Horse Boy Certification
Training for parents, professionals, and volunteers.
Horse Boy 1: Basic Certification
Next offered: July 1-2, 2024
Introduces you to the six stages and eight guidelines of the Method and equips you to work with individual families.
Intro to Autism and Horse Boy Method theory
Sensory work
Creating the right environment for optimum brain function
Back-riding
Perspective taking, theory of mind, and rule-based games
Academics and teaching life skills through communication
Long-lining and transitions on horseback
Self-compassion
Self-advocacy
Horse Boy 2: Preparing the Back-Riding Horse
Next offered: TBD
Teaches you how to prepare and maintain the Horse Boy Horse: a horse that can create oxytocin through collected movement, both while back-riding and while in the long lines.
Theory
Lunging
Three points of resistance
Basic in-hand work
Countdown at walk and canter
Canter transitions
Obstacle course neck reining
Trail riding