PRESENTATION OUTLINE
The upcoming experience is about leadership.
Good leaders are good communicators.
To lead a horse, you need to communicate in horse
photoreceptors concentrated mid-eye
TOUCH
- Horses move away from flies
- Horses move into hugs
- Confident touch = calm horse
TRUST DEVELOPMENT
- They're naturally curious
- share breath = blow into the nose gently
- strong, slow, strokes
- avoid fast movements or loud predator stuff
- calm reactions
Guidance
- Hands = direction
- Eyes = direction
- Rope = increases urgency
Patience
If you act like you have 5 minutes, it'll take all day.
Act like you have all day and it'll take 5 minutes
A Natural Leader
- uses curiosity as a tool
- Understands herd animals follow a leader
- understands horses are cooperative
- understands horses are adaptative
- Understands they're sensitive to moods
- Personalities vary between indv. Horses greatly
Horse Noises
- sigh = relaxed
- snort = alert or a bug in the nose
- whinny = hey you guys!
- scream = I'm ticked at you
- nickering = any cookies?
How you communicate intent?
- communicate with body, hands, eyes
- Rope
- voice is not a big thing
Passive = bad
- I don't want the horse to hate me
- If I'm small , kind, he'll like me more
- I like to avoid conflict with the horse.
- You'll be ignored by the horse
Aggressive = bad
- I want the horse to fear me
- I use pain and fear as a motivating tool
- I threaten
- The horse will be in a constant state of fear and can't learn.
Be Assertive
That's what you'll learn Wednesday
It's okay to screw up
Breathe and try again
Clothing
Arenas can be chilly
Avoid white
Boots that cover your toes
Layer
A way to document thoughts and the experience.