Cueing our Learners: Giving Feedback in Dog Training Classes

by Joshua | Oct 30, 2019 | Dog

Dog trainers and behavior consultants tend to spend a lot of time helping our learners – the clients, not their dogs – develop new skills to help manage their canines. Yet early in my career I had observed that the majority of our professional development tends to be...

‘I Love the Job Except for the Clients’: A Story of Changing Attitudes

by Joshua | Apr 18, 2018 | Horse

Recently I came across a list of continuing professional development courses I made back in 2011. It wasn’t a bad list—equine nutrition, physiology, improved knowledge of various equestrian disciplines, and so on. However, it was all about horses—nothing on improving...