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Trust Code Pt. 1

“Go to people for opinions. Go to animals for answers.” -Alexandra Kurland

Trust is a construct. However, the way we interpret and experience this construct is fundamental to our lives, our relationships, and our ability to learn. We all know the sting and disorientation when someone betrays our trust, when our expectations or needs are not met, when we feel unsafe or unsure of what is about to happen, when we feel judged, penalized, or a loss of control over outcomes.

Although the laws of learning never change, gone are the days when training an animal is merely about the narrow suppression or construction of behavior. At the core of this exciting teaching and learning revolution, modern trainers are asking questions about trust. “What does trust look like for the animal I am working with?” “What is the measure of that trust?” “Can trust be measured?” “Under what conditions do I see trust occur?” Above all, what every enlightened practitioner wants to know is: “How can I build a strong trust account with the animals in my care?” And, “How can I repair trust when I’m forced to take a withdrawal?”

In this course, we will take a deep dive into what it means to “operationalize” trust in our day to day lives with our dogs (or any species with whom we spend our time). We will be asking lots of questions, putting aside our human assumptions, and doing our best to listen to what the animals tell us trust means to them.

COURSE OUTLINE:

Premiums will be invited to pick topics that resonate most powerfully for them. In the interests of unhurried learning, I will also offer a Trust Code Pt. 2 for further study if there is enough interest.

Areas for Exploration:

Defining trust: what does it look like?
Taking a trust baseline
The ABCs of trust
Building trust with antecedents
Filling your dog’s emotional cup
Reinforcement patterns that invite YES
Portable safe spaces
Power of daily rituals
Happy husbandry stations
Working with extinction: “not now” and S-delta cues
From commands to cues to questions
Ask and answer communication for maximum trust
Expanding degrees of freedom in training
Play and possession
Stimulus control on toy cues for clarity and safety
Even in Australia: getting through the hard stuff and how to repair trust afterwards

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Eva and Emelie

Seamlessness – from one reward to the next

Zooming in on the details of a great training session

Self-study course! Auditors only! (No premium spots in this course)

Positive reinforcement training is about setting up for success and making sure desired behaviors are followed by reinforcers, which strengthen the behavior in the future. In this course you get to join the Swedish duo Eva and Emelie as they zoom in on the small but important details that make up a training session, from one reward to the next. What happens right after each reward? What happens within your reward procedure? And why does it matter?

In “Seamlessness – from one reward to the next” you will learn learn how to work deliberately with small but significant details, paying attention to all the parts of the training loop and using them to create seamless training sessions. The material in this course will help you develop your own training sessions further. Your planning will get better, your training will become smoother, and both you and your learner will enjoy the process even more than before!

Course syllabus:

Week 1
Lesson 1 – Introduction to the course
Lesson 2 – The underpinnings
Lesson 3 – From one reward to the next – overview
Week 2
Lesson 4 – Training session fundamentals
Lesson 5 – The reward ends
Week 3
Lesson 6 – Criteria
Lesson 7 – Mark
Week 4
Lesson 8 – The reward appears
Lesson 9 – Take the reward
Lesson 10 – During the reward
Week 5
Lesson 11 – The reward ends (again)
Lesson 12 – Criteria not met
Week 6
Lesson 13 – Putting behavior together
Lesson 14 – Flowcharting your training session
Lesson 15 – Summarizing seamlessness

This is a 6 week self-study course. New lessons will be presented each week (a total of 15 lessons) and you will have continued access to the material after the course finishes.

We have so much material we wish to share with you on this topic – in this course, we put it together in a comprehensive yet extensive form. Our goal is to provide you with a lot of information and ideas from which you can extrapolate the aspects you currently wish to work with in your own training.

The course is auditors only, allowing you to digest the material at your own pace and consider how it relates to your own training. There will be follow-up courses with practical training and feedback from us, we just wish to have everyone on the same page first… There are so many aspects to consider – it literally takes us six weeks to get from one reward to the next!

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Lisa Longo

Facing Ourselves

Analyzing and Modifying Our Own Behaviors

Modifying one’s own behavior, reducing those we consider undesirable or increasing those we like, is no different than modifying the behavior of our animals/children/students.

