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In chains! Backchaining from A-Z

Become an expert in backchaining

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Iris Castaing

Empowered dogs: Cooperative husbandry training

Empowering our dogs in their own care.

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This course is particularly suitable for dog owners who have a problem with reactivity / aggression / fears on a leash, outdoors. Reactivity is one of the most difficult behavior to manage because it involves great emotions in dogs and humans. The triggers mainly discussed in this course are congeners and humans. However, each lesson will be applicable for all external environment's stimuli (preys, unknown objects or vehicles, for example). During the six-week course, you will: ✴ understand what is call reactivity ✴ decode canine body language ✴ manage the environment to promote good behavior ✴ learn new behaviors through play ✴ change your dog's emotional responses ✴ give decision-making power to your dog Beyond all your new knowledge and skills, the confidence gained during this course will allow you to take a deep breath. Prerequisites: you must have taken the course "The problem solving guide to your pet's behavior" as a premium or auditor

Facing the environment

Helping reactive, aggressive & fearful dogs

Lisa Longo

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This course is dedicated to getting the highest level of fluency in our behaviors by getting geeky and diving deep into each training session.

How do we do that?

The short answer is: We focus on behavior. Both ours, and our learnes behavior.

We are going to analyze everything in the session, both from the handlers position and timing, to everything the dogs does.

So I will emphasize,- this course is geeky, and it is a good thing, if you are prepared to use quite a lot of time, of practicing using the schedules, and being comfortable with just focusing on behavior.

You will, as a premium participant, be asked to fill out quite a few schedules ad homework, to get comfortable with them.

Analyzing our sessions to this degree can be slightly scary and seem overwhelming in the beginning.

Luckily, as with anything else, the more we practice doing it the right way, the more fluent in behavior we become.

And what we leave this course with, is very fine-tuned observation skills, that will help us in the future. Both when we want to improve our own sessions, and also if we are helping someone else.

Having practiced your observational skills, takes you a big step towards being a favorite training partner.

In this course, we will work on a few specific behaviors that you would like to have perfected. You can chose some, or I can suggest some. This course is not about teaching as many behaviors as possible - that is the "Off cue- off control" course. Here, we dive much deeper into fewer behaviors. We work with the learner offering the behavior off cue and perfecting it, till we have the behaviors freakishly fluent.

This is a course where there is going to be a significant amount of work, taking data, and reviewing the videos from every session, again and again. We use a lot of benchmarking schedules to track the progress, and you will learn how to take your training to the next level with this tool.

This course covers:

Introduction to what fluency is and how we get it
The science and definitions behind it
Benchmarking schedules on the following topics
- Timing
- Criteria
- Reinforcement
- Off cue behaviors
- Stimulus control
- Chaining
- Training focus
- Mechanical skills

When this course finishes, the goal is for you to have ninja skills in clicker training, and have freakishly fluent behaviors!

Freakishly fluent

This course is dedicated to getting the highest level of fluency in our behaviors.

Catja B. Pedersen

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Are you looking for something incredibly cool and skilful to add to the breadth of training you already do with your animals? Or do you fancy the joy of figuring out the puzzle of communicating an abstract concept to your non-verbal learner and give them the tools to show you how they see the world? Or do you care for an animal who currently has limited mobility due to age or injury and you’re wondering how you can still keep them mentally engaged? Or do you perhaps have an animal who finds the world sometimes overwhelming and you’re looking for predictable and well-rehearsed games you can play with the fingers on your hands to immediately give them a known world to enter and work within? If any of the above resonated with you, then concept training might just be the right thing for you. This course builds upon Foundations to Concept Training. The goal of the course is to enable you to teach the concept of size discrimination to your animal training partner to enable them to tell apart bigger from smaller and full from empty. We will systematically generalise the skill so that they can apply this concept to any set of objects or patterns in the future. We will cover:

what is concept training
what makes something a concept
the pros and cons of different setups and indications*
the handler as a cue
cue transfer protocol
teaching opposite concepts in pairs
ranking relevance of prompts
ading out prompts
systematic introduction of novel objects

Premium students have the benefit of instructor coaching with an animal of their choice. The course will likely be easiest with dogs but please do get in touch with me to work with another species. *This course will only cover teaching a concept. It will not cover the foundation behaviours that are mandatory before we can teach a concept. These foundation behaviours are stationing, offering engagement to the handler and an indication of your choice under stimulus control working with a prompt on at least two objects. Therefore Premium students are required to send me a video before they register for this course to demonstrate a few repetitions of two-choice discrimination following your prompt with the animal indicating using any consistent behaviour of your choice. See prerequisite demo video below for some examples of what that might look like. Although it is not mandatory to take the Foundations to Concept Training course if the prerequisites can otherwise be demonstrated, those who would like to learn the prerequisites are recommended to take the foundations course first. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGoJWHOXNVQ&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2-cvwUxp_bmoJWVEAzCVMv84w9fFUXnNe4E0W9DOEJoPON0U8ASi8pDfY

Concept Training

Teach size and quantity discrimination

Vidhyalakshmi Karthikeyan

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Concepts are defined by a set of common attributes that characterise that concept which can be applied to novel situations or objects to recognise that specific concept in the future.

