Day 3 – Sticking to the Plan
Day THREE
What is the Dang Plan?
We are sure you are pawing the ground in anticipation of going out to work with your horse, we only ask that you trust the process. Watching these videos and understanding the information is a very important part of it.
There are 3 stages of learning and you are working on the first 2 by watching these fundamental videos.
Stage 1: Awareness. You begin to have an awareness of the challenge or problem to be solved. You do not yet have the knowledge required to solve the problem.
Stage 2: Knowledge. You now have the awareness of the problem and some understanding of how you could go about solving it. You haven’t taken any steps towards resolving the problem.
And Stage 3, which you will begin working on tomorrow…
Transformation: You have both an awareness of the problem and knowledge (or access to) the knowledge to solve the problem. You take action towards solving the problem and experience a transformation as a result.
Awareness is always a good starting point!
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I’m enjoying these few days of just watching videos and then reflecting and noticing things my horse is telling me as I take care of him. As I bring his feed to his stable he puts his ears back at me and nods his head at me. I’ve started hanging back until he wants me in his space and he quickly stops this behaviour and either puts his ears forward or moves back from the door for me to enter. Interesting 🤔
My thoughts on using treats. I worked with a liberty trainer who showed us how to …. require horses to wait/freeze before accepting a treat. Add to that a hand signal requesting the horse to step backwards before delivering the treat…and you have a horse who comes to greet you, steps back out if your space, and stands like a statue to earn a reward. This has helped me tremendously with my smart and in your space horse.
I fee like all my parts are coming back together. I really lost myself as a horsewoman for many reasons. So good to hear all this in a coherent way. I can now move forward.
I have had my new horse for 1 week. She’s 18 & been there, seen it, done it, got the t shirt….although not with me and not in my place. I have had horses previously although my last one was very challenging and shattered my confidence as a horse owner. (if only i had known about all this relationship before horsemanship 5 years ago!!!)
So far i have only put a headcollar on her twice, to groom her change rugs etc and have a little walk around the field she’s in and the neighbouring field. Apart from that I’ve hung out her with her every day, in stillness or matching steps as per the first videos in the library. No problems apart from she got a bit anxious in the next door field so i took her back to her home paddock.
My question is, do i do this 30 day jumpstart which i just found today, or carry on with working through the video library and how do i know when i can ride her?
Thank you
The 30 day jump start is basically the order the videos are in, we just did the 30 dsy thing so that people didnt skip ahead. If you know she’s safe to ride and has no issues, you could start riding now (but only if you KNOW).
Looking forward to this new journey, just in a few days I can see a change in my awareness, im so excited to see what the future holds.
My horse gets regular exercise from our trainer, in addition to the work I do with him. My question is, while I’m doing the 30 day jumpstart, is it OK to have my trainer continue working with him, or should it be only the tasks in this jumpstart?
It depends what your trainer is doing with him, and especially how he’s doing it with him. You dopnt want to undo things as soon as you do them.