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
Friday AM
Topic: Helping horses to deal with anxiety through offering a pathway that leads to horses managing themselves
Description: Psychological + Practical insights into helping horses to not only reduce anxiety but also improve Emotional Resilience. This session will also include understanding and recognizing anxiety, how training can influence anxiety, and how we can improve to make a real difference to horses.
Friday PM
Topic: Helping a Rushy Horse have a Greater Connection: improving the lunge
Description: Psychology & Mindset insights to help rushy horses not rush! Practical training tips to implement to master connection in training prep, setting your horse up to have greater rein accuracy. Rushing in hand is such a common issue – even if your horse doesn’t rush on a line, come and watch to learn new techniques that will improve your horse’s responsiveness to you.
Saturday AM
Topic: Shutting Out: Why this happens & how to bring this back into an Open Learning Mindset
Description: Learn about the different mindsets that horses have that can influence how well they take on information. Many horses operate without engaging mentally. Watch to learn how Mark trains a horse’s mind and its body simultaneously. How to recognize these mindsets, and how to influence them.
Saturday PM
Topic: Regaining the Accelerator: Helping a horse that lacks impulsion
Description: Ridden instruction to show the practical changes anyone can implement to help horses that rush. Understand why rushing happens and how training in a positive way can improve this! Practical tips that can be applied to many horses beyond just rushing.
Sunday AM
Topic: Understanding the Concepts of Directing a Horse to Feel: Creating a Positive Mindset
Description: Insights into the complex area of feel, its advantages that offer clarity and improved training. Practical and psychological tips that any horse owner can apply! Creating a positive mindset in training encompasses all aspects of what we do with our horses; yet feel is linked to many of them. Understanding its larger implications is a critical component of significantly improving your horse’s mental capacity to learn and move without tension.
Sunday PM
Topic: Reducing the Rush: Helping a horse that Rushes under saddle
Description: Ridden lesson improving a horse’s ability to connect and respond thoughtfully under saddle at faster speeds. Training tips to help your horse reduce the rush; become more responsive; be more connected to you; and feel more positive about the training.
June 6-8, 2025
Friday June 6th 9:00 AM – 6: 00 PM
Saturday June 7th 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Sunday June 8th 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
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