Teatime with Elsa - Episode 88

Chatting about: Explore and exploit…

In this episode I talk about exploring new ideas and exploiting familiar ideas. When we work with our horses in partnership, we propose new ideas through an explorative trial and error process where our horses get to decide how they feel about what we do. As our horses become more familiar with the idea and their feelings in association to it gets better and better, it moves into an exploitive stage where we know we can do this familiar idea comfortably without meeting resistance. I explain the different phases using examples of my horses, as they move through the stages of learning, from the interesting exploratory process to the comfortable and enjoyable exploitive stage.

Originally aired on: April 13th, 2021