Horse-first practices for emotional balance, safety, joy and lasting partnership.

SCIENCE - EMPATHY - FEEL

Science

Science is our best tool for understanding horses clearly and honestly.


It helps us move beyond tradition and assumption, grounding our training in what we know about learning, behaviour, biomechanics, and welfare.

In Emotional Horsemanship, science supports kinder, safer decisions and helps our feel become more accurate, not less.

Empathy

Empathy is essential to horse-first horsemanship.

It helps us understand both our own emotions and the full experience of the horse, emotionally, physically, mentally, and beyond.

In Emotional Horsemanship, empathy allows us to respond with care, clarity, and respect, so training becomes something the horse can feel safe inside.

Feel

Feel is the lived skill of horsemanship, developed through practice, attention, and time with horses.

Feel honours thousands of years of horse-human partnership by teaching us to listen, respond, and move with the horse in real time.

In Emotional Horsemanship, feel turns knowledge into craft, and transforms training into true relationship.

Emotional Horsemanship offers one of the most thoughtful and trustworthy learning and support environments for the horse-first community in the equestrian world.

"...I felt safe and secure enough to relax, listen and open my heart to the knowledge shared."

"This was my first-ever horse clinic, and I was deeply moved by the care, creativity and generosity of Lockie Phillips. As an auditor I felt engaged in the experience. I witnessed the specialised interest he took in each Participant and in each horse, creating space of patience, ease and deep emotional work... Even though it was a new setting for me, with a lot to take in, I felt safe and secure enough to relax, listen and open my heart to the knowledge shared." - E. Hill. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

"No more ridicule and being shamed for actually showing care and affection towards their horses."

"Once again I was blown away by Lockie's educated knowledge, passion, a voice for horses, hard work and wicked tongue in cheek humour. This is what the Equestrian world needs to be listening to for the SAKE OF HORSES. Building block by building block building a community of like-minded people who just love their horses who want the best of them. No more ridicule and being shamed for actually showing care and affection towards their horses. "

- Anonymous Clinic Auditor, Perth Australia.

"...there is no judgement and the ecology is so safe and supporting."

"To be part of the Homecoming 2.0 course (online) has been the most warming experience! Just so warm, friendly, kind and supportive and I feel so lucky to have been a part of it... Another striking aspect of the course and the zoom calls is the fact that there is no judgement and the ecology is so safe and supporting." - T. Schäfer, Denmark.

"Within this group there was only support. Egotistical judgement does not exist here."

"I personally have never felt safe amongst equestrians outside of this group. For the first time, since coming back to horses in my adult life, I felt safe. Within this group (online) there was only support. Egotistical judgement does not exist here. The fear of asking questions falls away once you ask your first and see that there was never ever any reason to be scared to ask a question. Now this does not happen frequently in the outside equestrian world I know, where ego rules the Kingdom. But within this space, carefully curated and cared for by Lockie and his team, I found a safe place where we could grow exponentially if we chose to. I did. I continue to"

- C. Murphy, South Africa.

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