Casey SugarmanCasey Sugarman, Will Integrator Casey Sugarman's (my) insights stem from my perspective on the task at hand-the task of needing to solve impossible animal-mental-health emergencies before the euthanasia clock runs out. From a young age, I have been aself-proclaimed student of interspecies conversational dynamics, and what I call The Mechanics of Will. From raising a dangerous PTSD horse up to age 33, to the cephalopod and sensory biology labs at Boston University and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA, I have been gathering unique experiences as a translator of cross-species intention for over 30 years. Extrapolating out, I am fascinated with applications of these identical dynamics in the human-to-human relationship realm. Spending 14 years in exotic aquatic animal management, eventually as a senior veterinary biologist at Boston's New England Aquarium, I was co-constructor of its Aquarium's Medical Center: A Live Working Exotic Aquatic Veterinary Hospital Exhibit. Alan Alda's Scientific American Frontiers PBS show came calling in 1998. Showing what we humans have in common at a visceral level with aquatic alien species promotes global conservation. After the aquarium, I hung out a shingle and went to work on the brains of the impossible individuals among the working animals, farm animals, and family animals. I have been among the first to apply whale training techniques to the psychological rehabilitation of domesticated species, but mainly the individuals who have become dangerously violent in reaction to traumatic accident, injury, history of abuse and/or social neglect. Experiential learning dynamics that apply to all species from snail to shark to human have led me to develop an applied behavioral modification technique for application in human education and training, medical management, both physical and psychological rehabilitation, and even sociological and administrative strategy. In addition to teaching animal owners and the professionals in animal industries, I am excited to teach the distilled essence of Choice/Will Integration to educators, coaches, associations, and companies. No matter the taxa, species or where you and they are around the globe, I'm eager to work your collective puzzle and figure it out. Read More Read Less