Examples of concepts that we can teach our dogs include:

modifier cues that add information to other known cues, e.g. fetch the bigger ball, touch the object on the right, walk under the chair, station on the left mat
match to sample, e.g. touch the object that is identical to the object I show, fetch the object that is the same shape as this object, indicate if the object I show is present in the set of objects in front of you
quantity recognition, e.g. touch the card that shows the correct number that corresponds to the number of objects in front of you
cue adduction to dynamically sequence previously taught cues, e.g. first spin right, then go through the tunnel, then leap up on the stool
imitation, e.g. copy the behaviour I demonstrate
combinations of concepts, e.g. touch the card that shows how many of this item is present in this mixed set

There are frameworks and methods to systematically teach each of these concepts to our learners. However, we first want to have the foundations in place to then make it easy to layer the discriminative aspects on top for each concept in the future. The foundation required is primarily mechanical and communicative - the animal must be able to station, observe and clearly indicate an item cued by the handler in the presence of multiple choices. The handler must also be aware of their own movements including their base position, consistently setting up the choices, explicitly cueing an indication and clicking/marking and rewarding when the dog correctly responds to that cue. This course will provide the required instruction and guide the handler to teach their dog each of these foundational mechanical components before teaching concepts work. Successful completion of the course will enable each team to then progress to further courses on teaching specific concepts to their dog. Goals of this course:

To prepare each team for concepts work by focusing on the mechanical components of concept training
To create a fluent, automatic and clean loop for both the handler and the dog
To break down that clean sequence for the dog into three key components - default stationing, default observation of the handler and a fluent indication on verbal or gesture cue - and then string together a clean sequence of those components from default stationing to an indication when cued.
To provide each team with the required instruction, videos and guidance during the course to practice until fluent after the course

Please watch the demo video to determine if you already have the skills covered in this course. If you wish to film a short snippet of you and your dog demonstrating the sequence shown and email it to me, I am happy to guide you on whether or not the course would help you further. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVyJLlyAOQA&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0JwhtWWWcZ0p8fWlv1qy5OVWgwQbS8IekdCv0IJZJ6EpTQvdIaJ8V_ljw[/embed]

The Foundations of Concept Training

Building up the mechanics that underpin concept training

Vidhyalakshmi Karthikeyan

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This is a course for you, if you want to work with your dog on getting a large behaviors repertoire, and rely on as little helping tools as possible. In this course we will work with breaking down all the things you would like your learner to able to do, into single behaviors. We focus on developing multiple of the skills you and your learner need, to teach them exactly what you dream off. We do this by shaping and capturing behaviors, and we work with them off cue, to make sure we get the exact behavior. The focus of this course is to get the learner started on offering behaviors. We will try to build a big repetoire of behaviors, so that our learners get creative and become an very active part of our training. If you want to start all the behaviors this course covers, there is going to be quite a lot of work - so be prepared for that. The behaviors we will cover in this course are:

Focus
Targeting
Sit
Backing
Heel position
Recall
Heeling
Down
Stand
Stay
Doggie-zen
Hold it
Release
Bark
Jump
Search

Under each behavior box, there are several behaviors. We will go through a few of them, and you are always free to chose which behaviors you would like to focus on. We will also discuss the topics of:

Off cue
Fluency
Doggie-zen
Cues

Pocket it! This course focus will be working without treats in hand and helping as little as possible, without leaving your animal frusrated. We give the learner the highest rage of choice we can, and teach the learner to actively take part in the training. This will be part 1, where you get introduced to all of the behaviors, and then select 1 to work with from every box. In vol. 2, we will work more on fluency and adding variations to the behaviors. This course is suitable for you, if you would like your dog to offer you more behaviors and like to shape them in the direction you want. If you already have all the above behaviors off cue, part 2 would be a suitable option for you.

Off cue – off control? Vol 1!

Developing skills you and your learner need, to train exactly what you dream off.

Catja B. Pedersen

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Get clean, precise, and fluent behaviors – even at a distance. If you are ever in a situation where you need your dog to do certain behaviors at a distance, this course will help you get there. Even if you are working at longer distances, you can still get your behaviors as perfect as if you were standing right next to your dog. Usually, I focus a lot on the behaviors that are happening close to the handler. In this course, that will be turned a bit around. In these six weeks, we will discuss the following in the lessons:

Which basic skills do we need to get started with distance behaviors?
What equipment do we need – or can have great use of?
How do we teach the dog an “Off cue” stay?
How do we define our criteria, and why is this even more important when we are working at a distance?
How do we get the dog to go to a certain point of distance?
How do we get the desired pace when the dog is running to a certain point?
How can we start and perfect stationary behaviors at a distance – like position changes?
How can we start and perfect speed behaviors at a distance – like picking up the dumbbell?
How can we teach the dog to have precision in behaviors in motion – like down and stand during recall and send away?
How do we make a training plan, take some data, and use this information to get progress?
How do we get fluent behaviors “off cue” when it is at a distance?
How do we choose the best cues for our distance behaviors?
And how do you teach those cues in a way that makes them very reliable?
How can we make the behaviors shine in a back chain?
And how do we use back chaining?
What is the best way to reinforce the behaviors when we are working at a distance?

We will cover the different tools we can use, discuss how to get these behaviors started, and we will go into dept with directional targets and platforms and the fading of these tools. There will be video examples of the behaviors – and how to get there and text lessons explaining the process. We will also have a closed Facebook group for all participants, where we all can discuss these concepts and connect more over this topic. For premium participants, there will be homework with your dog each week, with both set tasks and tasks that you decide on. This course is suitable for all levels. We will work from the level you are at and adjust the criteria so that they are matching you and your dog. I can´t wait to get to work with this fun and awesome topic that always gets the creativity going. Catja

Keep distance

Working far apart!

Catja B. Pedersen

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If you want to improve your training skills and your dog's physical condition at the same time, this course is for you!

Whether you're a beginner in canine fitness or you've been training for a while, increase your dog's repertoire by teaching fundamental behaviors with positive reinforcement techniques. In this course, you'll get each week theory and exercises on:

important fitness foundations
training basic gym movements
shaping clean targeting behaviors
essential clicker and training notions
how to deliver food to promote clear communication

Having fitness and proprioception equipment for this course is not compulsory but greatly appreciated. You will need at least stable and solid objects safe enough for you dog to put weight on (such as planks, bricks or mats).

