Course Details
Discover the power of ACE Free Work and all that it can do for you and your dog! Created by Sarah Fisher at Animal Centred Education, Free Work uses individualized enrichment stations to enhance your dog’s body, movement patterns, and emotional state. Kim Palermo, Certified ACE Practitioner, will take her unique approach of teaching Free Work by building calm snuffling and licking, addressing appropriate height and setups, and combining stations to help you create full Free Work sessions with your dog’s individual preferences and needs in mind.
Throughout the course of the class, Kim will observe your dog’s behavior, movement, and posture to help you determine the very best framework for their structure, with the emphasis on improving strength, tone, and confidence in movement. The sessions are also designed to bring arousal down and put your dog into the position where it’s mindful, relaxed, and calm. Free Work can become a part of your dog’s daily routine, a way to address behavioral issues, improve sport or conformation structure, create empowerment and confidence, and build happiness into your dog’s life!
Teaching Approach:
Instructor: Kim PalermoKim Palermo CPDT-KA (she/her) is a Certified Control Unleashed Instructor and ACE (Animal Centred Education) Practitioner. She specializes in teaching Control Unleashed and ACE Free Work with private clients, teaches a high volume of in-person CU classes, and incorporates CU into all of her membership-style group pet dog classes for her dog training business, BlueDog, located north of Boston...(Click here for full instructor bio)
