How Horses Learn, Feel and Communicate

This is the feedback I gave Jo Hughes about the course I am studying:

How Horses Learn, Feel & Communicate

I am studying a course run by Jo Hughes of the Academy of Positive Horsemanship, on how animals learn, feel and communicate.
This is an extremely useful course for anyone who has contact with horses, we all need to learn to communicate and ethically train horses. Horses are learning all the time – whether we are actively doing a training sessions or just taking them to and from the field and stable.
This course is a mixture of video presentations, articles from various websites and questions to get us thinking about why we do what we do and how the horse may feel about this. The scientific content is at a level anyone can understand.
One example is looking at videos of flood desensitisation and assessing the possible emotions felt by the horse. Then we had to find videos to illustrate this technique. It was a bit daunting as sometimes it is difficult to decide what is or is not flooding. P.S flooding is not a technique that is recommended.
Jo is very patient and makes excellent videos presentations, she is always willing to answer questions, and assist in our training problems.
I can whole heartedly recommend this course.
Gill Langridge

If you wish to know more go to her website and sign up for the next course.
Academy of Positive Horsemanship

We owe it to our horses to learn as much as possible, the more tools in our toolbox the better able we are to pick the best for our horse.

There are no rules or methods, only principles – every horse is different and we need to be flexible in our handling and training.

The more I learn, the more I realise there is to learn, happy learning to everyone, where ever you are on your lifelong journey of never ending self-improvement.