How does Warwick Schiller's approach compare to Clinton Anderson's?

Warwick Schiller and Clinton Anderson represent different generations and different philosophical directions within Australian-influenced natural horsemanship, with Schiller's evolution away from the respect-focused, exercise-based approach that Anderson epitomizes representing one of the most significant philosophical divergences within contemporary natural horsemanship. Anderson's approach prioritizes the horse's behavioral compliance and the handler's safety, using systematic exercise to develop the horse's responsiveness and respect, with the horse's emotional state addressed primarily through desensitization rather than through connection or emotional regulation work. Schiller began his career in an approach substantially similar to Anderson's and has explicitly moved away from it, describing his evolution as a recognition that compliance-focused training was producing horses that were behaviorally correct but emotionally distressed — and that the training framework he had inherited did not have adequate language or tools for addressing the emotional dimension of the horse's experience. The specific differences include Schiller's rejection of exercise quantity as a primary training tool — where Anderson uses repetition and sustained exercise to develop respect and responsiveness, Schiller has moved toward less exercise and more connection-building — and his emphasis on the horse's emotional regulation and ability to seek connection as primary training goals rather than the behavioral markers of respect that Anderson emphasizes. Anderson's approach has been relatively stable across his career, consistently emphasizing safety and respect as the foundational values, while Schiller's has undergone a public, documented evolution that has itself become a significant contribution to the natural horsemanship discourse. Both have built large audiences, but they reach somewhat different populations — Anderson primarily reaching safety-focused recreational riders, Schiller reaching a broader and more philosophically inclined audience that includes many riders who have already engaged with conventional natural horsemanship and are looking for something that addresses what they feel it has missed.