Supporting and Advanced Courses
Courses that support the Relationship Based Training (RBT) and Relationship Based Behavior Modification (RBBM) program
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.
Prerequisite: RBBM I, Art of Leash & Long Line Handling, RBBM II, RBBM III, Decoding Dogs
Duration: 4 days
Registration Fee: $800
This course will be 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: 3 days
Registration Fee: $200
This course is designed to teach the major defining elements that you can discover so that you have the best chance of properly and successfully analyzing the dog in front of you including how to problem solve, what questions to ask, what issues fit together in what context, and many other related topics.
Prerequisite: RBBM I
Duration: 3 days
Registration Fee: $600
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: Prerecorded
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