Join us on September 25th at 10am Pacific Time for Canine Neuropark® Predictive Brains: The Science of Exploration with Bono Beeler! Find Bono on Facebook at: Canine NeuroPark TM
Come learn why it's important to understand what the brain and body are doing together to move in alignment and what Neuropark is all about (spoiler, it's not a dog park or enrichment field!).
Find out more at the link in the comments below.
Are you curious about how the Pandemic Puppy generation is faring? Are you wondering:
🐾Did trainer fears for pandemic puppies come true?
🐾What now for pandemic puppies?
🐾Did you know? The trends & Stats on the Pandemic’s impact on all of us.
Then you don’t want to miss the next installation of our Revisited series! Katey Aldred - Clinical Animal Behaviourist, Veterinary Nurse will be revisiting her Pandemic Puppies webinar and updating us about that generation of dogs and the lasting impacts on us all from that unprecedented time. This on-demand webinar will be available starting August 12th; pre-order is available now! See the link below for more information.
Tune in on May 8th at 10am PST for a live, interactive webinar with Andre Yeu, founder of When Hounds Fly!
Running your own dog business is freeing, exhilarating, and fulfilling. It can also be terrifying, boring, frustrating, anxiety-producing, and lonely, depending on what part of the job you're doing. Join us for this webinar with Andre Yeu, where he will not only share his business secrets but help you start developing your plans in real time! In this webinar you will:
Understand what is meant by having a Business Strategy and explore what one could mean for you.
Examine the components that make up an excellent Business Framework.
Identify your Core Customers and discover new ways to find them.
Deep dive into Branding and Marketing. What is your Promise? What are the words you 'own'?
Learn how to stay authentic and true to yourself in a world full of 'click bait'.
Diamond Members will be able to participate in the live Q&A, where you can Ask Andre for help with your specific business conundrum.
Link in bio for registration + more info! Free for Diamond Members!
What works in one place, may not in another…
So how do you adjust your training and modification plans to account for location and environmental variation?
Tom Candy's On Demand Webinar "Developing Behavior Modification Plans in Difficult Environments" will be available on April 18th! In this webinar you’ll:
>Learn how to evaluate challenges in difficult training environments.
>Create successful, adjustable behavior modification plans.
>Maximize progress and achieve measurable success.
Learn more and pre-order this on demand webinar at school.grishastewart.com/courses/behaviorplans
#dogs #traumahealing #traumainformed #traumadogs #dogtraining
Dog Trauma webinar Weds March 6! Danielle Beck, Clinical Animal Behaviorist
🐾❤️ If you’re interested in expanding your knowledge and skills in the area of helping traumatized dogs, you might want to consider learning from Danielle Beck, a renowned expert and clinical animal behaviorist from the UK.
Danielle specializes in canine trauma and rehabilitation, and their insights can be invaluable in understanding and addressing aggression, reactivity, and other behavioral issues that may stem from trauma
. Exploring trauma as a root cause can provide deeper insights into a dog’s behavior and help with their recovery and healing process.
See you Wednesday!
School.grishastewart.com/courses/traumatreatment
10 Top Tips for Walk Your Dog Day
My top 10 Important Tips for Walk Your Dog Day! - Sound up for a micro-presentation. If you have more tips, please put them in the comments. :)
1. LET THEM SNIFF
Your dog isn't a soldier and a walk is not a march. Let them enjoy the walk.
It's totally okay for your dog to be ahead of you on the walk.
All you really need is a loose leash, most of the time.
That way, you can keep your eyes on your dog!
2. Pay for check-ins
Treats, toys, or just happy contact can reinforce your dog's choice to look at you. This is a skill you can develop over time, so if it's not working for you, learn more!
3. Slow Stop
If you need to stop, get their attention. Or if you use a leash, stop gently.
The Slow Stop is a special skill that humans take time to learn.
If you stop more gently, dogs are less reactive and it's safer for their bodies. And yours.
Read through to the end for where to learn this skill.
4. TWO HANDS
If you have two hands, keep them both on the leash to be able to gently adjust the length.
5. Breathe
Your state of arousal affects your dog's nervous system. Relaxed breathing helps!
In our Stop Pulling class, we have a whole section on Glimmers, which are the opposite of triggers.
Learning how to regulate your nervous system is such a gift to your dog!
6. Quality time
If you have more than one dog, consider walking them alone unless they're better together.
7. Long leash
Give your dog a sense of freedom while also maintaining safety
Learn to use it first, for safety!
Not all areas allow long leashes
A soft, round leash works best
Flexi leashes can be hazardous!
8. Harness
A harness can be clipped in the back for freedom or the front for more control.
If I do use the front of a harness, I like clipping to both the back and front.
I never use prong collars or choke chains.
I've been training internationally for 20+ years and have never needed them.
9. Leash Belay
The leash belay is a new skill using rock climbing tools to
walk dogs one-handed, even b
Next webinar: Empathy! In Zoom or Free on FB.
Have you ever felt communication go sideways? That's a totally normal human thing, and These 4 things are very different:
- What you meant
- What you said
- What they heard
- What they understood
With empathy practice, we can better understand others and build bridges of understanding.
