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Does your dog crush it in training but fall apart at trials? If yes, you’re not alone.
As a high performance coach and fellow dog sport enthusiast, I've worked with hundreds of teams on this exact problem, and have struggled with this myself!
So I am VERY familiar with how frustrating and discouraging it can be to walk to the start line and not know which version of your dog is lining up beside you.
Maybe you’ve tried everything:
- Countless training drills and strategies
- Simulating trial pressure at home
- All the latest arousal-management techniques
But despite all that, your dog still struggles on trial day.
If any of this sounds familiar, I want to invite you to my upcoming webinar: The #1 reason dogs struggle at trials...and how to fix it.
In our time together, I will share:
1) The common strategies most people use to fix this problem, and why these don’t work
2) Why most people misunderstand what's going on, and end up focusing on the wrong solutions as a result
3) The real reason even well-prepared dogs falter under trial pressure — a root cause most people overlook.
4) How to fix this with a powerful, proven approach — no complicated, time-consuming training plans required.
This is the same strategy I’ve used to help hundreds of dog–handler teams across multiple sports get trial-day results that finally match their training.
This Webinar is for you if:
✅ Your dog knows their job in classes and seminars, but the wheels fall off under trial pressure.
✅ You’ve tried “ring prep” sessions in training, but the success still doesn’t carry over to trials.
✅ Your dog did well in novice trials but struggles at more advanced levels.
✅ Trial days leave you feeling anxious, frustrated, disappointed, or defeated.
✅ You know you and your dog are capable of more, but can’t figure out what’s missing.
✅ You haven't started competing yet, and want to master this skill right out of the gate!
Whether you’re a seasoned competitor or just starting out, I will teach you the critical trial-day ability every handler needs to master so that you and your dog can perform when it matters most.
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$19.95 - This pre-recorded presentation including lecture and Q&A will show in your Webinar Library after purchase.
About the Presenter:
Hélène (she/her) is a professional dog sport performance coach who specializes on helping trainers and competitors master their mental game, as well as dial in their skills and performance, to acheive their goals and dreams in dog sports.
Her areas of specialty are: Mindset coaching and resolving over-arousal problems (at both ends of the leash!) in dog sports.
Hélène has been training dogs since 1989, when she got her first dog, a border collie named Jake. Over the years, she has explored obedience, search and rescue, protection sports, rally, tricks, and freestyle, among others. She discovered agility in 2004, and herding in 2005. Herding quickly became her passion; she was so excited about it that she took lessons for a whole year without a dog!
In 2006, Hélène bought her first herding dog — a border collie named Hannah. Hannah was an amazing partner and teacher, and together had a very successful career in both agility and herding. They won the Ontario novice herding championship in their first year of competition. They proceeded to go all the way to Open in USBCHA herding while simultaneously competing at the Masters level in agility.
Hélène has also been very active in rescue over the years, giving her the opportunity to work with a wide variety of dogs and challenges. It was through working with rescue dogs that she discovered and became committed to using positive reinforcement-based training methods.
Her passion today is finding practical, hands on ways of applying the science of learning to training working and sport dogs. Additionally, she is exploring new understandings of arousal and finding innovative ways of putting that learning into practice.
Hélène is also deeply committed to natural rearing as a critical component of dog training, believing that a clear, sound mind and a strong, healthy body are integral to a calm, confident, eager-to-learn animal partner.
Today, Hélène lives on a mixed livestock farm in rural eastern Ontario with her team of Border Collies, Maremma guardian dogs, an Australian Working Kelpie, and a rat terrier named Bea.
You can follow Hélène on Facebook here, on IG and TikTok at @helene.lawler.
For more information, go to www.helenelawler.com, or reach out to her directly at hello@helenelawler.com.
Pronouns: Hélène goes by she/her.
