CEU Opportunities

Below are the online dog training courses, seminars and webinars that have been approved for CEUs through CCPDT, KPA and/or NACSW. View the course description for details on the CEUs offered.

CEU Opportunities
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General Scent Work
It's Hot: Summer Searching Tips Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Searching in the summer months offers unique challenges for dog and handler alike. Learn some tips and tricks as well as approaches to keep you and your dog safe.
Canine Body Behavior
Canine Body Behavior and Scent Work for Handlers Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos We oftentimes hear how "reading your dog" is essential in Scent Work, but we must hone our eye outside the context of our dogs working odor too!
Proofing
Find Your Hide - Proofing for Crittering Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Does crittering in your searches get you down? It is understandable, critters are super interesting to our dogs! Learn how you to help them value finding their target hides more than the potential critter activity within their search areas.
General Scent Work
Components of Scent Work: Sourcing Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos For our dogs to succeed in Scent Work, they must build and maintain their sourcing skills. Afterall, we care about where odor is coming from not where it is traveling to! Learn how we can do this in this webinar.
Handler Skills Program
Wait, Quit or Help Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos When your dog is struggling with a search, you have three choices: wait them out, call it quits or step in to help. We discuss the pros and cons of each in this webinar.
Trial Prep Program
Decoding Toy Obsession in Your Searches Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Do you fret whenever there is a planned toy distractor in your search area? Does your dog seemingly forget all about their hide and become obsessive with the toy instead? Learn why this may happen and possible training solutions in this webinar.
Trial Prep Program
The Varied Needs of Different Breeds Webinar Instructor Holly Bushard Are you struggling with obtaining consistent results with all your dogs? What has worked for Fido is not working for Spot! Then this webinar is for you! Holly will focus on some of the joys and challenges of playing Scent Work with every dog in the house!
Trial Prep
Start Line to Finish: Assessing Your Trial Team Webinar Instructor Jill Kovacevich Learn how to assess the effectiveness of you, your dog and your team as you tackle NW1 all the way through Summit.
Trial Prep Program
Training With The End in Mind; Focus on the Handler Webinar Instructor Bill Gaskins The second webinar in a three-part series, we'll focus on how situational awareness of the handler supports the dogs ability to search.
Trial Prep Program
Patterns: CSI to Novice Detection Webinar Instructor Bill Gaskins Search patterns will vary, but they share a common goal: organization and structure to ensure no items or productive areas are missed. Learn how hide placement, search area context, and reward history matters in building a dog who is organized and thorough as they search.
Live Webinar
Hosting an AKC Trial: Practical Guidance Beyond the Rulebook - Part 1 Webinar Date August 26th at 5:30PM PT / 8:30PM ET (6:30PM MT / 7:30PM CT) Instructor Jenny Hamilton Are you part of a new club looking for guidance in hosting an AKC Scent Work trial? Perhaps you hosted a trial recently and feel it could be improved? Great, this webinar series is for you! In part one, we will discuss what to consider before your event is even finalized. This includes your trial committee, roles to fill, demographic considerations, budgeting and much more.
Live Seminar
Instructors: Crucial Skills Outside the Context of Scent Work Seminar Date September 28th at 4:30PM PT / 7:30PM ET (5:30PM MT / 6:30PM CT) Instructor Dianna L. Santos There are indeed a litany of skills instructors must carefully assess, build and maintain for both their canine and handler clients. However, there is a large category of skills which have nothing to do with searching that also must be addressed in our training programs!
NACSW
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NACSW: Odor Recognition Prep (ORT) Course (Student) Instructor Lori Timberlake You are officially ready to start your NACSW trialing journey and are looking to develop the skills to ace your ORT test. Enroll in this course to learn how to do just that!
Training On Your Own
Considerations: Training Scent Work on Your Own Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos When training on our own, there are considerations we should keep in mind to ensure we and our dogs are successful and progressing as expected. Learn what these are and how to maximize on your training in this webinar.
Trial Host Program
Trial Hosts: Top Ten Must-Do Things Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Thinking of hosting a Scent Work trial? Great! In this webinar, we go over the top 10 must-do things trial hosts need to be mindful of and do to be successful.
Trial Prep Program
Power of Semi-Blind Hides Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos While it is true that all your hides will be blind when trialing, training is a entirely different animal! In this webinar, we discuss the benefits of using semi-blind searches in your training setups.
Odor Puzzles
Multi-Hide Searches Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Setting up multi-hide searches can be greatly beneficial for our dogs. We discuss how and why you should weave these types of searches into your training program in this webinar.
Odor Puzzles
Single Hide Searches Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos There are many handlers who assume every search area must have multiple hides. Nothing could be further from the truth! Single hide searches can be extremely helpful in a variety of ways! We discuss this and provide you some tips to try in this webinar.
Foundation Sniffing Program
Why Independence Matters Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Independence is crucially important to any dog who is doing Scent Work. We discuss why and some of the ways we can promote our dogs to be more independent in our searches.
General Scent Work
Components of Scent Work: Hunting Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos In this webinar, we will discuss the importance of building our dog's value in the hunt itself, how doing so will build a resilient and tenacious hunter who will dig in deep to solve their odor puzzles.
General Scent Work
Components of Scent Work: Odor Obedience Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Learn how you may build and maintain your dog's odor obedience when it comes to tackling their Scent Work searches in this webinar.
