What is the second generation of natural horsemanship trainers producing?

The second generation of natural horsemanship trainers — those who developed their horsemanship within the movement rather than before it, who learned from the first-generation pioneers rather than from the traditional approaches those pioneers were reacting against — is producing a diverse range of work that reflects both the movement's genuine achievements and the limitations that its next evolution is working to address. In the Dorrance-Hunt-Brannaman lineage, the second generation includes practitioners who studied extensively with Brannaman and who carry the tradition's philosophical depth into their own clinic work — maintaining the feel-based, horse-thought-centered approach that distinguishes this lineage from more exercise-based natural horsemanship. In the Parelli tradition, second-generation practitioners who completed the full levels program and instructor certification are teaching the system with varying degrees of attention to the genuine feel development that the program's founder intended alongside the exercise structure that makes the program teachable. The most interesting second-generation development is the cross-pollination between traditions — practitioners who studied in one natural horsemanship lineage, found its limits, and developed their approach by drawing from multiple traditions and from behavioral science in ways that the first generation's more ideological boundaries did not allow. Warwick Schiller represents this kind of second-generation evolution most visibly — developing his horsemanship within the Clinton Anderson tradition and then moving beyond it through honest engagement with its limitations and with frameworks outside the natural horsemanship tradition entirely. The second generation is also producing more written and digital content than the first — the podcast, YouTube, and online platform format has allowed practitioners to document and disseminate their thinking in depth and at scale in ways that the clinic-only tradition of the first generation could not achieve.