Equine Clicker Academy with Georgia Bruce

Clicker Academy

Learn how to bring out the best in your horse with Clicker Training. Georgia Bruce presents an easy to follow step by step guide to training your own horse with Clicker Training.

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Course curriculum

1. Welcome to the Clicker Academy!
1. Before we start
2. Basic Health Check - Signs of Health and Illness in Horses
3. Diet and Nutrition
4. Management
5. Safe Training Area
6. Equipment
7. Time
8. Keep an Open Mind
1. The Nature of Horses
2. How Horses Learn - Part 1. Classical Conditioning
3. How Horses Learn - Part 2. Operant Conditioning
4. How Horses Learn - Part 3. Habituation
5. The Science of Training
6. The Application of Learning Theory in Horse Training
7. Behaviour Terminology
8. Think Like a Trainer
1. Introduction to Clicker Training
2. What is Clicker Training?
3. What do I need to begin Clicker Training?
4. Frequently Asked Questions about Clicker Training
5. How to Get a Behaviour with Clicker Training
6. Holding the Clicker
7. Shaping
8. Adding a Cue (Stimulus Control)
9. Behaviour Chains
1. Catching Your Horse
2. The start of a friendship and journey
3. Relaxed hand feeding: Introducing the clicker to fearful or wild horses.
4. Facing Up, Approach and Following - Collette the warmblood who didn't want to be touched - Part 1
5. Facing Up, Approach and Following - Collette the warmblood who didn't want to be touched - Part 2
6. Facing up, approach & hand feeding - Jagger the anxious, kicking, hard to catch Paint horse
7. Facing up, approach & following - Frankie the Riding Pony
8. Facing up, approach & Hand feeding - Mecca the Arab
9. Relaxed hand feeding and introducing the Clicker - Collette the Warmblood
10. Teaching the horse to accept touch
11. Accepting touch - Collette the Warmblood
12. Accepting touch - Jagger the Paint
13. Accepting the touch of a rope
14. Accepting touch of a rope - Jagger the Paint
15. Catching a wild brumby who had learned to avoid humans
1. Length and structure of a training session when teaching foundation behaviours
2. How to keep your horse calm while introducing clicker training and food rewards.
3. Teaching Food Manners - with Saffy the Pony. Safe hand feeding and avoiding biting.
4. Teaching Food Manners - with Angel
5. Food Manners with Inky the Pony
6. Food manners with Inky - without a fence between us
7. Food manners with a stock horse
8. Food manners with Frankie the riding pony
9. Food manners with a paint mare
1. Targeting
2. Targeting with Kindred the Warmblood
3. Targeting with Inky the Pony with a fence between us
4. Walking to touch the target - with Inky the pony
5. Targeting with Inky the pony, inside the yard with her.
6. Targeting into circles at the walk and changes of direction - with Inky the pony
7. Targeting onto a mat - with Inky the pony
8. Stationing on a mat (hoof target) - Adding duration, distance and focusing on me. With Inky the pony.
9. Pony Yoga - Angel Targeting into a stretch
1. Statue game - With Inky the Pony (Body)
2. Statue Game - Head, Mouth, Eyes, Ears - with Inky the Pony
3. Statue Game with a horse at a clinic
4. Statue Game with Angel
5. Food manners and statue game with Saffy
6. Food manners and statue game with Saffy, without a fence.
7. Statue game to help a horse have its face washed with a sponge.
1. Back Off
1. Stand still and relax
1. Training with gentle pressure cues PDF
2. Head Down
3. Lateral Flexion
4. Yielding the Hindquarters
5. Yielding the Shoulders
6. Leading
7. Leading beside you
8. Backwards
9. Walk, Halt, Reinback
10. Leading at the trot
11. Trot, Halt, Reinback
12. Trot towards you
13. Sidepassing
14. Leading with the head down
15. Backwards with the head down
16. Teaching your horse to tie up
1. Training with visual cues PDF
2. Facing up - Yielding the Hindquarters
3. Backing away from you
4. Backing with straightness
5. Stand Stay
6. Come towards you
7. Yielding the Shoulders
8. Leading forward beside you from a visual cue
9. Leading beside you - Walk, Halt, Rein back
10. Leading beside you at the trot
11. Head Down
12. Sidepassing from a visual cue
1. Lunging PDF
2. Following a feel and changing eyes, rope around hindquarters.
3. Lunging
4. Canter Transitions on the Lunge
5. Staying Light on the Lunge
6. Partial Disengage for Down Transitions
7. Straight Down Transitions
8. Posture and balance on the lunge PDF
9. Lunging with Flexion and Bend
10. Stretching the neck down on the lunge
11. Following a feel and changing eyes, rope around hindquarters.
1. Desensitizing (Habituation) pdf
2. Forms of Habituation
3. Sensitizing and Desensitizing
4. Stay below flight/fight threshold
5. Desensitizing
6. Desensitizing to Touch
7. Desensitizing to a Whip/Stick
8. Flag/Plastic Bag on a Stick
9. Ball
10. Tarp
11. Rugs
12. Umbrella
13. Statue game with a sponge for face washing
14. Hose
15. Fly Spray
