April 2, 2025 
From its inception, #WeRideTogether has been firm about the fact that safeguarding sports is everyone’s responsibility. Now, a free online course is helping to bring the organization’s message to a global equestrian audience.
In partnership with the FEI, #WeRideTogether has created an online safeguarding training course designed to discuss best practices, empower participants with free resources, and explain why keeping sports safe isn’t just the responsibility of coaches and athletes, but every member of the athletic community.
“We all have a role to play in making sports safer and healthier for athletes, and #WeRideTogether applauds the FEI’s dedication to safe, healthy equestrian sport,” says Michaela Callie, Executive Director of #WeRideTogether and co-author of the course.
Free and available through the FEI Campus, the course targets all members of the equestrian community, from athletes, coaches, parents, and grooms to officials, administrators, and volunteers. It takes approximately 90-minutes to complete and is currently available in English, though it will be translated into other languages throughout 2025.
Featuring #WeRideTogether’s award-winning PSAs and educational graphics, the course includes short quizzes at the end of each section to engage viewers and cultivate learning and awareness.
The goal? Understanding how we can all protect and empower ourselves and our athletic communities by learning to recognize misconduct and abuse in sport, and comprehending how and why it occurs. The course also includes guides for safe, active bystander intervention, as well as how and where to respond to reports of abuse and misconduct.
That’s important, because the numbers don’t lie.
Abuse can happen to anyone, any time. More than 50% of athletes will experience abuse in sports at some time in their athletic careers and 90% of victims know their abusers—something that makes prevention education even more important.
With this new partnership, #WeRideTogether takes a significant step forward in its mission to bring prevention tools and awareness in equestrian sports to a much broader stage.
Since 1921, the FEI has been the sole, international governing body for the Olympic disciplines and beyond (think: dressage and para-dressage, jumping, eventing, driving and para-driving, endurance, vaulting, reining and para-equestrian). Not only does the organization establish regulations and approve programs for equestrian competitions at the regional level up to Olympic championships, it works to safeguard the welfare of horses and protect the integrity of equestrian sports, as a whole.
That last bit of the mission is something that the FEI and #WeRideTogether have in common.
Says Callie, “As an International Federation, the FEI is taking the initiative to proactively empower and inform equestrian communities around the world with safeguarding education, which promotes sustainable sport.”
Learn more and take WRT’s free “Safeguarding: Protecting Participants in Equestrian Sport against Harassment and Abuse” course on FEI Campus.
