THE fundamentals for the safest, quickest most effective equine training relies on the understanding and implementation of equine body language, equine social behaviour, equine learning theory and scientifically proven humane training techniques (what good horsemen have worked out themselves).

Humane training techniques include habituation, systematic desensitisation and shaping. Systematic desensitisation, often called graded exposure in human psychology, is based on the learning process habituation - the decline of an innate response to a frequently repeated stimulus in a humane, gradual process. Shaping is a training technique whereby each step toward an end goal is reinforced by reward.