Bob Allen has been teaching what some call "Horse Whispering”and "Natural Horsemanship" techniques, and it's philosophies to adults, and children, throughout the southwest by conducting educational horse training youth camps and ride safe clinics for the public for over thirty years now,.

At Bob Allen’s clinics he teaches you to understand how your horse “thinks”, so you can begin to learn to understand the mental side of your horse better, and why learning about the mental part of your horse is so important to your horse. Bob is not just teaching you techniques, he is teaching you to truly understand how your horse thinks. So you can approach your horse in a way that makes him “want” to learn, what it is that you want your horse to learn, in an easy systematic way for you and your horse.
Once you start to understand how your horses “think”, you can begin to learn how to recognize what they are thinking when you are handling, and riding them. Bob teaches you that a horse's mind is not just a lot of “mindless” reactions (you do A, and B happens). He helps you understand that your horse has a complex range of thinking processes, assessments, and decisions that are constantly taking place while you are working with your horse. I think you will be amazed as you begin to learn how to train your own horse, and especially when you start to understand the process of how your horse thinks and learns.
I have worked for a lot of old cowboys, and professional horse trainers that have worked with, and “trained” horses all of their lives. I know they never fully understood how a horse thinks, or learns, because I have personally worked for a bunch of them. The methods that they taught me, relied solely on using brute force, fear and/or repetition to train their horses, sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn’t. I think that is why you see so many “supposedly” professionally trained horses that look like they are out of their mind with fear.
I know there are a great number of “Natural Horsemanship Clinicians” out there who claim that they can teach us how to “speak horse”. Each clinician has their own version of what the natural horsemanship methods are to train your horse is. When you compare all of the natural horsemanship clinicians’ and what their approaches are, it is true, there are many common elements among all of them. It seems all natural horsemanship teachings has their own style and are only slightly different, from one another. One thing they all have in common is that they all offer a lot of information on the “how to” of their techniques, but rarely offer much information on “why natural horsemanship works” . Without the “WHY” it works side of it, you and your horses are destined to fail.
Over the years, I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve been asked “What is natural horsemanship?”, and “Why can’t get it to work for me”. I’ve also had a lot of people who have told me, “I tried so-n-so’s natural horsemanship method, and it didn’t work on my horse”, or I have had people tell me “I think the natural horsemanship methods are interesting, but my horse just doesn’t respond to them”, or in addition I have heard, “I tried the natural horsemanship methods, but my horse didn’t like them”.

After hearing all of these comments from other clinic participants, it got me to “thinking”. Then I realized that there must be a fundamental lack of understanding of the principles that are being taught and used by these natural horsemanship clinicians.
I feel the foundation of what is being labeled as “natural horsemanship” is in fact very good horsemanship. But what I am seeing is that more and more people do not understand the premise of natural horsemanship.
It is my hope that I can begin to help you understand “how” your horses are thinking and learning. I am looking to help find some answers to those comments and questions, that I have heard said about the natural horsemanship training methods most of my life.