Course Details
Are you looking for a new approach to sport-related training? Or an outside-the-ring training task that you’ve been hoping to tackle from a different angle?
Let me introduce you to…a dot! Such a simple training tool, but an oh-so-powerful one. (Think rubber exercise dots.)
Dots are my current absolute favorite training tool to use for any training task—from sport-related behaviors or outside-the-ring training projects. Dots are a very easy to grasp concept for all dogs and build up value quickly. Dots themselves are also incredibly predictable and have an easy, clear structure. So, when applying them to sport or outside-the-ring-related behaviors, they automatically bring structure, precision, and clarity to any training task, while also easily standing in the place of a pre-set cookie or toy when needed.
This makes dots incredibly versatile as well! Once your dog understands the basic concept of how to interact with a dot, the applications are endless! You can use them for precise position work, duration training, behavior-chain building, settling into new environments or building confidence in those environments, shaping targets in various sports, patience, new sports skills or building greater focus into existing skills—to name just a few things.
This means dots are wonderful for both teaching new skills or modifying current behaviors that could use a new approach lens.
And in this class, we will be tackling both! For the first two weeks, we will start by teaching your dog the basic foundation of what to do with a dot and then proof that basic understanding in different situations and environments, while also teaching many different basic ways that your dog can interact with a dot.
From there, this class will become a choose your own dot adventure type of class! You will pick one or two of your own sport or outside-the-ring related behavior goals and together, we will come up with a training plan for how to apply dots to meet your goal!
Every week there will both be general dot-related lectures as well as lectures tailored to each of your specific chosen tasks.
And by the end of class, you will have a powerful new tool that you will feel confident applying to almost any sport or outside-the-ring training project!
Teaching Approach:
Instructor: Bronagh DalyBronagh Daly is a Certified Control Unleashed Instructor, Certified Family Dog Mediator, Certified One Mind Dogs Instructor, and a graduate of the Aggression in Dogs Master Course. She does not believe in one-size-fits all...(Click here for full bio and to view her upcoming classes)
