06 May 2025

WEBINAR

Understand Horses presents a webinar with neuroscientist and equine behaviour consultant Emma Lethbridge on post traumatic stress in horses.

20 May 2025

FREE WEBINAR

Understand Horses presents a free webinar with welfare trailblazer Amanda Stoddart-West and social scientist Dr Tamzin Furtado on the role of equine welfare stewards and how you can optimise horse wellbeing at equine events.

9-10 August 2025

NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY

Understand Horses Live is two days of lectures, practical demos & workshops on horse behaviour, training, physiology, equine science and welfare. An international panel of experts - equine behaviour consultants, academics, vets, physios and trainers - will lecture on a variety of fascinating subjects on Saturday, then present practical demos and workshops with the horses based at NTU Brackenhurst on Sunday.

20 September

INSTRUCTOR-LED ONLINE COURSE

Equine behaviourist and trainer Trudi Dempsey hosts this unique online coaching course. You will have access to 6 weeks of learning – including 3 training challenges, video lessons, live Zoom sessions, group discussions in a dedicated forum, weekly training tips, downloads, training plans and coaching with individual feedback on your training videos to help you get started and fine tune your clicker training.

20 September 2025

INSTRUCTOR-LED ONLINE COURSE

Would you like to become an accredited Trauma-Informed Horse Trainer? This accredited certificate course, from neuroscientist and equine behaviour consultant Dr Emma Lethbridge, examines how fear and trauma can affect the horse and how to resolve the resulting problems in a compassionate and welfare-focused way. You will benefit from a thorough understanding of how horses think and behave if they are frightened or traumatised as well as learning the practical skills necessary to train and handle horses more effectively.