Curious what I am busy doing?

(Latest work and updates first.)

Building the structure for a shared world

I’m stepping away from one-to-one coaching to build something I’ve wanted to exist for years: a digital world where people who care about The Integration can actually develop together.

What that means practically:
I’m creating the structure that will hold this community.

• The Integration Letters, where I share what I’m discovering in the barn and shed light on how classical dressage and clicker training speak the same language and are not opposites.
• A Community where members can work through their own questions and observations together.

The technical infrastructure is ready. Now I’m writing the content and developing how The Integration Letters works.

I’m aiming to open the Membership for a small cohort in 2026. Initially only in English.

Cribbing Project

One manuscript is finalised and being submitted to journals, and a second is nearly finished. These papers matter because they bring behaviour analytic approaches into veterinary science and introduce a novel approach to stereotyped behaviour.

Scientific work

My day job right now is focused on horse and donkey welfare and developing methodologies to assess positive welfare instead of just measuring absence of suffering. It turns out the questions I’m asking in the barn and the questions I’m asking at work aren’t as separate as they might seem.

Lifetime learning

I continue learning from my horses, of course, and from my Feldenkrais instructor Nathalie. There is still A LOT (!) of improvement necessary (as I realised after receiving Anja’s feedback on my riding videos).

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This is a now page, a project by Derek Sivers.
Last updated: 1 February 2026