Norm Glenn

Horsemanship and training contributor

Norm Glenn is a horsemanship contributor whose biography in Adapt and Overcome places him in Victoria, Australia. He describes buying his first horse, Blaze, at thirty-two and building more than thirty years of experience with horses.

Norm studied the approaches of different trainers and developed the methods he describes through practice and observation. Patience, detail and the wish to explain a task clearly are central to the teaching perspective in his chapter.

The Knowledge, Skills, Attitude and Habits of Horse Training connects technical learning with a person's readiness to notice what is happening. Norm discusses respect, cooperation and assessment before deciding what to ask of an animal.

His contribution introduces the experience behind his approach rather than a guarantee that a reader can reproduce a particular result. It also uses horsemanship as a way to consider how confidence can develop through a better understanding of a task and the next step in learning it.