Mustangs MEND

We are Darkness to Light trained in protecting children in equestrian sports. Mustangs MEND is a registered 501c3 tax-exempt nonprofit organization founded in 2017. We are located in the Santa Clarita Valley in CA. We facilitate the healing of both mustangs and humans through the principles of Mindfulness, Empathy, Nurturing, and Dignity. Participants in our programs learn basic horse handling ski

lls and then move through a process of gentling a wild mustang so that it will be best equipped to adapt to its new life in a human world. Survivors work closely with a mentor-trainer and process successes and difficulties throughout the gentling process. Both humans and mustangs learn how to heal and create connection to the world around them as a way of coping with previous trauma. Mustangs MEND believes that both horse and human will come out on the other side of this process with positive coping mechanisms and a new sense of self love.