Lecture Day

8.45am – 5.30pm

A full day of lectures packed with information on a wide range of subjects.

Trudi Dempsey
Emma Lethbridge
Justine Harrison
Roxane Kirton

plus more presenters to be announced

Practical Day

8.45am – 5pm

A full day of demos and training workshops on a wide range of practical subjects.

Trudi Dempsey
Justine Harrison
Holly Gallacher
Roxane Kirton
Rosa Verwijs

plus more presenters to be announced

Trudi is a Certified Equine Behaviour Consultant with the IAABC and a member of their Application Review Committee. She is also an Accredited Animal Behaviourist with the ABTC offering in-person and online consultations. Trudi has been offering her own unique blend of classical dressage and positive reinforcement since the ’90s. She specialises in developing behaviour change by creating low stress learning environments. Trudi presents clinics, talks, and workshops in person throughout the UK and webinars and courses online around the world. She contributes to Your Horse magazine and the peer reviewed IAABC Journal. She hosts the behaviour and training podcast ‘Lead a Horse to Water’.

On-Demand Courses

AN INTRODUCTION TO TRAINING HORSES WITH FOOD

HOW TO CREATE A SUCCESSFUL TRAINING PLAN

TRAIN YOUR HORSE TO: WAIT

UNDERSTAND HORSES LIVE 2022

WHEN POSITIVE BECOMES TOXIC

Instructor-Led Course

UNDERSTAND CLICKER TRAINING FOR HORSES

Justine is the founder of Understand Horses and has been practicing as a horse behaviour consultant since 2007. She is a Certified Equine Behaviour Consultant with the IAABC, the organisation’s UK Co-Chair and a member of the Application Review Committee. She is also a registered Accredited Animal Behaviourist and Trustee of the Animal Behaviour & Training Council. Justine is a visiting lecturer on the BSc (Hons) Equine Behavioural Science degree at ARU Writtle (formerly Writtle University College) and also acts as an expert consultant in court cases involving equine behaviour.  She holds lectures and workshops around the UK and regularly contributes to a wide variety of international publications – either writing articles, commenting or answering specific questions about horse behaviour and training.

On-Demand Courses

UNDERSTAND EQUINE BODY LANGUAGE

UNDERSTAND HORSE BEHAVIOUR

UNDERSTAND HORSES LIVE 2022

Instructor-Led Course

HORSE BEHAVIOUR CONSULTING MENTORSHIP

Part neuroscientist, part horse fanatic, Emma is fascinated by the equine brain and how horses perceive and respond to their world. Emma has 32 years’ experience with horses, having been lucky enough to have been riding since she was four and to have had four wonderful family horses since the age of 12. Emma has studied horses to master’s level, read a degree in neuroscience and obtained a PhD in neuropsychology; she has also ridden in affiliated competitions, worked on professional yards, directed an equine learning centre, taught riding, helped many people with their horse’s behaviour and, more importantly than all of that combined, she has come to love equines not for what they can do for us, but for the wonderful creatures they are in their own right.

On-Demand Courses

GREY MATTERS! UNDERSTANDING THE EQUINE BRAIN

WORKING WITH FEAR AND TRAUMA IN HORSES

Instructor-Led Course

TRAUMA-INFORMED HORSE TRAINING CERTIFICATE

Rosa is an International Association of Animal Behaviour Consultants (IAABC) Certified Equine Behaviour Consultant and registered with the Animal Behaviour and Training Council (ABTC) as an Accredited Animal Behaviourist. She sits on the equine committee of the ABTC and is the ABTC behaviourist representative on the British Horse Society’s Equine Health and Welfare Advisory Committee, and is a contributor on the Understand Horses online education platform. She is a Senior Lecturer in Equine Behaviour and Nutrition at ARU Writtle (formerly Writtle University College) in Essex, where she leads the BSc (Hons) Equine Behavioural Science degree, educating future generations of equine behaviourists and conducting research in equine behaviour and welfare.

On-Demand Courses

AN INTRODUCTION TO HORSE NUTRITION

UNDERSTAND HORSES LIVE 2022

Roxane Kirton BVMS MSc MRCVS is an equine vet who graduated from the University of Glasgow in 2005. She has spent most of her career working in the equine charity sector and it was the challenges of working with horses and ponies with histories of cruelty and neglect that started Roxane’s interest in equine behaviour. This led to her obtaining a MSc in Clinical Animal Behaviour with Distinction from the University of Lincoln in 2020. Her MSc research project was investigating the welfare impact of different grazing systems on outdoor living ponies. Roxane has a particular professional interest in the relationship between unwanted behaviours and physical health. In addition to continuing to work in the charity sector to improve the welfare of horses, Roxane also offers private behaviour and acupuncture consultations.

On-Demand Course

HOW CHRONIC PAIN AFFECTS BEHAVIOUR

Holly Gallacher is an Equine Veterinary Physiotherapist, registered with the National Association of Veterinary Physiotherapists (NAVP). Holly received a BSc (Hons) in Equine Science, followed by a PgDip in Veterinary Physiotherapy from Harper Adams University in 2016. She has been around horses since the age of four and owned her lovely mare Roxy (above) for over 15 years. Professionally she enjoys working both in the field with her own private clients as well as being a university lecturer and teaching the next generation. Holly is passionate about improving horse welfare and has a particular interest in the link between pain and behaviour in equines.