USD199.00
Course Description – Food For Training
This introductory course is for people curious about training with food or who have already started.
This course includes
$199.00 USD
Course Contents
- 30 Modules of theory & practical
- 5 downloadable resources
- Lifetime access to the course
- Knowledge building quizzes
- Exclusive Facebook group
- Bonus Video Tutorial
- Certificate upon completion
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What You Will Learn and the Benefits
I created this course for people curious about training with food, or people who have already started this journey, or to help anyone who may be struggling with using food in their clicker training or positive reinforcement training.
- The course covers:
- the function of positive reinforcement and where it fits in learning theory,
- ethical considerations,
- emotional aspects for your equine,
- ethological considerations,
- ways to prevent problem behaviour,
- why horses behave the way they do around food,
- the types of food that are best to set both you and your equine up for success,
- the practicalities of different ways we can use and deliver food,
- the different feedback we can get and give when we use food in certain ways.
I also describe how we can develop a lot of nuance in our training, simply in how we use the food. It’s helpful if we think of it as more than just food, but a tool in our Positive Reinforcement training. I’m going to discuss ways we can avoid the most common problems and pitfalls and become successful in using food or just being around equines and food.
Special Bonus
I’ve also included a fun activity: a small experiment with food followed by further enrichment activities based on the outcome of the experiment.
Participants will be welcome to share and discuss their process and results in an exclusive Facebook group.
Course participants who share video of their experiment in the group will also receive a free tutorial on a training technique I’ve developed. This technique illustrates how we can dive deeper into using food in a safe way, develop deeper communication and a better relationship with our equine. This technique is helpful even for people who are not necessarily committed to training with Positive Reinforcement, but is mainly focused on a fun and easy way to introduce the concept of using food and starting to build that wonderful relationship.
About Your Instructor
Pauline Keil combines her passion for horses and expertise in positive reinforcement training to provide this unique and exceptional course that will be essential to any person with an equine in their life.
After more than 30 years of traditional experience owning and training horses, Pauline decided years ago to undertake an educational journey and travelled the world to learn from eminent trainers such as Dr Robert (Bob) Bailey, Ken Ramirez, Professor Susan Friedman and Peggy Hogan, to name a few. She also loves to learn about how to apply the same principles to train different species and attends various animal training conferences and online educational opportunities. She’s also had the pleasure of co-hosting multi-species animal training workshops, as well as animal-assisted therapy training workshops at her property.
She has dedicated much of her time training and rehabilitating her horses and donkeys or helping others do the same. She has a very active social media presence, helping thousands learn about positive reinforcement training for equines. She produces countless videos and blogs about her training.
Her focus and passion for high quality training with positive reinforcement and other fear-free approaches and her attention to detail drive her to share what she’s learnt to help others on their horsemanship journey. She is a lifelong learner herself.
Utilising all these experiences, she has developed this one-of-a-kind course to help anyone interested in incorporating food to build positive relationships with their horse, mule or donkey.
This course can help you learn more about how to use food safely and effectively, delve into the various techniques of using food in training, avoid the pitfalls, understand behaviour in response to food, create a common language through the use of food or simply create a more enjoyable relationship with your horse, mule or donkey.
An Introduction: The First Steps
This introductory course is focused solely on food in different contexts. It is a small section, a taster if you like, of a larger course I am developing for people starting out training with food for the first time.
In the larger course (in progress), I will cover all the details you need to know, environmental set up, gear, tools, the framework and flow of training sessions and breaks and also the science underpinning it all. I also cover the first behaviour I recommend we teach an equine using food. It is what ensures safety for all and also ensures that the human and equine are enjoying the training.
I will cover the full breadth of how and why we train this first behaviour, what I call the foundation behaviour, and how to set the equine and yourself up for success by setting up the environment correctly.
I will provide information that prevents problems and issues from arising, as well as the basic training techniques we use when getting started at the beginning. My upcoming course which will follow on from this course is called: “Training Horses with Positive Reinforcement – Foundation Lesson”.
Course Modules
- What is Positive Reinforcement?
- Food as a Consequence of Behaviour
- Operant and Classical (Pavlovian) Conditioning
- The Foundation Lesson
- Never Train a Hungry Equine
- Always Provide Alternative Food Close By
- Contrafreeloading
- Food Anxiety and Resource Guarding
- Types of Food for Training
- Food Delivery Techniques
- Hand Feeding
- Distance Feeding
- Texture and Moisture Content
- Pre-Loading Food
- Muzzle Bump
- Be Generous at the Start
- Food as a Diagnostic Tool
- Later in Your Positive Reinforcement Training
- Do I Always Need Lots of Food?
- A Fun Activity – Preference Testing
- How to Present Test Food
- Collecting Data
- Analysing the Data
- Enrichment Activity
- The Next Steps
- Final Quiz
