
Separation Anxiety Masterclass
For professionals. Discuss cases and how to apply the method to your clients.
Separation Anxiety method webinar to pre-watch
Submit your cases for discussion during the live session
Live session on application, case discussion, and Q&A
Recording to rewatch the live session
separation anxiety masterclass
A masterclass for professionals, about how to apply a new separation anxiety framework to your client cases
The masterclass:
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As you register, you will receive the recording of the SA webinar to watch before our live session
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You will be able to submit one of your client cases for discussion during the live session
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3-4 cases will be discussed during the session
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Additional Q&A during the live session
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Recording of the live session in case you couldn't attend or would like to rewatch, available for 1 month
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Participants will receive a certification of completion
The problem:
When I started looking into separation anxiety (SA) work, and came across the classic conditioning-desensitisation-exposure framework, I told myself: I'm never going to do that.
Progress is incredibly slow; the process is straining on the dog that is ALMOST pushed to the limit each session; it takes days (or more) to earn seconds; owners have the burden of waiting outside of the door, closely monitoring their dog's anxiety progressing, while dedicating a humongous amount of time to this practice. Also, some dogs respond well while it's a total struggle for others.
Who is this for:
This is for the professional dog trainer who has tried to do right by their SA but is not satisfied with current protocols, or hasn't started taking SA cases yet as they are not confident in their methodology.
If SA work looks like spending hours on protocols that exhaust everyone involved. If clients are burning out. The dogs are not progressing the way they should be...
... if you're wondering if there is an alternative, there is. And this masterclass is built for you.
The method:
This masterclass is about learning how to incorporate an alternative methodology in your SA work, an alternative that is humane for both the dog and the human, and delivers sound results in terms of emotional wellbeing and regulation capacity, consistent duration alone, and relationship dynamics. Where the owner is not overburdened with hours of practice time and the understanding of the dog in front of us gets deeper and clearer.
Moving away from a traditional dog training culture based on treating symptoms and behaviour modification, we refocus on relationship dynamics, understanding and tackling the root causes of anxiety, social communication and understanding instead of training, emotional regulation capacity, and dependency.
And once these levers are unlocked, they become fundamental components of a toolkit that is going to facilitate the life with an anxious dog well beyond situations where they need to be left alone.
Join this masterclass and leave with a method you can apply immediately to your own cases, and changes how you think about behaviour as a whole.
Timeline
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Upon registration: SA webinar recording access
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Upon registration: you'll receive a form to submit the case you want to discuss (if any) via email
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Case submission time window: from registration until 2 days before the live; only 3-4 cases max, first come first serve with possible rearrangement to ensure case variability
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Live session: Friday 17 April, 7 pm EST (American evening)
So much insight packed into this! I've been trying to figure out why the quadrant doesn't make sense for reactivity moments and it all made sense when you said dogs aren't thinking of consequences in high emotional states.
WHAT dog trainers & trainees say
Yesterday I watched a great webinar on separation anxiety by Punk Mutts, quite a few interesting insights! A totally different approach than your usual methods, I would highly encourage all my followers with rescues and village type dogs to follow (...) There's a reason traditional methods don't work with those type of dogs.
I just followed up with a reactivity client and the first thing she said was "I don't know what kind of witchcraft you're working, but..." and then proceeded to tell me how their dog would start barking at something, they'd go offer support, then she'd just huff at the trigger and leave it alone afterward!