Today, I... * Charted my horse's horsenality in me as a leader
Interesting things I noticed about the differences / similarities in the 5 charts I filled out for my horse: *In themselves: confident *In his environment: little bit unconfident *In a herd: dominant *As a learner: little bit unconfident, reactive *In me as a leader: confident
How playing with an obstacle helped me: *More focus, more play! *See the gaps in the communication
How playing with my obstacle helped my horse: *More focus, more play! *fysical challenge
3 Things I want to think about tomorrow: *More energy! *Play with focus! *Learn, play, focus, relax, motivate,.. seek for the invisible lead rope..
That morning, I joined Julia's remuda, which was the RBI group. We did communication games with eachother and a catching game with some horses.
Then we had a classroom session with Avery about the hierarchy of needs for each horse:
Think like a horse! What's their motivation? *RBE: Safety => rhytm, relaxation, retreat *RBI: Comfort => pressure motivates, but it's the release that teaches... Comfort vs safety = finger hurts vs a coming bear *LBE: Play => variety, go somewhere: look for respect and obedience *LBI: Incentive => reward the slidest try, but ask 1% more every day... He has to figure out something new for the cookie. Use reversed psychology. Look for respect and motivation.
What's difficult for each horsenality? *RBE: bring back circling game, disengaging HQ, standing still, backing up, friendly game *RBI: moving feet, disengaging HQ, friendly game, allow circling game, driving game *LBE: backing up, standing still, moving FQ, porcupine game (biting), circling send *LBI: moving front end, porcupine game, backing up, draw, circling game, liberty
How can you help? RB: moving HQ EXT: drive LB: moving FQ INT: draw
What are you looking for? *RBE: calm *RBI: trusting *LBE: obedience *LBI: motivated
The emotional bank account rapport = 1000 $ respekt = 500 $ emotions = 100 $ feet = 1 $ => If you're only targetting the feet, it will take you 1000 times longer to build up a relationship...
Ask questions instead of questioning yourself...
Demo with Julia about RB motivation *Good leaders don't tell the answer, but set you up so you can find the answer. *Repeat the pattern for safety & encourage thinking.
Demo with Avery about LB motivation *Don't push! Wait for a try or questions. *Don't make him feel wrong, but reward only the right thing.
Classroom session about Laurens journey.... (WOW... you should have been there! but you weren't! HAHA!)
Cause your idea to become their idea, but understand their idea first.
Today, I... * Charted my horse's horsenality in himself. * Charted my horse's horsenality as a learner.
How my horse learns: - Food motivated, play motivated, safety motivated. - Needs to be engaged: quick tasks.
What I taught my horse today: -Back up when I bring him food. -Figure 8 at the trot (he probably knows this already)
List any interesting behaviors (eg. breathing, reacting/responding, licking & chewing,...) -knows a lot -bit reactive -not so easy to catch his mind -extraverted learner -has opinions
2 Things I want to think about tomorrow: 1. Pick my level up, ask more. 2. Have more of a plan.
There are a couple of things I learnt about horsenalities: * Altough I can be all 4 of them, I am most of the time a highly spirited right brain extrovert. * Addressing a horsenality helps you to observe better, wait longer, close your hands slower and open them more quickly, and also recognize your own obstacles in this process. * Left brain extraverts can be fun fun fun!
(For more info visit www.parelli.com) There are 4 horsenalities: "Crazy" RBE "Naughty" LBE "Stubborn" LBI "Unpredictable" RBI
There are 4 things that influence horsenalities: *Born with: - innate characteristics (humans can change 20% of this) - spirit: low/medium/high energy (easy going vs. Ferrari) *Day 1: - learned behavior: equines: mares, foals and also humans - environment: herd, nutrition
Our goal should be to get more centered and balanced horses.
Observe what it is to disturb a herd, what it is that makes them unsettle... When are they in their comfort zone, when are they out their comfort zone?
There are 5 areas of confidence: *Learner: new things, obstacles, games,... *Themselves: on their own *Herd: pecking order, interacting with other horses *Environment: place, weather,.. *Leader: how your horse acts when you take leadership
Humans forget, but they never forgive. Horses forgive, but they never forget.
Innately, where are they? John with Leo: RBI: difficult to get 2 eyes Cathy with Macciato: LBI Julia with Monkey: LBI: slow but dominant, it takes 2 to fight... Carmen with Leena: RBE: uhuh muscles
Exercise: *get eachother out of introversy *match RBE behavior (first: approach and retreat)
You have a 50/50 chance: experiment!
Don't overanalyse your horse... Workshops: variety vs consistency, How much pressure?, How far away from the pens?
