Horse Boy Certification

Training for parents, professionals, and volunteers.

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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