Building confidence & trust workshop
This is what I have discovered about riding confidence:
You LEARN to be confident and trust a horse.
That is it in a nutshell.
Simple? Unfortunately not!
Years ago I thought I could help people’s confidence with their horse by teaching them skills to control and influence the horse. Whilst improving a person’s competence in working with their horse is still crucial to the process, the more people I worked with the more I got intrigued with people’s struggle to learn.
What I discovered is that there is a whole lot of other hidden complexities that people have learnt. They then need to become aware of these complexities and unlearn them first before they can develop their confidence.
During Covid lockdown I put what I had learnt about building confidence and trust into a carefully constructed book. A book that was simple, easy to understand and left people with a practical strategy of how they could utilise my understanding of solving their own confidence and trust issues they were having with their horse.
I have sold many copies of the book and get great feedback from all over the World how it has helped people change their situation with their horses.
The success of my book lead to me being asked to do workshop presentations at riding clubs and associations. Like the book, these 2 hour interactive sessions have helped not only the individuals who participated in the workshop but club culture.
I have now created a new full day workshop to take to share my insights into solving confidence and trust issues in people and horses to a deeper level.
In these workshop you will discover the following.
What actually are feelings of confidence and trust?
What “brave” riders actually teach us about being “brave”.
Causes of confidence issues.
The impact of rider confidence on horses.
Practical strategies for learning how to be confident and trust your horse.
Relevant understandings about horses that can improve your interpretation and decision making when working with them.
Significant, yet rarely identified ways of working with horses that can help them develop confidence being with you.
This workshop will be for those that are interested in building confidence and trust with horses. You may be struggling with confidence after an incident, with a particular horse or just interested or involved in helping people with their horses.
Come along and meet me. I am different in the horse world. I am a skilled horse trainer, however, I have a PhD in human critical thinking and development of expert performance. I have spent many years identifying the knowledge, skill and self awareness gaps in people’s understanding of horses and building skill.
Rider confidence can be looked at through many lenses from psychology to coaching. I go to the heart of the matter which is learning. What we learn in life can be consciously but also unconsciously cultivating our beliefs and tendencies. This is why one approach for building confidence will help one person but not another. Also why two people can ride a horse and appear to ride well but the horse will respond completely differently for each rider.
This workshop is just for you and your horse can chill at home.
Come along and join me for this event:
When: 16th November 2022
Where: Sherony Park Equestrian Centre, Sutton NSW.
What to expect:
Workshop Program:
9 - 9:30am
Registration & Collection of workshop pack includes a hard copy of Confidence & Trust Book.
9:30 - 10:30am
Understanding confidence and trust and the impact of riders confidence on horses.
10:30 - 11am
Morning Tea
11am - 12:30pm
Improving interpretation of horse behaviour and decision making to grow confidence and trust of both horses and riders.
12:30 - 1:15pm
Lunch
1:15 - 2:30pm
Practical applied strategies for building confidence and trust in both horse and rider.
2:30 - 3pm
Q & A time and afternoon tea.
3pm
Close
Cost: $129.95 (Limited places)
For more information: admin@calmwillingconfidenthorses.com.au
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