🩷 Bravery Isn’t Built in a Day… · Get Good With Horses Courses

🩷 Bravery Isn’t Built in a Day…

...It’s Built in the Days After

It is quite common and really great of course (they are trying) to for example attend a clinic or watch a video, do some bravery training, the horse does well (or at least gets through it) and then that’s it.

It becomes a one-time thing and I get it, it feels like you’ve done it, ticked the box, faced the scary thing.

But bravery doesn’t come from one exposure, it comes from repetition and from understanding.

Building it in a way the horse can actually keep as a positive memory and us knowing that sometimes it has to get worse before its gets better especially, if we are allowing the horse to create a real opinion about it.

And the other part people often miss is they’ll do a lot of work close range by helping the horse accept something right there, in their space. But they skip the long-range work, like for example an Umbrella is a very different object to them close range v's long range. I know people who’ve done for example just one clinic, the horse said “yes” to the umbrella in that setting, then they went out for a ride and the horse got completely spooked when an umbrella was coming towards them. Cue mega disappointment.

But that’s not how it works, peeps 😅

Bravery training isn’t about just getting through the moment and hoping it will be ok. It’s about creating a horse that can cope with the next moment and the one after that with you in charge.

👉 On their own they would figure it out but now they are trapped by you on a rope or by the reins.

There is a whole section dedicated to this inside the Skool - how to build those foundations, involve the horse in the process, not just the end result.

And this summer I’ve blocked out weeks to film, rain or no rain 😅 so if you’re in Premium and there’s something specific you want to see besides what's already in there, now’s your chance. Let me know and I’ll include it.

Let’s build horses that don’t just learn to deal with it, but actually understand it and are confident when we are around.

🐴✨🫶

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