Here you can join the Essence of Liberty Online Academy with the yearly subscription of $449AUD/year.
The subscription is auto-renewed with the option to cancel anytime!
Once registered, you will receive immediate access to all modules and the Facebook community group!
MODULE 1: Set Up For Success
This module focuses on preparing both you and your horse for successful liberty training. It covers the essence of liberty, delving into its meaning and core principles, explores equine psychology, challenges notions of leadership and dominance, addresses a horse's needs, and provides tools to train your eye for your horse's well-being. Additionally, you'll be introduced to three unique horses—Levi, Billie, and Nellie—each with distinct personalities and learning experiences, offering valuable insights into the diverse aspects of horse training.
MODULE 2: Contact & Connection
This module focuses on establishing a meaningful dialogue between you and your horse in the context of liberty training. It covers key considerations for selecting a training space, addresses separation anxiety and provides support strategies, introduces the "initiation of contact" exercise to build confidence and curiosity, illustrates the first contact process with Levi, Nellie, and Billie, emphasizes effective relationship-building techniques, and highlights essential aspects of setting boundaries for a successful partnership.
MODULE 3: Rewards & Gentle Guidance
This module delves into the intricacies of how horses learn and what motivates them in training sessions. It covers the psychology of various learning types, with a focus on operant conditioning, explores the depth of positive reinforcement as a powerful training tool, addresses negative reinforcement and the role of "gentle guidance," provides strategies for introducing food rewards without fostering negative behaviors, emphasizes the importance of establishing boundaries, and showcases real-life examples with Levi, Nellie, and Billie. Additionally, the module offers a valuable 1-hour unedited excerpt from a clinic, illustrating the introduction of positive reinforcement to a horse with no prior experience.
MODULE 4: Advancing The Training
In this module, after introducing positive reinforcement and gentle guidance, we advance the communication with Levi, Nellie, and Billie. The sessions focus on "moving together" at liberty, maintaining connection in various states, using intention and energy for guidance, incorporating patterns and obstacles for refined communication, addressing mental transitions, teaching your horse to lie down, preserving and enhancing motivation, interpreting facial expressions, and troubleshooting common problems. It provides a comprehensive exploration of advanced techniques to deepen the understanding and connection between you and your horse.
BONUS MODULE: Posture Play & Collection
This bonus module introduces posture play and collection at liberty. It explores key elements such as your horse's emotional state, using intention, energy and your posture to guide your horse. The content covers incorporating transitions and bursts of energy to influence posture, understanding correct biomechanics, and training your eye to reward your horse at the opportune moment. The module showcases the beginning of posture play with Billie in his final four sessions, with the promise of additional content being added over time.
NEW CONTENT EVERY MONTH
On the first of each month, new content will be released into the academy. This content will consist of explained sessions with Nadine's own horses or lesson horses, extracts from clinics and lessons, or theory webinars!
FACEBOOK COMMUNITY GROUP
Receive exclusive access to the Equine Connection Academy Facebook Community—a private group exclusively reserved for course members. In this community, you can freely share your thoughts, seek guidance, and partake in discussions on various topics.