Syllabus

Week 1 - Welcome! Week 1 - Fitness foundations - Skeleton, joints, and alignment Week 1 - Training - The ABCs Week 1 - Targeting - Stare Week 1 - Food delivery - Luring Week 1 - Gym - Twist/spin & figure 8 Week 2 - Fitness foundations - Movement vocabulary Week 2 - Training - Markers Week 2 - Food delivery - Laziness is the key Week 2 - Targeting - Front & four feet Week 2 - Gym - Hip pivot Week 3 - Fitness foundations - Function of main muscle groups Week 3 - Training - Loopy training Week 3 - Food delivery - Let's go get it Week 3 - Targeting - Hind feet Week 3 - Gym - Shoulder pivot & backing up Week 4 - Fitness foundations - Equipment Week 4 - Training - Adding a cue Week 4 - Targeting - Nose & chin Week 4 - Gym - Rock back sit Week 4 - Food delivery - Drills without the dog Week 5 - Fitness foundations - Duration & number of reps Week 5 - Training - Stimulus control Week 5 - Targeting - Front paw lift Week 5 - Food delivery - Plan the Cs Week 5 - Gym - Push up & Tucked Sit Week 6 - Fitness foundations - How to build a program? Week 6 - Training - To fade or not to fade? Week 6 - Targeting - Hind paw lift Week 6 - Food delivery - Bucket Game Week 6 - Gym - Weight shifts & Kick Back Stand Week 6 - Thank you!

Shaping Canine Fitness

Improve your training skills and dog's physical condition at the same time!

Camille Nguyen

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This is the continuation of the course Off cue- off control vol. 1 This is suitable for everyone who has started working with "off cue" behavior, and wants to keep practicing the skills, to get even better. In this extension of the topic, e we will continue to work with breaking down all the things you would like your learner to able to do, into single behaviors. We focus on developing multiple of the skills you and your learner need, to teach them exactly what you dream off. This time, we will take them a bit further, and practice getting more fluency. We will also look at other variations of the behaviors, than we did in the first course. We will also still have all the content from vol.1 for you to brush up on. That being said, vol 2 is for you, if you have already taken vol 1, or already have experience in structuring your sessions like this. We do this, as always, by shaping and capturing behaviors, and we work with them off cue, to make sure we get the exact behavior. We will in this vol. 2 put a bit extra focus on setting the environment up for the behavior to happen. The focus of this course is to get the learner started on offering behaviors. We will try to build a big repetoire of behaviors, so that our learners get creative and become an very active part of our training. If you want to start all the behaviors this course covers, there is going to be quite a lot of work – so be prepared for that. The behaviors we will cover and work more with, in this course are:

Focus
Targeting
Sit
Backing
Heel position
Recall
Heeling
Down
Stand
Stay
Doggie-zen
Hold it
Release
Bark
Jump
Search

Off cue
Fluency
Doggie-zen
Cues

This course focus will be working without treats in hand and helping as little as possible, without leaving your animal frustrated. We give the learner the highest rage of choice we can, and teach the learner to actively take part in the training. I cant wait to get to learn with you :-)

Off cue – off control? Vol 2!

Developing skills you and your learner need, to train exactly what you dream off.

Catja B. Pedersen

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This course is dedicated to making you an expert in backchaining.

You will leave this course with a desire to back chain everything you can, and have gotten very comfortable with splitting everything into behaviors to perfect. Some sessions are dedicated to the topic of cues, where we will look deep at, why some cues are like shooting an arrow, and others are more like pushing a car, up hill. We will also discuss the topic of off cue behaviors, having fluency, and very good stimulus control. Backchaining is one of those things, that be, and seem very simple. But only when you dive a bit deeper into the subject and start realizing what it actually is that happens, and how every single thing we do in the process effects the chain, we will get the full advantages of using it. We will:

go through the pros and cons of backchaining
Briefly touch base on forward chaining - but we are not going to spend a lot of time on that
Have lessons on off cue behaviors, and if thats a good thing to have
Go through the process of adding cues to already fluent behaviors
Make the cue a green light for performing the behavior.
Dissect the cues, if there are learning history that gives slower responses
Find out what is brutally exposed, when we're backchaining.
Figure what the glue is, that make chains so strong
Dive into the double effect of each behavior (R+ for previous cue AND green light to the next)
Exercise backchaining in everything we do
Discuss the optional response to a mistake in a chain
Go through the testing phase
Discuss the difficult job that is, being the handler
Practice without dogs too

This course is most suited for teams that already have good solid fluency behavior and also at least 3 reliable cues, that has been learned with positive reinforcement. You can participate if you want to work with fun chains that you can use around your house, with tricks or with competition exercises. The most important thing is, that youre willing to spend 6 weeks of your life, learning about backchaining.

In chains! Backchaining from A-Z

Become an expert in backchaining

Catja B. Pedersen

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You struggle to groom your dog without having him mouth the brush ? You can't cut his nails ? Your dog is running away as soon as you pronounce "shower" ? Your dog stresses out so much at the clinic or at the groomer that he trembles, shuts down or tries to escape ? You have to care for your dog and it's complicated to do it alone at home ? Your dog doesn't like to put the collar, harness, muzzle or cone ? You want your dog to be stressfree and cooperate with him in all sorts of care procedures ? You want to improve the communication with your dog, develop a trusting relationship and give him more choice opportunities and control on his life ? If you see yourself in one of this situations, this class is made for you ! Cooperative husbandry training aims to teach animal to assist in their own care. It's an ethical and pratical choice. It is used in most of zoological parcs to care for wild animals avoiding restrain, anesthesia and reducing stress. Husbandry training is part of daily enrichment programs. Through this training we give the animal the skills and the opportunities to give his consent. Giving them choice and control over their environnement improves their general welfare. If we can draw blood from a girafe or an orca without using force...why not do the same with our pets ? Empowering our dogs in their own care not only make it easier, but also enrich our life together. Some of the topics covered in this course :

Understanding and using science basics in husbandry training.
Teaching consent positions.
Empowerment : Understanding importance of choice and control.
Behavior, consequences and functions : how to use them to converse with animals.
Teaching your dog the consent concept.
How to train your dog through various daily procedures such as : handling, grooming, bathing, nails care, ears and eyes care, teeth brushing, muzzle training...
What to do when our dog is not ready and you have to do it. Consequences.

