Workshops
September Workshops - Registration Opens Aug 22 - 9am Pacific Time
* Registration closes September 30 - 12pm (Noon) Pacific Time
WW548: Aug 31- Push It! Building Confident Ball Control for Treibball
Ready to "push" your treibball skills to the next level? In this workshop, we’ll focus on the behaviors needed to earn the NATE Push skills certificates (Levels 1–3). You’ll ...
Melissa Breau (Faculty)
WW549: Sept 7- Agility: 101 Things To Do with A Dot
An exercise dot is one of the most useful and often underutilized tools in agility! It can be used creatively in almost every aspect of agility to improve everything from tra...
Bronagh Daly (Faculty)
WW550: Sept 7- Heeling Games for Natural Attention, Animation and Reduction of Reinforcers (REPEAT)
Heeling is an amazing dance between engaged partners until....it's not. Heeling can be amazing. But too much emphasis on precision can quickly dull even the most enthusiastic...
Denise Fenzi (Faculty)
WW551: Sept 14- Transforming Triggers into Cues (REPEAT)
On a recent walk, the sudden appearance of a fast-moving bicycle from behind startled my dog Smudge—he barked and lunged. Not my proudest moment, but a helpful reminder that t...
Kathy Sdao (Guest Instructors)
WW552: Sept 14- 7 Days to 7 Props Every Performance Dog Should Know (REPEAT)
What if there was a way that your dog could perform a behavior correctly, from the very first repetition? Imagine not having to mess around with luring the dog into the perfec...
Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)
WW553: Sept 21- Behind the Bar: Strength & Control for Backside Jumps
Instructor: Backside jumps challenge every dog’s strength, balance, and control—and a fit dog keeps the bar up and moves more efficiently! This one-hour online workshop with F...
Ashley Escobar (Faculty)
October Workshops - Registration Opens Sept 22 - 9am Pacific Time
* Registration closes October 31 - 12pm (Noon) Pacific Time
WW554: Sept 28 - Pick Me! Strategies to Help Your Dog Choose to Engage
The environment is filled with a myriad of fascinating sights, sounds and smells. Why would the dog choose us? If we tell the dog to ignore the environment and look at us, it ...
Petra Ford (Faculty)
WW555: Oct 5 - Practical Hide Placement: Setting Up Odor Pools
Odor pools are probably the most challenging obstacle for dogs to work through. For the handler, setting up odor pools in training is quite possibly the most difficult hide pr...
Stacy Barnett (Faculty)
WW556: Oct 5 - No Reinforcement? No Problem! (REPEAT)
Reducing reinforcement is a universal problem. As long as we are providing reinforcement our dogs perform well. Get rid of the reinforcers and it all falls apart. Especially i...
Petra Ford (Faculty)
WW557: Oct 12 - Pivots, Posture, and Platforms OH MY (REPEAT)
Do you have platforms, balance equipment laying around? Let's put those platforms to use. With a few pieces of equipment (foam pads, platform, etc) you will learn a variety of...
Ashley Escobar (Faculty)
WW558: Oct 12 - Stop! Drop! and... STAY! Reliable distance downs (REPEAT)
Will your dog down when standing next to you, but not a distance? How about in the presence of distractions? Other dogs nearby? When facing away from you? When you're in moti...
Helene Lawler (Faculty)
WW559: Oct 19 - Sound Sensitivity: It's time to party! (REPEAT)
Whether that's to fireworks and thunderstorms, or the whistling, beeping and slamming of the sports environment, or the sounds of urban life and all the people and dogs in it,...
Amy Cook, PhD (Faculty)
