Fed up with your dog’s barking, lunging, and generally chaotic reactive behavior?
Ready to stop reactivity for good? You can transform your life with your dog and it doesn’t have to be a chore.
This course is a comprehensive, innovative approach to reactive behaviors that will take you from start to finish in changing reactivity. Our intuitive zones system will prepare you to make progress in every situation by understanding your dog’s experience from the inside out. You’ll learn what professionals know about how reactivity develops and how this ties into the foundation skills that are missing which contribute to reactive behavior formation. Finally, we’ll show exactly what to do for your individual dog—simple, powerful skills that change reactivity in the moment and eliminate reactivity for good. Following the steps outlined in this course won’t only stop reactivity, they’ll help you build an unbreakable bond with your dog.
So if you’re ready to feel empowered instead of helpless, confident instead of flustered, proud of your dog instead of embarrassed by her reactive behavior, welcome! Just like the successful teams before you, you and your dog will learn confidence, safety and even joyful interactions together and with your larger shared world.
This course will help you:
- Understand what reactivity is and what causes it.
- Spot the many myths around reactivity, and avoid getting taken for a ride.
- Identify the three reaction zones, and why they matter for you and your dog.
- You’ll know how to create safety by shrinking your reactivity problem.
- Be empowered with appropriate solutions in your home and outside .
- Choose the right equipment–including leashes, collar and harnesses.
- Build confidence for yourself through handling skills for all situations.
- Build better behavior for your dog with, simple, powerful exercises that transform reactivity for good.
- Replace reactivity with safety, confidence, and even joy, so you can begin living your best life with your dog.
Who should take this course?
This course is for all guardians who love their reactive dog, but not her reactive behavior. Whether “you’ve tried it all” or are just getting started, this in-depth course will guide you and your dog to discover your best life together, more calm and connected.
Please note: this course is a powerful system for working for all types of reactive behaviors. But if your dog has bitten or injured a person or other animal or is at risk of doing so, this course should only be used with the help of a professional trainer. A professional trainer can ensure that you and your dog remain safe and eliminate unnecessary risk as you work through your training plan.
More about this course
The Positively "Help! Stop Reactivity" course is a next-generation approach to reactive behavior. It aims to build better behavior through better relationships: relationships between guardians and their dogs and between dogs and their world. It’s very hands-on and practical: full of demonstrations for real skills that work for dogs who struggle with reactivity and for guardians, too.
We focus on teaching the trust and safety and communication that help dogs learn not just to tolerate stress, or even just to bounce back from them. It teaches dogs to thrive with their guardian’s support.
So, the result isn’t just a “well-mannered” dog, or a resilient dog, or a dog with “new associations” with triggers (though they’ll get those in the course, too), it’s a dog and guardian team who move with harmony, safety and understanding together through their world.
It’s unlike any course we’ve ever seen available to the general public and it builds on successful sustainable methods that skilled trainers have been teaching and refining for years. It’s novice-friendly, but we think a lot of even professional trainers will learn something new in it, too.
