I am hugely excited to announce the arrival of the Equi-libre Horses brand spanking, whoopsidoodle new website. This website hosts The Academy of Positive Horsemanship Club. Months of work has resulted in this amazing site, the changes are absolutely fantastic – even if I might say so myself 😉 I cant wait to share them […]
Positive reinforcement training (aka clicker training) is most often associated with the use of food reinforcers following the marker/clicker signal. Actually though, there is another incredibly powerful but much less discussed reinforcer available to us as equine positive reinforcement trainers – tactile positive reinforcement. The problem is, the majority of tactile reinforcement used on horses […]
I am absolutely overjoyed to welcome Carolyn Jenkinson to the Equi-libre Horses (ELH) team as an official ELH Associate Trainer. Carolyn is a like-minded professional who has been studying with me for many years now. She has been a Member of The Academy since it’s formation and has worked very closely with me since then. […]
I am very excited to welcome Helen as a guest lecturer into The Academy. In this webinar, she will be examining the myriad of ways that physical contact can be utilised in horse training. I am offering a number of spaces on this webinar to people who are NOT members of The Academy. “Helen Spence is a ‘rare breed’ […]
I am very excited to announce that Dr Helen Spence will be doing a webinar for The Academy on Thursday 25th February titled “Horse Sense: Feeling Pressured?” Helen will be examining the myriad of ways that physical contact can be utilised in horse training. We’ll discuss the perception of stimuli, and how that perception changes […]
A few snippets of the endorsements I have had over the last week: “The videos are brilliant! You are always so clear and easy to understand! That is what puts you way ahead of the others!! I swear that my horse knows what I think?! but he is not going off a verbal which is what […]
The Academy is the ONLY one of it’s kind – offering horse owners worldwide the opportunity to learn about up-to-date training protocols and, possibly more importantly, exactly HOW to apply them to horses through our online home study courses. Our 3 month long ‘How Horses Learn, Feel & Communicate’ course is due to begin again […]
Earlier this year we launched our pioneering online course – How Horses Learn, Feel & Communicate. This course is not only comprehensive but it teaches you all about the fundamental, underlying principles that will hugely improve your training with your horse. You’ll learn about the principles that define how all animals learn, the training procedures to avoid and why as well as those to include more […]
I got home very late last night from THE most amazing weekend exhibiting at Total Confidence Live. Massive thanks to my supportive and ever patient co-driver Alexandra Rayner as well as Gill Langridge for all your help. We had a very strong and steady flow of genuine interest all weekend, which was truly wonderful given […]
Bookings are now open for this clinic with Helen Spence and I on 4th & 5th July. Helen is one of the very few trainers that I personally recommend and would happily hand my own horses over to. She is a fabulously empathic trainer with both humans and horses. I am honoured to have been […]
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