Life Skills through Horsemanship

A One Day Clinic Presented by Mule Thornbrugh

This clinic consists of a series of exercises focused on the following topics: Giving and requiring respect, trusting and being trustworthy, the role confidence plays in your horsemanship, how to acquire confidence, being an effective leader, setting firm and consistent boundaries and communicating clearly. The exercises will demonstrate how to effectively establish each principle between a horse and rider. By learning to develop these principles with your horse and incorporating them into your horsemanship program, you are likely to find you will have the ability to carry the very same principles with you into other aspects of your life and relationships.

Trust:  The “Hook-on”  Desensitize to your tools

Confidence:  Head down  Independent seat

Leadership/ Respect:  “Circle –up” (Loenging with a purpose)  Teaching your horse to “Park”  The “rock back” stop

Setting boundaries:  Back-up with lead rope and body language  Establish hind quarter yield  The “perfect circle”

Communicating clearly:  Establish lateral softness  Lineless Driving  Transitions  Trailer Loading

Time: 9 am – 4pm Fee: $100.00 per horse / rider (limited to 6), auditors $25.00 each (unlimited). Contact: 479-200-0164 or 479-263-8027 or email- [email protected] Website: www.doublediamondt.com