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"Thinking of your horse as behaving badly disposes you to think of punishment. Thinking of your horse as struggling to handle something difficult encourages you to help him through his distress."- The Concordia Connection
January 4, 2020
Sorry but couldn't resist the vision comment but I do mean it! What better incentive than the association of 2020 and getting to your vision of what kind of relationship and play you want with your equine?
In that light I would like to encourage you to attend one of this year's clinics or design your own intensive clinic with me here at the Ranch and learn with my school masters!
So far the following clinics are in the works with more home clinics to be added once all my away dates are settled.
April 17-19 Starts us off with a joint clinic with a great trainer Peggy Hogan and myself doing a three day clinic in California that will focus on movement - how to get it through shaping and how to apply this to bio-mechanically correct movement to help our horses and us remain sound for as long as possible. Geared to b...
July 14, 2019
It is so fabulous to see the interest in positive reinforcement training for horses getting more popular! My two clinics in Ontario this year were fabulous and one even had a waiting list. How cool is that! Here are some pictures from those clinics. They were great fun and I look forward to returning in the fall ( the one clinic is already full for the intermediate two days but still room in the intro clinic day - contact Kendra) . The date for the other Ontario clinic is still to be decided but be sure to drop me a message if you are interested and I'll put you in touch with the organizer.
Pictures from Ottawa Clinic - thanks to Ellie OReilly for these great pictures of everyone.
Playing with Equispeak letter 'Fc'
A great group of ladies!
How to get off the pedestal - using targeting
Some horses love getting...
January 13, 2018
Happy 2018! I hope this new year brings you lots of positive adventures and look forward to seeing old friends and making new ones too in my travels . It looks like it will be a busy year.
I have had some time these past couple of weeks to reflect. I should have been writing modules for the online course but my head was not clear enough for that (yes I got that nasty bug), and it was too cold to do any real videoing for the course. So, while I sorted through years of paperwork, I allowed my thoughts to wander.
I have been a teacher for many years and have taught many different things, not just clicker.
Whether by circumstances or temperament I was always driven to learn. In my childhood, I had almost no access to riding instructors but I read everything I could get my hands on. This was partly because of my lo...
August 19, 2017
I’ve been playing with some "new to the horse world" ideas. I know, I know...so what else is new!
It has been a treat this summer to have a young lady interning with me who had a fabulous coach in the dog training world. So of course we started to play with how to do horse things in more of a dog way... why wouldn’t we? After all we are out-of-the-box thinkers to start with, so why not go way out?
You always see the horse agility videos where the horse is fairly close to the handler. In the dog agility world there seems to be two styles: the close and the far. We wanted to play with seeing if we could build distance in the work that most horse people do up close.
Eggo already knew his mat work and I could send him to a mat from a fair distance, so we started playing with going around an object to get to his mat....
July 17, 2017