

[Knubbsy]

I have a decent layman’s understanding of anatomy (typical FFA/4H horse judging education, spent my early 20s in a lab working with quadruped skeletal remains, moderately neurotic about my mare’s fitness). My trainer thinks it’s worth going enough that she’s going with the working student (but they also live closer). I know Higgins’ books are supposed to be really good, it’s just a lot of money for a seminar.

I’m a researcher so every day is information dense so I’m not so worried about that so much as the logistics of it all. My trainer is driving the trailer but each rider is responsible for their own horse/equipment. I already took the day off so theoretically, I could pack everything in the morning/afternoon and then go to the seminar.

[Bluey]

Go, is never only about what you learn there, is the group of people, what they have to contribute to you being there, you also part of it.

Unless someone has direct experience with that seminar and can tell you why not go, go and see what is all about?