Relationship Centered Training

See Spot! See Spot Sit - or Not? Why Not, Spot?: RECORDED WEBINAR

What Common SIT Challenges Can Tell You About Your Dog’s Body. Originally aired May 23, 2024.

How to Help Your Shy/Fearful Dog: RECORDED WEBINAR

How to Help Your Shy/Fearful Dog: This webinar will provide practical advice to help you help your dog. Originally aired April 4, 2024

Talks with Dogs: Recorded Webinar

Talks with Dogs: How Our Body Language Affects Our Communication with Dogs. Originally aired March 21, 2024

Recorded Webinar: Anatomy of Attention

Let’s take a deep dive into canine attention, which is an awfully big, vague label for many complex interactions and networks in the mammalian brain.

Recorded Webinar: Enriched Puppy Protocol

Want to know more about helping puppies become the best they can be or how to polish up the genetic material in your breeding program? Need to understand how an adult dog is the result of what did -or did not- happen? This overview of EPP can help.

The Enriched Puppy Protocol Revisited: Webinar

The Enriched Puppy Protocol Revisited September 14, 2023

Is This A Good Time? Evaluations, Assessments & Functionality Webinar

This webinar will encourage you to think about assessments and testing in deeper way. Originally aired November 2, 2023

Recorded Webinar: Geometry of Canine Body Language

Being able to read dogs well is important to building healthy relationships. Dogs know when you understand what they are trying to tell you. The people they trust most are the people who understand them.

Recorded Webinar: Go Say Hi - 1 - 2 - 3!

Appropriate for any age dog, Go Say Hi 1-2-3/People is a fun and easy to teach technique. Go Say Hi 1-2-3 provides handlers with specific actions to help their dog learn, and a way to structure greetings to be brief but satisfying – and successful!

Recorded Webinar: Green Eggs and Ham and - Dog Training? The Power of Behavioral Flexibility

Whatever your training goals or experience, the challenge we all face is helping our dogs develop the flexibility and fluency that allows them to put their skills to use, anywhere, any time. It's not just about repetitions or reinforcement.

Recorded Webinar: Help for Shy, Anxious and Fearful Dogs

Is your dog is shy, fearful and/or anxious? Learn how to help! The RCT approach is ideal for providing support and helping your dog develop the skills he needs. These RCT techniques are also useful & helpful for dogs without fear or reactivity.

Recorded Webinar: Herder Helper Hunter Hugger - Understanding the Differences

What makes dogs so different in their behavior? We'll take a look at what makes a dog a helper, a herder, a hunter or a hugger - or a combination of them all.

Recorded Webinar: Quick – Hit PAUSE! Using Controlled Set-ups for Reactive Dogs

If you’ve ever wished for a PAUSE button on life to help your dog, this webinar is for you. The practical information provided will help anyone create successful training moments.

Recorded Webinar: "I'll Be Back" and "I'll Be Right Here"

This webinar focuses on two common but rarely addressed issues. Both are important life skills for any dog. I'll Be Back - leaving your dog while you move away and I'll Be Right Here - having your dog leave you with someone else.

Recorded Webinar: Maddening to Maturity

For many dog owners, the 18-24 month period of adolescence is hard - even with a great start many dogs hit adolescence and become frustrating, unruly, and simply maddening! While puzzling to many owners this is a natural but poorly understood stage.

Recorded Webinar: Permission, not Permissive

Have you ever wondered how to be positive in your training and relationship with dogs, and yet not end up just being run over or dragged here & there?

Recorded Webinar: Puppy Politeness Poker

Puppy Politeness Poker (PPP) teaches your dog to be attentive & cooperative, even when excited. Easy, quick interactions throughout the day using real life rewards (RLR) create positive changes in your dog/human relationship.

Recorded Webinar: RAT - Relationship Assessment Tool

Join live or watch the recording at your convenience for an introduction to RAT™: Relationship Assessment Tool. Developed by Suzanne Clothier, RAT™ provides a new perspective on understanding of the dog/human relationship.

