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Off-Cue, Off-Control? Vol. 1
Starts December 1, 2025
Build a truly flexible behavior repertoire—and teach your dog to offer behaviors on their own terms.
In this course, we’ll focus on developing the key foundational skills you and your learner need to train just what you dream of—working with minimal prompts, minimal tools, and maximum choice and creativity.
You’ll learn how to:
- Use shaping and capturing to build a wide range of behaviors off cue (without handler prompts).
- Encourage your dog to actively participate in training: offer sit, down, stand, heel, backing, recall, and more.
- Cultivate focus, doggie-zen, fluency, and creativity—not just obedience.
- Teach essential “on the list” behaviors like bark, search, hold, jump, and release… but also encourage independent thinking.
- Build stimulus control only after behaviors are fluent and reliable—not the other way around.
What makes this course different:
- Less reliance on your hands or treats. We’ll explore how to fade helpers and work toward minimal intrusion.
- High learner choice: your dog gets empowered to offer behavior, not just wait for cues.
- Emphasis on off-cue fluency: your learner can perform behaviors without waiting for your signal.
Structure:
Over 6 weeks, you’ll gain:
- Written lessons combined with clear video tutorials
- Lifetime, 24/7 access to materials
- Interactive learning through community discussion
- This is set study course. one access levels:
- Auditor: Learn at your own pace, receive the course materials, and access the community
- A certificate of attendance, plus Tromplo community membership
Why now?
Catja is returning after a year away—this is her long-awaited relaunch! Her popular off-cue methodology is back, stronger than ever, and ready to help you build a training foundation that supports creativity, focus, and real behavior fluency.
Real results:
“I gained more in 6 weeks than in many previous courses… we achieved behaviors I once thought were out of reach.” — Carol Milner
“Catja’s teaching opened my eyes. I learned to break behavior into small parts so my dog truly understood every step.” — Arianna Tomassoli
“This course changed how I think about cues. Our behaviors are stronger, cleaner, and my dog actually offerswhat I ask.” — Jennifer Will
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.
Course Testimonials
Odie and I have LOVED this course so much! I have gained way more in the last 6 weeks than in many many courses I have done previously (and we were just auditors). The training videos are beautiful to watch and inspiring and have helped me clean up my training so it’s loopy and more understandable to Odie. I have achieved things that on first glance I never thought we’d ever get (backwards walking at heel, hold, pick up hold!)!
I highly recommend this course, Catja is a really excellent and inspiring teacher and she has made learning fun and straightforward!
March 16, 2024
This course and Catja’s support is immense! I’ve had so much fun learning and I’m inspired to keep going with off cue techniques to improve my training. Highly recommend the course and Catja’s teaching.
March 7, 2024
June 30, 2023
The idea as such “attach a cue when the behavior is fluent” cannot even grasp the concept and possibilities which are revealed by the way of working of Catja and her course “Off Cue, Off Control”. Never before became it so clear to me that the one behaviour builds on the one before. You might read my sentence and think “of course …”. I can only say that there is a different level and experience behind this way of working which challenged me more than my leaner (I have to admit). I really enjoyed the quietness of this work and I became so much more aware of my body in relation to my learner and in the environment.
When I got stuck Catja was always there for me with an alternative approach. She is a very thoughtful and compassionate instructor and she supported me in a wonderful way.
This course has more than 6 weeks material (at least for me) and will accompany me so much longer.
Catja, thank you so much for your warm and understanding support which I really appreciated very much.
June 30, 2023
Just superb Catja thank you so much! Working through the course has totally changed my way of thinking about cues. I would have added them previously long before we became fluent so seeing how this works so well has been eye opening and I haven’t missed the cues one bit in the process. We’ve become fascinated by Hold and Heel both of which would have been on my ‘ I might train this one day if there’s nothing else appealing to train’ ( in other words I WONT be training those!!) Already looking forward to refining both in Part 11 course ?
You are a very kind trainer always finding something encouraging to say even when we made an arse of things and coming up with great ideas when we needed to think outside the box .It’s been a super fun journey and there’s no doubt that Pie has enjoyed it just as much as me!
5 stars for sure!!!
June 30, 2023
I highly enjoyed this course, I cannot praise Catja enough for her kind support and genuine interest as a teacher. She has a real skill for seeing the tiniest things you can change that make a massive difference on the behaviour and also thinking outside of the box. She is the perfect guide to develop your own handling as well. We made progress on the retrieve, where we have been stuck on the hold meaning chewing for months on end and finally got a bit of a breakthrough and some hope =) The lectures are very structured and you get a skillset and a sort of checklist you can use for future training sessions as, this is truly lifelong learning and I am looking forward to the next course with Catja, hopefully in spring 2021! Words are not enough to express my gratitude for all the take-aways from the course <3
June 30, 2023
This is one of the best courses I’ve attended. I learnt many things that I didn’t know, I learnt from my mistakes and I started to look at training with new eyes. Catja is an amazing teacher, she’s always happy and kind. She helped me every single day, she taught me to divide behaviors in small parts so that the dog can really understand the process. She has been overwhelmed by my questions but she always replied, no matter what. Even when language was a barrier, she found the time to show me some things through videos. She soon understood me and my dog so she could find the best solutions for our problems or mistakes. And this is what I expect from a teacher. I am sorry, I’m not an English native speaker otherwise I would have more words to explain what a wonderful person and teacher Catja is. This is my first Tromplo course and I am totally satisfied :))