Create a soft, willing, responsive horse through proven step-by-step training and personal live coaching. From safe family horses to high-level performance horses.
Choose Your JourneyTraining Thru Trust helps people understand what the horse is thinking, communicate with clarity, and build acceptance of leadership without losing willingness.
The same foundation carries from the first conversation with an untouched colt to a handy, athletic western performance horse—and into every discipline in between.
Whether you're starting your journey, solving challenges, or becoming a trusted horseman or horsewoman, there's a place for you here. We'd be honored to walk that journey with you.
These principles remain the foundation whether the goal is safety, confidence, ranch work, trail riding, colt starting, or high-level performance.
Clear, sensitive communication that establishes and maintains the pecking order while preserving willingness.
Teaching the horse how to think and stay connected through fear rather than merely tolerating frightening objects.
Helping the horse willingly yield instead of bracing, pulling back, panicking, or running through pressure.
Choose the path that matches your calling today—mastering the complete Training Thru Trust journey for your own horses, or preparing to help horses and owners professionally.
Lifetime Enrollment — $6,000
The complete path for people who want to become exceptional horsemen and horsewomen with lifetime membership and ongoing personal support.
Application Based
For people called to go beyond their own horses and develop the horsemanship, judgment, teaching ability, and character to help horses and owners professionally.
You do not have to choose a journey today. If you would like to spend some more time getting to know the Training Thru Trust approach first, explore our free trainings, eBook, and YouTube resources at your own pace.
Explore Training Thru Trust ResourcesTTT is built through real horses, real problems, live coaching, camps, ranches, arenas, trails, and the everyday decisions that shape horses and horsemen.
The goal is not to copy Doug. The goal is to learn how to read the horse, make sound decisions, and carry the principles into your own horses, discipline, and life.
These are not stock images or staged promises. They are people and horses who have grown through the Training Thru Trust process.
Bailey’s journey shows what can grow when athletic performance, confidence, leadership, and willingness are developed together.
A story of developing confidence, better judgment, leadership, and the ability to help a horse through the whole process.
Britney’s journey shows how true horsemanship begins with understanding, patience, and learning to communicate with a horse in a way that builds trust and confidence.
Doug began riding as a ranch kid, was chasing cattle through the mountains by age five, and started his first horse at eight. More than fifty years later, he is still training, teaching, questioning, learning, and allowing the horses to sharpen the system.
Training Thru Trust is the result of that lifetime—not a collection of tricks, but an organized way to understand the horse and build safe, willing, and responsive partners.
This Headquarters is the front door. Choose the journey that best fits the horseman or horsewoman you are becoming.
Choose Your Journey