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Trial Prep Program
Nose Poke Alert Webinar Instructor Holly Bushard Explore ways to increase a dog’s excitement about getting to source, staying at source, and communicating about source with this information-packed webinar.
Training On Your Own
Training on an Island: The Art of Working Solo in Canine Nose Work Webinar Instructor Tony Gravley Do you typically find yourself training on your own? This webinar is for you! Enjoy a deep dive into both sides of the leash, exploring not only the handler’s responsibilities when working without a coach or group but also the dog’s role in developing independence, confidence, and problem-solving skills.
Trial Prep Program
Displacement Sniffing and Other Stress Behaviors Webinar Instructor Sue Sternberg Better understand displacement sniffing and other stress behaviors as they relate to Scent Work. Learn how to distinguish the various types of sniffing and how to better support your canine teammate throughout the search with this webinar.
Common Issues
Is That Pooling or Something Else Webinar Instructor Michele Ellertson Do you have a hard time observing the difference between pooling/trapping odor verses source or inaccessible? In this webinar we will talk about clarifying the purpose of the dog, as well as how to avoid some common handling mistakes that can lead to your dog being confused!
Common Issues
Aggressive Alerts: Causes and Solutions Webinar Instructor Tony Gravley Does your dog love to smash boxes, scratch up vehicles, retrieve hides or practice other types of aggressive alerts? Learn the common causes and practical training solutions in this webinar.
Small Dogs
Nose Work for Small Dogs Webinar Instructor Michele Ellertson Small dogs are faced with additional challenges that large dogs aren’t when it comes to Nose Work. Learn about these challenges, how to tackle them and ways to handle small dogs in Nose Work searches in this webinar.
Odor Theory
The Difference Between Theory and Reality Seminar Instructor Tony Gravley Are you looking for a down-to-earth explanation of odor theory with tips on how to design specific odor puzzles? This seminar is for you!
Common Issues
Fringing: Causes and Solutions Webinar Instructor Tony Gravley Are you struggling with your dog fringing at trial? It is as if they say, "Is this close enough?" Learn what fringing is, the causes and how to address it in training with this webinar.
Trial Prep Program
Let's Make Thresholds Work Webinar Instructor Tony Gravley You've worked hard to develop the dog's desire to seek. But this may mean they are rocketing through their search area, rushing through those thresholds. Learn how to make those thresholds more productive with this webinar.
Handler Skills Program
Learn More About The Dog-Driven Search Virtual Event Instructor Sue Sternberg and Dana Zinn You've heard of The Dog-Driven Search book. Take a deeper dive and gain a better understanding of importance of handler orientation, matching pace and speed, tips for tackling a search, covering the search area and much more.
Odor Theory
Odor Chemistry Basics for Civilian and Sport Canine Detection Handlers Webinar Instructor Lauryn E. DeGreeff, PhD Gain an understanding of factors that affect or change odor particularly in regards to Nosework odors (Birch, Anise and Clove) and how they may compare to other detection target odors, such as human remains and live human scent.
Trial Prep Program
Know Your Role: The Handler’s Role in Trialing Webinar Instructor Tony Gravley We can quite literally derail an otherwise fantastic search at trial when we step out of our lane and, well, forget to remember our role! Learn what your role is at Scent Work trials and how to best support your canine partner in this informative webinar.
Puppy Sniffing Program
Helping Puppies Succeed for a Lifetime of Sniffing Webinar Instructor Holly Bushard Do you have a new puppy? Looking to build the skills they will need to have a successful sniffing career? This webinar is for you!
Trial Prep Program
Training Blank Areas Webinar Instructor Michael and Natalie McManus While blank searches are usually considered an “NW3” concept, they can be important at every level of the dog’s development. Worried about messing up your dog with blank searches? Learn how to use blank area in training and better read your dog in competition with this webinar.
Handler Skills
Know Your Role: The Handler’s Role in Training Webinar Instructor Tony Gravley Do we have a role when training Scent Work with our dogs? YES! If we step out of our lane, this can cause our dogs to become confused, frustrated or demotivated by the search. Learn how to better understand your role in this webinar.
General Scent Work
How Would You Train It Virtual Event Instructor Holly Bushard, Kayla Dever, Tony Gravley, Michael McManus, Natalie McManus, Nancy Reyes Our roundtable will be posed with three common issues handlers may encounter when training or trialing in Scent Work. Learn how they would design a training plan, react to subsequent issues and more in this exciting event.
Trial Prep Program
Boundaries: From Start Lines to Flags and Cones Webinar Instructor Dana Zinn Boundaries are a big part of a Nose Work search, but they are often undervalued and/or ignored. Learn how to more meaningfully tackle your start lines, cope with search area boundaries and more in this informative webinar.
Trial Prep Program
Nerves Poisoning the Fun Webinar Instructor Silke Wittig Are you a nervous competitor? Do you find yourself dreading trialing? Is your anxiety starting to chip away at your joy for the sniffing game? This webinar will offer some approaches that are designed just for you!
Trial Prep Program
Climbing Mountains: Handler Skills for Success at Elite/Elite Premier and Summit Webinar Instructor Kayla Dever and Samantha Winslow Are you currently competing, or planning to compete, in the Elite or Summit levels of NACSW? In this webinar, learn how to help your mental game, develop trial day action plans, and how to find JOY in the highest pressure levels of our sport!
Trial Prep Program
The Power of Pairing: Search Monster Webinar Instructor Tony Gravley Learn the power of pairing and Tony's unique system that has afforded his clients to enjoy epic results where dogs consistently drive to source, avoid fringing and are not tripped up by distractors.
Handler Skills
Language of Nose Work: Reading Your Dog Webinar Instructor Michael McManus and Natalie McManus Learning how to read our dogs is a necessary skill for every Scent Work handler to master. See how you can go about doing this in this webinar.
