Please bring appropriate clothing for a stable yard and a packed lunch. Refreshments are available throughout both days. Please brink a packed lunch.

Pre-requisite: No prior knowledge required, just bring a notepad and pen!

Learning objectives for workshop:

Day 1:  9.30am - 5pm

Understand the mechanisms that under pin self-medication

Learn how to read responses

Learn how smell and taste are used to achieve homeostasis to restore and regain health

Understand the different routes of administration

Understand how to apply the remedies topically

Learn how plant extracts can affect physical and psychological function

Understand the origins of many equine behavioural problems 

Understand why some horses may poison themselves on ragwort or tannins

Lunch 12.20 - 1.30pm

Demonstration working with Horse 1

How a horse determines dosage and communicates route of application

3pm break

3.20 Demonstration working with Horse 2

Understand which remedies to leave for the horse to continue working with in water buckets

5pm Finish

Day 2:  9.00am - 4.30pm

Review of day 1 

Follow through working with horses form day 1

Lunch 1pm - 2pm

Understand how to work with common equine problems such as laminitis, colic, hormonal flux, wounds, respiratory, infection gut support and much more

3.20pm break

Safety

Discussion

4.30 pm Finish