The Original DVD Lessons Are Now Mini Courses

Some favorite images from the original lessons.

DVDs are a thing of the past. Netflix recognized that a while back when they stopped shipping out DVDS. I recognized it, as well, but I’ve been slower to do anything about it. It took me over ten years to complete all eighteen of the original DVD Lessons. The first four were made in the era of camcorders and VHS tapes. It took me a while to join the modern digital world and convert them to DVDs. And now technology has changed again, and I am still playing catch up.

But catching up is exactly what I am doing. I am converting the DVD Lessons to On-line Mini Courses. Lessons 1 through 5 are now available on-line. Go to my web site: theclickercenter.com to learn more. You’ll find the lessons in the DVD section, but now they are available as mini courses which you access on-line.

Why am I bothering to convert these DVDS? I could have let them go the way of the dinosaurs and become extinct. After all, I’ve continued to add new material. I’ve got the original on-line course, the on-line clinics, an updated version of my book, “The Click That Teaches: A step by Step Guide in Pictures“, and my newest book, “Modern Horse Training“. I can well understand someone thinking that enough is enough. “Why do we need these older lessons when there is all this new material?”

The answer sits in the training mantra: “It is always a study of one.”

Horses are complex. They are individuals. Every horse I work with teaches me something.

One lesson I haven’t learned is always have a camera running. You never know when a horse is going to show you something important that needs to be shared. Every time I fail to video an interesting session, I always think of the old fish stories about the “big one that got away”.

But every now and then I get lucky. I have the camera running. The battery doesn’t run out, and the horse teaches us something important. Those lessons don’t become outdated. They are as instructive now as they were when they first came out.

Does that mean nothing has changed over the twenty-five plus years since the first video lesson was made? Absolutely not. The horses have been showing me how to teach better. I’m not just transferring the original lessons onto a streaming platform. I’ve added new material. Each lesson includes updates to the handling and new video that helps you understand the concepts I’m discussing.

The streaming platform means I can break the original two hour DVD lessons into shorter, more digestible segments. Shorter clips fit into our busy lives, and they also make it easier to find segments you want to refer back to.

The streaming platform lets me combine video with text. When a clip needs some background information to make it clearer, I’ve added new material. I haven’t just converted the original lessons. These are fresh, updated mini courses.

Over the next couple of days I’ll share with you what each of the new mini courses covers. If you can’t wait, visit my web site: theclickercenter.com. You’ll find the new mini courses in the DVD section of the Shop.

Enjoy!

The first five DVD Lessons are now available on-line as mini courses.

Kenyon Gets Some Bad News

Kenyon Bear’s Christmas


Book Four in The Kenyon Bear Series of Children’s Books

Written by Alexandra Kurland
With Drawings by Christa Culbert

The story begins with some grim news. The shop owner tells Kenyon that she is going to retire and close the shop right after Christmas.

Kenyon Bear’s Christmas is an illustrated chapter book. It is a perfect story to share with young children as they count down the days before Christmas.

To learn more about all the Kenyon Bear Books visit the Bear Hollow Press section of my web site: theclickercenter.com

Or find them on Amazon.

Kenyon Bear’s Christmas

Kenyon Bear’s Christmas begins at this time of the year, just before Halloween.

Share the story with all your young readers.

Learn more at:
theclickercenter.com

Or find it on Amazon along with all the other Kenyon Bear Books

Writers Write

It’s the old question – if you were stranded on a desert island what three things would you want to take with you?


Here’s my answer:

  1. A horse, of course.
  2. A very thick notebook.
  3. A very reliable pen.

With those three things I could be very happy. I would never be bored. Writers write and I am a writer. I always have been. Until very recently, the books you knew me by were training books for horses. But long before I wrote my first training book, “Clicker Training for your Horse”, I was writing children’s books. Three of them, the first in the Kenyon Bear Series were published in the late 1980’s. Then my life took a turn when I started to explore clicker training. I became fully absorbed in developing clicker training for horses.

For me writing about horses began with my personal training journals. For years I recorded every training session, every visit. I have stacks of notebooks recording the daily lessons. Those lessons weren’t so much what I was teaching my horses, but what I was learning from them.

Out of that grew the books, DVDs, blog posts, on-line courses, podcasts, conference presentations, etc. that you know me by today. That’s been a journey that has stretched over decades. I put the publication of children’s books on hold. My time and energy had to go towards clicker training. Horses need an alternative to the force-based, command-based methods that is the norm in the horse world. But I never stopped writing children’s books.

