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Instructions for this course

• Fillin' In The Gaps- Groundwork Style

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Welcome to the course!

• A message from your instructor
• Tools

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Important Principles and Theories

• Finding A Starting Point
• Methods of Training
• Self Control
• Make The Right Thing Easy
• Cues, Escalation of Pressure and The 3 Second Rule
• Balance
• Fight, Flight, Freeze
• Hot Horses
• Cold/Lazy Horses
• Calming and Stress Signals

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The Roundpen

• Exercise #1: Establish Direction & Relaxation (Turtle)
• Exercise #1: Establish Direction and Relaxation (Monkey)
• Exercise # 2: Transitions
• More On Transitions
• Lesson 3: Changes of Direction
• Lesson 4: The Follow
• Tips-Lazy Horse
• Tips-Relaxation
• Tips-Feel
• Mental Pictures

5

Working Online

• Lesson 5: Part I- The Send
• Part II- The Circle

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Backing

• Backing