In today’s podcast we discuss the power of giving a pause. It’s something both Kate and Becky have been introducing to our training with the horses. Becky uses the pause in a slightly different way when training Squawk her rescue African Grey as he is bonded to her husband and when the daylight changes this can offer hormone challenges. The passive pause is used with the horses at the beginning of the training session and in between each separate behaviour being trained (unless you are chaining ). The passive pause has been so valuable for creating calmness in the training and some valuable processing time for both human learner and horse learner. We have introduced it successfully with Rum, and Kate has been introducing the passive pause successfully with the Conquest Horses, videos of this training can be found on our Patreon members page: Little Green Stables. We recorded this podcast before our interview with the fantastic Trudi Dempsey, and decided to publish after our podcast with Trudi went out, so please bare in mind the time lag. We hope you are enjoying our podcast and if you are, please share, like and subscribe. You can follow Kate and Becky on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partnerships and Little Green Stables. We would love to meet you in our members club over on Patreon: Little Green Stables.