There are two more books in the Kenyon Bear Series. The next one will be published this fall. And then there is a new series which I am so eager to share. I’ll save the details of that for another time.

Over those decades many things have changed. When I wrote the first of the horse books, “Clicker Training for your Horse”, I always thought of it as my “space beacon”. “I’m here. Is anybody else out there who thinks about horses the way I do?”

It turns out there are a lot of people out there. They have helped spread clicker training around the planet.

The need is still great, but with more voices speaking out for horses, I can indulge in doing what writers do. They write.

And thanks to changes in the way books are printed and distributed, I can share what I write with you.

So I have just published the third book in the Kenyon Bear Series: Sara’s Story – The Bear Nobody Wanted.

It is a book to be shared with the young readers in your life. It’s a chapter book with pictures. It is a great bed time story to read aloud to the little ones in your life. It is a book your young readers will treasure and read over and over again as they grow up.


It is filled with laughter, with fun, with scary times, with friends discovered, with adventures, with daring rescues and a happy, though bittersweet ending.


Sara’s Story is a perfect book for the summertime holidays. Keep your young readers reading with the Kenyon Bear Chapter Books.

To Learn More visit my web site: theclickercenter.com

You’ll find all three of the Kenyon Books there.

You can also order them through Amazon which saves on your shipping cost.
If you order through Amazon, do please leave a five star review. Your good reviews help others find the books.

It’s Publication Day

Sara’s Story – The Bear Nobody Wanted
The Third Book in the Kenyon Bear Series

Don’t be left out! Get your copy today and join the celebration!

School is out.

Keep your young readers reading through the summer with Sara’s Story and the other Kenyon Bear Books.

Sara’s Story is filled with fun,

With Adventures,

With Scary Times,

With daring rescues,

With friendship,

And with a happy, though bittersweet, ending.

Give the gift of reading to the young readers in your life.

Visit my web site: theclickercenter.com to learn more about my new book: Sara’s Story, The bear Nobody Wanted and the rest of the Kenyon Bear Books. You can order it through my web site or from Amazon.

Sara’s Story – The Bear Nobody Wanted is available in:
Paperback Edition 97 pages
Hardcover 99 pages

Exciting News!!!

What’s got all these tails wagging?

Exciting News!!

Tomorrow, June 30 2024, is PUBLICATION DAY

The wait is almost over for the best read of the summer.

Sara’s Story – The Bear Nobody Wanted
The Third Book in the Kenyon Bear Series

Give the gift of reading to the young readers in your life.

Visit my web site: theclickercenter.com to learn more about my new book: Sara’s Story, The bear Nobody Wanted and the rest of the Kenyon Bear Books. You can order it through my web site and after June 30, 2024 from Amazon.

So Exciting!!

The Countdown Continues!
Just 2 Days to Publication!!

Sara’s Story – The Bear Nobody Wanted
Publication Day is June 30, 2024.

Available in hardcover and in paperback.

Give the gift of reading to the young readers in your life.

Visit my web site: theclickercenter.com to learn more about my new book: Sara’s Story, The bear Nobody Wanted and the rest of the Kenyon Bear Books. You can order it now through my web site. If you want to order it through Amazon, you will have to wait until June 30.

The Countdown Has Begun!

It is only 3 Days to the best read of the summer!
“Sara’s Story – The Bear Nobody Wanted”
The third book in the Kenyon Bear Series
Available June 30, 2024.
Join the fun!

Join the Celebration!

Publication Day is June 30, 2024.

Give the gift of reading to the young readers in your life.

Visit my web site: theclickercenter.com to learn more about my new book: Sara’s Story, The bear Nobody Wanted and the rest of the Kenyon Bear Books. You can order it through my web site or from Amazon.

Perfect Summertime Reading!

Sara’s Story – The Bear Nobody Wanted.
Sara’s Story is the third book in the Kenyon Bear series.

School is out.
It’s time to play! Time to have fun! And it’s time to READ!
Keep your young readers reading with Sara’s Story.

Whether it is that favorite story you read to them as they are falling asleep at night, or that much loved chapter book they keep tucked under their pillow, Sara’s Story is sure to delight.

It is filled with laughter,

Scary Times,

Adventure,

Daring Rescues,

Friendship,

And a happy, though bittersweet, ending.

Publication Day is June 30, 2024.
Give the gift of reading to the young readers in your life.

Visit my web site: theclickercenter.com to learn more about my new book: Sara’s Story, The bear Nobody Wanted and the rest of the Kenyon Bear Books. You can order it now through my web site. If you want to order it through Amazon, you will have to wait until Publication Day: June 30, 2024.