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Psychology for Horse Trainers and Equestrian Coaches/Creating Confidence 2023
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Creating Confidence 2023

  • Course
  • 33 Lessons
  • 90-day access

Obstacle and Object training as a way of creating and building confidence in your horse.  Alongside the usual theory and practical demo lessons, this includes footage from a workshop filmed in beautiful Ballycastle, Northern Ireland April 2023 looking at training with two young mares and a rescue pony. As a Clinical Equine Behaviourist I know how important it is to introduce novel objects and situations in the best way- it is very easy, instead of creating confidence, to create fear. In this online course we will look at how to break items down, build relationship and trust and use that to build up an effective 'reference library' so that the horse or pony will  cope better in future novel environments.
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Contents

Introduction

Please download and read the safety handout before progressing with the rest of the course.

Safety First.pdf

Understanding Spookiness and Recognising Stress

The videos in this section will help you to understand what spookiness is, common causes of it, and how to recognise if your horse is getting stressed.

what is spookiness.mp4
Recognising signs of stress.mp4
Understanding Trigger Stacking.mp4
Causes of 'Spookiness'.mp4
What to do when your horse spooks!.mp4

The benefits of obstacle work and how to do it!

Safety First.pdf
The benefits of obstacle training for building confidence.mp4
practical-skills-5 Introducing Novelty.mp4
juliet-and-the-umbrella.mp4
kai-and-the-umbrella.mp4

Videos from Day One of Workshop, April 2023, Ballycastle, Northern Ireland

In this section you will find the video recordings from the workshop on Confidence Building/ Desensitisation/ Despooking/ Obstacle Training.

Cary Mills Part one Introducing the icebreaker exercises and the training game.mp4
Carey Mills Part 2 Discussing the Training Game.mp4
Carey Mills part 3 Meeting the Horses.mp4
Carey Mills Part 4 Practical 1 Cloisin and the water.mp4
Carey Mills Part Five Practical 2 Totem and the water.mp4
Carey Mills Part 6 Practical 3 Cloisin and the water second go.mp4
Carey Mills Part 7 Totem and the water 2nd go then Cloisin 3rd go.mp4
Carey Mills Part 8 Practical 5 Totem 3rd go at water.mp4
Carey Mills Part 9 Practical 6 Jeannie and the water first go.mp4
Carey Mills Part 10 Practical 7 Totem and the tyres.mp4
Carey Mills Part 11 Practical 8 Jeannie and the tyres.mp4
Carey Mills Part 12 Practical 9 Clothes line familiarisation session.mp4

Videos from Day Two of Workshop, April 2023, Ballycastle, Northern Ireland

In this section you will find the video recordings from the second day f the workshop on Confidence Building/ Desensitisation/ Despooking/ Obstacle Training.

Carey Mills Part 13 Practical 10 Cloisin and the water 4th go.mp4
Carey Mills Part 14 Practical 11 Totem water 4th go.mp4
Carey Mills Part 15 Practical 12 Cloisin and the water 5th go.mp4
Carey Mills Part 16 practical 12 Totem water 5th go.mp4
Carey Mills Part 17 Practical 13 Cloisin water 6th go.mp4
Carey Mills Part 18 Practical 14 Jeannie water 1st go and Totem helps!.mp4
Carey Mills Part 19 Practical 15 Clothes line 2nd session.mp4
Carey Mills Part 20 Practical 16 Jeannie does the tyres with someone new.mp4
Carey Mills Part 21 Practical 17 Cloisin and the umbrella.mp4
Carey Mills Part 22 Practical 18 Cloisin and the bunting.mp4