Do you wish your horse would stand still and wait for you?

Does your horse understand how to stand and wait while you groom, pick out feet, open gates or chat to a friend? Is your horse calm and patient for the vet, farrier, physio or dentist? Will they comfortably wait when you walk away, or do they try and follow you?
 
This two week interactive course will help you develop the skills needed to train your horse to wait without frustration. No more turning your back to find your horse has crept up behind you or sneaked off to eat grass!

Equine behaviourists and trainers Trudi Dempsey and Sooz Foster host this friendly online workshop. You will have access to 2 weeks of learning – including video lessons, group discussions in a dedicated forum, downloads, training plans and (for full students) coaching with individual voice over feedback on your training videos to help you train your horse to stand relaxed. 


You will learn how to: 


• Use positive reinforcement (R+) training


• Break down your training goal into achievable steps


• Create the best training environment


• Avoid stress in training


• Build duration and distance


• Add a cue


• Use errorless learning


• Reduce stress in your training

 
• Plan your training successfully


• Set yourself and your horse up to succeed


• Collect data



There are two study options:

• 'Full student' for those who would like to train and have coaching and tailored voice over feedback on their training videos.

• 'Auditor' who has access to the video lessons and forum, but does not have feedback or coaching.


This course is aimed at horse owners, students and equestrian professionals interested in advancing their positive reinforcement training.


The course runs for 2 weeks.

All course material will be available for 30 days after the course has finished.

NEXT PROGRAMME WILL START 25 MARCH 2023

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Course curriculum

    1. Welcome!

    2. Navigate your course

    1. 1: Shaping Defined

    2. 2: Extinction and How to Avoid it

    3. 3: Errorless Techniques

    4. 4: Planning

    5. 5: Video and Data Taking

    6. 6: Cues

    1. 7: Where Are You Now?

    2. 8: Sooz and Baloo Part 1

    3. 9: Sooz and Baloo Part 2

    4. 10: Sooz and Baloo Part 3

    5. 11: Sooz and Baloo Part 4

    6. 12. Sooz and Baloo Part 5

    1. CEU/CPD QUIZ

About this course

  • £59.00
  • 15 lessons
  • 1.5 hours of video content

Who is this course for?

  • HORSE OWNERS

  • EQUINE STUDENTS

  • EQUINE PROFESSIONALS

Continuing Professional Development (CPD/CEU)

  • Course Contents

    Video lessons, community discussions, training plans, downloads and 1 x final quiz. Coaching and individual feedback on your training videos if you are a Full Student.

  • Course Duration

    2 weeks

  • CPD/CEU Certificate

    You can download a personalised CPD/CEU certificate after completing the course material and the final quiz.

  • IAABC

    This course has been approved for 3 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) by the International Association of Animal Behaviour Consultants (IAABC) for Full Students and 2 CEUs for auditors. You will need to request an IAABC CEU certificate directly from us, so please get in touch once you have completed the course and quiz.

  • KPA

    This course has been approved for 5 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) by the Karen Pryor Association (KPA) for Full Students and 2 CEUs for Auditors. You will need to contact us for an event code, download your CPD certificate once you have completed the course and then email both code and certificate to the KPA.

REVIEWS

5 star rating

Awesome

Kelly Cross

As always, both Trudi & Sooz are so thoughtful, knowledgeable and present information in a way easy to comprehend and apply. Great platform and setup in ...

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As always, both Trudi & Sooz are so thoughtful, knowledgeable and present information in a way easy to comprehend and apply. Great platform and setup in terms of videos and presentations with voiceovers - thanks Understand Horses

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5 star rating

Excellent

Jen Adams

I found this course super interesting and learned lots. I thought my horse knew what ‘stand’ meant…I was wrong! He knew if I stood still or maybe walked behi...

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I found this course super interesting and learned lots. I thought my horse knew what ‘stand’ meant…I was wrong! He knew if I stood still or maybe walked behind him, that he was probably going to stand still but, if I asked him to stand then I walked away in front of him, he’d follow! He was following different cues to what I’d thought. Trudi and Sooz talked me through this when I asked and explained everything in details to enable me to help educate my horse clearer. They also helped by showing me ways to reduce frustration shown by my horse which was invaluable for us. The course notes were easy to follow and read back on to recap as training went on. I also found watching other participants videos really helped and gave me lots of ideas to use myself. Even once the course was over I’ve been really motivated to keep it going and was invited to join a Facebook group where I can share our progress with others and see how everyone else is doing (if they wished to share). I highly recommend this course to anyone wishing to train cleaner and build a stronger relationship with their horse.

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5 star rating

Essential!

Gabriel Lencioni

Teaching your horse to wait is definetely an essential behaviour, and after this course, I've learned even more situations where this skill can come in handy...

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Teaching your horse to wait is definetely an essential behaviour, and after this course, I've learned even more situations where this skill can come in handy, especially considering the fact that Trudi and Sooz are amazing in their explanations and how to better set the learner for sucess, resulting in a not only still, but also relaxed horse. Learning to build a good "wait" behaviour is a must in order to use positive reinforcement with horses and an amazing tool to solve unwanted behaviours.

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5 star rating

Great course with brilliant teachers

Barbara Dreyer- Rowlands

I've just finished the course. And I loved it. ❤️ it was really well planned, thought through, explained and the examples were lovely

I've just finished the course. And I loved it. ❤️ it was really well planned, thought through, explained and the examples were lovely

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Your Instructors

TRUDI DEMPSEY

Trudi is a certified horse behaviour consultant with the IAABC and an Accredited Animal Behaviourist with the Animal Training and Behaviour Council. Trudi has been offering her own unique blend of classical dressage and positive reinforcement as Creative Equine training since the ’90s. She is an experienced gymnastic groundwork coach and specialises in bitless training. For the last 10 years, Trudi has written and judged the Baroque dressage classes at Interdressage and offered online training to international clients. She presents clinics, talks and workshops in person throughout the UK and webinars and courses online around the world.

SOOZ FOSTER


Sooz is a Certified Horse Behaviour Consultant with the IAABC and a member of their Application Review Team. She is also an Accredited Animal Behaviourist with the Animal Behaviour & Training Council, a British Horse Society Stable Manager and Senior Coach. She has worked in the equine industry for over 20 years – teaching riding, training client’s horses and competing in various disciplines. Sooz now also trains dogs and cats and is working towards becoming a Certified Karen Pryor Clicker Trainer. She works with all animals following ethical, science-based practises and believes that there is a lot to gain by training other species alongside horses. Sooz would love to see the horse world embrace welfare-based, positive training and works hard to support those who want to learn a more modern way to handle and train their equine friends.

Study Options

You can either join the programme as a 'Full Student' or an 'Auditor'. What is the difference?

AUDITOR:

• Access to all lectures and teaching material

• Access to discussion forum

• View all posted videos in forum

• Post in General section of forum

• Watch training feedback videos


FULL STUDENT:

All the advantages of an Auditor place, plus:

• Receive personalised coaching from Trudi & Sooz

• Upload video for detailed feedback

• Post questions in all forums

NEXT COURSE STARTS 25 MARCH 2023

Full student and auditor places are available.