SIX-WEEK ONLINE COURSE · AUDITOR / SELF-STUDY · US$139
Choice matters only when the learner’s behavior changes what happens next.
A learner may be physically able to leave while the trainer follows, repeats the cue, blocks another option, or removes every valuable outcome. That is movement. It may not be a functional choice.
Let Me Want It! helps you make participation observable. You will build behaviors for beginning, continuing, pausing, declining, and finishing; examine reinforcement, latency, and readiness; and add work without quietly removing the exit.
- Course length: six weeks
- Next start: 1 November 2026
- Format: independent online study
- Access: one year from purchase
Build participation you can test
- Make it observable
Define what beginning, continuing, pausing, leaving, and returning look like for this learner. - Make it effective
Arrange the session so those behaviors reliably change the trainer’s next action. - Keep it functional
Retest the exit as work becomes longer, more varied, or more important to you.
“Unmotivated” is an impression. It is not yet an analysis.
Shy, easily discouraged, lacking drive, and not cut out for this may describe how a training problem feels to the trainer. They do not tell us what the learner does, which conditions change the behavior, what consequences are available, or when the session should pause.
This course replaces those labels with observable questions. What does readiness look like? How long is the latency? Is the selected outcome maintaining the behavior? What happens after the learner leaves? Does returning restart the same difficult arrangement, or has the trainer used the information to change something?
The five-stage participation system
- Make participation available. Introduce a simple start behavior in an easy context and give pause or leaving an effective outcome.
- Shape the signal and examine reinforcement. Build the behavior gradually while observing latency, reinforcement use, and reorientation.
- Add one manageable piece of work. Follow consent with a familiar exercise and check whether participation continues.
- Increase interaction deliberately. Add duration and repetitions without turning the start behavior into permission for an unlimited session.
- Build sequences and challenge. Add variation while checking that the learner’s smallest useful yes, no, and not-yet responses still work.
These stages are a decision route, not a calendar. A learner may move forward in one context and need an earlier arrangement in another.
Your six-week learning map
Week 1 · Replace labels with an arrangement
Operationalize behavior, examine motivating operations and humane planning, arrange antecedents, allow acclimation, assess prerequisites, and define what choice and play look like for the individual learner.
Week 2 · Shape participation and read latency
Examine whether the selected consequence maintains the target behavior, use latency as one source of information, and shape the consent behavior without demanding a finished response immediately.
Week 3 · Add work after consent
Introduce a familiar, manageable exercise and study the human learner’s timing, clarity, and criteria as parts of the same arrangement.
Week 4 · Increase interaction without removing the exit
Add more work and extend the training loop while preserving meaningful ways to pause and finish.
Week 5 · Build sequences and challenge
Examine clarity, conditioning relations, exercise sequences, increased criteria, and the transition from reinforcement to the next antecedent.
Week 6 · Test whether choice still functions
Analyse the behavior between reinforcement and the next opportunity, examine negative-reinforcement relations carefully, and check participation when the work becomes more complex.
What you will leave with
- observable definitions for beginning, continuing, pausing, declining, and finishing;
- a way to measure latency and readiness without treating one number as a diagnosis;
- a check for whether the selected consequence is functioning as reinforcement;
- a staged plan for adding duration, repetitions, and sequences;
- continue, change, pause, and stop rules for the trainer; and
- a method for identifying when apparent choice no longer changes the learner’s outcome.
See the course idea in practice
The course demonstrations let you observe the transitions around participation: the start behavior, the trainer’s response, the work that follows, reinforcement, pause, leaving, and return. Watch what the arrangement makes possible, not only whether the learner stays nearby.
Who this course is for
This course is for trainers and caregivers working with learners who hesitate, leave, become slower, stop taking food, appear uncertain, or participate only when the environment is tightly controlled. It is equally useful when the learner appears eager and you want a more honest way to evaluate consent and session readiness.
The principles apply across species; most examples focus on dogs. Every plan must account for health, comfort, safety, history, and real environmental constraints. The course does not treat a participation signal as permission for unavoidable or medically necessary procedures without separate cooperative-care planning.
What students from earlier editions say
Earlier editions included different participation and support routes. The comments below describe those students’ experiences with the course.
“LET ME WANT IT is the right mixture of theory, practical application and exercises.”
“It’s such a special compilation of easy to understand and insightful advice on how to improve your training and build a conversation with your dog.”
“This course was brilliant for my anxious dog, she is much more into training now and way bolder than she was.”
Your instructor
Agnieszka Janarek is the founder of Tromplo and an animal trainer with a background in Applied Behavior Analysis. Her work makes choice, reinforcement, antecedent arrangement, and learner agency visible in practical training decisions.
I did not create this course to teach a more elegant form of compliance. I created it to help you arrange training in which the learner can act on the environment—and in which their behavior changes your plan.
Make participation part of the contingency
US$139 · six-week Auditor / self-study course · one year of access.
You receive the complete written lessons, video demonstrations, practical exercises, and the five-stage system for building and checking voluntary participation.
Questions before you enrol
Is proximity or eye contact always the consent behavior?
No. You will define and shape behavior that is observable and effective for the individual learner and setup.
Does returning mean the learner has agreed to the whole session?
No. A return is information about this moment. You will continue to monitor readiness and keep pause and finish behaviors effective as the work changes.
Is this course only for hesitant learners?
No. It is also useful when participation appears enthusiastic and you want a more rigorous way to test whether choice still changes what happens next.
Does the course include individual feedback?
This offer is the Auditor / self-study route. It includes the complete course materials, demonstrations, practical exercises, and one year of access.
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