Course Details
Three dogs taught me three very different lessons about resilience. Through case studies of my own current dogs, I'll explore how each needed something different from me to become a stronger, more resilient learner. Radish needed a long history of success to build the confidence to work through uncertainty. UCon needed agency and ways to communicate when he needed a moment. Checkmate taught me that persistence can look like resilience from the outside, even when escalating arousal and frustration are telling a very different story.
Resilience doesn't develop the same way in every dog. Through these three stories, we'll explore how understanding the individual dog can help us recognize what they need and create a path toward resilience that makes sense for that team.
About the Instructor:
Crystal Wing (she/her) is a dog trainer, educator, and presenter who brings 23 years of experience as a high school art teacher and coach to her work with dogs and their people. Training dogs since 2006, her experience spans protection sports, detection, and performance sports, including national certification in Human Remains Detection with her K9 partner, Rad-ish.
Crystal is Training Director for Evolution Working Dog Club, an instructor at Fenzi Dog Sports Academy, and host of the What’s On Top? Chasing Curiosity podcast. Her teaching centers on curiosity, creativity, reinforcement, and building confident, resilient teams.
