04/06/2026
🎉 Huge News! 🎉
I am incredibly proud to share that I have officially gained my National Development Programme for Coaching Excellence Certificate of Achievement! 🐴✨
This was a highly competitive,programme 2025/2026 run by the absolute best in our industry: RDA, British Equestrian, British Dressage, British Showjumping, The British Horse Society, British Eventing, and The Pony Club.
🤔 Who gets onto this course?
Places are strictly limited! It is designed for ambitious, established coaches (Level 3 or equivalent) with a proven track record of helping riders grow, stay motivated, and truly enjoy their equestrian journey. Being selected alongside a small group of top-tier coaches from across the UK was an absolute honour!
📋 What did we look at?
We dove deep into advanced coaching techniques:
Learning Styles:
Fine-tuning how I deliver information to match exactly how you learn best.
Facilitating the rider and looking at rider biomechanics and equine welfare and how the horse best learns.
The newest information on this filtering down from the top giving us coaches the in- depth knowledge and information to studies that have highlighted the best way forward for our industry regarding coaching and equine welfare.
Mindset & Psychology:
Looking at mental toughness, confidence, and performing under pressure.
Self-Reflection: 🤔
Critically evaluating my own coaching to deliver an even better service to you and your horse.
💡 Learning from the best.
One of the best parts was having direct access to leading experts and elite coaches and Olympiams from across the equine sector and other sporting disciplines.
This gave us an incredible space to share best practices and build a powerful network bridging dressage, showjumping, eventing etc ………🤝
And so much more 😅……….
What this means for you and your horse.
Going forward, you will see the direct benefits of this training in our sessions. I plan to take a good stance on being a non ego coach that helps facilitate my rider taking into account at all times the welfare of the horse going forward, the continued learning never stops ….
I have things planned already for later this year which I will bring to the fore front nearer the time and also for next year, for me the love of what I do to help those who choose me as their coach or schooling their horses I will continue to keep developing and keeping up to date with good industry practices.
Where do I go from here?
Learning never stops! Armed with this certification and a fantastic new network of peers, I am stepping back into the arena with fresh energy, new perspectives, and a revamped toolkit to help you reach your goals—wherever your riding journey takes you. 😊
Big shout out to all the elite coaches I had the pleasure to work along side, I look forward to continuing our journey together into the future.
British Dressage British Showjumping Riding for the Disabled Association (RDA) British Eventing Official