Trial Prep Program
The Dog-Driven Container: The Why and The How Webinar Instructor Michele Ellertson Learn how to train a dog-driven pattern as a way for the dog to find success and not frustration when tackling their container searches.
Trial Prep
Train a Freeze Indication Webinar Instructor Michele Ellertson In this webinar, Michele will talk about all the steps involved in how to create the behavior of a nose freeze, how to proof it and perhaps most importantly, why and how it could go wrong!
Trial Prep Program
Using Walkthrough and Debrief Videos to Analyze Your Team's Problem Solving Webinar Instructor Jill Kovacevich The videos provided for NACSW trials are powerful training tools! Learn how to more effectively utilize both the walkthrough and debrief videos to analyze the problem solving skills of your team with this webinar.
Trial Prep
Train the Hide Webinar Instructor Jill Kovacevich Hide placement for each trial level matters. Learning how to set hides is a go to skill for all trial teams whether you feel confident in doing so or not. Learn to understand the differences and the importance of progressive hides for effective and efficient search work.
Trial Prep
Skills Supporting the Sniff Webinar Instructor Holly Bushard Training is all about building skills. Learn about all the various skills which exist outside of searching which allow for our dogs to be successful when they ARE searching!
General Scent Work
Catalog of Odor Puzzles eBook Instructor Dianna L. Santos Wouldn't it be nice to have a resource which listed all the various odor puzzles we can offer our dog when training Scent Work? Look no further than this helpful eBook.
Trial Prep Program
Failure is a Growth Opportunity Virtual Event Instructor Holly Bushard, Tony Gravley, Jill Kovacevich, Michael McManus, Nancy Reyes, Aleks Woodroffe Failure is a necessary feature of the learning process. Yet, we in the sniffing community seemingly shy away and treat failure as a "bad" or "scary" thing! Our speakers will share how we can more leverage failure to further grow as dog trainers, handlers and dog owners.
NACSW Program
Instructors: How Best to Prep NACSW Clients Virtual Event Instructor Holly Bushard, Kayla Dever, Tony Gravley, Michael McManus, Natalie McManus, Khara Schuetzner Both instructors and clients will benefit from this exciting roundtable. Our panelists will discuss ways instructors can best help their client prepare to succeed in the various levels of NACSW trials.
Common Issues
Maintaining and Troubleshooting the Nose Poke Alert Webinar Instructor Holly Bushard Have you taken the Noke Poke Alert Webinar? Perhaps you have been practicing building a nose poke alert with your own dog. Are you looking for more tips on how to maintain this behavior and cope with any issues you may running into? This webinar is for you!
Reactive Dogs
Click to Calm: Turning Fear and Frustration Into Focus Through Positive Reinforcement Webinar Instructor Emma Parsons Does your dog struggle with fear or reactivity? Learn how to utilize the principles from the Click to Calm methodology to reduce stress, teach alternative behaviors, and build emotional stability in dogs with this webinar.
Trial Prep Program
You Can Crush Pooling Odor! Webinar Instructor Tony Gravley The dreaded pooling odor has been the cause of many painful “NO”s ! Learn how to crush this odor puzzle in this webinar!
Live Webinar
Mastering the Big Picture: Preparing for Elite & Summit Level Nosework Webinar Date January 28th at 10:00AM PT/11:00AM MT/12:00PM CT/1:00PM ET Instructor Michele Ellertson You are embarking on your Elite or Summit journey. Learn how to balance efficiency with thoroughness, develop handling plans that adapt in real time, and build the skills needed to succeed at Elite and Summit level trials.
Trial Prep Program
All About the Box; A Detailed Look at Container Searches Webinar Instructor Dana Zinn Containers have proven to be one of the most challenging elements in nose work for many teams. Find out why and how you may be more successful in this detailed webinar.
Trial Prep
Train the Drive Webinar Instructor Jill Kovacevich Let's refresh our training skills for proficient odor drive search work. It is important to reconnect with an solid odor drive progression from basic hides in simplistic search areas to complex odor problems in environmental gotcha zones. Learn how in this information packed webinar!
Live Webinar
How to Keep It Fresh Webinar Date January 19th at 6:00PM PT/7:00PM MT/8:00PM CT/9:00PM ET Instructor Aleks Woodroffe Are you an instructor who is running out of ideas? Using the same training space over and over again, losing the spark of creativity and inspiration? Maybe you train on your own and are running on fumes, repeating the same search exercises and hide placements ad nauseam. This webinar is for you!
Foundation Scent Work
Foundations: Building, Maintaining and Celebrating eBook Instructor Dianna L. Santos Are you looking for ways to build and maintain solid foundational skills for you and your dog when it comes to Scent Work? Perhaps how to stay motivated to offer foundational searches throughout your entire sniffing journey? This eBook is for you!
Low-Drive Dogs
Games for Low-Drive Dogs Webinar Instructor Michele Ellertson When it comes to low-drive dogs, we need to convince them they are strong, powerful and able to successfully play the sniffing game. Learn how to do this in this webinar!
Trial Prep Program
Elevated Hides Webinar Instructor Tony Gravley Elevated hides commonly trip up many dog and handler teams. In this webinar, Tony will highlight how to help dogs better understand and tackle elevated hides.
Trial Prep Program
Secret Sauce: Competitive Effectiveness Virtual Event Instructor Ana Cilursu, Holly Bushard, Kayla Dever, Judith Guthrie, Jill Kovacevich, Michael McManus What does it take to be effective and competitive in all levels of Scent Work competitions? How do those who compete regularly choose what to focus on? What strategic choices do they make to ensure their success? Learn this and much more from our talented panelist of speakers!
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