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
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:
During PLAY your horse’s brain is SO FLEXIBLE that he can very quickly learn new, even interspecific, behaviours. This is so important and thus self-reinforcing for animals that the urge
So many times I see people training not their REAL HORSE, but the HORSE THEY HAVE IN MIND. Their real horse is not the horse that their mind produced and
– they make PERMANENT /Warren Buffett, quote from his letters to investors/ After almost 3-week Holiday break I got back to the stable, and only learn how much my horses
I was first introduced to riding accoding to the principles of French Classical riding in Legerete by Mr Fritz Stahlecker of HSH Methode. I simply loved the concept, and I
Here you can see very early beginning of piaffe at liberty trained with positive reinforcement. This is not finished behaviour..this is the behaviour we are still shaping, but I would love
The beauty of playing with, not training!, your horse is that everything comes out so easily. Like you don’t even care, without any pressure. Nothing needs to be “trained”, nothing
The True knowledge can be learnt only in action. Knowledge cleans everything from the ignorance and brings immediately visible change for the better. If we do not have these changes,
