Workshops
August Workshops - Registration Opens July 22 - 9am Pacific Time
* Registration closes August 31 - 12pm (Noon) Pacific Time
WW542: July 27- Fit to Sniff (Repeat)
Did you know that there is specific research showing that cardiovascular fitness can impact the success of searching, and the time taken to find hides? Like all sports, nosew...
Kelly Daniel (Faculty)
WW543: Aug 3- Games to Motivate Heel Position
Want your dog to love and offer heel position? The games in this workshop will create a strong commitment to heel position. Your dogs will want to offer heel position because ...
Petra Ford (Faculty)
WW544: Aug 3- The Art of Timing the Alert Call: Inaccessible and Elevated Hides (Repeat)
Did you know that there is an optimal time to call Alert? Sure, it may seem straightforward... but it's only straightforward when you are sourcing straightforward hides! As th...
Stacy Barnett (Faculty)
WW545: Aug 10- Send It! Building Distance & Direction for Treibball
Want to build strong, confident sends and precise directional cues for Treibball—or just up your distance skills and build confidence working away from you for dog sports in g...
Melissa Breau (Faculty)
WW546: Aug 17- Shaping Flawless Fronts
Can we teach fronts without props and aides? Without nitpicking and nagging? Can we teach our dogs to not only love fronts but to offer them? Yes, you can! Imagine your dog co...
Petra Ford (Faculty)
WW547: Aug 24- Where’s the Cookie? Reducing Reinforcement from Day 1 (Repeat)
When you bring home that cute adorable puppy that may someday be your next sport dog, the last thing on your mind is reducing reinforcement! That’s a project for way later, ju...
Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)
September Workshops - Registration Opens Aug 22 - 9am Pacific Time
* Registration closes September 30 - 12pm (Noon) Pacific Time
WW548: Aug 31- Push It! Building Confident Ball Control for Treibball
Ready to "push" your treibball skills to the next level? In this workshop, we’ll focus on the behaviors needed to earn the NATE Push skills certificates (Levels 1–3). You’ll ...
Melissa Breau (Faculty)
WW549: Sept 7- Agility: 101 Things To Do with A Dot
An exercise dot is one of the most useful and often underutilized tools in agility! It can be used creatively in almost every aspect of agility to improve everything from tra...
Bronagh Daly (Faculty)
WW550: Sept 7- Heeling Games for Natural Attention, Animation and Reduction of Reinforcers (REPEAT)
Heeling is an amazing dance between engaged partners until....it's not. Heeling can be amazing. But too much emphasis on precision can quickly dull even the most enthusiastic...
Denise Fenzi (Faculty)
WW551: Sept 14- Transforming Triggers into Cues (REPEAT)
On a recent walk, the sudden appearance of a fast-moving bicycle from behind startled my dog Smudge—he barked and lunged. Not my proudest moment, but a helpful reminder that t...
Kathy Sdao (Guest Instructors)
WW552: Sept 14- 7 Days to 7 Props Every Performance Dog Should Know (REPEAT)
What if there was a way that your dog could perform a behavior correctly, from the very first repetition? Imagine not having to mess around with luring the dog into the perfec...
Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)
WW553: Sept 21- Behind the Bar: Strength & Control for Backside Jumps
Instructor: Backside jumps challenge every dog’s strength, balance, and control—and a fit dog keeps the bar up and moves more efficiently! This one-hour online workshop with F...
Ashley Escobar (Faculty)
