Course curriculum

    1. Introduction

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    2. How this course is structured

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    3. What is an Equine Liberty Coach?

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    4. What is this journey about?

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    5. Terms and Conditions

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    6. Course Sales & Payment Policy

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    1. Evolutionary origins of horse behavior

    2. The horse’s nervous system in an evolutionary perspective

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    3. The social structure

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    4. The link to humans: shared evolutionary patterns

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    5. The power of doing nothing

    6. How life in the wild shaped their communication

    7. The horse responds when we listen

    8. What does stress look like on a micro level?

    9. Understanding the small signals

    10. Environmental influences on behavior and stress

    11. The “stop button”

    12. Quiz

    13. What does your horse tell you when you do nothing?

    1. The basics of neurobiology and the nervous system

    2. The horse’s brain: an overview

    3. The nervous system: a symphony of action and rest

    4. Neuroplasticity: how the brain learns

    5. How to use this knowledge in liberty work

    6. Exercise: “Reading the nervous system”

    7. Liberty work = working with the nervous system

    8. How to positively influence your horse’s nervous system in liberty work

    9. Dominance or survival behavior?

    10. Stress responses and calming mechanisms

    11. Movement and behavior influenced by the nervous system

    12. Three pathways of learning

    13. The risk of negative emotional memories

    14. The benefits of R+ (and other learning systems)

    15. The clicker and target

    16. Target training with food-aggressive horses

    17. Target training with insecure horses

    18. Follow the target (walking)

    19. Brain systems that guide behavior and emotion

    20. Quiz

    1. Movement motivation in horses

    2. Intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation

    3. Following the target

    4. Following the target in trot and canter

    5. Working with anchor points

    6. Working without the target

    7. Proprioception

    8. Leg targeting

    9. Pain science

    10. Quiz

    11. Assignment: Target Training in Practice

    1. Consent, communication, and autonomy

    2. Communication is a two-way process

    3. Autonomy

    4. Training consent

    5. Micro-communication

    6. Autonomy through choice

    7. The role of positive reinforcement

    8. Boundaries and balance

    9. The human as regulator

    10. What if things “go wrong”? – Frustration, distraction, or lack of motivation

    11. What is force-free training, and what is it not?

    12. Why safety always comes before training

    13. What is an effective reward? (food, scratching, distance, etc.)

    14. Reward strategies without hyperactivity or frustration

    15. Handling with the horse’s consent

    16. Teaching start buttons and opt-out signals

    17. Quiz

    1. Who is Stephen Porges?

    2. The autonomic nervous system: sympathetic, parasympathetic, and the vagus nerve

    3. The three defense systems: fight/flight, freeze, and social connection

    4. Unique neurobiology of the horse

    5. Recognizing autonomic states in horses

    6. How horses perceive safety through neuroception

    7. Recognizing and regulating early signs of stress

    8. How to adapt training methods based on polyvagal insight

    9. Practical exercises to support the vagus nerve (for both horse and human)

    10. A practical example

    11. Calmness training

    12. Calmness training

    13. Quiz

About this course

  • $500.00
  • 113 lessons
  • 2.5 hours of video content

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