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“Shortly after buying her first stallion Amanda came across clicker training and immediately recognised that this would be a fantastic way to train him. She headed out to the barn with The Click That Teaches book, a clicker in hand and a pocket full of treats and made some wonderful discoveries. She discovered that clicker training is incredibly powerful, that it is an effective communication tool for horses and handlers, and that the horses responded with great enthusiasm.

Now thanks to Amanda, and The Click That Teaches program, horse owners all over the UK and EU/Europe are able to build a solid relationship with their horse where the horse is a willing and enthusiastic partner in the training. Through clinics, lessons and online training courses she is helping horse owners everywhere discover that clicker training can help them create happy, eager horses who love to train. As a result she is also creating very happy horse owners who love spending time with their horses.

Amanda also teaches clicker training at universities and colleges throughout the UK and is also a faculty member for the Equine Clicker Conference in the UK.”

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The weekend was ended on a high with Amanda and some of her clients putting on a Clicker Training Demonstration in South Nesting.  The demonstration showed people how to get started with clicker training safely, avoid the common pitfalls, there were many discussions about the science behind this science based training method and the demo finished with one of the more advanced horses showing us some of the more sophisticated training that can be achieved with clicker training.

After the demonstration, one of the attendees said, “It’s so incredibly valuable to be able to see decent professionals at work, to learn from them and to have the chance to discuss ideas. Those who could not come missed a great opportunity”.

Amanda has also been asked to go to the Orkneys to teach; she will be there on 29 and 30 September.

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Her training is about more than teaching good balance and performance; she also teaches people how to have a powerful and meaningful relationship with their horse that evolves out of understanding the emotions and feelings that underly behaviour.

That relationship takes ‘ordinary’ balance and performance and makes it ‘extraordinary’.”

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S.M.A.A.R.T. Horses teaches Clicker Training (positive reinforcement or rewards based training) and has just expanded by launching; Positive Horse Agility’ (specialist horse agility clicker training courses); http://www.smaarthorses.co.uk/positivehorseagility.

This company is already transforming the way we train horses with their growing number of UK and Europe wide live Clicker Training Clinics and World Wide Online Clicker Training College (http://www.clickertrainingcollege.com) Courses.

The only UK based approved “The Click That Teaches” (TCTT) Clicker Trainer, Amanda continues to study with pioneer of Clicker Training in the horse world, Alexandra Kurland; creator and author of TCTT Clicker Training. Also training with many other world leaders in clicker training Amanda ensures she brings the most up to date science and breakthroughs in clicker training to her clients.

Clicker training uses positive reinforcement; identifying and marking specific moments in training. It is a huge positive jump away from traditional horse training and it uncovers an enormous ability that horses have to learn. It is proven to create horses that are; motivated to learn, skilled problem solvers (in everything from day to day tasks through to e.g. high school dressage), better balanced, safer to be around and able to reliably perform to higher levels in their discipline.

Clients report that one of the many benefits of clicker training is that it advances their horses learning at a speed and to a level that they did not realise was possible.

S.M.A.A.R.T. Horses has already reached and transformed many horses from family pets’ right through to those who were previously labelled dangerous. As the business offers more diverse learning opportunities it continues to unlock the potential of more horses.

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