Course Details
Have you ever felt overwhelmed and received the advice to take a deep breath? Did you know that we can ask our dogs to do the same thing? With the Control Unleashed skill Take A Breath, we are actually teaching our dogs to take deep breaths. This helps with arousal modulation, becomes an indicator of how our dog is feeling, and can actually become a way to co-regulate (yes, even we can benefit from this skill!) Kim creatively breaks Take A Breath into two parts. First, we build the picture for our dogs by focusing on the setup, our mechanics, and the cue. Then, we begin to actually watch for and feed for breaths. Kim will demonstrate the many different ways to monitor a dog’s breathing, from the very visible, giant nostril poofs, to feeling for the tiniest movement of the chest. This workshop will help you set your dog up for success to breathe deep, and will teach you how to see and reward the behavior. Every dog and handler team can learn the benefits of sitting down and breathing together!
This workshop has been approved for 1 CEU through CPDT_KA
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Lecture Publish Date: Sunday July 20th
Video Submissions Due Date: Sunday July 27th @ 12pm noon PT
Feedback & Questions Video Publish Date: Wednesday July 30th
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)
