Start Clicker Training Your Horse
Learn Positive, Reward-Based Horse Training
Would you like to learn how to use clicker training with your horse but feel unsure about where to begin?
Perhaps you have seen other people using a clicker and would like to understand how it works. You may want to make everyday handling easier, improve communication with your horse or explore how reward-based training can support your groundwork, hacking or ridden work.
These one-to-one coaching sessions will help you understand the principles behind clicker training and show you how to use them clearly, safely and effectively with your own horse.
You do not need any previous clicker-training experience. We can start with the foundations and build from there at a pace that suits both you and your horse.
Practical coaching for you and your horse
Clicker training can be incorporated into many aspects of life with your horse, including:
- Everyday handling and leading
- Groundwork, lunging and in-hand exercises
- Grooming, clipping and routine care
- Standing quietly and calmly, for the farrier or Vet
- Building confidence around new objects or environments, supporting fearful horses achieve their best
- Gaining confidence hacking and undertaking activities outside the arena
- Ridden work and training under saddle
- Teaching new skills and exercises under the saddle and ground work
The focus is not simply on teaching your horse ’tricks’. It is about helping you understand how horses learn, communicate more clearly and use rewards thoughtfully within your everyday training.
Is This the Right Fit for You?
This service is Perfect For You If…
- You are completely new to clicker training and would like help getting started. OR you have tried clicker training but would like more structure or guidance.
- You want to improve communication and cooperation with your horse. You would like to use positive reinforcement during handling, groundwork or ridden work.
- You are curious about reward-based horse training and want to learn from a qualified professional, and would like to explore ethical horse training.
- Your horse does not require a clinical behavioural assessment or behaviour-modification programme.
Start Clicker Training Your Horse
A FREE three-part guide to positive, reward-based horse training
Are you curious about clicker training but unsure where to begin? Clicker training can be a wonderful way to improve communication, encourage cooperation and make learning enjoyable for both you and your horse. However, getting the foundations right is important.
This FREE three-part guide will introduce you to clicker training gradually, with one practical PDF delivered to your inbox each week.
What You Will Receive
- Week 1: Getting Started: Learn the foundations of clicker training, what the click means and how to begin introducing positive reinforcement to your horse clearly and safely.
- Week 2: The Dos and Don’ts: Discover the common mistakes that can make clicker training confusing or frustrating. You will learn more about timing, rewards, safe food delivery and how to avoid accidentally reinforcing behaviours you do not want.
- Week 3: Practical Applications: Explore practical ways to use clicker training during everyday life with your horse, including handling, groundwork, routine care and other training activities.
The information is broken into manageable stages, so you will have time to read each guide, practise with your horse and build your skills gradually.
What’s Included in This Service?
Individual one-to-one coaching with you and your horse: Sessions are tailored to you, your horse and what you would like to achieve. We will work together at a pace that suits both of you, with plenty of opportunity to ask questions and practise each stage.
Practical exercises tailored to your experience and training goals: Whether you are completely new to clicker training or have already started experimenting with it, the exercises will be adapted to your current level and the skills you would like to develop.
Guidance on timing, rewards, food delivery and the use of a clicker or marker: You will learn how to mark the behaviour you want clearly, choose suitable rewards and deliver food safely. We will also look at how your timing and positioning can affect your horse’s learning.
Help integrating clicker training into your horse’s normal routine: Clicker training does not need to be limited to formal training sessions. I will help you use it during everyday handling, groundwork, grooming, hacking, ridden work and other activities that are relevant to you and your horse.
Six weeks’ access to my online Moodle course: You will receive access to supporting lessons and resources that you can work through in your own time. This gives you the opportunity to revisit the information between sessions and develop a deeper understanding of the training process.
- The online learning supports your practical sessions, helping you understand not only what to do, but why it works.
Lessons explaining how horses learn and the principles behind effective clicker training: The course covers the foundations of equine learning, positive reinforcement and clicker training. It will help you understand not only what to do, but why particular techniques work and how to apply them thoughtfully.
N.B This service is intended for horses who do not require a clinical behavioural assessment or a formal behaviour-modification programme.
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Please note: this is a coaching service
These sessions are designed for owners who want to learn clicker training and develop their practical training skills. They do not include a clinical behavioural assessment, a written behavioural assessment report or liaison with your veterinary team.
Where a horse is displaying a significant change in behaviour, dangerous behaviour, aggression, severe fear, persistent ridden problems or behaviour that may be linked to pain or an underlying medical issue, a behavioural assessment may be more appropriate.
Please visit my Behaviour Support services to learn more about clinical behaviour assessment and behaviour-modification support.