Self-paced course
The system I run in the first weeks of a private program, so you can start lowering your dog's reactivity at home, at your own pace.
If you have a reactive dog, you already know the walk-of-shame across the road, the lunging, the barking, the dog that never quite switches off. You have probably tried a trainer or two and watched it not stick.
This course takes you through exactly how I start with a reactive dog: read the dog, lower the baseline, restructure the day around the four modes, and only then work the trigger. It is not obedience drills. It is the work that gives your dog less reason to react.
Enrol
Self-paced, online, yours to keep. Six modules of readable lessons plus real demonstration clips, a cheat sheet for every module, and a six-week schedule.
Includes the Waterline Workbook (normally $25) free inside.
Enrol now, $129 AUDA single private session is $400. This is the same starting system, self-paced. Work through the first two modules, and if it genuinely isn't for you, email me within 30 days and I'll refund you.
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Module 1
The two reasons dogs react, why reactivity is a state and not a bad dog, and why the last approach didn't stick.
Module 2
The waterline, the five states, and how to read the body so you catch the build before it lands.
Module 3
Why rest is the intervention, the five needs underneath, and why we run cycles instead of walks at the start.
Module 4
PLAY, ANCHOR, CALM and EXPLORE, with real demonstration clips, and how to balance them for your dog.
Module 5
Eye contact and the three Ts, what not to do at a trigger, and the doors, greetings and window flashpoints.
Module 6
When you're ready to approach triggers, how to do it calmly, and how to hold the gains for good.
Plus the Waterline Workbook, a cheat sheet for every module, and a six-week schedule to download.
Owners of a reactive, anxious, or over-aroused dog that lunges, barks, or never settles.
The second-or-third-trainer owner who has tried the classes and watched it not stick.
Owners outside Melbourne, or not ready for private sessions, who want the exact system I use, to do at home at their own pace.
It's the same starting system I run in a private program, self-paced. Many owners get what they need from it. If your dog needs eyes on it, you'll know by the end, and a session will go further because you'll arrive already reading your dog.
The system is the same, but the work is slower and the stakes higher. If your dog has a bite history, please do this course alongside a professional who can see your dog in person, not instead of one.
Six modules at your own pace, but the work runs over weeks, not a weekend. Reactivity is built over months and comes down over weeks. There's a six-week schedule inside to follow.
No. It's online and self-paced and works anywhere. It was built for owners who can't get to Melbourne, aren't ready for private sessions, or want to start now.
Work through the first two modules. If it genuinely isn't for you, email [email protected] within 30 days and I'll refund you.
I'm a Melbourne dog trainer with a degree in veterinary science, a Masters in Early Childhood Education, and fifteen years across zoo, wildlife, and private dog training. Most of my work is with reactive and anxious dogs, and this course is the exact system I start them with. Reactive dogs are not broken dogs. They are dogs sitting too high, and this is how you bring them down.