A second level course will be focusing on training the dog to third party care such as the vet, the groomer, the osteopath. [embed]https://vimeo.com/327729460/7b15244ecc[/embed]

Empowered dogs: Cooperative husbandry training

Empowering our dogs in their own care.

Iris Castaing

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The art of making a cue reliable is not the easiest task we have. Often, adding the cue is something we do in a rush, as we just want to get the response as fast as we can. Adding the cue, and making sure we have good stimulus control, is absolutely not the sexy side of dog training, and it does not make good videos to show our fellow trainers. Basically, if we do it right, it is kind of a long process and nothing super exiting happens while we do it. Unless.. We actually manage to see it for what it is,- an investing in that behavior we have used so much time to teach. An investment, that we can get the interest from, as soon as we have taught he cue really well. So let´s bring the excitement back to the boring part, that adding a cue often can look like. Often the dog will take the cue from the reinforcement history, rather than paying attention to what we say, and that ends up with us saying 1 verbal cue, and the dog doing a completely different behavior. That is absolute normal and it makes perfect sense, as the behavior that has most recently been reinforced, is the the behavior that is most likely to happen again. Try cueing spin, spin, spin, sit, spin. It is very likely that the dog will just spin again when you say sit, if you haven't proofed your cue in every way possible. Many learners respond well to certain cues, in certain context, while they then look completely clueless in others. A very reliable "sit" cue can be tested to its breaking point, if we suddenly decide to say the cue in another context than usual. Although the response to "sit" is very reliable in front of handler and on the left side, the dog can seem completely confused, if we cue "sit" when it is on our right side, or 10 meters in front of us. Or even worse, behind us! In this course, we will go through all the steps, from having the behavior offered off cue, to having a perfectly reliable cue, in all the situations we need it. We will work on proofing the cue, so that the dog will know the cue in every context. We will dive deep into the 5 steps of adding a cue and making sure, that the cue, and only that specific cue, is what prompts the behavior. The goal is to make every cue have the effect off green light. We want our learner to respond, the same way we do, when we get to a green light. We will discuss latency, how to structure a cue, how to chose a good cue and most important, when to add the cue. This course is for you, if you want perfectly reliable cues, and are willing to put in the effort to get it.

Curiosity of cues

Dive deep into the 5 steps of adding a cue

Catja B. Pedersen

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[embed]https://vimeo.com/349247466[/embed] In this class we are going to be asking lots of questions such as: what do we really mean when we talk about impulse control? Are impulses things trainers really can control? Are animals, and in particular, dogs, even capable of the executive functioning required to understand delayed gratification the way humans can? Is this even a fair expectation to ask of them? When an animal succeeds in resisting a temptation, what is really going on behaviorally in terms of the science--not just commonly held views on how dogs should behave? What learning principles underlie the training protocols we often use to get impulse control? And, are there better ways to achieve the important goal of an animal that is safe and calm around potentially exciting stimuli like food reinforcers, squirrels, toys, etc?

In this class we will also focus on practical teaching strategies that avoid some of the frustration and emotional conflict that potentially come along with learning via negative punishment and extinction. Some exercises /topics may include:

How to build trust in the reinforcement process
How to identify and meet your learner's needs before placing contingencies on behavior
How to teach helpful defaults for stability around exciting things
Release Cues
Back-chained Zen Bowl
Leave it without the “Leave it.”
Motivating Operations
Distractions as non-relevant stimuli, or the "fade in protocol" (Credit: Kay Laurence)
Stimulus control (waiting for cues, listening for cues) without extinction

Control Is An Illusion: Rethinking How We Teach for “Impulse Control”

What do we really mean when we talk about impulse control?

Sarah Owings

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Dogs' olfactory abilities amaze us and what they manage to do with their noses is truly astounding. Nosework is a sport that uses most natural, amazing dog’s abilities and develops them into perfection. Nosework is one of the greatest dog sports, making its way to the top most popular canine activities. Inspired by working detection dogs searching for narcotics, explosives, nosework makes it available for everyone. Dogs are searching for essential oils hidden in vehicles, interiors, water, exteriors, and containers and they love it! “No limitations” This sport is for everyone! It is a perfect activity for old, retired, or disabled dogs who want to stay in shape but can’t be physically challenged. Aggressive dogs are welcome too! Pure breed, crossbreed, old, young, slow, fast - it doesn’t matter what type your dog is! During the course we focus on:

what is nosework; rules reading
classically conditioning odors
building solid alert behavior using clicker training
introducing discrimination between hot and cold objects
introducing various odor holders
introducing cardboard boxes
generalization

Course syllabus: Week 1: Lesson 1 – Welcome and Introductions Lesson 2 – What is nosework? Lesson 3 – Nosework International and methods we use Lesson 4 – Samples preparation and handling odor Lesson 5 – Cocktail or not to cocktail? Lesson 6 - Classical conditioning of odor Lesson 7 - Hand touch Week 2: Lesson 8 – Tic-tac! Lesson 9 – Precision Lesson 10 – Duration Week 3: Lesson 11 – Cue for alert behavior Lesson 12 – Handler's movement Week 4: Lesson 13 – Competing stimulus Lesson 14 – Various holders Week 5: Lesson 15 – Location of the holder - variations Lesson 16 - Discrimination Week 6: Lesson 17 – New locations Lesson 18 - New locations Lesson 19 - Cue for the search There are 3 more nosework course stages. [s3mm type="video" files="videoplayback.mp4" /]

Nosework Stage 1

From first session to ORTs preparation

Agnieszka Janarek

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This course will dive deeper into the topic of shaping behaviors for beginners and advanced students. We started this journey during "Shaping inside out" Webinar, and now we are going to geek out into six weeks of practical work.