The steps are the same, the laws and principles are the same.

If we find this challenge much more complicated, it is often because we lack the tools or techniques to achieve it.

Understanding how our own behaviors work is key to knowing how to change them.

We all behave as best as we can, based on our current skills and knowledge.

Mark Twain said “giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times”. This is of course what we all want to avoid. When facing ourselves, we want our plan to succeed from the first trial.

This six weeks course offers an introduction to tools and techniques to modify our own undesirable behaviors and, above all, to learn good ones instead, so that these last for the long term.

The behaviors seen during these six weeks can be diverse and varied.
So this course can be for you if you want to understand how to lose weight, increase your physical activity, stop biting your nails, stop procrastinating, be better organized, take your dog out more often, quit smoking, and so on.

⚠️ This course is absolutely not a substitute for a follow-up with a health professional or expert in human behavior!

If your behavior has a significant impact on your physical or mental health, we recommend personalized follow-up with a health professional.

Not having a formal background in human behavior, this course is a personal vision of the principles and practices of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) that I learned over the years.

In this course, we will offer an introduction that will hopefully give you a new perspective on your behavior.

As an expert in the animal field, Lisa Longo brings here a first approach on how to modify human behavior, one’s own human behavior. The course evokes the different main concepts of procedures in applied behavior analysis. Examples and definitions are appreciated for their accuracy and simplicity. I recommend this course for novices and those who want to deepen certain notions!

Alexandra Lecestre, BCBA psychologist (www.ba-eservice.info)

Syllabus :

Week 1

S1-1 Tromplo Welcome

S1-2 My story

S1-3 Popular definitions

S1-4 What is a behavior ?

S1-5 Labels

S1-6 Operationalizing

S1-7 Why me ?

S1-8 Data collection

S1-9 Self-monitoring

S1-10 Creating a chart with Excel

S1-11 Goals

S1-12 Homework

Week 2

S2-1 The different types of learning

S2-2 Classical conditioning (or respondant conditioning)

S2-3 Counterconditioning

S2-4 Operant conditioning (or instrumental conditioning)

S2-5 Positive reinforcement

S2-6 Negative reinforcement

S2-7 Positive punishment

S2-8 Negative punishment

S2-9 The behavior’s future frequency

S2-10 What works ?

S2-11 Homework

Week 3

S3-1 The behavior’s function

S3-2 The ABC scheme

S3-3 Distant antecedents

S3-4 Motivating operations

S3-5 Immediate antecedent

S3-6 The consequence

S3-7 Prediction

S3-8 Writing the scheme

S3-9 Summary diagram

S3-10 Homework

Week 4

S4-1 Motivation

S4-2 Procrastination

S4-3 Hierarchy of behavior-change procedures

S4-4 Intrusive, coercive and dangerous procedures

S4-5 Health and behavior

S4-6 Self-management

S4-7 Selfcontrol and Willpower

S4-8 Antecedent arrangements

S4-9 Homework

Week 5

S5-1 Positive reinforcement

S5-2 Reinforcers

S5-3 How works a reinforcer ?

S5-4 Self-praise

S5-5 Schedules of reinforcement

S5-6 Differential reinforcement

S5-7 Premack Principle

S5-8 Homework

Week 6

S6-1 Generalization

S6-2 Gather informations

S6-3 The behavior-change plan

S6-4 My experience

S6-5 Data collection

S6-6 TAGteach (lesson reviewed by Theresa McKeon and Joan Orr)

S6-6 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and others

S6-7 Habit Reversal Training (HRT)

S6-8 Conclusion

S6-9 Homework

S6-10 End

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Agnieszka Janarek

Nosework Stage 1

From first session to ORTs preparation

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.

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Mikolaj Synowiec

Iron Jaws

How to teach your dog to love tugging

This course is very sentimental for 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 (I’m pretty stubborn so I kept trying) 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 on what to do BUT “what” is not enough for me. With a little help of science I will show you why does it work. Tugging is not magic. It’s a behavior like a sit or lie down and shares the same principles of learning. It’s also one of the best ways for creating 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 ABC’s, primary and secondary reinforcer, motivation and operationalising 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!

