I'd like to get present with him and actually feel him.
I've been noticing what I'm always noticing while someone's talking to him what's going on.
When you said you had him going away even the first time, I've seen him come up
and I think because no one spent any time with him and then certainly the second
yard, that was a biggie and obviously, he's come back and it's obviously been too much but
he's started to settle in. Very interesting watching him because he's in his own space.
Now normally when we're standing outside, they're like,
you know, he's come for a little bit but actually 80 percent of the time he's been in his own space
and already that shows quite a lot about his character and he feels quite alone to me. So it'd
be quite nice to see what happens when I start bringing his mind down, you know, how he responds
what the result is and what I can feel through that process.
There's so much that can happen by asking someone to be peaceful.
If somebody asks you to be peaceful and you say well, I can't, remember I just lost my job and I've just done
this so you get to feel everything. So I think this will be a really good start.
I'm going to put a head collar on him and just so that food isn't something to be distracted by.
I'm holding a head collar and his first response to that is to move away.
Right away. I mean he couldn't get his head further away from where I am so
I know I've got his attention so I'm going to get present now
but already I can really feel what his interaction with people is.
He's quite a long way away from here. Yeah, yeah. So I'm going to get present I think he's reacting to
the camera as well. Yeah, yeah, it is there but again, normally that would be of an interest.
And he's certainly not afraid of that any more. And he was absolutely terrified before.
So I'm just going to work with him on this level-
And there's frustration as well. So me holding this, that whole visual of a bloke with a head collar
is something he's not quite okay with so I'm going to get present because I've got his awareness,
we'll help him relax a bit and then we can just bring that approach because there's no point
me bringing his mind up, for me only to work on bringing it down.
So I know for the Trust Technique to work, I just need the animals
to be aware of me. He's certainly aware of me and already he's
already processing. His ears slightly back, he's having to rest his back leg.
And he's starting to go soft. Only a couple of minutes. I tend to get present for about 30 seconds
to a minute, have a little breather, very slowly look and see where he's at, you know, where
is he at the moment? Well, he seems to be quite relaxed. I'd say that he's thinking levels on four
going down to three, his head's dropping. So I get present again and I know that what
I'm doing here is an accumulative effect. If I was really focused, it would be too much hard work.
So it's just a minute or 30 seconds. So I'll go onto the third time now.
He's nice and relaxed.
I'll put an invite. This time, third time, he's come to say hello. Lovely. So that shows me
his willingness to get close to someone. So the first time he changed the subject,
second time he stayed still, third time he actually went okay I'll meet you and started licking
after, which is accepting my feeling and, you know, luckily my feeling is nice and peaceful.
So the Trust Technique works with present moment, keeping his mind peaceful and quiet and then an
action. That action's me coming up to him and stroking him with a head collar in my hand.
Fantastic. If he shows any sign of coming up from being peaceful then I'll just get present, help
him to be peaceful and I think this is really lovely to see because one it's showing you pace
and two it doesn't matter what that action is. If that's riding him,
if it's helping him to walk over poles or if it's helping him to
be brushed or whatever it is, you can actually just do an action and then calm him down,
an action, calm him down so I'm basically saying you can be peaceful when somebody walks up to you
with a head collar
and strokes you.
Now, whatever he does, I'd like you to keep still, listen to a sound and feel a touch.
It's so natural that one of our first things that we want to do but it's actually a thinking level
so what's happened is he's come over with a quite high level of thinking and you've joined him
and I need you to be the rock, I need you to be the non-reactive person and it's so easy to go
but to move your body, to scratch that way is a level of thinking right and actually,
we want to keep him down the whole time. Everyone's going to start dropping now.
We're in a facility where there's a lot of horses aware of what we're doing.
I love it.
So what I'm looking for here is that there will be a lot of licking, I hope he's going
to start yawning soon, which is letting go of some of this. Brilliant, I know exactly
how we can bring all of this to the surface without it being over the top, walking up to him with a head collar.
Fantastic, going and stroking him. The last time I just stroked him, you can really see his character
again, you can see his insecurities, not quite ready for that. So I'm going to get present again.
Shall I move away? No, no, you can come here, that's great.
Lovely and again, this time stepping towards him, he wants to show me. Notice that he's not
pushing into me, he's much more listening, he arcs round, notices my space I don't have to touch
him. Just be with him but again he's back in that process so I know that just this is so important for him.
They're all spaced out aren't they- they've all gone down!
They've all gone there.
You know, if they're all paying attention they will know that we're up to something
so they're going to feel that.