Skills Beyond Odor
Elevation Elation: Build and Use Body Awareness Webinar Instructor Vicky Lovejoy Does your dog struggle with elevated hides? It could be due to a lack of body awareness. In this webinar, learn how to help your dog develop their physical and mental skills to better tackle and conquer their elevated hides.
Trial Prep Program
Harnessing Joy Webinar Instructor Kayla Dever and Samantha Winslow Learn how to help acclimate your dog to wear a harness for their searches so they look forward to it and the harness doesn't hinder their ability to hunt.
Trial Prep Program
Geared Up for Success Webinar Instructor Kayla Dever and Samantha Winslow This webinar is for nosework competitors getting more serious about competition and wanting to self-time and self-record utilizing timers and body cameras, but could use help selecting the right gear and how best to use it.
Foundation Sniffing Program
Surviving Adolescent Sniffers Webinar Instructor Anita Ambani In this webinar, we'll cover strategies for training, search set ups, pitfalls to avoid in order to set your teenager up for long term success in the sport.
Trial Prep Program
Training With The End in Mind; Focus on the Overall Team Webinar Instructor Bill Gaskins The third and final webinar in a three-part series, we'll focus on how to ensure that from imprinting to trial we build mutually supporting teams.
Training for Trainers
Instructors: Canine Body Behavior and Teaching Classes Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos When teaching a group dog training class, it is essential for instructors to properly read what their canine clients are saying. Learn ways to do so, keep tensions low and set your clients up for success in this webinar.
Live Webinar
The Trial Starts in the Parking Lot Webinar Date October 7th at 4:30PM PT / 7:30PM ET (5:30PM MT / 6:30PM CT) Instructor Anita Ambani The parking lot is where trial day begins. In this webinar, we'll discuss on trial-day etiquette across NACSW, AKC, CPE, C-WAGS, and more. We'll go beyond the "don'ts" and focus on the training skills that create confident, considerate teams, from arrival to departure. Because the best competitors don't just train for the search, they train for the entire trial day.
Live Webinar
The Ups and Downs of Making Changes to Your Nose Work Handling Webinar Date September 10th at 4:30PM PT / 7:30PM ET (5:30PM MT / 6:30PM CT) Instructor Dana Zinn Have you thought about making changes to your Nose Work handling but don’t know where to start? Perhaps you tried something new that didn't seem to work, your dog was confused or you are concerned it will break your dog's love for the game? Why are some dogs more stressed by handling changes than others? Answer all of these questions and more with this exciting webinar!
Live Webinar
The Real Look at Scent Work Trials Webinar Date September 7th at 4:30PM PT / 7:30PM ET (5:30PM MT / 6:30PM CT) Instructor Dianna L. Santos You are interested in trialing in Scent Work, but what does that really entail? What are the skills you and your dog will need to succeed? What will you both experience on trial day? What surprises await you? Learn this and more in this informative webinar!
Live Seminar
Instructors: Dealing with Common Handler Issues Seminar Date October 11th at 4:30PM PT / 7:30PM ET (5:30PM MT / 6:30PM CT) Instructor Dianna L. Santos We will outline some of the common handler-specific issues teams exhibit when searchin and potential ways instructors can address them in their training programs.
Live Seminar
Instructors: Dealing with Common Dog Issues Seminar Date October 4th at 4:30PM PT / 7:30PM ET (5:30PM MT / 6:30PM CT) Instructor Dianna L. Santos There are common issues teams will experience as they are training and trialing in Scent Work. In this seminar, we will outline some of the common dog-specific issues and potential ways of addressing them.
Instructor Program
Instructors: How to Help Teams Succeed Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos As a Scent Work instructor, it is our job to ensure both our canine and human clients are as successful as possible. But what is the best way to achieve this?
Training On Your Own
Creative Searches at Home Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Bad weather. Crazy schedules. There are lots of reasons why you may not want to do a field trip with your searches. Learn some ways you can be creative right from the comfort of your own home.
Skills for All Dogs
Find Your Dog's Off-Switch Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Having the ability to settle and rest is a critical skill for our puppies and dogs to master. In this webinar, we highlight how we can teach our pups to have an ever useful off-switch.
Instructor Program
Instructors: Assessing Your Program Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos It can be challenging for Scent Work instructors to do a thorough and objective assessment of their program, curriculum and exercises. We will discuss how to do so in this webinar.
Skills for All Dogs
Power of Tug: How, When and Why Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Tug can be a powerful and effective tool when training and playing with our dogs. Learn how, when and why to use tug with this informative webinar.
Sensitive Dogs
Stranger Danger Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos There are dogs who find people outside their designated "safe circle" to be downright scary and terrifying! This may result in the dog shying away or even barking at strangers. Learn ways to better support your dog, build their confidence and common pitfalls to avoid.
Trial Prep Program
Working Blind Hides Webinar Instructor Judith Guthrie Blind hides are oftentimes stress-inducing for handlers, who dread hearing a "No". Learn how to effectively use blind searches in training.
Live Webinar
Allure of Snazzy Searches: Maintaining Criteria Webinar Date August 17th at 4:30PM PT / 7:30PM ET (5:30PM MT / 6:30PM CT) Instructor Dianna L. Santos As we progress with our training, it is easy to start offering more challenging searches. However, we need to ensure we are not compromising our criteria when we do so.
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