If you ride or work with horses, we can help you to improve
your understanding of equine behaviour, enhance communication, and increase your confidence with handling, training
and maintaining well-being.
Training
the Horse:
We use techniques to increase awareness of body language and posture to improve handling
and riding ability.
We demonstrate how
posture and thought patterns can affect the way horses behave and react those around them.
We empower students with techniques to help reduce stress
in themselves and their horses.
We teach people how to handle and
train horses from the ground to create a better relationship and improve balance before training in the saddle.
We utilise the principles of joining up using handling, voice work, long reining and free
schooling exercise.
Our techniques enable people to remain calm, focussed and aware while
problem solving.
These are not only essential skills for handling horses; these are essential
skills fo everday life!
Health and Well-being for the Horse
We emphasise awareness of body language communication
as a means of improving health, well-being and performance.
We teach vital aspects of maintaining health and
well-being for the horse by utilising their own innate skills to seek out wellness if provided with natural choices.
We provide essential knowledge on equine anatomy, physiology and bio-mechanics.
We educate our students
in the application of Kinesiology to help posture, performance, health and emotional well-being of both riders and horses.
We teach subtle communication skills, enabling students to prioritise the best means of problem solving and maintaining
good health and behaviour.
The Horse Listening Diploma course
Level 1 Diploma:
This requires completion
of the homestudy module plus a further 17 practical days. Assessment is ongoing, however there will be verbal questions
and practical tasks on the Integration days at the end of the training program.
Those who have completed the level
1 Diploma now have skills which they can effectively use with their own horses. Those already qualified and insured
to work with horses (e.g BHS trained, or equine complementary therapist) may be able to integrate some of the Horse Listening techniques
into their current working practice.
Level 2 Diploma (specialist subject practitioner in Horse Listening)
For those students who want to go on to use the techniques professionally can continue to level 2. They must
have fully completed level 1 before they can do so. Students can choose to specialise in either advanced equine ground
work skills or equine performance and well-being kinesiology. This requires three further practical days of training,
mentoring, basic evidence of 100 times that students have used the skills learnt, a specialist project and final
assessment from an outside assessor.
On completion, Level 2 Diploma holders will be added to the Horse Listening practitioner
data base under their specialist subject.
Level 3 Diploma (full practitioner in Horse Listening)
Students
who specialise in both apects (ground work training and complementary therapy), will achieve full practioner status and their
details will be available to the public via the Horse Listening practitioner data base.
Student and practitioner
insurance can be obtained to use the skills and information learnt to educate horse owners in equine communiaction skills
to improve health, well-being, behaviour and performance.
Details of the content of
level 1 be found on the Diploma Course Format page on this site.
Please visit the course information page for details
of upcoming modules.
Practical workshops
We run regular practical
workshops, for those interested gaining an insight into body language communication and learning some simple Horse Listening
techniques. Information on our workshops can be found on the Course Information page.
Click here for dates and venues of upcoming courses