The course will cover:

what is shaping,
extinction,
resurgence,
how to shape errorlessly,
step by step guidelines for a training session
planning
antecedent arrangement
backchaining application in shaping
cues in shaping
dealing with errors
multiple practical exercises
shaping with objects
shaping without objects

If you took the "Shaping inside out" Webinar - you would receive a 15% discount for this course!

Shape me up!

Shaping behaviors inside out!

Agnieszka Janarek

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Control Is An Illusion Pt. 2 - Applying Skills & Deepening Understanding Now that you’ve learned to re-frame the concept of impulse control in terms of stimulus control, and have practiced some core skills with your dogs, it’s time to fade-in more complex environmental stimuli and challenges. The goal of this class will be to provide graduates of Pt. 1 with the opportunity to deepen their understanding of stimulus control and errorless teaching. Curriculum will be centered around the development of independent projects, but participants may also opt. to use their coaching time to complete or expand upon exercises from Pt. 1 as well, such as:

Three Act Training Structure with Brave Learning Self-Review
Bread-crumb Trail Teaching Progressions
Clarifying Contexts: When to Offer Behavior and When to Wait for Cues
Zen Bowl Games
Advanced Shopping
Joyous “Wait There” Applied to Real Life
Fade in Protocol

This class will have a lot less reading and step by step guidelines, and a lot more doing it for yourselves! Come prepared to set some actionable goals, to design your own training plans, and to dive headfirst into the cycle of performance—feedback—revision. Let the brave learning begin! NOTE: The prerequisite for Pt. 2 is Control Is An Illusion Pt. 1. Auditors of Pt. 1 are welcome to join if you were able to keep up with the material, and feel like you and you dogs are ready for increased challenges. You can also use Pt. 2 to continue to work on Pt. 1 exercises in a more targeted way. Mastery is not required!

Control Is An Illusion Pt. 2

An opportunity to Deepen Your Understanding of Stimulus Control

Sarah Owings

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This course is very sentimental to me. My dog didn’t tug at all. He didn’t like to take things into his mouth but I really wanted to play Frisbee so we started learning how to tug. At that time I knew very little and our journey was full of frustration. That wasn’t a fun experience for any of us. We were working hard and after a year we managed to bring tugging to the level where I can call that a reinforcement. Was it hard? Definitely… Would it be easier to do if I had known as much as I know now? It would! So what is “Iron Jaws”? It’s a compendium of knowledge which I hope I have known when I started. I know that I am not the only one who struggled with this behavior. It’s harder than most people think and that’s why I wrote this course. The goal is to teach you to tug and give you a clear view of what to do BUT “what” is not enough for me. With a little help from science, I will show you why does it work. Tugging is not magic. It’s behavior like a sit or lie down and shares the same principles of learning. It’s also one of the best ways for creating a strong and happy relationship with your dog AND it’s so fun to do! Lessons you can expect can be divided into three major categories:

Basics of learning- We will introduce simple concepts like ABCs, primary and secondary reinforcers, motivation, and operationalizing behaviors we want to teach. It will be our scientific core for understanding why we teach the way we do.
Myths- common knowledge and misunderstandings about tugging. We will dig deep into why things happen and we will question what we know.
Tugging- Pure practice and mechanics of the game. How to do it right. Meaning what to do to be safe and have a blast together.

If your dog doesn’t “like” to tug this course is for you!

Iron Jaws

How to teach your dog to love tugging

Mikolaj Synowiec

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Are you the right fit for this course? Is your dog willing to play? Your session might be messy and unorganized but if the willingness for interaction is there it’s definitely enough! If you answered “no” and you want to learn how to teach to enjoy toy play please check out my other course “Iron Jaws”. What will you learn? In short we “teach rewards”. It’s a collection of tug based games that teach a dog all those minor things that we don’t appreciate when they are there but we can get very frustrated when they aren’t. This is a core for the effectiveness of any future toy based training session. Exercises with a dog:

Quality tug- how to do it right? How to make a great reinforcer and strength exercise out of it.
Catch the rat- introduction to chasing. Teaches a dog how to execute effective catch on moving target. How to control its body and judging the distance between him/her and a toy.
Drop – if you teach your dog to drop by grabbing its color you are doing it wrong. You will learn four different dropping games. Your dog will think “how can I make this human monkey ask me to drop”.
Exchange work- swiftly switching from playing with one toy to another. Imagine cool looking freestyle routine. Would it be equally cool if a dog had no idea when to refocus from one frisbee to another? It’s also often used reinforcement procedure.
Follow me- base for fetch is a dog that wants to come back and share a toy with you. That’s what we are teaching here.
Tossing toys- it’s combined catch a rat with following.

You will receive one exercise per week. On top of that additional lectures covering more specific aspects and topics. “Preparation for Frisbee” series Preparation for Frisbee is a series of four courses that are meant to turn newbie dogfrisbee adept into a team with good foundations that allow them to have fun with flying plastic safely. This course contains references to this sport and how all we do apply to our future play. Remember that Frisbee is just another toy so the foundation for effective interaction and understanding between you and your dog is the key for further success. It’s a first step to getting great at my beloved sport Dogfrisbee! Don’t worry if you are not interested in dogfrisbee. All skills and lessons apply to any toy based training.

