Calling all horse trainers - at ClickerExpo, there are courses that will help you find your way, at your pace. Whether you are an experienced positive trainer or just exploring the trail, ClickerExpo has what you need to take your training to the next level.

Join top equine trainers like Jen Digate, Alexandra Kurland, Natalie Zielinski, and Peggy Hogan, as well as leaders in behavioral science research and practice like Ken Ramirez, Susan G. Friedman, PhD, and Jesus Rosales-Ruiz.

The Science of It

• A Moment of Science - Kathy Sdao
• Let’s Get Started! Introducing Your Horse to Clicker Training - Alexandra Kurland
• The Clickable Moment: Creating Energy and Shaping Stillness - Natalie Zielinski
• Food for Thought: The New Research on Human Cognition & Links with Animal Learning - Laura VanArendonk Baugh
• Loopy Training - Alexandra Kurland
• Ideas that Should Die: Outdated, Outmoded & Misunderstood Behavior Science - Susan G. Friedman, Ph.D.

Trailer-Loading & More

• All Aboard! Trailer-Loading Made Easy - Peggy Hogan
• Safety in Numbers: Working with Multiple Horses - Peggy Hogan
• Baby’s First Steps: Foal-Raising - Jen Digate
• Into the Wild: Taming Mustangs Clicker-Style - Jen Digate
• Ugly Duckling to Swan! Transforming the Shut-Down Horse - Natalie Zielinski
• Where Am I? Restarting in a Crossover World - Natalie Zielinski

Making the Routine Exceptional

• From Fear to Near: Behaviors that Change Horse Husbandry - Peggy Hogan
• Mat Training: A Power Tool for Trainers - Alexandra Kurland
• Do It Again: The Use of Patterns in Training - Alexandra Kurland
• Dr. Dolittle, I Presume - Alexandra Kurland

Solving Problem Behavior

• Animals in Control: The Choice Is Theirs - Peggy Hogan, Eva Bertilsson, Emelie Johnson-Vegh
• Ugly Duckling to Swan! Transforming the Shut-Down Horse - Natalie Zielinski
• Fear Factors: Understanding and Reducing Fear Across Species - Jen Digate
• Dr. No: How Teaching an Animal to Say “No” Can Be the Right Prescription - Ken Ramirez

For the Ride

Riding with the Clicker with Alexandra Kurland will tease apart the universals of riding: stopping, starting, turning, and moving in balance. Learn how to introduce universals to a horse and how to develop those universals into performance excellence independent of riding discipline.

Let’s Stay Together: Start Your Horses Under Saddle at Home with Jen Digate will teach you how to get your horse ready for riding, on your own. If you are switching to the positive-reinforcement paradigm, you may find that you no longer want to send horses out to be started, but to do that at home.

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