16. Clippers
17. Worming
18. Flags
19. Targeting things around the arena
1. Injection Training with a Needle Shy Warmblood
2. Eye Ointment and Drops with a Young Warmblood Filly
1. Handling Feet Pdf
2. Touching the legs with a flag
3. Touching the legs with a pool noodle
4. Rubbing the legs with a whip/stick
5. Desensitizing to ropes on the legs
6. Leading by the front foot
7. Lifting the hind feet with a rope
8. Picking up front feet
9. Picking up hind feet
10. Hoof stand
11. Hoof trimming with Joey
1. Float and Trailer Loading and Travelling PDF
2. Float training with Apache - Rearing horse
3. Float training with Charlie - He had previously learned to rear or pull away from float.
4. Float training a Warmblood in Sydney
5. Float Training QH Teddy - Part 1 Leading In
6. Float Training QH Teddy - Part 2 Sending in
7. Clicker Training float loading with Trish Kruse and Mr Pony. Preparing to close the door.
1. Saddling Up PDF
2. Preparation for Riding PDF
3. Groundwork with the bridle PDF
4. Preparation for a girth
5. Lunge roller
6. Putting a bridle on
7. Lunging while wearing a bridle and lunge roller
8. Bridle cues in hand
9. Preparation for long reining
10. Long reining 1
11. Long Reining 2
12. Long Reining 3
13. First Saddling Stay out of the Way
14. Standing still for saddling
15. Groundwork with the saddle on
16. Circles and Straight Lines, finding hidden bucks with the saddle.
17. Long reining off the saddle
18. Teaching leg cues from the ground
19. Seeing the flag above them
20. Seeing a noodle above them
21. Seeing a big flag above them
22. Leading off another horse
23. Hearing the treat bag on the saddle
24. Jumping up and down next to the horse
25. Resting at the mounting block
26. Resting and desensitizing at the mounting block.
27. Lateral flexion at the mounting block
28. Leaning over the horse
29. Getting on the horse
30. Leading with a passenger
31. Lunging with a passenger
32. Transferring the cues to the rider
33. Teaching the horse to line itself up at the mounting block
34. Leading out on a trail walk
1. Rider Position, Posture and Balance PDF
2. Rider position - 3 point seat, 2 point seat, light seat.
3. Riding with the Clicker PDF
4. Lateral Flexion and Disengaging Hindquarters
5. Yielding the shoulders
6. Drift forward into Walk and Emergency Bend to a Stop
7. One rein halt from a Walk
8. More one rein halts from the walk
9. Walk to trot transition
10. One rein halt from the trot
11. Canter Transition and Leads
12. One rein halt from the canter
13. Following your focus through turns
14. Two rein halt - Walk to halt transition
15. Two rein halt - Trot to halt transition
16. Two rein halt - Canter to halt transition
17. Reinback - Walk/halt/reinback - Trot/halt/Reinback
18. Give to the bit - Vertical Flexion
1. Yoga for Riders Part 1 - with Andrew Lewis
2. Yoga for riders Part 2 - with Andrew Lewis
3. Yoga for riders Part 3 - with Andrew Lewis
1. Liberty PDF
2. Beginning Liberty Circles
1. How to Teach your Horse Tricks with Clicker Training - PDF Book
2. Push a Ball
3. Smile
4. Picking up an object
5. Carrying Things
6. Fetch
7. Tamborine
8. Teach your horse to paint
9. Teach your horse to take a bow
10. Spanish Walk
1. Problem Solving PDF
2. Biting when doing up the girth or the chest strap on a rug
1. Introducing your horse to jumping - leading and lunging over poles and small jumps.
2. Using targeting to build a horse's confidence approaching Jumps
3. Clicker training cross country jumps with Christine Johnson
4. Colleen Brook - Jumping and Training Liverpool Jumps
1. Sunbear clicker trained to accept eye drops
2. Sunbear: Targeting, Injections and Teeth
3. Sunbear teeth
4. Serval targeting
5. Clicker Training Spider Monkeys at the Cairns Wildlife Safari Reserve
1. Live Chat with guest speaker Trish Kruse
2. Live Chat with Andrew Mclean

About this course

226 lessons
Clicker Training - Theory - Ground Skills - Handling Feet - Desensitizing - Foundation training under saddle - Riding - Problem Solving - Trick Training - Liberty - Float Loading - and More!
100's of Step by step videos
2 PDF books by Georgia Bruce: How to Click With Your Horse, clicker training for groundwork, riding and problem solving. How to teach your horse tricks with clicker training.

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Clicker Academy

Course curriculum

Welcome!

Prerequisites

Theory

Clicker Training Basics

Catching your horse

Introducing Clicker Training to your Horse: Food Manners

Targeting

Statue Game

Back Off

Stand still and relax

Training with gentle pressure cues

Training with visual cues

Lunging

Desensitizing

Husbandry and Vet Proceedures

Handling Feet

Float/Truck Loading and Travelling

Preparation for Riding

Riding

Yoga for Riders

Liberty

Tricks

Problem Solving

Jumping

Other Species of animals

Live Chats

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