NEWS January 2012
Thanks for all your feedback on the new blog and videos, this production line always appreciate knowledge of appreciation. Some of you may recognise the blog topics as they are often rooted in the workshops, where the same knotty questions pop-up. This month's new blog is about choosing the methodology, and that there are very few "rules". I certainly would not want to be thinking about embarking on a dog training career - too much choice out there, some of which is ably backed by extensive marketing, but may not be suitable for every dog or every person.
This month's offering should make you think carefully about the advantages and disadvantages of the method, strategy or protocol you choose. Deep into the woods.
Coming up in January the excellent Microshaping course run for the third year by master shaper Kate Mallatratt.
Launching Waginars
A Waginar is a 90 minute live web based presentation that combines a Power point slide show, voice over presentation, videos and a chance to ask text based questions in the follow up forum which stays open for 30 days. To participate you will need internet access (preferably high speed, with a lower bandwidth you may experience an interruption of download), speakers.
The Presentation will begin with a 10 minute introduction and housekeeping check, followed by the presentation with intervals for questions (through the chat facility).
New online Course begins in April
The Intelligent Dog Training Course
Dogs are intelligent, perfectly well designed to live in a human world and get the best out of presented opportunities. Sometimes their intelligence is just a little hidden and waiting to be discovered. Dogs are in desperate need of intelligent training. Common sense may seem a more accurate description but common sense seems to evaporate in the presence of Dog, totally devoid in the presence of Puppy.
This is a four unit course over 2 years. Come for the whole course or dip into the area you would enjoy the most.
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Is this for me?
Sometimes we need to return to the beginner with our mind coloured by our experience and have the chance to see the material from a different perspective. I remember some years ago sitting with a group of trainers looking for an "advanced course". Advanced training is not just the next level, but a new view of the training you have already achieved. It is a fundamental shift in the underpinning attitude. Advancing your training is more often about seeing the old landscape with new eyes.
I am a "new eyes" specialist.
What's on At Wag More Barn
Lots of new dates to begin the auspicious 2012, with 2 new courses, weekends and week courses plus all the regular workshops.
Don’t forget to pick up your Wag More Save More reward card in the Barn – this gives you a free workshop after you have completed 10 workshops or days on a course.
New: Teachers Practical Workshops
For those who are looking at a career teaching people teaching dogs, for those who currently teach classes and are looking for innovative new ideas. Participants in need of the relevant training are also very welcome, in fact, necessary. The workshops will include exercises, games, experiential learning, teaching strategies, equipment reviews and testing.
Each workshop is focussed on a different behavioural capacity and level of connection: building connection, maintaining connection, repairing connection.
You can book the individual monthly workshops as well as a 5 days course in July.
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Play Workshop
Play is an essential part of canine learning. It is their classroom, where their lifeskills are developed. We can join this school for fun provided we understand the Rules of the Games, and teach the dog to play safe.
This workshop looks at the strategies for tug training, whippits, retrieve, watch the mouse, and sausage games.
New: Clicker Trainer Super Trainer
Exciting new workshops reflecting the development in Clicker Training over the past 15 years.
- Workshop 1: Building your super learner: where choice becomes the power circuit, creating an inexhaustible desire to learn.
- Workshop 2: Creating a range of tools: targets, patterns, cues. Getting the structure for your path ahead. Good disciplines, easy techniques, practice protocols.
- Workshop 3: Adding the passion and power. Acquisition with energy, examining the small detail that makes the learning structure strong.
- Workshop 4: Reaching for the sky. Complex behaviour chains taught in simple stages, using behaviours to affect emotional responses. Exploring your dogs learning capacity.
- Workshop 5: Flying into outer space: Where no trainers have explored before. Cutting edge discoveries, astonishing results, conceptual learning.
The five types of workshops rotate through the year in the same order. You can book the individual monthly workshops, all five workshops for the price of four as well as the 5 days course in June.
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COLLAR Courses
The very successful and popular Microshaping Course with teacher Kate Mallatratt is starting in January. This 12 week, 6 lesson course will significantly develop your shaping success and make the process exciting. A little ambition is all you need to bring along.
The Mentoring is Sachiko Eubanks. Many of you will familiar with all herr work as I shamelessly use her home training videos for presentations. For me when you want credentials for practical work there is nothing better than seeing their own training skills in action. I urge you to visit their YouTube channels: Kate, Sachiko, but allow yourself plenty of browsing time.
Previous students comments, both from Spain, and a true testament to the success of distance learning :
Natalia: I was doing shaping with my dogs from 5 years before this course, the aim of shaping was to achieve the behaviour without luring or prompts...and we were a "successful" team, but I was not aware that sometimes the dog and me had been paying high price (frustration, too much movement, carry on with behaviours I didnŽt look for in the final one...) Microshaping course gave me new eyes; I could see that the final behaviour is not the hardest part of the work, the preparation and the journey are the main part. I learned about slicing the behaviour, planning, re-planning and find the best pace for the dog and the trainer. I learned that you can fly if you are ready for step outside the box !!!! And youŽll have the best flight attendants at your side.
Cristina: "Microshaping was for me a new way of CLEAR communication with my dog. Since I attended in the Course, my clicker sessions are more calmer for my dog (and for me!) I can say without doubt that this course has helped me to improve my communication with my dog in a clear way, has helped to improve my own skills with the clicker, and now this is reflected in my learner on our clicker training sessions. I really discovered another very efficient way of working with clicker. Both, me and my little girl enjoyed throughout the learning journey!"
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