FOCUSED SELF-PACED COURSE · US$69 · START ANYTIME
Duration is not “wait longer.” It is a behavior defined through time, inside a training loop you can examine and redesign.
When a maintained behavior breaks, the extra second is often blamed first. Yet time may not be the first thing that changed. The response may already vary at onset. The trainer’s hands may signal delivery. The marker may have become a release. The reset may be teaching another repetition rather than continued behavior. Duration by Design teaches you to separate those possibilities before you increase the interval again.
You will build one complete Duration Blueprint for an already-acquired behavior: what begins the interval, what ends it, how one trial is bounded, what the learner is currently ready to do, how reinforcement is delivered, how the next opportunity begins, which procedure fits, and what evidence will tell you to progress, hold, roll back, or stop.
The problem this course solves
“Make it last longer” sounds like one criterion. In practice, trainers often raise time together with distance, repetitions, handler movement, context, or response form. Planned duration and achieved duration become difficult to compare because the opportunities are no longer equivalent. A later break is memorable, while an earlier change in posture, location, contact, trainer movement, delivery, or reset passes unnoticed.
This course makes the interval observable. You will define onset and offset, decide whether the behavior is stable enough for duration work, record a short baseline, and map the whole loop from setup to the next opportunity. You will then select a procedure because its conditions fit the behavior—not because “wait,” backchaining, or in-position delivery is supposed to work for everything.
You will learn to
- distinguish duration from distance, repetitions, latency, rate, and compound criteria;
- decide whether the response is ready to last or still needs clearer construction;
- define the exact behavior, onset, offset, time unit, observation window, and trial boundary;
- measure a short baseline without comparing non-equivalent opportunities;
- map setup, cue or start, response, marker or release, delivery, consumption, reset, and return;
- find accidental cues for repetition, release, food, or handler movement inside an apparently clean loop;
- choose among antecedent arrangement, a deliberately redesigned loop, backchaining, or an explicit wait cue;
- plan delivery and reset according to what they arrange next, rather than treating one position as universally correct;
- prewrite progress, hold, rollback, and stop rules before the criterion test; and
- compare the first observable divergence in successful and unsuccessful repetitions before changing one low-risk variable.
One project, developed across the course
Every lesson contributes to the same Duration Blueprint. You begin with the behavior and the question, then add the readiness gate, baseline, loop map, accidental-cue inventory, delivery and reset plan, procedure choice, criterion rules, first small test, and successful-versus-unsuccessful comparison. At the end, you are not left with a collection of tips. You have one integrated plan whose assumptions and next decisions are visible.
Work with an already-acquired, physically suitable behavior in a humane arrangement. If the response is unstable, participation changes, or pain or welfare may be involved, the readiness gate directs you to pause or return to behavior construction.
What is inside
You receive eight teaching lessons, one integration lesson, a materials hub, case comparisons, practical records, the complete Duration Blueprint, two private self-checks, worked explanations, and precise routes back to the lesson or tool that supports revision.
See the course sequence
- Longer Is Not Yet Duration
- Is This Behavior Ready to Last?
- Where Does One Trial Begin and End?
- Your Loop May Be Cueing Repetition
- Build a Maintained-Behavior Loop
- Choose What Happens After Duration
- Backchain It or Cue “Wait”?
- Raise Time Without Raising Everything
- What Changed Before the Break?
Who this course is for
Duration by Design is for professional dog trainers, serious training enthusiasts, sport trainers, and animal trainers working with a learner who already performs the target response repeatably in at least one humane, reasonably controlled arrangement. You do not need a formal behavior-analysis prerequisite. You do need a behavior whose form can be defined and whose physical and welfare conditions make duration work appropriate.
Format and access
- Study format: complete self-paced course
- Start: anytime; access begins immediately after purchase
- Access: one year
- Price: US$69
- Included: complete lessons, worked cases, practical records, visuals, the Duration Blueprint, two private self-checks, worked explanations, and direct links to the exact lesson or tool to revisit
- Study support: private self-checks, worked examples, answer explanations, and clear routes for revision