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
§ Some final thoughts to ponder
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Please note the book has lots of interactive exercises therefore the book is presented in a file so you can remove pages.
Introduction to Confidence Building for Horse and Rider Day Courses
The Day Course on Friday 22 May 2009 was very successful, with very possitive feedback from people who attended. "I found the one to one support most helpful" "Excellent through out" "The whole day was enlightening"
We aim to plan future day courses. So we can provide courses at economical rates and in geographical areas that a group of people would like a day course run we are asking for your help. We would love to take the Introduction to Confidence Building for Horse and Rider day course out and about so if you are interested in a course coming to your area please take a bit of time to complete our on-line form.
On the Introduction to Confidence Building for Horse and Rider day course you will receive:-
- A whole day focused and dedicated to Confidence Building for Horse and Rider
- Professional tutoring and one to one support
- Horsemanship insights / guiding principles
- A range of cognitive behavioural techniques you can take away and apply
- Strategies to build a stronger partnership with your horse
- Top tips to help you become more confident and start to tackle your anxiety and fears
- A copy of Introduction to Confidence Building for Horse and Rider Work Book
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.
The Introduction to Confidence Building for Horse and Rider is not a replacement for professional support and should be used to compliment lessons with an experienced instructor. As when horses suffer from confidence issues, anxiety and fear they can become unpredictable and sometimes dangerous animals.
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.
The day course offers you the opportunity to find out how you and your horse can build a stronger partnership, become more confident and start to tackle your anxiety and fears. Participants to the course will learn about anxiety, fear and confidence, have the chance to use a range of interactive exercises, take part in discussion and debate and receive one to one support. Along with this each participant will take away with them a copy of Introduction to Confidence Building for Horse and Rider Work Book to help them build on what they have learnt on the course.
Thank you.
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?
When working with horses we need to understand what it means to be a horse, therefore natural horsemanship and human cognitive behaviour need to be interwoven and balanced. When you are building your confidence or supporting a horse with confidence issues understanding and applying cognitive behavioural techniques will help you to become aware of reasoning and allows you to take control in a direct and targeted way. It helps you to identify your personal goals, to then develop an action plan with strategies. As with all good plans you need to monitor and evaluate progress, and be willing to adjust goals and time limits. The skill of learning and applying cognitive behavioural techniques to your horsemanship has far wider benefits as it enables you to tackle many life problems by harnessing your own inner resources.
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
- It helps you regain perspective and control
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