Seminars
Reducing Reactivity
Meet and Greet Strategies
• What to do when off-leash dogs approach or attack your on-leash dog
• Handling a dog who has issues with people or other dogs in tight spaces such as city environments, apartment buildings, or vet’s offices
• Managing sudden moments when distance from people or other dogs cannot be controlled
Foundation Skills
Efficient Learning
According to a new study, both domesticated dogs and one species of wild dog do a better job than human beings and chimpanzees of ignoring bad instructions and eliminating unnecessary steps when trying to solve a problem. It’s a difference that says a lot about the social order of all of the species.
Dogs are more efficient learners than you think. In this seminar you will learn how dogs think, how to train them knowing this and what skills they actually need to live actively and easily in our human world.
Magic In Dog Training
Effective Learning
Dogs universally respond naturally to certain cues, and you can develop a personalized system of communicating with your dog for clear, accurate and timely training and handling.
YOUR thoughts and emotions have an immediate and direct effect on your dog...and you can learn to use that effect to get the results you want. Learn to stay calm, focused, neutral, deliverate and supportive at all times. This way of being with your dog is guaranteed to bring out the best in any dog, in any situation.
Nosework In Life
Living with a dog's nose
Your dog’s olfactory system is three times as big as your own, and they have a lot more relative brain area devoted only to smell.
Dogs can track time throughout the day by the odors circulating in their environment. Think of it this way: as a human, you can tell what time of day it is with visual and sensory cues from the sun.
Empowerment
Industriousness, Resilience, Creativity, Persistance
Empowerment training is about showing our dogs that the environment is something they can affect and control. Most training is about instilling control onto our dogs instead of showing them how to have self-control and understanding. .
When Training Doesn't Stick
Is it the dog or you?
We make mistakes for the following reasons:
Lack of data
Miscommunication
Change in the environment
Stress
Complexity
Our dogs make mistakes for similar reasons.
Lack of training in how to live in our world
Poor communication
Sudden Environmental Changes - dogs are contextual and live in the entire environment, it takes work to teach a dog that a trick can be performed anywhere.
Emotional Pressure
Complexity
Learn how to overcome these mistakes in your training.
