Course curriculum

    1. Welcome

    2. RELEASE FROM LIABILITY

    3. Assignment: Introduce yourself

    1. Theory: Cooperative care, why train it?

    2. Theory: Guidelines and strategies for real time care

    3. Theory: More about control & ‘chin rest’

    4. Assignment: Chin rest - what can it look like, how to start training

    5. Assignment: Clean loops of moving into the chin rest + training assignment

    1. Theory + Assignment: Welcome to week 2 - Adding Duration and Distraction

    2. Theory: Collecting data & Evaluating training sessions

    3. Assignment: Training Duration

    4. Assignment: Adding distraction

    1. Theory + Writing Assignment: Welcome to week 3 + choose a procedure

    2. Theory: Emotional experiences, respondent learning and how training fits in

    3. Theory: Observational skills - ethograms, other behavior evaluation

    4. Theory + Assignment: Advancing the chin rest

    5. Assignment: Eye care / Ear care / Facial care for applying ointment

    6. Assignment:injections / blood draw / clipping

    1. Theory: Welcome to week 4 Taking the chin rest to the next level

    2. Theory: Transforming a behavior into a cue

    3. Theory: Thoughts on raising criteria and avoiding a plateau

    4. Assignment: Raising criteria, advancing towards treatment

    1. Theory: Welcome to week 5 - Generalization, variability and predictability

    2. Theory: When using the Chin Rest for more than one type of treatment

    3. Assignment: Adding a 2nd person, adding variability, generalizing & more

About this course

  • 36 lessons
  • Submit training videos for feedback
  • Participate in Q&A zoom sessions
  • Get personlized coaching from Peggy Hogan & Anat Shalev

Join Peggy Hogan & Anat Shalev

Two pioneers in this field as they guide you through exploration and application of these concepts and techniques

Some of the skills and concepts taught

A deeper dive into cooperative care, learn how to train & establish inspiring collaboration with your horse, change the way your horse perceive and behave in husbandry and medical care scenarios. Set a foundation for a dialog, reduce stress and train horses to be active, willing participants while sharing control (choice and influence) both as a reinforcer and an indicator to influence training and real time procedure.

  • Enable better welfare and care, while building trust and confidence and minimising safety risks for both horses and humans.

  • Gain deeper understanding of concepts and fluency in applying techniques and tools to training for medical and husbandry procedures

  • Learn to shape a chin rest and other ‘Start Buttons’ or 'Continue Buttons' behaviours as part of cooperative care.

  • Learn to set up inviting environments and use varied feeding techniques as your part of the dialog and training toolkit.

  • Learn to look at desensitisation and counter-conditioning with an operant mindset

  • Learn to shape behaviours for eye care, clipping, accepting injections, fly spray, and more

Join us in a learning adventure

*Pre-requisites: Both you and your horse need to be clicker savvy, having some experience with targeting, shaping and adding cues to behaviours.

Enroll today