This course is for every horse owner looking to understand their horse better. But especially for those who have horses dealing with emotional obstacles, such as horses coming out of a rescue situation or those that come across as very anxious or aggressive.

Overcoming Behavioural Challenges is designed to help horse owners understand the “Why?” behind the behaviours they see. When it comes to “problem” behaviour we are often taught a symptom-based approach; the horse rears so you must do XYZ to stop the rearing. We aren’t taught to search for the underlying core issue, which is what we should actually be addressing, or how to positively deal with such situations that build the horse-human relationship instead of breaking it down. It’s important to understand the behaviour before trying to solve the problem so that we can help the horse long term.

  • Understand your horse better by learning about his emotions and how he learns

  • Learn how past experiences affects his current state of mind

  • Learn to analyse your horse's training and lifestyle to identify the core issues

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In this course, I give you practical steps to handling undesired behaviours in a positive and force-free manner and I will also teach you how to search for the core issue behind the “problem” behaviour you are seeing. Further, you’ll learn to understand the learning process, the development of the behaviour, the emotions, the motivation and so much more. And as a bonus, you’ll also receive my e-book, ‘Hopefully Positive’, to assist you further on this journey, as well as a Behavioural challenges checklist which will help you get to the root cause faster.

Imagine knowing exactly how to handle the situation when a horse spooks or bites, while having the skills to analyse and then understand precisely why it happened, and afterwards being able to come up with a plan and a possible solution to prevent it from happening again.

  • "Very well explained and really useful for any person related to horses. The information and the way it's explained make this course very easy to understand for any person, even for those that aren't native speakers of English like me. I think there is a great source of knowledge if you are interested on understanding horses better and provide a good quality of life and training to them. Congratulations for this amazing course." - Mar Sevilla

  • "This is a well presented, informative course, I already have the Natural Animal Centres stage 1 in Equine Behaviour. This was more for CPD than anything else but I liked how the assigments were done - apart from having no feedback on scores. I only found out I passed the first assignment when the course let me into the next module. Well worth doing if you have a horse with challenging behaviour." - Gill Langridge

Course content

What you can expect in this course

    1. Welcome

    1. The Impact of lifestyle

    2. Introducing yourself as a friend

    3. Understanding your horse's emotions

    4. The anxious horse

    5. Emotional Labelling

    6. The aggressive horse

    7. Understanding body language

    8. When anxious turns aggressive

    9. Operant Conditioning

    1. Learning more about my horse

    2. Different triggers

    3. Trigger stacking

    4. Addressing triggers

    5. Classical Conditioning (part 1)

    6. Classical Conditioning (part 2)

    7. Discussing food anxiety and food aggression

    8. What to do when your horse spooks or bites

    9. Reinforcement of unwanted behaviours

    10. Extinction

    11. Why could problem behaviour return or get worse

    12. Quiz

    1. Analyzing lifestyle

    2. Analyzing history and past experiences

    3. Analyzing training part 1

    4. Analyzing training part 2

About this course

  • $99.00
  • 26 lessons
  • 2.5 hours of video content

Course created by...

Louisa Marais

Louisa always had a love for horses from a young age and later discovered a passion for rescue horses and equine rehabilitation after she adopted two rescue horses who struggled with behavioural and physiological problems. After helping her own horses heal emotionally and physically she set out on a mission to help others who were facing the same struggles. She gained qualifications in equine psychology, myofunctional therapy and equine nutrition, and studied under professionals and researchers to expand her knowledge further. Afterwards, she founded TrulyTrust Equine where she now specialises in holistic care and rehabilitation, including barefoot hoof rehabilitation and behavioural rehabilitation. She shares that her goal is to help create a vibrant and pain-free life for horses by approaching healing holistically, and through the process helping owners and horses build a true connection and partnership with each other.