Science-based animal training education
Animal training without guesswork
Tromplo teaches you how to observe behavior, design clearer learning, and decide what to change when training stops progressing. Begin with one real session, choose the bottleneck you can actually observe, and follow the learning path that fits it.
For professional trainers, animal professionals, and serious caregivers. Dog-training examples, principles that travel across species.
BEHAVIOR GEEK · FOCUSED SELF-PACED COURSE · START ANYTIME
A technical word can put a lab coat on a guess. It is still a guess.
You gave food after a behavior. Did it reinforce that response? Perhaps—but “came after” and “made this behavior more likely” are not the same claim. Behavior Geek teaches you to separate observation from inference, sequence from contingency, and plausible function from demonstrated relation through dog-training cases that make the science usable at the training table.
- US$69 · start anytime
- One year of access
- Twelve core lectures with integrated cases
- Practical tools and private self-checks
SHAPE ME UP! · STARTS 1 OCTOBER · 5-PLACE PREMIUM EDITION
Shaping is designed, not guessed.
The learner has not been given your final-behavior diagram. Shape Me Up! teaches you to define observable criteria, make the first useful movement available, plan reinforcement placement and the return into the next repetition, and change one meaningful variable when the session diverges.
- Six-week online course
- Auditor US$139 · Premium US$299
- Premium includes individual feedback
- One year of access
Your path, your pace
Choose the smallest learning route that answers the question
Not every question needs a full course system. Begin with one real session, choose one bounded skill, or study the connected system behind a bigger training problem.
The 5-Minute Training Session Check
Use one short, unedited session to locate the first observable bottleneck: participation, return, construction, trainer mechanics, consequences, or duration. Follow a current learning route without diagnosing the learner from one clip.
Start the free interactive AuditOne bounded training question
Choose duration or applied behavior analysis foundations. Each focused course includes complete lessons, tools, cases, graphics, and assessments.
Compare the focused coursesBuild or troubleshoot the complete process
Use a full-system course when the work spans observation, behavior construction, reinforcement, cue control, fluency, or functional troubleshooting.
See the full-system routesFocused self-study · US$69 each
One clear job, complete enough to use
Choose the course that matches the decision in front of you. Each is date-free Auditor study with written lessons, cases, practical tools, visuals, and two assessment forms.
Duration without accidental change
Duration by Design
Define what should last, map the whole training loop, use the deliberate dirty-loop reset, select a duration procedure, and raise time without raising everything.
See Duration by Design
Geeky, functional, trainer-readable
Behavior Geek
Learn to use behavior, measurement, contingencies, stimulus functions, motivating operations, shaping, functional hypotheses, and constructional thinking accurately.
See Behavior GeekFull-system self-study · US$139 each
Trainer’s Toolbox is now two complete routes
Part 1 builds an observable acquisition plan. Part 2 begins with acquired behavior and develops strength, cue control, fluency, chains, fading, and evidence-linked troubleshooting.
Part 1 · Observe, define, and teach
Build one testable acquisition plan
Move from camera-test observation and measurement through teaching arrangements, prompting, shaping, handler mechanics, and one bounded first-session test.
See Toolbox Part 1
Part 2 · Strengthen, cue, and troubleshoot
Find the first divergence before changing the plan
Strengthen acquired behavior through criteria, schedules, fluency, cue packages, generalization, chains, fading, function hypotheses, and controlled one-variable tests.
See Toolbox Part 2Professional pathway in development
For trainers ready to have their decisions assessed
Study gives you concepts and tools. The planned Tromplo certificate asks what you notice in a complete session, what you measure, how you revise when the learner and plan diverge, and when welfare or scope requires you to stop. The founding pathway is being built now.
- Working curriculum: eight Tromplo courses plus two certificate-pathway modules
- Planned evidence: continuous training records, raw data, five evidence bundles and an oral assessment
- Information only: applications, place reservations and payments are not open
Assessment, not attendanceCourse completion prepares the repertoire; it does not automatically award demonstrated competence.
See the planned certificateTWO COURSES + ONE RECORDED WEBINAR · SAVE 20%
Three connected study bundles. One question at a time.
Each bundle brings together two complete US$139 courses and one US$45 recorded webinar. Choose the question that fits your work; we check your selection and existing access before emailing your private checkout link.
2 COURSES + 1 WEBINAR
Shaping, From Plan to Repetition
Courses: Shape Me Up! – Errorless Shaping + Strategic Reinforcement Delivery for Dog Trainers
Recorded webinar: Errorless Shaping in a Nutshell
Why these three?
A criterion tells you which movement matters. Delivery and the return help arrange the next opportunity. Study the shaping plan in Shape Me Up!, examine those transitions in Strategic Reinforcement Delivery, and use the recorded webinar for a concentrated introduction to error-minimizing shaping.
Two six-week Auditor courses + one recorded webinar. Your checkout link confirms the edition dates.
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2 COURSES + 1 WEBINAR
Build It. Strengthen It. Cue It.
Courses: Trainer’s Toolbox Part 1 + Trainer’s Toolbox Part 2
Recorded webinar: To Cue or Not to Cue
Why these three?
Teaching a response and making it work under the intended cue are different questions. Part 1 takes you from observation to a testable acquisition plan. Part 2 develops acquired behavior through criteria, cue control, and troubleshooting. The webinar puts the cue question under a closer lens.
Both complete self-paced courses start anytime. One recorded webinar included.
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2 COURSES + 1 WEBINAR
Attention, Choice & Food
Courses: Attention Please + Let Me Want It!
Recorded webinar: Why Your Dog Won’t Eat When It Matters
Why these three?
Looking at the trainer, choosing to continue, and taking food are different questions. Attention Please examines the route into a session and back after reinforcement. Let Me Want It! asks whether beginning, pausing, and leaving actually change what happens next. Add the food webinar to examine eating in the situations where it becomes less reliable.
Attention Please: September edition, registration closes 14 September. Let Me Want It!: starts 1 November. The webinar is recorded; your checked checkout link confirms both course editions.
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Auditor or complete self-paced editions only. Premium places and US$69 focused courses remain separate. Each product keeps its own access period; the bundle discount is applied once and does not combine with another code or sale price.
Three books, three different jobs
Essential reading for thoughtful trainers
Choose an available behavior book that replaces labels with better questions, an available practical foundation for planning training, or meet the shaping specialist ebook coming soon.
Your Dog Is Not Stubborn
A 179-page illustrated manual and workbook that moves from labels to observable questions, cautious working hypotheses, and more precise training decisions.
See inside and get the ebook
Animal Trainer’s Comprehensive Handbook
A 77-page practical foundation in focus, engagement, training loops, environment, and structured sessions.
View the Handbook
Errorless Shaping
Shaping starts much earlier than the click. My new ebook explores the small decisions that turn guessing into clear, thoughtful learning.
Explore Shape Me Up while you waitBegin with the first thing you can observe
If several parts of the session seem to be failing at once, begin with one short clip and locate the earliest observable break. If you already know the system you need, go directly to its full description.