Teatime with Elsa - Episode 76

Chatting about: Observe, respond, assess…

In this episode I talk about the ways that we observe, respond and assess in Freedom Based Training™. When working with our horses we observe the behavior offered by the horse, respond to it by either reinforcing it - being the same as the horse, or opposing it - being different to the horse, and then assess how that affected the relationship - whether it made the relationship feel better, or whether it made it feel worse. When we observe, respond, and assess we can learn about all of our horse’s preferences, the things that they find easy or more challenging, what their instinctive reflexes are, and what happens before the stress goes up so we can learn to predict when it’s going to happen. We gain valuable information that will benefit our relationship with our horse and the progress we make.

Originally aired on: January 19th, 2021