Please join us for "Human Animals: 5 Laws of Empathy," an insightful webinar by TEDx speaker and ethnographer Karen Faith. She had the most wonderful interview on my podcast, The Lesson is Love, about caring for all of the parts of ourselves.
The 5 Laws of Empathy are Impartiality, Multiplicity, Immediacy, Sovereignty, and Diplomacy. Learn what that means and how to practice them to bring your best to personal relationships and work collaborations.
This is a regular webinar that you can sign up for to get the full event and recording ($29). It's also included in our all-access pass Diamond membership.
AND I've decided to stream the Empathy webinar live onto my personal Facebook wall (https://www.facebook.com/grishastewartperson). Why? We are at a critical point in history in the greater world and in the dog industry and I believe empathy is be essential to steer us to solid ground. This is our gift to you for a better 2024.
Mark yourself as Going on the event on Facebook to get a notification when we go live, and also put it in your personal calendars for a reminder: Human Animals: The Five Laws of Empathy with Karen Faith. Feb 7, 2024, 10am Pacific Time.
The Q&A will be in Zoom, but the lecture itself will be livestreamed.
For full access (Q&A and the recording plus the live session), register at https://school.grishastewart.com/courses/empathy
Neurobiology of Dogs Webinar Jan 17
Our next Live Webinar is The Neurobiology of Trauma in Dogs with Daniel Shaw BSc (Hons), GMBPsS, CDBC.
January 17th, 2024. 10 am Pacific. $29.
Helping Dogs Who Have Experienced Trauma
This webinar will provide an initial introduction into the neurobiology of trauma in dogs, both defining the meaning of psychological trauma and exploring how trauma affects learning and emotional processing.
Daniel will break down some complex neuroscientific topics such as long term potentiation and the HPA axis and explain how understanding these brain mechanisms can inform dog professionals when working with complex trauma cases, with a specific focus on helping animals that have experienced trauma regain physiological and emotional balance.
Join us Wednesday, January 17, 2024 at 10 am PST in Zoom. The live session will also be recorded for later viewing.
Learn more or sign up on the Grisha Stewart Academy website:
https://school.grishastewart.com/courses/neurobiology-of-trauma
We've just released The Lesson is Love Podcast Episode 8: Feeling Into the Possibility of a Different World with guest Shireen Amini.
Here's a short excerpt - you can access The Lesson is Love podcast on my website or wherever you listen to podcasts.
“I feel like when we gather to sing–when I call it like a little bubble of a universe–to me it’s like, we have to know what it feels like to then know how to bring it in the greater bubbles, the greater ripples until it becomes something that we know how to feel as an entire global community.” -Shireen Amini
We invite you to join us for the eighth episode of The Lesson is Love podcast, as I speak with Shireen Amini, a community songleader, percussionist and teaching artist based on unceded Multnomah, Wasco, Cowlitz, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Bands of Chinook, Tualatin, Kalapuya, Molalla, and Grande Ronde land, aka Portland, Oregon.
In this episode we talk about the capacity to interrupt reactivity with care, community singing as a little bubble of a universe in which we can experience a felt sense of liberation, Shireen’s recent east coast tour with Lyndsey Scott, and the philosophy of grief to activism.
About the Host, Grisha Stewart:
Grisha Stewart is an author, international speaker, dog trainer, and online dog school facilitator based in Oregon, USA, who specializes in dog reactivity and canine empowerment. She’s been training dogs since 2003. Her two most recent books are Behavior Adjustment Training 2.0: New Practical Techniques for Fear, Frustration, and Aggression in Dogs and The Official Ahimsa Dog Training Manual: A Practical, Force-Free Guide to Problem Solving and Manners.
In 2022, she revealed the update to BAT 3.0 (BAT 2.0 is still the best book on the subject). She presents dog training and behavior seminars around the world and lessons online. There are over 100 different courses in her innovative online dog training school, with more coming every few weeks from a variety of instruc
Here’s a teaser of the next episode of The Lesson is Love, interviewing the amazing Aaron Johnson, who I totally admire. Holistic Social Justice hero, visionary, grief tender, wordsmith, and an excellent songleader.
It will launch by the time you wake up on Thursday! Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts to get it. Search for The Lesson is Love and if that’s not specific enough, add Grisha Stewart Academy.
Sweet on-leash puppy greeting! When dogs greet on leash, they can't necessarily escape, so it's our job to help it go well, especially for puppies.
Filmed during a BAT seminar in Canada. BAT is a technique for puppy socialization and is excellent for helping adult dogs who show aggression, frustration, or fear in social situations.
Learn more about BAT by googling Grisha Stewart and BAT. My next leash skills workshops are in Scotland (14 October) and I'll also be opening up the DOGx conference hosted by PACT (8 October)!
Dog Trainers: Can you give an example of a time in which a younger version of yourself used an aversive tool or a more forceful or restrictive approach to change behavior, but today you'd resolve the problem in a more collaborative way that honors animal agency and sentience? Why did you shift?
You can comment below or share this video and your response as a post on your own wall. If you do it that way, I will check each one and give you a follow if it's a fit!
Please watch this short invitation from Chirag Patel to our panel discussion. Hope to see you on Wednesday, Sep 20!
5 Minutes for Your Dog Questions
Our next event is Play Way - an innovative approach to dog reactivity with Amy Cook, PhD!
school.grishastewart.com/courses/playway