Recorded Webinar: Training -v- Management

Both management and training have their place in humane, effective training. Knowing the difference between the two modes of interacting with the dog is key to helping your clients set clear expectations in any training program.

Recorded Webinar: Wild or Worried - Understanding Arousal

Recorded Webinar: What Size World? Is right for any dog.

Recorded Webinar: What's The Problem? Unraveling the Puzzle of Behavior, Training & Performance

Recorded Webinar: You had me at Sniff! - Dog/Dog Interactions

Recorded Webinar: Your End of the Leash - Breathe! It's good for you (and the dog).

This webinar focuses on the simple but oh-so complicated basic of life itself: breathing. You’ll learn practical techniques to help yourself (and your students) create greater awareness about breathing, along with ways to practice here, there and eve

Recorded Webinar: Your End of the Leash - Handler Body Language

While much of dog training seems focused on the dog, handlers can and do affect their dog’s behavior and learning. Masters of body language subtleties, dogs are finely attuned to us, and many training problems are rooted in a handler’s body language.

Recorded Webinar: Treat-Retreat - Helping the Socially Shy Dog

This overview introduces you to a powerfully effective technique is used to help socially shy dogs master the intricacies of feeling comfortable interacting with and being around people. This is a dog-centric technique that is force-free.

Recorded Webinar: Mindful Socialization

Mindful Socialization helps you learn to listen to your puppy or new dog, understand him as an individual, and tailor socialization experiences to build his confidence and trust at every step.

Recorded Webinar: Thrills and Chills

Previously Recorded - Arousal is a buzz word these days, but what does it mean for your dog? What shifts your dog from comfortable and functional to being afraid or anxious, or so excited they can barely stay in their skin?

Recorded Webinar: The Slice is Right! What the . . . Oh, Okay! Approach to Dog Training

Underlying this approach is deep trust in the dog’s ability. When you make sense to the dog in a way that suits their individual temperament, when the slice is right, you open the door to “What the . . . oh, okay!" approach.

Recorded Webinar: Problem Behavior or Just A Symptom of Something Deeper?

June 9th, 2022 - 2pm EST - Take your training to the next level by learning to look for the holes. Suzanne’s approach is intended to get right to the leaky roof, leading to lasting results using practical, humane and effective techniques.

Recorded Webinar: Matchmaker, Matchmaker - Make Me A Dog: Applied CARAT

Previously Recorded - What's right for you and your life may be very different from what suits another dog lover. This webinar will provide a framework for thinking about each dog as an individual, and how that dog fits (or maybe doesn't?).

Recorded Webinar: RAT: Relationship Assessment Tool

This webinar provides an introduction to a powerful tool for understanding the dog/human relationship: RAT™: Relationship Assessment Tool. RAT™ gives you a new perspective on understanding of the dog/human relationship.

Recorded Webinar: The Elemental Questions

The Elemental Questions help you truly “see the dog” and provide the detailed information about each animal as he is. This is where truly humane training is grounded: in detailed knowledge about the individual dog.

Recorded Webinar: From House of Cards to Solid Foundation: Practical RCT Techniques for Aggression Cases

From House of Cards to Solid Foundation: Practical RCT Techniques for Aggression Cases

Recorded Webinar: Rewards, Lures and Bribes

March 16th, 2023 - 2pm EST - Knowing how to use rewards is not as straight forward as it may seem. Here’s a question for you: what do you consider a reward?

Walk a Mile in their Paws: Recorded Webinar

Creating the Best Socialization Experiences Originally aired October 5, 2023

Recorded Webinar: Introduction to CARAT

This recorded webinar offers an introduction to CARAT, a temperament assessment system takes a detailed view of the individual dog unique combination of many factors working together. Find out why people say CARAT "changes everything!"