Toy play foundation behaviors

Foundation behaviors for toy play and future dogfrisbee performance

Mikolaj Synowiec

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$115.16

If you can dream it (and your dog is physically able to) we can do it.. This is a good match for a course for you, if you have very specific behaviors you want to work on, and want to dedicate time to getting it perfect it. If you prefer to work on your "own thing", rather than working on a fixed program. This is where you sign up, if you already know exactly what you would like help with, but cant find the course that targets that. Here, you can work with any behavior or exercise that you would like - as long as you can describe, what it should look like. Since there, after a lot of the courses, has been requests for one-to-ones, I decided to create this course, as the online version of that. - Its an ongoing opportunity to video and get feedback on the exercise, 6 days pr week. This is your chance to get 6 weeks of feedback on your videos, without it being within in certain limits of prechosen behaviors or mandatory tasks. The sky is the limit here, and the only criteria for me to help you, is that you are using or willing to use positive reinforcement. You tell me what behavior your are aiming for, and how it looks, and I will help you get there. Therw will be fewer lessons in this course, as all the focus is on the work and how we get to the goal you have set. However, there are a few lessons in there, just to make sure that you have also been through that. In this course, there will be lessons with information on

off cue behaviors
fluency
cueing
backchaining
doggie-zen

We will not go very deep into many theoretical lessons in this course, as this is mainly for the practical purpose. The focus is practical training and not a lot theoretical learning. Therefore this course is mostly not a suitable course for auditors. The amount of content is mostly decided by the premiums participants, as it depends on how active they are. Therefor, auditors are welcome, but there are better options. Remember, its your fantasy that decided what we work with. I cant wat to hear, what your "unicorn" behavior is. Catja x

WYW – What you wish!

Tailored to your needs!

Catja B. Pedersen

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$115.16

When used strategically, positive reinforcement provides a way to communicate with a learner. In a good relationship communication never stops. By reinforcing we talk to the dog and simultaneously we learn to listen. Understanding the reinforcement process can improve the relationship between humans and dogs. If we have knowledge of the way dogs learn we can build mutual understanding. Since reinforcement fluctuates the value, it is very important to know what is reinforcing for our learner in this particular moment. Because reinforcement is a dynamic process it changes quickly and in one-moment chicken treats are the highest value and the best reinforcement, a few minutes later they become much less important than a ball. If we understand the science behind behavior we are more likely to understand our learners. We will be less prone to label our learners and more willing to communicate with them using appropriate tools. In this course we focus on:

mechanics of positive reinforcement,
delivery protocols,
use of marker cues,
the clarity in the learning cycle, loop
transport and breaks

This is Carol and Sweep's video of before and after this course - look at the change with this stand!!!

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Mechanics of positive reinforcement, delivery protocols and use of marker cues

Agnieszka Janarek

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$115.16

Welcome to Positive Puppy Preschool. The course is aimed at the new puppy owner and is about the early learning for your puppy, from 8 – 16 weeks that forms a crucial part of the socialisation period. For those of you who have had dogs before, you may notice some changes in the early learning encouraged for young puppies. These changes have been developed through research by several prominent universities and uses applied behaviour analysis (ABA) to underpin the learning.

What to expect

Six weekly lessons with written information and video(s)
Homework tasks both written, online and videoed practical training
Daily feedback (6 days per week) for Premium Members

What is covered

Socialisation & habituation
Introduction to the science of learning
The mechanics of clicker training
Capturing, shaping & luring
Adding cues
Introduction to canine body language
Exploring the environment
Handling with consent
Creative feeding
Puppy play
Planning effective training sessions
Foundation training
- Settle
- Managing puppy mouthing
- Walking on a lead
- Coming back when called
- Leave
- Drop/give up items
- Four paws on the floor (an alternative to jumping up)

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Positive Puppy Preschool

Early learning for your puppy, from 8 – 16 weeks

Karen Backhouse

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$115.16

Target sticks, target mats, sticky-notes, hand target, chin target, shoulder target.. The list is long. Have you ever been thinking about how you can get the maximum result, out of working with targets in your sessions? Then this is the course for you. One of the most important things, when working with targets and target behaviors, is to have a plan. Awareness is key and enables you to make the most out of every single repetition, where you are using the help of the target. Targets, in most cases, are helping to teach a new behavior, to add duration in behaviors, to teach directions or to be able to groom/care for your animal in the most respectful way, while you are both still kept safe. Some of the specific targets and ways of using targeting, that we will learn about in this course, is:

Directional targets - send aways etc.
Position targets - position changes - locked front legs or hind legs
Platforms - accuracy in positions
Duration targets - keeping absolutely still with duration
Husbandry targets - Targeting with distractions
Bodypart targets - shoulder, chin, nose, hind leg. Which of the dog's body parts, touches you, and where?
Target mats - to get the dog to a specific place/direction
Target sticks - Moving the dog around, close to the handler
Hand target - An important part of the release and a perfect reset behavior
Target transfer - Teaching the dog to close cabinets, turn off the light, or whatever behavior you would like
Sticky notes - The easiest tool to fade

Apart from learning about that, we will also talk about some of the pitfalls and great advices, when working with targets.

Successful fading of the target - when and how
When is the target a final cue or part of the final behavior
When is targets a good idea
The ideal time to present a target
What does it look like
Careful criteria setting and why it is especially important

This course is suitable for everyone that is interested in using target as a help in their training and minimize the food lures. For premium participants, it is recommended that your dog has tried some of the target variations before. The big goal in this course is to be able to smoothly evaluate the session as it plays out, and have the skills to fade the target in the fastest way, without risking a breakdown of the behavior. I can´t wait to target those target talks! Catja x

Targeting targets!

Target extravaganza

Catja B. Pedersen

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$115.16

For dogs, cats, parrots, and all pets owners. This course is open to beginners. Used as a scientific approach to analyze, understand, and modify behavior, applied behavior analysis (ABA) is used to improve (or change) specific behaviors. Applied Behavior Analysis allows us to change the environment in order to change the behavior. Whether you share your life with a pet dog, a parrot, a cat, a pig, an elephant, or a ladybug, the fundamentals of behavior analysis apply to them. This six weeks course is specifically for owners who have a behavior problem with their pet's behavior or any person willing to learn more about behavior analysis. Common behavior problems our students usually work on:

recall from other dogs, humans
resource guarding
jumping on guests/guest greetings
chewing
stealing food
excessive barking / screaming / meowing
toilet training

For several weeks, you will learn how to analyze and understand your pet's behavior, but also how to modify it effectively, while always respecting his well-being. What this course covers :

