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HHH Facilitator Training — Available Online to US Students
Love horses and helping people?
Train as a Horses Helping Humans facilitator and learn how to deliver a structured communication program that changes lives.
Deliver an award-winning communication and body language program built on 20 years of professional horsemanship. Available online to US students for the first time.
Trademark certified
Award-winning program
20 years of outcomes
built on professional horsemanship
structured assessment
Every facilitator and program horse is formally assessed before licensing.
PROFESSIONAL HORSEMANSHIP
Ground skills are taught and assessed to a documented standard — not a generalized framework.
INDEPENDENT HORSEMANSHIP ASSESSOR
Horsemanship is assessed by Mandy Probyn, an accredited Level 3 Equestrian Coach and Natural Horsemanship Clinician.
Designed for safety
Working with children checks, first aid, insurance, risk controls, and approved facilities are all required.
Built on professional horsemanship
Horses Helping Humans is an award-winning, outcomes-based communication and body language program.
The foundation of the program is professional horsemanship, using proven ground skills to teach calm assertiveness, self-awareness, emotional regulation, and respectful communication. There is no riding. All work is conducted on the ground.
HHH is not therapy, counseling, psychology, or a medical treatment. It is an educational communication and body language program delivered through structured horsemanship-based learning.
Safety is the Foundation
HHH has maintained extremely high safety standards around professional horsemanship — essential when working with participants who may have little or no horse experience. The program is structured, carefully assessed, and designed to protect both the participant and the horse.
Facilitators are assessed against program training, ground skill qualifications, youth experience, working with children checks, first aid, insurance, risk controls, suitable program horses, safe facilities, and correct delivery of the HHH program.
THE FOUNDATION OF THE PROGRAM
"The horses do not lie. They respond to what your body is actually doing — not what you intend. That is what makes the program work."
Sue Spence — Founder, Horses Helping Humans Australia
Real horsemanship. Specific ground skills. A structured framework you can teach.
HHH is built on a specific set of ground skills — not a generalised approach to "working with horses." Each task was selected because it produces observable, teachable moments in temperament, body language, and emotional regulation. As a facilitator, you learn to see what the horse is responding to, name it, and use it to help your participants understand themselves.
Why the horse responds to your body, not your intention
Horses read energy, posture, and breath before they read instruction. The HHH program uses this to teach participants something no classroom can: the gap between what you intend to communicate and what your body is actually saying. Breathing and body awareness are built into every session — not as add-ons, but as the mechanism by which participants feel the difference in real time.
Meet THE Founder
A lifetime with horses, decades helping people.
Founded by Sue Spence, Horses Helping Humans was developed from a lifetime of working with horses and people. Sue's unique ability to read body language, temperament, and communication patterns has shaped a structured program that helps participants build confidence, emotional regulation, and respectful communication.
Sue brings a lifetime of horse experience, professional horsemanship knowledge, and a Diploma of Child, Youth and Family Intervention to the development and delivery of the HHH program. She has presented to Master of Psychology cohort students and has worked alongside university internship programs to demonstrate the HHH approach to communication, emotional regulation, and body language.
Her work has documented outcomes across youth services, corporate teams, veterans, community organizations, and support settings — and has been featured on TVNZ, The Project, Sunrise, ABC Radio and the Sydney Morning Herald.
"I built this program because I know firsthand what horses can do. I want to give others the skills to share that."
Sue Spence
Diploma of Child, Youth and Family Intervention
lifetime horsemanship background
Griffith university partner
published author
Recognition
Awards and acknowledgment for two decades of work.
2022
McPherson Community Achiever Award
2021
Gold Coast Women in Business — Finalist, Business Adaptation & Ingenuity; Merit Achievement
2018
Heart of Woman Awards – Youth & Children's Services
2014
Gold Coast Women in Business – Community Dedication
2016
Gold Coast Business Woman of the Year – Creating Change
AS FEATURED IN
THE PROJECT
ABC RADIO
SMH
SUNRISE
TVNZ
The training pathway
A rigorous, internationally accessible training pathway.
Everything you need to train as a Horses Helping Humans facilitator — the framework, the ground skills, the safety standards, and assessment against a documented program built on 20+ years of outcomes. The program is Queensland-based with a full online pathway available to US students.
If you already have a high level of horsemanship, have spent years attending clinics, and have a calm, responsive horse, you may already have the foundation needed to deliver this program. Experienced horse people and their horses are often well positioned to move through the HHH training pathway quickly, because the foundation of the program is safe, respectful, professional groundwork.
DELIVERY
Online — available to international students
IN-PERSON PRACTICAL
Queensland, Australia (scheduled intensives)
Accreditation
Certified trademark licence
HORSEMANSHIP ASSESSMENT
Assessed by Mandy Probyn — accredited Level 3 Equestrian Coach
ONGOING Support
Facilitator community post-certification
Supported by testimonials from clinical psychologists, educators, and community professionals.
"Using the techniques from the Horses Helping Humans program, I was able to present a $100 million charitable foundation proposal to the Westpac Executive Team and Board — projecting the confident, non-reactive body language that enabled me to be taken seriously in that room."
Peter Hanlan
Former Group Executive and Advisor to the CEO, Westpac
Corporate — High-stakes leadership
Laura, 16
Participant
"Under Sue’s guidance I learned how to stand strong and be assertive. She taught me how to relax and control my emotions and as soon as I felt strong and confident Yogi did what I asked… and that made me feel great!"
Graduate
Mark Edmondson
International Speaker & Former Rugby League Player
"I have been coaching for many years and had great results with my clients but your program really added the evidence to everything I believe in.
Everyone would benefit from your work massively in every way."
INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER
From graduates and referrers
Who's it for
Is this training right for you?
Experienced horse people and their horses are often well positioned to move through HHH quickly — but the program welcomes anyone willing to learn. As a trained HHH facilitator you can deliver structured workshops that help participants with:
Anxiety
Anger
Self-esteem
Confidence
Respect
Veterans and first responders
Corporate trainers and coaches
Horse industry professionals seeking a new purpose
Social workers and counsellors
Youth workers and counsellors
Career changers with a love of horses
US and international enquiries welcome
Ready to get started?
Sue personally responds to all US and international enquiries. Tell us about your context and she'll reach out within 2 business days (Australian Eastern Time).
20+
Years of documented outcomes
5K+
Certified facilitators worldwide
30K+
Lives impacted across 4 countries