Supporting and Advanced Courses
Courses that support the Relationship Based Training (RBT) and Relationship Based Behavior Modification (RBBM) program
This class covers 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. Class discussions and lectures cover what makes a dog aggressive, how that affects the dog, how it experiences stimuli, human input, and cooperative efforts. This is an in depth course study of working with aggressive dogs.
Duration: 9 Hours Prerecorded
Registration Fee: $350
Aggressive Dogs II is a continuation of Aggressive Dogs I. 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. This helps define and identify dogs that are actually aggressive (not just reactive) and how to work with them.
Prerequisite: Aggressive Dogs I
Duration: 9 Hours Prerecorded
Registration Fee: $350
This course is designed to teach the major defining elements and methods that allow you to discover in order to properly and successfully analyze the dog in front. This comprises of how to problem solve, what questions to ask, what issues fit together in what context, and many other related topics.
Prerequisite: RBBM I
Duration: 9 Hours Prerecorded
Registration Fee: $350
This course is approximately 3.5 hours in recorded length (from 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 carnivorous predator is, what level of predator, predatory specializations. Dogs/Canines are carnivorous predators having to eat meat, and also other foods at different times of life stages and activity levels. Learn how to be an analytical participant in your dog’s health and well being. Dogs require different nutrients and levels at different times of their lives, through seasons, illnesses, and per day. A healthier dog is a happier and better behaved dog.
Duration: 3.5 Hours Prerecorded
Registration Fee: $150
Critical Variables is a 3-day course that will cover many elements you need to know in order to correctly read, evaluate and correctly work with any dog, in any environment. The course will cover all major environments, personality types, different breed types, human effects, movement, space, timing, and much, much more.
Duration: 9 hours on-line
Registration Fee: $250
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 On-site in Las Vegas, New Mexico
Registration Fee: $400
This Fearful/Feral Dog class is also available as a self-paced recording from 4 years of conducting this in-person course. The course captures the essence of the action, concepts and lessons from those first 4 years of working with feral dogs. The videos captured are in real time, have discussions in real time, and have inserted explanations and emphasis points.
Duration: 4 Hours Prerecorded
Registration Fee: $400
This course is designed to accentuate and codify specific hand communication signals to dogs both up close, and at distance. This provides professional dog trainers, and enthusiasts with accurate and natural communication methods that dogs more easily and consistently identify and understand. Hand signals can maintain connection and trust, without other communication methods, and without direct connection (leash or other tools) to the dog.
Prerequisite: RBBM I, Art of Leash & Long Line Handling, RBBM II, RBBM III, Decoding Dogs
Duration: 4 days
Registration Fee: $800
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 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: 4 days
Registration Fee: $800
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. This is an in-depth study of sociality, focusing on achieving pro-social interactions as the norm.
Duration: 9 Hours Prerecorded
Registration Fee: $350
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 is 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. It is an in-depth lecture and study of dog behaviors and includes video and photo analyses of dogs in action.
Duration: 9 Hours Prerecorded
Registration Fee: $350
This course is an in depth study to understand every aspect from definitions to context, to use, to how you, versus how the dog sees it, it’s effects, alternatives, how brains actually work, and additional areas: The effects of the use of it, by you, on you, the faults of the “easy” answer, the “Quadrants”, the immediate “go to”, the lack of understanding short and long term aspects.
Duration: 12.5 Hours Prerecorded
Registration Fee: $350
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: 18 Hours Prerecorded
Registration Fee: $400
