Chaos to Connection Online Course
Your key to success with your reactive dog
Join our step-by-step reactivity programme that coaches you as well as your dog so you can leave the stress behind for good and enjoy calm, connected walks with your best friend in just 8 weeks.
“I started the course ... and if I am honest I had low expectations. I had never done an online course before and so half expected I would get bored and if I am honest I thought I might pick up a couple of tips as a maximum.
I had no idea this would literally change our lives. Janet, I cannot even begin to describe to you what a massive impact your course has made in our house. I have spent hundreds of pounds on behaviourists and training and this is the thing that has made the single biggest difference.”
Sarah
Chaos to Connection Online Course
An 8-Module intensive programme to help you and your dog make real progress and set yourself up for further future success.
8 MODULES:
- STOP OUR STRESS. An immediate action plan to stop our stress, give us breathing space and stop things getting worse. Introduces some of the skills we will be focusing on later.
- SEEK ANSWERS & RESET. A time to reflect on what our dogs react to, how they react and how we can extinguish some candles to make life calmer.
- RECONNECTING & FOUNDATION SKILLS. Build a solid foundation for what is to come. We look at canine body language, foundation training activities and games to shift our mindset so we can enjoy our dog again.
- TRAINING SKILLS. In this module we take our training to the next level with key games that we can use when out and about to keep our dog's focus and start to change their behaviour.
- WALKING IN BALANCE. The mechanics of walking our dogs so that both we and they are comfortable. We look at equipment, how we behave and teaching our dog to walk on a loose lead!
- STRATEGIES FOR SAFER WALKS. Explore successful strategies for dealing with hazards on our walks: other guardians, incoming dogs, joggers - all the things that can cause us stress.
- CONVERSATIONAL TRAINING. Would you like to be able to have a real conversation with your dog so they can tell you when they need support and you can give it? We show you how you can in this module.
- BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS & RESULTS YOU WANT. Living with dogs is all about relationship and we all want a great bond with our best friend. In this module we explore what we can do together so we can have the best relationship possible.
PLUS:
- 3 x 30 minute individual sessions with a Canine Confidence Coach. We don't leave you to figure it all out on your own. We will meet with you at regular intervals during the course to personalise your experience and make sure you stay on track.
- A Community that gets you. One of the hardest parts of reactivity is isolation and you are far less likely to succeed alone. So you get to be part of a safe, supportive, knowledgeable community who understand and will help, guide and celebrate with you.
- Weekly LIVE Group Coaching Calls. This is where you can ask questions, get clear on what you are doing and make the training work for your situation.
- Success Trackers and Workbooks. You get a workbook per module to help you make the most of your course and trackers to help you record and celebrate progress in a quick and easy way.
“I came into the course wanting two ’simple’ things: first to locate my dogs’ volume control and second to learn how to stop reactive behaviour. I learned instead:
1. My perception of other people had a huge influence over how I related to my dogs, and how I therefore behaved. I now accept that people are entitled to have a view of my dogs’ behaviour - but it’s not always a view that I need to factor into my or the dogs’ life.
2. My dogs are individuals with likes, preferences and fears as unique as my own. ‘Reactivity’ is just the articulation of these as behaviour. It’s me who judges that behaviour as good or bad. It helps me to liken the world outside my dogs’ home to the equivalent of a human party - noisy, crowded, flashing lights and people shouting/dancing. I personally don’t enjoy parties, but I know I have one dog who would love them, two who would happily go but wouldn’t want to stay long and two who panic at the thought. All views are acceptable, they just require different approaches from me.
3. There is a science behind asking your dog to do something for you. Too often I have been sucked in by dog trainers offering a quick fix for something while not explaining how it works - leaving me high and dry when it doesn’t. Now I am getting to understand the rationale - eg, using treats to lure, or to reward, or to reinforce a behaviour or to counter-condition - I feel better able to make a more considered choice.
4. Letting my dogs show the way. My dogs are still barking at the postman (it turns out they don’t have a volume button). But I can reduce the noise because I now see that Ruby is the catalyst and what she wants is reassurance from me. So I offer my lap and with some gentle stroking things often subside. And they are still reacting to people and dogs when we are out because ‘the party’ is too much for them. So we only go if they want and for as long as they want. This has been enough for Ruby to develop the confidence to walk with unknown dogs: because she knows if she wants to leave I will take her home.
There is much more to do and there will be ups and downs. But as I write this the house is peaceful, three dogs went to the party this morning while the other two played games at home. There is even a foster dog now in the mix who experienced ACE free work for the first time today and is now snoring in her basket. Heaven. ”
Deborah
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