CEU Event: Let's Coach Scent Work!

When: Ongoing
Where: DogSmith Training Center & DogNostics Career Cente

CEUs

*CPDT-KA: 16.25 *CBCC-KA: 0
CPDT-KSA Knowledge: 6.50
CPDT-KSA Skills: 9.75

* Courses approved for CBCC-KA CEUs may be applied to a CPDT-KA or CPDT-KSA recertification. Courses approved for CPDT-KA or CPDT-KSA may not be applied to a CBCC-KA recertification.

PLEASE NOTE: CPDT-KA can earn a MAXIMUM of 12 CPDT-KSA Skills CEUS within their 3 year certification period.

Description

Presented by Rob Hewings - Author of the recently published ‘Introduction to Canine Scent-Work’ and head of learning and development for the UK College of Scent Detection, Robert Hewings is a highly experienced Canine Trainer and is currently completing his Doctoral program. Workshop Overview The benefits of Scent-Work cannot be ignored. Let's learn to ignite one of the most powerful instinctual and emotional systems within the canine brain! The natural instincts that empower our dogs to search and investigate their surroundings for food, friends and foe can be used to bring about behaviors that ‘Just feel good!’ Rob will show you how to introduce that wonderful exciting, euphoric anticipation that our dogs feel during search, You will learn how we, as dog trainers, can recreate the thrill of exploration, the pleasure of anticipation and the sheer indulgence within the eagerness of ‘The Find’. We have all experienced the joy of shopping, looking forward to acquiring new goods, and the simple ‘feel good factor’ that this can bring about. Let's examine the many different ways in which this feeling can benefit our dogs. Let's learn how we can bring this anticipatory feeling into the classroom, training room and even the home. Let's become skilled at incorporating it into behavioral consultations, and into rehabilitation and recuperation exercises, for both dog and owner. Learning Objectives Canine scent-work is becoming more and more popular. We have learnt a great deal about how dogs benefit from this fantastic pastime. The knowledge and ability our best friends demonstrate, can be enhanced by improving our handling skills and understanding ‘The Tacit Dimension’ of Canine Search. Using some simple acronyms, and understanding the emotional learning canines experience will enable us to trouble-shoot and improve our scent-work classes and problem-solving abilities. The Two Day Workshop This two day seminar will follow a journey from conditioning scent-identification through to understanding the tacit knowledge of search. We will examine how we can problem solve and progress our training, incorporating scent-work within other aspects of dog training. Objectives: Engender emotional learning within our dogs using scent-work Gain valuable training knowledge from simple coaching ‘aides-mémoires’ that will enhance your scent classes Benefit from coaching techniques that will improve your students' desire to learn Build an enthusiasm in your dog that can be transferred into the behavioral problem solving environment Transform valuable tacit knowledge within the scent-work environment, building your own foundations for successful searching Develop ‘Coppinger’s predatory motor pattern’ to complete and fulfill your dogs’ natural desires Understand canine training concepts that will help develop your training plans Incorporate both Classical and Operant conditioning into commencing search Gain an insight into incorporating imaginative scent-work training into your classes. After all, ‘Why should law enforcement have all the fun!’ Understand and use a simple coaching methodology, developing your classes and search-work for the future.

Sponsor:The DogSmith
Speaker(s):Robert Hewings

Contact: Sharon A Nettles
 Email: membershipcoordinator@petprofessionalguild.com
 Phone: 844-462-64730
 Web: https://petprofessionalguild.com/event-2822576

Venue

DogSmith Training Center & DogNostics Career Cente
9122 Kenton Road
Wesley Chapel, FL 33545
United States

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