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Mikolaj Synowiec

Iron Jaws

How to teach your dog to love tugging

This course is very sentimental for 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 (I’m pretty stubborn so I kept trying) 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 on what to do BUT “what” is not enough for me. With a little help of science I will show you why does it work. Tugging is not magic. It’s a behavior like a sit or lie down and shares the same principles of learning. It’s also one of the best ways for creating 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 ABC’s, primary and secondary reinforcer, motivation and operationalising 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!

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Mikolaj Synowiec

Iron Jaws

How to teach your dog to love tugging

This course is very sentimental for 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 (I’m pretty stubborn so I kept trying) 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 on what to do BUT “what” is not enough for me. With a little help of science I will show you why does it work. Tugging is not magic. It’s a behavior like a sit or lie down and shares the same principles of learning. It’s also one of the best ways for creating 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 ABC’s, primary and secondary reinforcer, motivation and operationalising 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!

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Aileen Stevenson

Preparing Your Dog For Life With Your Baby

Preparation in advance – more success, less stress!

The arrival of a new baby is a huge lifestyle change for humans….and also for the dogs we live with. In the UK behavioural problems related to the addition of a new baby to a family is one of the top 3 reasons that dogs are surrendered for rehoming.

But some preparation and simple training before the baby’s birth can prevent problems arising and set everyone in the family – human and canine – up for success.

Over the course of 6 weeks we’ll discuss a range of issues including –

Body language: how to become more dog observant and understand the signs that your dog is becoming stressed
Lifestyle changes: what is likely to change for your dog and how can you make these transitions easier
Baby Incompatible Behaviours: are there things that are acceptable now but won’t be acceptable with a baby in the home?
(Baby) Proofing Behaviours: to create rock solid behaviours under new conditions
Supervision: what it is and what it isn’t
New Things: familiarising your dog with new sounds, scents, equipment etc
Homecoming & First Meetings: what to do and what not to do

The course will include practical exercises and assignments each week.

This course is for you if you are an expectant parent (or grandparent) with a dog, or are living with dogs & young babies or are a professional trainer working with family dogs.

Preparation in advance – more success, less stress!

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Aileen Stevenson

Click and Treat

Clicker training is a powerful way to communicate with our animals.

What is clicker training? How does it work? How do I do it? What can I teach using it?

If you want to know the answers to these questions this course is for you! “Click & Treat!” is a comprehensive introduction to clicker training – a fast, fun, effective way to communicate clearly with animals. No prior knowledge is needed…. all you need is a learner (of any species!), a clicker & some treats!

In this course, which combines theory with practice, you will learn:

What clicker training is & how it works
An introduction to how dogs learn
How to use a clicker effectively
What makes a good reward
How to get the behaviour you want – capturing, targeting, shaping & luring
Adding a cue
Strengthening behaviours

Clicker training is a powerful way to communicate with our animals. Join us to find out more.

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Aileen Stevenson

Click and Treat

Clicker training is a powerful way to communicate with our animals.

What is clicker training? How does it work? How do I do it? What can I teach using it?

If you want to know the answers to these questions this course is for you! “Click & Treat!” is a comprehensive introduction to clicker training – a fast, fun, effective way to communicate clearly with animals. No prior knowledge is needed…. all you need is a learner (of any species!), a clicker & some treats!

In this course, which combines theory with practice, you will learn:

What clicker training is & how it works
An introduction to how dogs learn
How to use a clicker effectively
What makes a good reward
How to get the behaviour you want – capturing, targeting, shaping & luring
Adding a cue
Strengthening behaviours

Clicker training is a powerful way to communicate with our animals. Join us to find out more.

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Lisa Longo

The problem solving guide to your pet’s behavior

An easily accessible science related course for pet owners

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, individual, amateur, or professional working with animals, willing to learn more about behavior analysis.

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!

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Karen Backhouse

Positive Puppy Preschool

Early learning for your puppy, from 8 – 16 weeks

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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Karen Backhouse

Positive Puppy Preschool

Early learning for your puppy, from 8 – 16 weeks

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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Agnieszka Janarek

Attention Please

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

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!

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