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QUESTION: Hi Sylvia, I work in the office of [another natural horsemanship clinician]. I have really no experience with training horses, but God, do I love them. I know you know what I mean. I noticed when I was a very young girl that I had a natural connection with animals. No matter what kind or size. I have very little one on one time with horses as I do not have the funds to have them at my home. My father and stepmother had 6 horses up until about three years ago, so I do have some knowledge, but it's not extensive. Anyway, I really do not agree with some of the methods I've seen [this clinician] use. I know they work, but the horses have to be somewhat traumatized. I was looking for a way to get into training when I got this job, but now I really don't know if this is the right way to go. I would like to know how to break into the natural horsemanship world. I want to eventually be a trainer, but I have a young family and can't afford much. This is what I am supposed to do with my life, I know that. I just need someone to tell me how to get there. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you so much for your help and time!
How do you break into the natural horsemanship training field world and become a trainer yourself? Be a sponge! Read as much as you can on the subject, watch as many natural horsemanship training videos as you can. Attend as many clinics as you can. And most importantly: get your hands on as many horses to practice on as you can. The horse is the best teacher there is! :-) And you don't even have to own a horse if you can't right now. I think the best early on experience one can gain is by volunteering at a local equine rescue and work on rehab training the horses that come thru those rescue doors. Most all rescues welcome such help! Here's a link on my web site that shows rescues around the country/world: http://www.naturalhorsetraining.com/HorseRescues.html
Also, books are cheap (in the larger scheme of things), so you can be absorbing education from books while your kids are young and you're not quite as freed up to travel to clinics. I've got a list of recommend natural horsemanship training books on my web site starting here: http://www.naturalhorsetraining.com/HorseBooks.html
When my kids were younger, I kept a current-reading NH book in my car at all times as I chauffered kids all over the place, would often get stuck waiting and would pull a book out. I read many an NH book solely in my car, cover to cover, so that's how I fit in immersion learning surrounding the raising of kids! I'm now an empty nester here, as my last #3 child, daughter, headed off to college. She's the last to leave the nest as my 2 older boys are already launched in life. The older your kids get, the more freed up you become to pursue this field on stronger and stronger levels while still keeping your family values intact. I wouldn't trade for anything the years I spent raising my kids. They taught me so much that I now apply to NH training. It's all the same to me. Raising your children humanistically is the groundwork for doing the same with horses, as I see it. I find many experienced moms make some of the best NH trainers out there today if you ask me! And I would personally like to encourage more women to join this ever-growing field.
Collect NH training videos, too. I myself, as a professional in this field, own over a hundred NH videos and still counting, still collecting. Videos are a great way to learn -- and keep learning -- this stuff. The better you get out in the field, the more you see on deeper, multi layers in videos.
You might think about getting my Whispering Way 12-Step Total Training System DVD set. Usually it helps to see the natural horsemanship art taught visually, to really understand how it is all done. You can get that DVD set here: CLICK HERE
My Whispering Way Round Pen Leadership DVD also teaches the art of natural horsemanship round penning visually. To learn more about and order that video: CLICK HERE
And incidentally...my Whispering Way Complete Training Package contains all my videos and training tools that you need to train or retrain your horse yourself the natural horsemanship Whispering Way. You can check out/order the Whispering Way Complete Training Package on my web site here: CLICK HERE
Here's a list on my site of other NH trainer videos I recommend -- watch them all!: http://www.naturalhorsetraining.com/TrainVideos.html
Start your collection! Have family members give them to you for your birthday, Christmas, anniversaries, etc., and pretty soon your collection will be growing and you'll learn so much from them. (You can also find many of them on ebay, inexpensively).
For those youngsters out there, who are still in school and who wish to get into this field up the road, I like to refer them to this following page on my web site, because in the left margin of that page, there are a lot of helpful resources, including a list of colleges that have equine major programs, and even some that have budding natural horsemanship training programs: http://www.naturalhorsetraining.com/EquineJobs.html
Listen to that drive in your heart! The heart knows best what we should be doing in life.
The world needs as many natural horsemanship trainers as we can develop and get out there teaching!
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