Posted: 19th November 2015 | Back to news feed
Are you struggling to make progress with training your horse? Or do you want to try different techniques to improve the success of your partnership? Are you stuck for ideas as to how to move forwards with your horse? If any of these sound familiar, turning to Equine Education can really help.
Equine Education offers a range of online courses to equip horse owners with essential knowledgeable to improve their horsemanship skills. The first course in the New Year series looks at the training of the horse and gives expert advice on the most appropriate techniques to use.
‘Horse Training Made Simple!’ will help demystify horse training by helping you to understand what works, what does not and why with simple explanations, demonstrations and feedback from one of the leading accredited Equitation Science Practitioners in the UK, Lisa Ashton.
Lisa is a leading expert in Equitation Science who trains professional riders, amateur competitors and leisure horse owners in the science of riding at all levels across the UK and Europe. Lisa was the first person to embed the science of training horses into the University curriculum and is well known for her ability to demystify horse training so that riders and trainers can fully understand how horses learn.
She holds the Equitation Science International Associate Diploma and has spent over 10 years training with Dr Andrew McLean who is world renowned in the area of Equitation Science.
This course will run over a period of four weeks and will cover a range of topics including ‘hallmarks of effective training,’ which will outline the way horses learn and the necessary language needed to communicate with them effectively.
‘Training choices’ will focus more closely on the horse’s learning process and explain the choices you have in order to optimise clarity and speed of learning.
‘Stress in the ridden horse’ will delve into more detail about how to cope with difficult situations and deepen your horse training ‘toolkit’. It will enable you to learn the essentials for improving how your horse perceives stress and how you can effective at changing your horse’s behaviour, whilst remaining safe.
The final topic ‘Equitation Science in Practice,’ looks at why some trainers are more effective than others and how horses perceive different methods. Are you trained by an Olympian or a local riding school? This topic will explain the effect that different training styles have on the horse, allowing you to find the right one for you.
These courses are an excellent way to gain more knowledge from a reliable source without time constraints. Due to the flexible nature of the online course provider, you can work through the information at your leisure and all you need is a computer and internet access. This allows you to fit in learning around your busy schedule. There will be an end of course assessment, which if successfully completed will be rewarded with a certificate.
The course starts on 1 February, 2016 and costs £99. If you are not able to begin the course on this date, you will have access to it for three months after the course end date. However, tutor input will only occur during the specified course dates.
For further information and to book a place on a course visit www.equine-education.com.
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