page_title: Monty Roberts
section_title: Live demonstrations
hierarchical_section_title: Monty Roberts / Career / Live demonstrations
caption_attribution_description: Monty Roberts desensitizes a horse afraid of water. Photo credit: 2007 Mariska de Hoogt
context_page_description: Marvin Earl "Monty" Roberts is an American horse trainer who promotes his techniques of natural horsemanship through his Join-Up International organization, named after the core concept of his training method. Roberts believes that horses use a non-verbal language, which he terms "Equus," and that humans can use this language to communicate with horses. In order to promulgate his methods, Roberts has authored a number of books including his original best-seller, The Man Who Listens to Horses, and regularly tours with a live demonstration. He runs an Equestrian Academy in Solvang, California and an "online university" to promote his ideas.
context_section_description: Today, Roberts travels around the world, demonstrating his method of horse training to paying audiences, all well as volunteering time for audiences such as incarcerated youth in juvenile detention facilities.  An event that would change the direction of his life was an invitation in 1989 from the offices of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and an avid horsewoman. She had heard about Roberts' work and invited him to come to her country and show her staff his "Join Up" method. After watching his demonstration, Roberts claims that the Queen urged him to write a book about his nonviolent horse-training methods. That book became The Man Who Listens to Horses.
  Monty Roberts also teaches his techniques to students at his Equestrian Academy in Solvang, California and acts as a consultant at schools with disciplinary issues in the UK and the US, and advises executives at Fortune 500 companies.  He also runs the "Equus Online University" to promote his ideas.
caption: Monty Roberts doing a live demonstration.
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