Would you like to learn how to clicker train your horse? Or refine your clicker training skills?

Whether you would like to start clicker training your horse, train new behaviours or you would like one-on-one coaching to troubleshoot or refine your clicker training skills then this is the course for you. 
 
Equine behaviourist and trainer Trudi Dempsey hosts this unique online coaching course. You will have access to 6 weeks of learning – including 3 training challenges, video lessons, live Zoom sessions, group discussions in a dedicated forum, weekly training tips, downloads, training plans and coaching with individual feedback on your training videos to help you get started and fine tune your clicker training.



You will learn how to: 


• Use clicker training to train new behaviours or refine existing ones


• Recognise and improve your training skills


• Create the best training environment


• Make it easy for you and your horse to succeed


• Break down your training goals into achievable steps


• Create behaviour by luring, capturing and shaping


• Build duration and distance in the behaviours you train


• Add cues and put behaviours under stimulus control


• Ensure errorless learning


 • Reduce stress in your training

 
 • Troubleshoot any problems you may be having


• Plan your training successfully


• Collect data


• Maintain your motivation


 • Progress forward if you get stuck in your training


 
THERE ARE TWO STUDY OPTIONS: 'FULL STUDENT' FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO TRAIN AND HAVE COACHING AND 'AUDITOR' FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO TO OBSERVE BUT NOT PARTICIPATE.



This coaching course is aimed at horse owners, students and equestrian professionals interested in learning how to start clicker training horses or improving their clicker training skills. You don't need any prior knowledge to take this course, it is open to everyone.


The course runs for 6 weeks.

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

NEXT PROGRAMME STARTS 14 SEPTEMBER 2024

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Course curriculum

    1. Welcome pack

    1. Planning for Success

    2. Finding and Maintaining Motivation

    3. Trudi's Training Tip #1: Simplified Planning

    1. Welcome from Trudi

    2. Be Prepared!

    1. SCIENCE LECTURE: The Art of Zen

    2. PRACTICAL LECTURE: Stand Still and Chill

    3. Trudi's Training Tip #2: Two for the price of one

    4. CHALLENGE 1 QUIZ

    5. ZOOM MEETING 1 RECORDING

    1. Trudi's Training Tip #3: Food delivery

    2. Trudi's Training Tip #4: Dealing with errors

    1. SCIENCE LECTURE: Fluency and Flow

    2. PRACTICAL LECTURE: Take a Step

    3. CHALLENGE 2 QUIZ

About this course

  • £299.00
  • 24 lessons

Who is this course for?

  • HORSE OWNERS

  • EQUINE STUDENTS

  • EQUINE PROFESSIONALS

Continuing Professional Development (CPD/CEU)

  • Course Contents

    3 x training challenges, weekly individual feedback on your training videos, 2 x Zoom meetings, video lessons, training tips, community discussions, quizzes, training plans, downloads and 1 x final quiz

  • Course Duration

    6 weeks

  • CPD/CEU Certificate

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

  • KPA

    This course has been approved for 17.5 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) by the Karen Pryor Association (KPA). Once you have completed the course you can contact us for an event code, download your CEU certificate and then email both code and certificate to the KPA.

  • IAABC

    This course has been approved for 11.5 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) by the International Association of Animal Behaviour Consultants (IAABC). 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.

  • IAAT

    Understand Horses is a trusted partner of the International Association of Animal Therapists, offering external CPD courses for its members.

  • VETPOL

    This course has been accredited for CPD by Vetpol. SQPs can add completed courses to their CPD records in the Vetpol Learning Management System.

Course reviews

5 star rating

One of my best clicker training coaching experiences!

Coraline Plumat

Even if you already have experience, there's nothing better than going back to basics and improving the ground you stand on! I have really found joy and new ...

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Even if you already have experience, there's nothing better than going back to basics and improving the ground you stand on! I have really found joy and new motivation in looking at my cues and working towards making them even clearer for my horse. I loved the coaching style!

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5 star rating

Awesome course, made outstanding by the awesome trainer!

Melissa Cudmore

This course is really excellent. The lectures and challenges give a great, straight-forward foundation in the behavioural science, wonderful explanations of ...