Labels vs. observable behaviors
Data collection
Classical conditioning
Operant conditioning
Positive reinforcement
Behavior functions
ABC scheme (three-term contingency)
Hierarchy of behavior-change
Behavior modification

Thanks to accessible and easy definitions but also homework and guidance, you will be able to understand the meaning of applied behavior analysis terms, and you will learn how to use it. Premium participants: The homework offered each week during this course will allow you to analyze and modify your pet's behavior "in real-time". To get the most out of these six weeks, you are advised to practice the exercises as soon as they are published. Although all behaviors can be analyzed with the tools and techniques covered during this course, due to their specificities, outdoor reactivity/aggression/phobia, and separation anxiety will not be covered during these six weeks (aggression indoors may be seen during this course). Applied behavior analysis aim should not be to address unwanted behavior, but rather to learn new skills* to live in harmony in one's environment. * for both the animal and the human who shares his life! This course is a prerequisite for acceding the "FACING THE ENVIRONMENT : Helping reactive, aggressive & phobic dogs" class.

The problem solving guide to your pet’s behavior

An easily accessible science related course for pet owners

Lisa Longo

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$115.16

Training is a skill we need to learn. Teaching animals is not magic, nor common sense. It's a combination of science and practical skills we need to master. Don't worry if you don't know where to start! I have prepared this course for you. It will guide you through the foundations of training. Step by step journey for anyone wishing to learn more!

Too often, we end up in a position of being teacher and learner at the same time, because we hadn't had a chance to work on our mechanics, clicker skills, delivery patterns before we started working with our learners.

This course is a compendium of knowledge and practice for animal trainers. Focusing on the scientific approach to animal training we will cover ABA (applied behavior analysis) principles and how they resonate with what we do with animals, we will cover the mechanics and techniques of teaching behaviors! It's a perfect place to start your training journey, but it is also an appropriate course for more advanced students who want to geek in the depths of thoughtful training. Get ready for discussions, practical exercises, and thorough insight into the animal training world.

Throughout six weeks of online learning, we will cover:

clicker training mechanics
skills for the trainer
errorless learning
chaining
adding stimulus control to behaviors
luring
shaping
structure of training session
concept of fluency
frustration and errors
raising criteria
moulding
concept of loopy training
planning your training session

Course syllabus: Week 1 Lesson 1 - Welcome and Introductions Lesson 2 - Education of choice and science. Lesson 3 - Basic terms Lesson 4 - Behavior and its contingencies Lesson 5 - Consequences Lesson 6 - Marker cues Lesson 7 - Behavior profile Lesson 8 - Luring Week 2 Lesson 9 - Handler’s technique Lesson 10 - Strategies Lesson 11 - Moulding by contact Week 3 Lesson 12 - Shaping Lesson 13 - Cue for shaping - explored Lesson 14 - Outcome versus result. Does it matter? Lesson 15 - Examples of shaping Lesson 16 - Frustration Week 4 Lesson 17 - Handler’s technique - helper Lesson 18 - Moulding by the environment Lesson 19 - Schedules of reinforcement Lesson 20 - Fading out Lesson 21 - Fluency Week 5 Lesson 22 - What about emotions? Lesson 23 - Antecedent Arrangement Lesson 24 - Cues Lesson 25 - Error Lesson 26 - Raising criteria Week 6 Lesson 27 - Structure of the training session Lesson 28 - Behavior chains Lesson 29 - WTF? Lesson 30 - Poisoned cues This course is a must-have for anyone interested in diving into depths of scientific dog training. If you want to be the handler your dog deserves - join me for six weeks of great learning. In this course, you can work with multiple animals within the weekly time frame (twelve minutes of video submission per week). This course is multispecies friendly! You can join with any animal you wish! [s3mm type="video" files="handler.mp4" /]

Trainer’s Toolbox

Foundation course focusing on a scientific approach to animal training.

Agnieszka Janarek

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$115.16

Building upon skills we covered in stage one, we will continue our preparation for exams. ORTs and first trials. Our primary focus will always be precise and clear training loop and clarity in search criteria. We will start where we left with stage 1 and focus on:

start line routine
introducing search patterns
duration of search behavior
handling
building clarity in cues during search pattern
generalization of locations
task analysis of searches
basics of scent theory
increasing complexity of puzzles
planning your own training

Course syllabus: Week 1 Lesson 1 - Welcome and Introductions Lesson 2 - Baseline Lesson 3 - Chains in nosework Lesson 4 - ABCs of the search Lesson 5 - Start line routine Lesson 6 - Our variables Lesson 7 - Aging Lesson 8 - Introducing search Week 2 Lesson 9 - Introduction to scent theory Lesson 10 - Inaccessible v. accessible Lesson 11 - Introducing exteriors - boxes on the road Lesson 12 - Introducing exteriors - single hides Lesson 13 - Duration of the search Week 3 Lesson 14 - Handler's job Lesson 15 - Vehicles - introduction Lesson 16 - Adding complexity to the search Lesson 17 - Change of behavior Lesson 18 - No visual cues Week 4 Lesson 19 - Vehicles - cold vehicle Lesson 20 - Exterior Progression Lesson 21 - Vehicles - handling Lesson 22 - Cues in nosework Week 5 Lesson 23 - Duration of the search part 2 Lesson 24 - Crazy handler Lesson 25 - Adding complexity to the search part 2 Week 6 Lesson 26 - Reducing the strength of the odor Lesson 27 - Panning Lesson 28 - What if? https://youtu.be/h4P0nELgnE4

Nosework Stage 2

Getting ready for your first trial!

