Education

Mark offers highly experienced insights into the forefront of Emotive Training: balancing both a horses MIND and its BODY. His holistic, highly practical training has helped thousands of horses around the world. He creates emotional shifts in the way a horse thinks and feels: helping horses to be more receptive to training; to us; to carry less worry and less brace; and regain their own self-esteem. His training is mindful of a horses emotional state; fixing bad training and trauma; yet focused on expanding its ability to learn and self-regulate. His unique expertise at understanding the problems that exist and offering long term psychological solutions offers a new angle of support for those interested in helping their horse.

His techniques promote emotional stability; confidence; flow; balance; softness; desire; attentiveness; and search; as well as helping owners become better teachers. Helping people to understand the affects of training; he seeks to passionately create a better place for horses. His insights are helping to reshape horse training as we know it. Helping horses is the forefront of everything he does: from anxiety to aggression; rushing to wrong canter transitions; trail spookiness to trailer loading problems or that will set any young horse up to be a positive partner for life.

His thought provoking, solution based expertise will not only open your eyes to looking at horses from a new psychological perspective but understand the training needed to avoid problems occurring. Negating the need to use dominant or pushy energy-driven approaches, he offers alternative solutions that engage a horses mind and evoke trust through understanding; promoting a diagnostic and targeted training approach based on each horse in that moment. He will show you how to train a horse’s focus or thought; and keep it; expand their proprioception – building natural desire that carries natural balance and softness. This is training mind and body intertwined with effective, emotive, empowering, lasting horsemanship that builds a horse’s ability.

Based in Australia, he has taught in USA, Germany, Finland, Sweden, UK, Denmark, Sweden, New Zealand, and has an affordable Online Horsemanship Training Platform. He has featured in the movie Listening to the Horse, as well as Presented in numerous large international equestrian events. He has a weekly Podcast, Positive Solutions for Partnership