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This course is really excellent. The lectures and challenges give a great, straight-forward foundation in the behavioural science, wonderful explanations of how learning takes place and why the methods used benefit the horse's emotional well-being. I have been using R+ training for quite a few years now and have a reasonable knowledge of the science, but the explanations were still extremely useful to me and definitely deepened my understanding. Trudi is such an empathic, non-judgemental trainer with a real passion for meeting people where they are at and improving things, not only for horses, but also for their people (which helps their horses!). She is evidently highly knowledgeable about behavioural science, but has a rare ability to give you the snippet of information and insight you need at the correct time to be able make visible improvements without over-facing you. There can be a very dogmatic approach from some trainers who use predominantly R+, which can be off putting to people wanting to explore a kinder way with their animals, but aren't ready to or actually can't change everything they do, and/or study for a degree in behavioural science, before starting! Trudi definitely uses R+ with her students and everyone benefited from this! I have come away from this course feeling highly motivated and much more positive about training my horses. A great thing about this course is that you can see how Trudi interacts with all the participants, who are all at different starting points and with different issues and goals. She really listens and actually hears what people say and gives highly tailored, valuable (and super fast) feedback, that helps the horse and works for the human! Awesome course, made outstanding by Trudi!

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5 star rating

Great course!

Ashleigh Adamson

I’m so glad that I took this course. Trudi is a very friendly, encouraging, and clear trainer. The course content is very well laid out and includes science ...

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I’m so glad that I took this course. Trudi is a very friendly, encouraging, and clear trainer. The course content is very well laid out and includes science and practical application. I can’t wait to take another course!

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5 star rating

Great presentation format and many handy tips

Susi Boskovich

I appreciate Trudi's excellent presentations; well arranged, just enough information at a pace that's just right, in do-able time blocks, with nearly poetic ...

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I appreciate Trudi's excellent presentations; well arranged, just enough information at a pace that's just right, in do-able time blocks, with nearly poetic wording and diction. The graphics make the concepts clear - even concepts I thought I understood before were made more clear to me in the first week of the course. I look forward to each lesson to strengthen my theory and practice.

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5 star rating

Excellent course! I would highly recommend it.

Daniela Maltauro

Fantastic course and Trudi is so generous with her time and expertise!

Fantastic course and Trudi is so generous with her time and expertise!

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5 star rating

Loved the Balance Between Practical and Theory

Corinne McCafferty

I think the best part about this horse is that your learner gets to be involved too. Being able to film your own progress and get feedback was so valuable an...

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I think the best part about this horse is that your learner gets to be involved too. Being able to film your own progress and get feedback was so valuable and lead to me making lots more progress than I would have made on my own. It was fun and reenergised me to spend better quality time with my horse. I also learned lots about the more technical and theoretical side of Positive Reinforcement.

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5 star rating

An encouraging and informative course

Kate Banfield Rickard

This course was exactly what I needed, and gave me the confidence to begin exploring positive reinforcement training in more detail. Trudi's science and prac...

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This course was exactly what I needed, and gave me the confidence to begin exploring positive reinforcement training in more detail. Trudi's science and practical lectures were engaging and easy to understand, which made the training challenges feel approachable and achievable. Trudi's personalised feedback on video sessions was thorough and insightful, whilst also being encouraging and positive. Thank you, I will be back for more!

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5 star rating

Outstanding trainer and great discussion

Drea Lee

I thoroughly enjoyed this course! Trudi is an amazing trainer, offering her expertise and advice, always approachable for any and all questions. The group zo...

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I thoroughly enjoyed this course! Trudi is an amazing trainer, offering her expertise and advice, always approachable for any and all questions. The group zooms and discussion boards are brilliant, it was great to be in a space and able to bounce ideas off each other. 5 stars from me!

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5 star rating

Excellent positive reinforcement course

Jane Brown

I am relatively new to positive reinforcement training and have not really been in a “ learning “ environment for several decades so when I saw this course a...

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I am relatively new to positive reinforcement training and have not really been in a “ learning “ environment for several decades so when I saw this course advertised on social media I was very interested but also worried I wouldn’t be able to keep up or it would be too much for me. I made contact with the lovely Trudi Dempsey who put me at ease and encouraged me to sign up, I’m so very glad I did. I absolutely loved the course, so much information, feedback and a wonderfully supportive community to share the journey with. This course has given me the confidence I needed to progress with my training and I hope Trudi will be doing another course.

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Boost your clicker training skills with one-on-one coaching

Your Coach

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.

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

• Access to Zoom recordings after the meeting

• Watch training feedback videos


FULL STUDENT:

All the advantages of an Auditor place, plus:

• Receive personalised coaching from Trudi

• Attend live Zoom meetings

• Upload video for detailed feedback

• Post questions in all forums

NEXT PROGRAMME STARTS 14 SEPTEMBER

Full Student and Auditor places are available. The Early Bird rate for Full Students is £299 until 22 July, then Regular Price is £399.