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Dog Workshops & Talks

Near Bristol & Bath

In Person Workshops

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Connection Outdoors
(In Person)

These workshops are focussed on how to create connection with your dog when you are outdoors, especially in large open spaces such as fields and parks. Connection Outdoors Level 2 workshop is open to anyone who has taken part in Connection Outdoors Level 1.

We will cover:

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How to handle a long line
- How to move in partnership with your dog
- How to read and respond to your dogs body language, and how they can start to read and respond to your body language
- How to embrace their natural wants and desires and support these so they become mutually beneficial

​Sunday 12th May 10:00-15:00


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Free Work
​(In Person)

Have you heard of Free Work but would like to find out more?

Free Work is used in Animal Centred Education as a way to enable our dogs to reset, rebalance and release. As our dogs start to slow down during free work, postural struggles, habits, worries about being handled or wearing a harness, to name a few, become more apparent. This enables us to help ease some of these concerns, positively impacting on our dogs welfare and behaviour.

Join us for this Free Work workshop where we will:

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Explore different free work set ups
- Provide observations for your dog
- Discover their potential preferences​
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Jumping Up
​(In Person)

Do you have a 'jumper upper'? Is your dog an excited greeter?

There's lots of reasons why our dogs may jump up; in this workshop we will start to explore greetings from our dogs point of view and how to support them in these situations.

We will use Animal Centred Education methods to support our dogs with human greetings and we will explore their greeting preferences.
To support our dogs emotional needs, it goes deeper than just training them to sit or keep 4 paws on the floor, by helping address their emotional needs, we help shape more appropriate greetings.

​Sunday 14th July 10:00-15:00
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Scentwork
(In Person)

Scentwork is so valuable for dogs, exercising their super sniffing system is both physically and mentally enriching.

We run beginner and improver workshops, where we work on active and passive hides and how to identify specific scents.


Read about our Scentwork courses and workshops on our Scentwork Page. ​
Find out more about our scentwork sessions
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Gundog Games
​(In Person)

Jules Morgan’s Gundog Games Workshop is designed to bring positive, choice based, ethical methods of dog training into the Gundog world. It is suitable for all breeds, as long as they have a desire to retrieve/hunt, whether you wish to work your dog in the shooting field, compete at working tests, or just enjoy gundog training as a hobby. Games involving food, toys, and play to build and refine the skills required of a fully trained gundog and handler partnership.

​This workshop involves and Introduction of the foundation skills for Gundog work; focus games, heelwork, recall, stop and retrieve.
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Minimum age 6 months. Please note dogs need to be happy working in close proximity to others to attend this workshop.
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Online Workshops

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​Body Language
(Online)

During this two-part live online workshop we will talk about key aspects of dogs body language.
Being able to read the subtle signs our dogs give us, as well as others, helps us to further understand them and respond to their needs.

Topics include:
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- Calming Signals
- Displacement
- Stress
- Decompression
- Tension Release
- The ladder of aggression
- Observations
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The workshop will take place live online and the recording will be available afterwards.
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Introduction to ACE
(Online and In Person)​

Join us for this workshop where we will share our passion for ACE. We will cover:

​- What ACE is
- Why we use ACE 
- Key Principles
- Free Work Demo​ ​
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​There is an in person workshop and online workshop so you can join us no matter where you live!


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Intro to Sensitive Dogs
(Online)

This online talk will give you an insight into sensitive dogs, their experiences and behaviours. Often sensitive dogs reactions to certain situations can display in behaviours such as jumping up, mouthing, lead ragging, grabbing, barking, lunging, barking.

This introduction starts to shine a light on key areas of sensitive dogs and the impact this can have on their daily life. 

We also run a 6 week Sensitive Dogs course, if you book the talk you will get a discount code to claim the £20 off the course ticket.
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We look forward to seeing you soon!


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07946222541

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​​South West Dog Skills, Common Wood, Hunstrete Lane, Hunstrete, BS39 4NT.
​Near Bristol, Bath and Keynsham. 
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    • About us
  • Training Support
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