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Watch Monty's horse training videos to learn how he demonstrates communication through horse training techniques that the amateur and professional alike consider to be the trainable skills of a horse whisperer yet Monty calls it horse gentling.
Monty's horse training techniques are non violent with intelligent natural horsemanship. In addition to video instructions, Monty has written many books related to natural horsemanship. Monty trains safe horses for nervous riders called Willing Partners. Monty trains world class race horses for sale.
“I am very proud to be a part of Her Majesty’s horse training and her passion for their welfare. I believe she is the leading monarch for the advocacy of horses in the world. She is a thought leader in this field. Her Majesty's horses are trained using the Dually Halter, making a difference in the training of sensitive animals by giving the horse the choice to partner in the training.” ~ Monty
“I communicate with a horse in what I call the Language of Equus; a silent language of gestures that is discernible, predictable and effective. Now you can learn from my videos, audio and notes to help you understand the horse as I do. This language is really quite simple, but simplicity becomes its greatest strength.” ~ Monty
Monty Roberts is a renowned horse trainer known as the man who listens to horses and the original horse whisperer. Monty's horse training instructions are accepted worldwide.
Monty has helped thousands of people globally through his Monty Roberts Online Videos to learn how to Join-Up with horses, training young horses, spooky horses, horses that bite. His mustang , Shy Boy , is his most famous horse.
Join-Up methods help horse and trainer to establish a bond of communication and trust. “You must somehow understand that we as horsemen can do very little to teach the horse. What we can do is to create an environment in which he can learn.” ~ Monty
Monty says, “We hear that ‘actions speak louder than words,’ but generally we do not live by it too successfully.” Now Monty has taught thousands of people worldwide how to build trust in animals through our actions and body language.
Monty’s principles really amount to common sense and immense patience. He believes that children and horses have the same behavioral patterns. They are both naturally “flight” animals. "If you frighten them and resort to confrontation, you’ll lose their trust." ~ Monty
"Simple one-on-one reassurances and praise reap long term dividends that can all be undone with the quick slamming of a book on a desk or shouting back." ~ Monty Roberts
"No one of us was born with the right to say 'You must or I'll hurt you' to any other living thing, animal or human". ~ Monty Roberts
"My life's goal is to leave the world a better place than I found it, for horses and for people too". ~ Monty Roberts

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University Suggestion Box

Diary keeping with online support

By:

Kathryn in NZ

Date:

2015-Oct-22 at 09:51AM

It would be good if there was a function on the university website, for students to keep a daily diary of their journey with their individual horses, for online instructors to read and give support to that journey. It could be optional for the uni student to make it public so that others can share the journey and learn from it as well, or private if the student would rather just share it with the qualified instructors. For example it might look like: Day One: Today I experimented with erecting a temporary round pen... Day Two: I tried join up and this is what happened... etc.

JoHewittVINTA 2015-Oct-22 at 10:10PM

Hi. Welcome to the Uni - you're clearly an enthusiast, as am I! The threads allow you & others to update & if you want to do that daily, go ahead. Trouble is, most people have busy lives ( unlike the retired oldies, like me, who only have 2 youngsters, an unbroken 7 year old who is currently being sat on by a non rider, who I need to keep safe, plus a Welsh A. ) Daily updates might be a bit much to ask. Like the innovative thinking though. Cheers, Jo.

Kathryn in NZ 2015-Oct-22 at 11:54PM

Hi Jo, thanks for your reply. Maybe it could be an optional thing so that there's no pressure to have to do it daily. I'm also very busy - lol I have five children (four of them fostered), plus farm animals and horses to take care of. But I think it would be fun if each student could have the option to build their own horse profiles on their pages and share progress. :) :) :) There may be weeks when a student does very little with their horse, but it would help a student to be able to look back at their horse-profile and progress, and see a 'bigger picture' of how they've been spending their time and why or why they haven't advanced in certain areas. :) But a lot more work for the website builder - I understand. :)

Mel - Ramsgate UK 2015-Oct-23 at 10:05PM

A nice idea Aotearoa, the website functions though wouldn't allow this type of set up. I understand from Debbie, Monty's daughter, that something like this has already been looked at but not possible on the current platform.
what some of us have done is start a blog post in the topic Horse Behavior and Training then we details what we've been doing and get help from others if needed.
If you started a post titled with your horses name then you could add onto this post each time you have chance, we can all then watch your progress and chip in if needed if you get stuck. Each time you post an update it will be brought to the top of the recent posts page so we'll know you've updated it.
If you wanted to include photos, then many of us find Flickr, Instagram and Youtube etc of value
If it's been a while inbetween updates and you don't see you post on the timeline, then just popping the name of your horse in the search bar for the Uni will bring up a list of posts containing your horses name. That way you can always find it and continue to add progress to it. :D
Mel
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Kathryn in NZ 2015-Oct-25 at 02:53AM

Awesome, thanks Mel. :) :) :)

Debbie Roberts Loucks, USA 2015-Oct-27 at 12:30PM

Thanks Mel and Jo for weighing in on this - we also add that there is a place on Facebook to converse and share here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/equusonlineuni/
We encourage Monty Roberts Ceritifed Instructors to look in and share too.