About this episode

This episode discusses the issue of toxic teachers in the horse world and how it affects training methods.

The horse world has a major problem with toxic teachers and this is part of the reason that methods have not evolved past violence.

People in this episode

Host: Lockie Phillips

Topics covered

• horse training
• toxic teaching
• violence in training
• evolution of methods
• education in horse world

Keywords

• horse world
• toxic teachers
• training methods
• violence
• education

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: horse world, toxic teachers, violence

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