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Learn how to get started successfully with positive reinforcement training in this in-depth course. You’ll explore how horses learn, how reward-based training works, and exactly how to apply it, from calmly introducing food rewards to building effective training sessions. The course shows you how to tailor your approach to your horse, whether they’re pushy, anxious, timid, reactive, over-aroused, or unmotivated, helping them become relaxed, willing, and connected. You’ll teach seven core behaviours: stand together, walk together, target, stand on a mat, ‘stay,’ hold on a stationary target, and back up. Through these, you'll learn how to structure sessions, build behaviours from scratch, improve them, fade out the rewards and prompts, ensure your horse is calm, connected, clear and listening to you and much more. Three real-life case studies also follow full unabridged training sessions with very different equines, giving you a clear, practical view of the process. This course provides a solid foundation in positive reinforcement, supporting problem-solving, relationship building, and emotional balance.