CURRENT CLINICS CONFIRMED
Valid as of 07/06/2025
July 2026
Central UK, more info coming soon
October 2026
Gowanda, New York, USA
Almonte, Ontario, Canada
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
WHAT IS AN EMOTIONAL HORSEMANSHIP CLINIC?
Rehabilitating an imported French Sporthorse who was trained in hyperflexion, at a clinic at the Horse & Heart Ranch in Soquel California.
A Horse Training Clinic Where the Horses Come First
Results matter.
Results the horse love too, matter more.
In a clinic, the Participants, Riders, Community and Clinician often feel immense pressure to show a big "WOW!" result. This pressure is transferred to the horses. Often, at the expense of the horses well being, employing a variety of high pressure tactics to obtain something that looks like success, regardless if the horse valued, enjoyed or understood what was happening to their bodies or behaviours.
In Emotional Horsemanship, we practice the craft and art of riding, training, handling and caring for horses, by focusing on how the horse feels about their horsemanship. We use Science, Empathy and Feel to understand the emotional impact horses experience during their training.
So for EH Folk, the results often look like not forcing the horse to comply or obey. Our results centre on an authentic technical process clinic participants can take home, to create results in the weeks, months and years that follow.
Often, horses feel awful about the way they learned their horsemanship.
Horses are capable of obedience without joy.
Horses can comply whilst feeling resentful of the training process they endure.
This is ultimately dangerous for the horse people involved.
We trust the lens of a horses emotional world, to guide us to an improved training process, that doesn't saddle horses with emotional baggage.
An EH Clinic is fundamentally a training focused clinic.
This is not therapy, therapeutic riding, or trauma treatment for humans or horses.
Emotional Horsemanship is the craft and art of training, riding, handling and caring for horses that prioritises how horsemanship makes horses feel.
So, our clinics have the ultimate goal of teaching you how to train your horses, from your horses point of view.
It is quiet, unassuming, simple and harmless.
It is often nuanced and difficult to understand.
It is frequently obvious and deeply validating.
What would horsemanship look like, if it was designed by horses themselves? A horse-centric process.
We are here to train. To learn, teach, rehabilitate and to practice.
An EH Clinic focuses on the difficult, technical task of collaborating with a large flight animal without forcing them, without hustling them, and without perpetuating trauma or damage upon them.
Training, without the Trauma.
Horsemanship, without the Hustle.
Rehabilitating an imported French Sporthorse who was trained in hyperflexion, at a clinic at the Horse & Heart Ranch in Soquel California.
WHAT TO EXPECT?
Expect to make some new friends at an EH Clinic.
Building positive community around our clinics is something we really enjoy facilitating.
We carefully select clinic hosts and locations to ensure we show up in the best possible location, partnered with organised, kind hosts who have their communities best interests at heart.
EH Clinics are organised, punctual and structured. We do our best to provide every possible comfort for the people and the horses. We have a zero tolerance policy for attendee misbehaviour, bullying or competitiveness. A quiet and focused atmosphere where everyone is expected to be on-time, kind to each other and focused.
Bareback Seat Refinement in South Australia.
Questions are welcome from Participants at any time. And Auditors can ask their questions during the Q&A at the end of the clinic.
We have tested our clinic structure all over the world and refined it, improved it and continue to improve the clinics as time goes on.
We recommend attending without expectations, but with curiosity and hope instead.
We gather to focus on innovating gentle Horsemanship practices in ways that put the horse first always.
Group work in Colorado.
You can expect Lockie to guide the Participants and their horses through a sequence of gentle, subtle yet difficult horsemanship techniques, from first contact, to riding with full effort, depending on the horses abilities and desires.
These techniques are designed for long term success, and gradual change that will stay with the horse forever.
At a clinic, we explore the beginning of a method of horse training that recruits science, empathy and feel to train emotionally balanced horses.
Caring deeply about the horse from beginning until end.
Colt starting mustangs in Ottawa.
WHAT TO EXPECT?
Expect to make some new friends at an EH Clinic.
Building positive community around our clinics is something we really enjoy facilitating.
We carefully select clinic hosts and locations to ensure we show up in the best possible location, partnered with organised, kind hosts who have their communities best interests at heart.
EH Clinics are organised, punctual and structured. We do our best to provide every possible comfort for the people and the horses. We have a zero tolerance policy for attendee misbehaviour, bullying or competitiveness. A quiet and focused atmosphere where everyone is expected to be on-time, kind to each other and focused.
Questions are welcome from Participants at any time. And Auditors can ask their questions during the Q&A at the end of the clinic.
We have tested our clinic structure all over the world and refined it, improved it and continue to improve the clinics as time goes on.
We recommend attending without expectations, but with curiosity and hope instead.
We gather to focus on innovating gentle Horsemanship practices in ways that put the horse first always.
You can expect Lockie to guide the Participants and their horses through a sequence of gentle, subtle yet difficult horsemanship techniques, from first contact, to riding with full effort, depending on the horses abilities and desires.
These techniques are designed for long term success, and gradual change that will stay with the horse forever.
At a clinic, we explore the beginning of a method of horse training that recruits science, empathy and feel to train emotionally balanced horses.
Caring deeply about the horse from beginning until end.
Bareback Seat Refinement in South Australia.
Colt starting mustangs in Ottawa.
Group work in Colorado.
CURRENT CLINICS CONFIRMED
Valid as of 07/06/2025