Are you facing challenges with a delicate, shy, or easily discouraged dog?
Do you find yourself struggling to motivate your dog?
Are you wondering if they are simply not cut out for certain tasks or lacking in drive?
If you resonate with these concerns, this course is precisely for you. We will deconstruct labels, operationalize behaviors, and modify the environment to influence your learner’s behavior. Over the span of six weeks of online learning, we will introduce choice behaviors at the onset of training sessions and learn how to effectively monitor and nurture them throughout our work together.
- What is the choice in the animal training world?
- Can we teach choice?
- What does it look like?
We all say the choice is essential in training, but what do we really mean by that? What does it mean for our dog, cat, or horse?
What will you learn from this course?
In this course, we will focus on teaching the crucial skill of choice to our animals. By establishing clear communication channels between you and your animals, we will empower your dog by adding consent behaviors to their repertoire. Throughout our six-week journey, you will learn to make observations, gather accurate data, analyze training sessions, and adapt your learning process accordingly to effectively support your learner.
The course curriculum includes:
- Motivating operations
- Fundamentals of the science of learning
- Humane hierarchy by Susan Friedman
- Strategic antecedent arrangement
- Transformative role of play in interactions
- Significance of consent behaviors
- Underlying theory behind choice
- Five stages of introducing choice
- Uncovering precurrent behaviors for success
- Effective strategies for handling errors
- Establishing a reliable barometer for gauging your dog’s engagement during training sessions
Flexibility! This course allows you to work with multiple animals within the weekly time frame, dedicating twelve minutes to video submissions each week. Moreover, this course warmly welcomes participants from all species, granting you the freedom to choose any animal you desire as your learning partner.
Please note that the prerequisite course “Attention Please” is a stepping stone towards the Premium Student experience.
Course Testimonials
LET ME WANT IT is the right mixture of theory, practical application and exercises. Agnieszka was so patient with me, she supported and answered all my questions and helped me understand the concept of Motivating Operations more and more (what an amazing and interesting subject). But the real bonus is when you see a change in your dog from an insecure leash-reactive dog to a curious and more relaxed learner. And we didn’t even work on feeling more secure or leash-walking. The work we did in ATTENTION PLEASE and LET ME WANT IT bleeds over into the “issues” Kessy had and has and the slowly fade away.
I am so grateful for this place and for it’s instructors and their compassion for animals, their human handlers, science and teaching. For me it is the right balance between theory and exercises. Thank you so much.
June 30, 2023
June 30, 2023
Not to my surprise, another awesome course by Agnieszka!
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 unlike anything I’ve seen anywhere else. Certainly not one to finish in 6 weeks, but a lifetime investment for anyone who wants to train their dog in different sports or other activities. Especially important and helpful for dogs that aren’t already very eager and confident in training and great to build trust and clarity. A big part of the course focusses on building play and active behaviours, and if your dog (like mine) isn’t one to naturally offer those reliably, I’d highly recommend a premium spot for extra support and ideas on how to recognise and develop those behaviours further.
June 30, 2023
This course was brilliant for my anxious dog, she is much more into training now and way bolder than she was.
June 30, 2023
Good course