Course Details
Learn how Control Unleashed skills can help you progress from the training room into the ring! This is one of the most common questions that I get asked as a Certified Control Unleashed Instructor who competes in and works with others in the dog sport world: how does this apply to actual trials?
I will discuss three skills and how we can use those to recognize our dog’s fluency baseline. Once that’s been determined, these skills can help you add challenges and variations to your sports skills in a way that allows for flexibility, success, and ring readiness. They can also be utilized to determine your dog’s comfort in new environments, including the trial environment. And finally, Control Unleashed skills are a fantastic way to provide an arrival routine, exit strategy, and arousal evaluation throughout the entire day of competition. They will allow your dog to comfortably take in the environment so that they are prepared when it’s time to focus solely on you and the job at hand.
The three skills that will be discussed are multifaceted in that they help provide predictability in novel environments, calm the nervous system, and aid in acclimation. Come learn how CU can help you succeed in the ring!
About the Instructor:
Kim 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. In 2008 she began offering dog walking and soon grew and managed a large team of staff and introduced dog training services. She’s been working with dogs professionally for over 20 years and has been an avid dog owner and sports enthusiast her entire life. She has a fondness for helping dogs with big feelings, and uses compassion and kindness with every animal and human that she works with.
Kim’s passion is to help others pursue their dream of training dogs and she continues to expand her business in a way that supports growth, mentorship, and opportunity for her team. She is a mentor for Control Unleashed certification program, the CATCH dog trainers program, and for local trainers. She has spoken in conferences, teaches in-person workshops, and presents for her local community.
Kim is a true dog sport dabbler and dog lover, trying everything she can with her five dogs to learn as much as she can! Currently she’s training her two Collies for herding, obedience, agility, conformation, and scent work. She also competes in Rally and Obedience with her miniature poodle. Kim is the vice president of the Collie Club of NH and a member of the Collie Club of America and is actively working on expanding performance options for Rough and Smooth Collies. During her free time she likes to escape to the woods to hike, is a beekeeper, raises a flock of chickens, ducks, turkeys, and guinea hens, and dreams of the day when she has a farm.