Agnieszka Janarek

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$115.16

Before we start teaching our learners complicated behaviors and advanced concepts, we need to teach them how to learn. This course focuses on building one of the most important skills our dogs need in training; focus. But hold on a second! What is FOCUS? What does it look like? Is it tangible? How do I know I have it? Throughout six weeks of online learning, we will answer all these questions and much more. We will operationalize attention, define focus contingency. You will learn how to build an errorless training session, how to define your learner's focus, how to measure it and how to add layers to your work. Based on my experience, the majority of time caregivers, handlers experience issues in training, is when they have not taught the attention contingency. Our "focus bubble." We can't teach anything if our animals don't have the necessary skills of how to learn. If your dog looks around, sniffs, doesn't respond on cue, looks at you when should be working at a distance, engages with everything in the environment, but yourself - this course is just perfect for you. Join me for six weeks journey! Learn about:

how to start the training session
how to end the training session
focus behaviors operationalized
clean focus loops from the start
wait for cue behavior
building easy to more complex training scenarios
training loops
backward chaining
antecedent arrangement
trainer's mechanics
multiple exercises for building focus behaviors

Course syllabus: Week 1: Lesson 1 – Welcome and Introductions Lesson 2 – Definition and concept of focus Lesson 3 - Acclimation Lesson 4 - The rules apply both ways Lesson 5 - Outline of the course Lesson 6 - Delivery checkpoint Lesson 7 - Marker cues Lesson 8 - Start of the training session Week 2: Lesson 9 - The end of the training session Lesson 10 - Response to cue Lesson 11 - Don't call your dog Week 3: Lesson 12 - ABCs Lesson 13 - Catch me if you can Week 4: Lesson 14 - Extinction Lesson 15 - Wait for the cue Lesson 16 - Sandwich style Week 5: Lesson 17 - Backward chaining Lesson 18 - Break Lesson 19 - Altogether Week 6: Lesson 17 - Did someone mention competition? Lesson 18 - Competing stimulus - distractions Lesson 19 - The end, or the new beginning? This course is a prerequisite for Let Me Want It.

In this course, you can work with multiple animals within the weekly time frame (twelve minutes of video submission per week).

This course is multispecies friendly! You can join with any animal you wish! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5AXY6MUiYs&feature=youtu.be

Attention Please

Before we start teaching our learners complicated behaviors we need to teach them how to learn.

Agnieszka Janarek

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$115.16

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Shaping inside out!

Agnieszka Janarek

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Heelwork or hellwork?

Agnieszka Janarek

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To Cue or Not to Cue?

Agnieszka Janarek

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Clicker Training Principles Are For Teaching Humans, Too!

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Flowchart your training sessions

Emelie Johnson Vegh

Eva Bertilsson

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Leave it! No! Off! Reframing Impulse Control for Pet Owners

Sarah Owings

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Hold you horses! Teaching duration behaviors!

Agnieszka Janarek

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Food for thought: approaching eating as an operant behavior and food as more than just a reinforcer

Agnieszka Janarek

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Science!

Training at Tromplo is based on a scientific approach to learning and its application in animal training. We use applied behavior analysis principles to understand why animals behave the way they do. Positive reinforcement is what we do!

Choice!

Because it is empowering! For you and your animal. You choose what you want to learn. Your animal chooses to engage in a learning journey with you.

Always!

Because you never stop learning. That’s why we are always available, from the comfort of your home.

Tromplo is something different, something special. We believe in science and experience, not common knowledge.

You will learn the principles used by the top training professionals in the world, because that’s what your animal deserves. Because we apply science, our work is ethical, effective, practical, reinforcing and brings clarity to your training sessions. Animal training and learning science is our passion!

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Welcome to Tromplo World!

Welcome to Tromplo World! We are happy to see you here! Tromplo is an online training platform dedicated to animal training. We are a group of trainers dedicated to animal’s welfare. We want to share our knowledge and experience with you, to help you become the best teacher for your animal. We come from different […]

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A key to a successful toy play with your dog

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Tromplo - animal training platform

Tromplo is an online animal training platform. We teach you and your animal, but we are not just a dog training school. Tromplo offers learning opportunities for all species, humans included. Our students are dogs, cats, horses, goats, pigs, parrots, turtles, hamsters, and human learners.
We offer six weeks online courses, webinars for animal training and a broad range of free content - facebook lives, articles, videos, and our popular podcast - The Dog Real Talk.

Professional trainings for your animal

Tromplo is a place where you will learn up to date, science-based methods in animal training. All our instructors are respected professionals in the field. At Tromplo, we only use positive reinforcement-based protocols, and our team has very high ethical standards.
It doesn't matter if you are new to dog training or if you are already a professional in the community, Tromplo has a lot to offer to everyone. We offer animal video training courses. Whether you seek help with your pet's problem behavior, want to learn dog disc foundation, geek into the science of animal training, learn to use positive reinforcement with your kid, or find out what this clicker training is all about, Tromplo is a perfect place! Tromplo offers thoughtful and thorough education for anyone interested in the science of learning, dog training, pet training!

Animal training online courses

All our animal video training courses are online, last six weeks, and offer two options for attendance. Premium and Auditor. Both give you 24/7 access to course materials, which includes lessons, videos, homework from your instructor.
There is more! You get lifetime access to this content and a certificate of attendance! If you choose Premium Spot - you will have six weeks of daily, personalized feedback from the instructor, and up to 12 minutes weekly video, you can submit for the review! Check out our animal training platform now!

Why would you choose online learning?

As one of our students said, "With online learning, you can choose your own time to train. Also, I think online learning gives opportunities to share more of the better quality knowledge at the same price as seminars. There is no necessity to use mental shortcuts, labels, or generalization because everyone has more time to process the knowledge."

nurtures independent learning,
Flexible access that offers a platform for you to learn, when & where suits you,
easily accessible Tutor support and interaction,
training available at the individual's pace,
provides both sound theory and practical knowledge,
advantages of one on one training (personalized feedback) combined with group training (learning from others),
offers a clear, structured learning pathway,

has the advantages of one on one training (personalized feedback) combined with group training (learning from others),
become part of a supportive, enriching community,
environmentally friendly,
practice on a regular basis,
provides a non-intrusive environment for the learner,
lifetime access to course material

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