Are you a horse lover looking to feel more confident and capable around horses?
Whether you're an amateur rider, horse owner, or industry professional, this course is designed to help you develop safe, compassionate, and effective horse handling skills.
Through Harmony Horsemanship’s proven SAFE techniques, you’ll learn how to understand your horse better, handle them with confidence, and respond appropriately to common situations and behaviors.
Who This Course Is For
This course is ideal for:
✅New or returning horse owners who want to feel more secure and knowledgeable.
✅Riders who want to strengthen their ground handling and care skills.
✅Equine professionals or students who want a certification to back their handling abilities
✅Anyone who wants to build a stronger partnership through calm, clear communication and safe practices
You’ll walk away feeling confident helping with everyday handling tasks and supporting horses who may be nervous or reactive — all through positive and respectful methods.
COURSE HIGHLIGHTS
✔️ Self-paced learning – Review the material at your own speed and test when you feel ready
✔️ Learn the SAFE techniques for handling and care that are Simple, Achievable, Friendly & Effective
✔️ Understand horse behavior – physical needs, mental health, thresholds, and energy levels
✔️ Handle common challenges with clarity and compassion, not conflict
✔️ Identify & respond to fear using our threshold awareness strategies
✔️ Learn basic first aid and health care for horses
✔️ Build trust and respect through groundwork and Calm Connection
✔️ Explore reinforcement methods – positive, negative, and how they differ from punishment
✔️ Gain safety skills that protect both horse and handler
✔️ Learn the foundational Calm Connection exercise "Square"
✔️Develop essential handling skills to help your horse feel comfortable with everyday care like taking temperature and deworming.
Certification Option: Become a Certified Harmony Horse Handler
Want to earn your certification? It’s optional, but a great way to validate your skills!
After completing the course content, you’ll have the opportunity to:
✅Take a multiple-choice quiz to confirm your knowledge
✅Submit a skills demonstration video showing key handling techniques
✅Complete one equine procedure, such as grooming or haltering a nervous horse
If you don’t pass on the first attempt — no worries! You’re welcome to retest when ready.
From Anxious Flight to Happy Horse
"Harmony Horsemanship has been a great help to my family. We discovered that when Belle is anxious or scared her flight reaction is extreme… she would just pull away from us and when she pulls, she would ALWAYS get away. With the help of Harmony Horsemanship…She very rarely every pulls away from us anymore. We use HH with all of our horses and it has helped tremendously…The Treat family is very grateful to Harmony Horsemanship!" Amy Treat
Positive Reinforcement Pays Off
"HH, has opened my eyes to the rewards I receive from my horses when we use positive reinforcement. I can remember Lindsay saying I was a cheap date before I started using the treat for them making an effort I wanted. I also love how it calms them when they get worried. And NO it doesn't make them pushy or bite when you do it correctly" Shirley Oulette
Handling the Pushy Horse
"...When my horse offers up certain behaviours (such as..pushiness) I know exactly which exercises to do that will help re-establish our calm connection with one another. It feels so good to train in a way that my horse chooses to be with me because it actually FEELS GOOD and not because she is scared of being punished, chased, etc if she doesn't" Risa & Izzy
Course Outline
- Handling Skills
- Equine Care Procedures
- Squeeze, Square, and Lunging
- Picking up hooves and hoof in a bucket
- Blanketing
- Spreading Eyelids
- Lowering head and Putting Fly Mask on
- Giving a Needle
- Wrapping leg in a boot
- Spray Bottle
- Student trying Foot in the bucket
- Putting Syringe in Horse's Mouth
- Twitching