Course Details
Arousal is often treated as something to suppress or manage. But arousal is information. It tells us how our dogs experience the world, what excites them, what overwhelms them, and where they do their best thinking and learning.
In this presentation, we'll examine the highest state of arousal where a dog can still think, learn, and remain connected. Through stories, videos, and practical examples, we'll discover how different dogs thrive at different levels of intensity, why trying to turn a "Sprite dog" into a "water dog" can undermine confidence, and how to identify the emotional and behavioral signs that your dog is in their ideal state.
Rather than asking, "How do I make my dog calmer?" we'll ask a different question: How do I help my dog live in the state where they are most joyful, most thoughtful, and most themselves?
Because the goal isn't the absence of arousal. The goal is helping dogs learn to think while they feel.
About the Instructor:
Crystal Wing BA, MAE. taught high school art for 23 years. She has been an athlete and high school coach for various sports. Since 2006, Crystal has been dedicated to training dogs, traveling nationwide to learn and compete in a range of protection sports. She was a certified trial helper through GSDCA for IGP and training decoy for Mondioring. Through extensive traveling and training, she has titled several different dogs in several different protection sports, dock diving, agility, weight pull and rally. She earned a national certification through American Rescue Dog Association and National Search Dog Alliance for her human remains detection K9 Rad-ish. Crystal is the Training Director for Evolution Working Dog Club located in St. Louis, Mo. She has a podcast called What's On Top: Chasing Curiosity with Crystal Wing and she co-hosted 151 episodes of the K9 Detection Collaborative podcast. She gives seminars across the country on play, engagement, functional obedience and detection dog training. She owns CBK9 in the suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri. She is an instructor at Fenzi Dog Sports Academy and was an instructor at K9Sensus Foundation in Iowa.
