Connection Training Clinic
9am - 12pm | May 18th, 2025 | Peachy Ranch, Tumacácori, AZ
What is Connection Training?
Connection Training was founded 12 years ago in the UK and is now the largest online community in the world for positive horse training. The program is designed to enhance the bond between horses and their handlers through gentle, reward-based methods to foster trust and cooperation. It focuses on soft, horse-friendly approaches that prioritize the horse's emotional well-being. The goal is to cultivate positive emotions such as relaxation, confidence, and willingness by rewarding desired behaviors, most often with food. The food is given immediately after a desired behavior is performed, which increases the likelihood of that behavior being repeated.
A collaborative, trusting relationship with your horse without the use of dominance.
Working with your horse to be fun and joyful instead of stressful and frustrating.
To solve a specific behavioral problem without using aversive pressure or force.
To train new skills or behaviors yourself without relying on a trainer.
To learn how to use positive reinforcement without creating unintended tension, anxiety, or pushiness around food.
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What You Will Learn
Emotional Balance: Ensuring your horse maintains an optimal balance between motivation and relaxation during training, riding, and other activities.
Connection: Learning how to create and maintain connection between you and your horse even in stressful, highly stimulating environments.
Cooperative Care: Helping your horse become willing to engage in necessary activities they may not understand or like (e.g. injections, bathing, hoof care, trailer loading, tying, etc.)
Problem-Solving: Addressing specific behavioral issues with positive solutions (e.g. separation anxiety, spookiness, head shyness, planting, barging etc.)
Your Coach
Sharen Ross is a certified Connection Training Coach and a certified Trauma-Informed Horse Trainer. with 20 years of hands-on experience in owning, riding, and training horses. For the past 8 years, Sharen has developed a passion for working with wild mustangs using LIMA (Least Intrusive, Minimally Aversive) and positive reinforcement training methods. Today, Sharen cares for four formerly wild mustangs and a burro, all from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and each at different stages in their training and acclimation to the human world. She provides online coaching services to clients worldwide and in-person in the Phoenix area of Arizona. Sharen’s professional career over the past two decades has been in senior roles at organizations that provide evidence-based behavioral coaching and behavioral health services, grounded in the same learning theory used in horse training.
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$75 to participate with your horse
$25 to audit the clinic
$60 for private lesson
Please bring your own waist bag. Clickers and target sticks will be available for use. There will also be a selection of grass pellets, hay cubes and long-stem hay. We will not be using processed horse treats, carrots or apples for the training. If your horse has specific dietary restrictions, please let us know in advance so we can plan accordingly.