When you are connected with yourself and you have literally no thoughts and no emotions in yourself – you always know what to do and you always act accordingly to the things that are happening around you. Sometimes you very decidedly yet calmly make your horse go away 2-3 steps away when he starts to

During last hundred years we had many scientific discoveries on how people and animals learn new things. This is very broad subject and very well covered in the literature and here I will give you only short summary with practical information on how this works with horses. Horses can learn in four different situations: R-

There is no Autonomy without true Calmness and Safety. The true Autonomy always requires boundaries that keep all situations safe for you and your horse.  What is true Autonomy? How to give your horse true Autonomy? Autonomy can be described as a WANT to do something. So we simply agree that our horse has a

I know that our second technique may be something very NEW to you today. Please don’t worry, give yourself time to read it few times and digest it. You will need that time to start understand how to implement it to your everyday trainings. This is not that hard in practice. To encourage you to

I would love to introduce you to the Calming technique, before our Clinic / Live Workshop starts. I want you to have time to really digest and understand our approach before you will try it with your horses. I want you to feel comfortable and not to hurry yourself. I’d love you to have time

Calming signals is a term introduced by Norwegian dog trainer Turid Rugaas (2005) to describe the behaviors that dogs show when trying to calm a situation. For animals living in groups, ways of communication, that can discharge the potentially tense situation, are extremely important. Calming signals are signals that all herd animals use in order to communicate with each

Some years ago behaviourists used to think that animals are passive. But animals are active, they have their own goals and aspirations. We have to be aware of this fact. I wrote before that during clicker training we reinforce not only behaviours but also decisions our horse makes. In this PreWorkshop material I will show

  True partnership is possible only when you know who you are. True partnership is based on promises and on stability. Stability and keeping promises are not possible if you don’t know who you are. Many times I see people really want to change something in THEIR LIVES. You may think that there is nothing

When your horse is CALM and feels safe, also because he fully understands what you want from him, and your horse has AUTONOMY to decide what he wants to do and to decide to engage in the training, this is the moment when COOPERATION starts. Cooperation is a mutual agreement that we will help our

Another big change in your attitude is to give your horse the True Autonomy. Many people try to do this and they come to the conclusion that is is a wrong way, because they don’t have communication and there is no calmness and no safety when they are with their horses. When we give autonomy