Enclosed some impression pictures (from Nina Bien) from two lectures I gave in The Netherlands. One was in Nistelrode, organiser was Irene Smeets from Kings-Crossing. The other was in Bemelen, Carin Breukers- Les2Chevaux was the one inviting me there. Thank you Irene and Carin!  In the coming months there will

Iris Starnberger has started the New Year productively. Apart from her regular work at her own company “Zuckerbrot”, she has also translated two of my communication ladders into German.  If you want to use these ladders, they can be downloaded copyright-free from my website at  Downloads In the chapter down

I feel very grateful to Horsemanship Journal and Theresa McCaffrey for making such an amazing podcast. Topic: Calming signals of Horses. What a beautiful narrative performance of Sarah Jane Rose Https://www.horsemanship-journal.com/horsemanship-audio

With a big thank you to Susanna Hämäläinen and Nina Mäki-Kihniä for your efforts and perfectionism to find the exact right Finnish words, and ofcourse my publisher CRC Press, two of my communication ladders are translated into Finnish. The two communication ladders are ‘Fight-Flight’ and ‘Recovery after Tension and Shock’.

Thank you  Suzanne Rogers from Learning about animals for inviting me to lecture on Calming signals and language signs of horses and equine mental stimulation and scentwork. It was exciting to be able to share my findings on equine scentwork. What a great audience. I loved your enthusiasm and eagerness

I feel so privileged being able to share the knowledge of my study, meet people and travel. Last weekend was no exception to that, when I was invited to lecture at Pori Finland. Initiator was Susanna Hämäläinen, organiser was Satakunta University of Applied Sciences (SAMK University) by Hanna Tuominen. The

Do you want to reproduce and use my communication ladders? You can now download two of them for free from my site. These are the communication ladders ‘Fight-Flight’ and ‘Recovery after Tension and Shock’.Just go to the sub header Downloads. There you will also find some background information and tips

Time to look back on two wonderful weekends in March in Austria and Sweden. Both weekends was a  Rach(a)el’s on tour combination, at which  Rachel Bedingfield lectured on Emotions the Saturday and I would lecture on Calming Signals of horses the Sunday. Thank you to all attendants for the indepth

………..One……….Two………..Smile! Emotions and Calming signals, they do make a wonderful match. Back from a lecture in Manchester where I met so many wonderful people. Loved the questions, open atmosphere and conversations. I am so happy that the knowledge on Emotions and the Calming signals of are finding a place in

“What a privilege to enthuse people on the Calming Signals of horses. Duffel Belgium, were I gave a lecture last Sunday was no exception.  The attendants were involved, asking questions. And during breaks there was time to get to know some people attending. Many thanks to organiser Inge Teblick and

  A royal award: the King’s medal of Exceptional Merit in Norway from H.M. King Harald for my teacher Turid Rugaas. To honour her work and dedication to dogs over the past 40 years. It is so well deserved! So many years of hard work and dedication to better the