I love meeting and chatting with people that are changing our
way of being with horses! It was such a pleasure to connect with
Hannah Weston, co-founder of Connection Training. What a mission
she's on! We got into how to build bridges between more traditional
training and reward-based positive training, how to work with
horses that tend to get distracted by treats, trust building with
horses that have gone through trauma, and how to use this type of
training to create the kind of connection that builds curiousity,
courage, and relaxation. Diva and I are definitely going to try out
some of her suggestions!
Hannah co-founded the Equine Clicker Conference in 2012, with
Rachel Bedingfield, bringing the world’s most prominent
reward-based horse trainers together, both live and online, to
share ideas and discuss approaches to this ground-breaking
work.
Hannah’s unique combination of skills complement each other
brilliantly, giving her a holistic understanding and approach to
horse training. It is all underpinned with Connection Training –
using positivity, rewards and putting the horse’s emotions
first. She works to create a bridge between training horses to
move brilliantly and applied reward-based principles to it to train
horses classical dressage with choice, joy and plenty of targets!
Hannah has also attended courses with Enlightened Equitation,
Eleanor Mercer, anatomy dissections and stretching and mobilization
(for horses) clinics, as well as deepening her own body awareness
through Tai Chi, Pilates and yoga.
Learn more at https://connectiontraining.com/