Desensitizing: How to Ethically & Effectively Approach Fear in Horses

This 2-hour webinar wI’ll go over the science behind systematic desensitization and the best tactics to use when introducing horses to stimuli that they are afraid of.

We will discuss the following topics:

• The science of horse behaviour
• factors that contribute to horse stress and spookiness
• Systematic desensitization vs flooding
• the Approach & retreat method 
• How horses Brains work and why they respond to certain things in the way that they do.
• troubleshooting common issues with Horses such as herd boundedness, fear behaviour and more.
• How to structure training plans to introduce new scary stimuli without causing excess stress
• Training for long-term efficacy and results while emphasizing welfare of the horse.
• and more 

This webinar will leave you with skills and information that will help you to forming training plans for your horse in the future and will allow you to troubleshoot the issues you may come across with greater ease.

 It can help provide the tools to have a better approach to training things like halter breaking, handling unhandled horses, starting horses under saddle, acclimating horses to show environments and more.

Understanding why horses respond the way they do and how to mitigate stress is an invaluable tool in all training programs.

How we help horses, navigate their fears, set the tone for all future interactions, and can make or break their trust in humans.

Building trust allow us to have more reliable Equine partners who will be more predictable in their behaviour.

This webinar is run by Shelby Dennis, an IAABC certified Equine Behavioural Consultant.

It is a two hour live webinar, however, the recording will be available to all attendees whether you attend live or not.

The webinar will take place on Sunday March 15th at 10 am PST / 1pm EST.

There will be a Q&A portion of the webinar for people to ask questions.

Patreon members in the training tislets of Patreon will get free access to this webinar.