Foundational And Advanced Courses
Foundational – Core Certification Courses
An introduction to the Relationship Based Behavior Modification (RBBM) and Relationship Based Training (RBT) program
The Monthly meet ups allow Nelson to present information on a variety of topics that are key components to navigating through our lives with Canines.
This is the beginning course to study RBBM/RBT. This is an excellent opportunity for dog trainers, owners, care takers, etc. that will help you understand more about dogs’ language, motivations, capabilities, and being able to better communicate your intent to them. Your dog will be used to help educate you during class exercises.
Prerequisite: None
Duration: 3 days or ONLINE(eight(8) classes, 3 hours each)
Registration Fee: $600
This three (3) day course focuses on the understanding of communication and detail provided through the proper use of a leash and long line. Working with a dog (your own, client, or a dog supplied by CHRI) is required. Leash equipment (6 foot and a 15-20 foot long line) must be provided by the dog owner/student.
Prerequisite: RBBM I
Duration: 3 days
Registration Fee: $600
This in-person, 9 day Course allows students to discover how to reach a dog that needs some behavior modification, through methods long developed, and affect the dog for a better outcome. You will be assigned a dog after evaluations of each potential dog. The following nine(9) days will consist to learn how to live and connect with that dog, 24/7.
Prerequisite: RBBM I
Duration: 9 days & follow up Zoom calls
Registration Fee: $4,000
This seven (7) day course is the third in sequence for RBBM Relationship Based Trainer certification. This course will help you to understand how and when to apply the lessons you learned in RBBM Concepts and RBBM-Application to dogs of various behaviors. There is an additional portion to this class via Zoom for 3 classes to guide you in how to REACH & TEACH your clients.
Prerequisite: RBBM I, RBBM II
Duration: 7 days & follow up Zoom calls
Registration Fee: $3,500
This 9 day + Course is designed to provide in-depth understanding of applying the RBBM/Relationship Based Training to obedience (sit, down, stay, place, come, etc) by directly working with your own dog, a client dog or one that is provided.
Prerequisite: RBBM I, RBBM II, RBBM III, Leash Handling
Duration: 9 days & follow up Zoom calls
Registration Fee: $4,000
This 8 day + Course is designed to provide in-depth understanding of the neurobiology of canines, how to better understand why we are working with and trying to achieve in the mind of dogs, and how we affect the dog in more ways.
Prerequisite: RBBM I, RBBM II, RBBM III, RBBM IV, Leash Handling
Duration: 8 days & follow up Zoom calls
Registration Fee: $4,000
Supporting and Advanced Courses
This 2-Day feral dog rehabilitation workshop in New Mexico is like no other dog training experience out there. Feral dogs are like magnifying glasses on our dog training skills, behaviors, and mindset. Feral dog rehab gets to the essence and depth of the human-dog relationship with an animal that has developed street smarts and survival techniques without human influence. The lessons feral and fearful dogs teach can be applied to help ALL dogs.
Duration: 2 days Live or Prerecorded
Registration Fee: $400
This CHRI course(5 days) teaches students about the brain, skeletal and body developments and capabilities of canines over a period of 2 years of coverage. The brain, how and when it develops, physically, from gestation through a 2 year period of time, on a week to week basis, is covered in depth.
Duration: 5 days Live or Online
Registration Fee: $600
This class will cover areas that include defining an aggressive dog, what that means from a behavior standpoint, recognizing what you are working with and analyzing a base point and a path forward with that dog. We will discuss what makes a dog aggressive, how that affects the dog, how it experiences stimuli, human input, and cooperative efforts.
Duration: 9 Hours Prerecorded
Registration Fee: $300
This course is designed to provide professional dog trainers, shelter workers, vet techs, rescues, groomers, and enthusiasts with critical information and understandings of dogs that exhibit and act out aggression against humans, dogs, and other animals and objects.
Prerequisite: Attendance or purchased of Aggressive Dogs I
Duration: 9 Hours Prerecorded
Registration Fee: $300
This course designed to provide professional dog trainers, shelter workers, vet techs, rescues, groomers and enthusiasts with critical information and understandings of dogs to identify and understand the differences in polite (pro-social) play vs. other types of behaviors that may appear to be play-like in dogs.
Duration: 9 Hours Prerecorded
Registration Fee: $300
This course is designed to provide professional dog trainers, shelter workers, vet techs, rescues, groomers and enthusiasts with critical information and understandings of dogs to understand and create pro-social, balanced packs. The purpose of this course is to define what a proper pro-social pack is, what it looks like in real life, the cooperative nature of each individual (including the humans) within the pack, and how to create and maintain that pro-social pack.
Duration: 9 Hours Prerecorded
Registration Fee: $300
This course is the first course in a series designed to provide professional dog trainers, shelter workers, vet techs, rescues and groomers with critical information and understandings of human (client) personality-based learning, communication methods and signals. This course focuses on the ability to read and understand human learning type behaviors and signals. It will focus on how to analyze and begin to reach each person based upon their subject understanding level and how that person “sees” themselves within the subject matter and environment.
Duration: 9 Hours Online
Registration Fee: $300
This course is designed to provide professional dog trainers, shelter workers, vet techs, rescues and groomers with critical information and understandings of canine personality-based behaviors and learning capabilities. We will also identify how to work with and reach each type of dog.
Duration: 9 Hours Online
Registration Fee: $400
This course goes into depth on planning, mapping, field operations, team creation and organization, technology use, equipment use, basic medical/veterinary applications and triage, weather conditions, urban vs. rural conditions, team sizes, and human and canine psychological aspects
Duration: 32 Hours- In progress
Registration Fee: $800
This course is approximately 3.5 hours in recorded length(6.18.22), with more than an hour of Q&A time at the end including questions from the class attendees. The presentation incorporates slides for information and examples. It covers what a predator is, what level of predator, predatory specializations, and dog being a predator having to eat meat, and also other foods at different times of life stages and activity levels.
Duration: 3.5 Hours Prerecorded
Registration Fee: $150
This course is a 3 day course that will teach you how to create, read and use multiple experiments with any dog only using a leash.
Prerequisite: Art Of Leash Handling
Duration: 3 days
Registration Fee: $600