Introduction to Confidence Building for Horse and Rider Work Book By Vicki Jayne Maris BA Hons National Horse and Pony Network Manager and Freelance Natural Horsemanship Instructor To help you and your horse get your new year off to a great start we can offer you a discount of £10.00 off RRP. RRP £29.95. This great special offer price of £19.95 is only available during January and February 2010. This includes postage within the UK. This book is excellent value for money when you consider a private lesson can cost more.
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The Introduction to Building Confidence in Horse and Rider aims to help you understand human and equine confidence, what causes a lack of confidence, and tips to help build confidence. This book should not be used as a replacement for professional support. Horses are big, strong and fast animals that when they lack confidence, become anxious or fearful can become very dangerous.
The contents in this book are based upon using guiding principals that support any natural horsemanship technique combined with cognitive behavioural techniques. There are many excellent practitioners of natural horsemanship and this book will not examine natural horsemanship in detail. However it will make reference to practitioners and further reading. The book will cover an overview of cognitive behavioural techniques in relation to horsemanship, with the aim to support horse owners and riders to utilize a very valuable resource within ourselves for working with horses and to help with day to day life challenges. The topic of cognitive behaviour is vast and there are many in-depth publications on this subject, however until now none that I am of aware off with an equine context set within the natural horsemanship approach.
The Introduction to Confidence Building for Horse and Rider Work Book is packed full of information and interactive exercises. The exercises are designed to stimulate thought and help you question your thinking or approach and in turn enable you to understand your or your horse’s lack of confidence, what fuels the lack of confidence and how to take planned steps to work through your lack of confidence.
The contents of the book cover:- Part One - Guiding Principals § How to maximise your learning § Learning styles § Comfort zones § Empathy and develop equine compassion § Compatibility – The equine and human relationship
§ Patience is a virtue § Energy and emotion
§ Simple consistency and practice
§ Layers of practice § The perfection stick § Chasing moonbeams and spiky profiles
§ Healthy horse & human
§ Environment
§ Deal with the horse that turns up
§ Learn to read the questions your horse asks
§ Struggling and learning
§ Do the same get the same
§ Be open minded – are you ready to try a new approach? § Pressure
§ Sands of experience § Move subconscious to conscious § The people who make a difference § One at a time - You can’t fix it all at once § Safety
§ Confidence and ability § Avoidance and evasion § Trust and belief § Prepare to push § Heavy load – let it go § Relaxation and concentration § Make it fun Part Two - Cognitive Behaviour Techniques § An unfair label? § Negative inner dialogue
§ What is confidence? § What is low self-esteem? § What is the anxiety response? § What is stress? § What is panic? § What is fear? § Do you feel the fear? And should you do it anyway? § Warning signals § 5 steps to problem solving § Develop an action plan § Maintaining progress § Celebrate and Congratulate Please note the book has lots of interactive exercises therefore the book is presented in a file so you can remove pages. On the Introduction to Confidence Building for Horse and Rider day course you will receive:-
The Introduction to Confidence Building for Horse and Rider day course will offer you the opportunity to explore your and or your horse’s confidence issues and how this affects your partnership and limits you both. The day course examines how by using natural horsemanship and cognitive behavioural techniques you can take steps in overcoming these issues. (Click here for more information about Cognitive Behavioural Techniques) Along with planning for success by putting together a personal step by step plan. You will be provided with useful insights into the simple guiding principles that underpin the approach used when working with horses with the aim for you to take away my ideas and see if you can apply them to not only your horsemanship but to your life in general. These guiding principles include: How to maximize your learning, identify and use your and your horse’s learning styles, recognize and build upon your comfort zones, developing equine compassion and empathy, the importance and value of patience, the impact of our energy and emotion, how to apply simple consistency and practice to our work, being aware of chasing moon beams and spiky profiles within learning, the importance of health to us and our horse and the impact of physical and emotional environments in building confidence. Cognitive Behavioural Techniques What is cognitive behaviour? Cognitive behavioural techniques can help you to change how you think (cognitive) and what and how you do things (behaviour). By understanding and using cognitive behavioural techniques will help you to understand how the way you think affects you physically and emotionally. How you think about situations / difficulties / problems will in turn dictate how you feel, what you do and the outcome. Why is cognitive behaviour useful when building a good relationship with a horse? What are the benefits of using cognitive behavioural techniques? - It can help you to make sense of overwhelming problems - You can challenge negative thinking - Help you understand biological responses in relation to stress, anxiety and fear - Challenge common thinking distortions - Consider more useful ways of dealing with difficulties - Plan for success, with realistic aims that are in line with your values - Be aware of your strengths, skills and talents - Become more purposeful - Skills learnt you can apply in a number of settings not just with horses - Builds confidence and self esteem
Vicki Jayne Maris BA Hons
National Horse & Pony Network Manager & Freelance Natural Horsemanship Instructor
Tel 07930605544
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