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Instructor Resources
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Foundation Sniffing Program
Back to Foundations: Vehicles Webinar
Instructor: Dianna L. Santos

Vehicle searches can be challenging for dog and handler alike. Ensuring your foundation is solid is the key to success. Learn why and how to implement helpful foundation exercises with this webinar.
Advanced Topics Program
Finding the Dog's Motivation in Scent Work Webinar
Instructor: Dianna L. Santos

Our dogs MUST want to use their nose if we have any hope in being successful in Scent Work! Learn ways to identify what motivates your dog in this webinar.
Trial Prep Program
Cause and Cure for False Alerts: Interior Searches Webinar
Instructor: Dianna L. Santos

Do you struggle with blind Interior searches? Find out why false alerts occur and possible training solutions in this webinar.
Trial Prep Program
Great Expectations: Creating your Scent Work Trial Experience Webinar
Instructor: Michelle Doram

This webinar will address managing expectations for Scent Work trials and will help you feel more prepared when you step to the line with your dog.
Reactive Dogs
Primary, Paired and Odor Hides: Choosing the Hide for the Training Challenge Webinar
Instructor: Christina Young

When it comes to our reactive, sensitive or less-confident dogs, we want to ensure we are setting them up for success during training. This includes mindfully choosing the hide type they are hunting for. Learn how to do just that in this webinar.
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.
Instructor Program
Teaching Scent Work Webinar
Instructor: Dianna L. Santos

Are you an instructor who has been bitten by the Scent Work bug? Great! Take this webinar to ensure you are aware of all the special considerations that go along with teaching Scent Work classes.
Trial Prep
Building Resiliency in You and Your Dog for Training & Trialing Webinar
Instructor: Jill Kovacevich

Building resilency and the capacity to recover from all things scary for your dog and for YOU is fundamental for any competition sport. This is not just a mindset, it is an in-the-moment understanding that you will fight the fight and survive or fight another day.
Trial Officials Program
Trial Officials: Assessing the Search Area Webinar
Instructor: Judith Guthrie

When designing a search area, it is essential to first assess the space and determine if meets the need for the given class, level and association. Learn how to assess search areas in this webinar.
Common Issues
Wait...Did You Find a Hide?! Webinar
Instructor: Dianna L. Santos

Does your dog buzz around the search area seemingly finding hides without telling you? Learn some solutions with this webinar.
Common Issues
Elevated Hides for the Vertically Challenged Webinar
Instructor: Lori Timberlake

Do you have a smaller dog and are stressing about how they will be able to work out elevated hides? Then this webinar is for you!
General Scent Work
Components of Scent Work: Value of Odor Webinar
Instructor: Dianna L. Santos

We need our dogs to value the odor they are tasked to hunt for in their Scent Work searches. Learn how to build and maintain their value in this webinar.
Live Virtual Symposium
Improving Scent Work Trials for Everyone Virtual Symposium
Date: February 21st at 3:30PM PT/4:30PM MT/5:30 CT/6:30PM ET
Instructor: Holly Bushard, Kayla Dever, Michele Ellertson, Tony Gravley, Michael McManus and Lori Timberlake

Join us for this exciting roundtable discussion that will cover what currently works at Scent Work trials, where the painpoints are and actionable suggestions for what trial hosts, trial officials and competitors can do to make trials better. This will include common pitfalls and problematic trends, how to avoid issues, tips for obtaining better results and so much more!
Foundation Sniffing Program
Back to Foundations: Containers Webinar
Instructor: Dianna L. Santos

We oftentimes hear the term, "go back to foundations" when it comes to training in Scent Work. Learn what this means, the benefits and how to go about it in this webinar.
Trial Prep Program
Pairing: Use to Prep for Trial Webinar
Instructor: Dianna L. Santos

In preparing to tackle a trial, you are wondering how you can build your dog's enthusiasm and clarity for the game. Learn how to leverage pairing to do this and more in this webinar.
Common Issues
What's the Issue: Vehicles Webinar
Instructor: Dianna L. Santos

Do you and your dog find Vehicle searches challenging and frustrating? Figuring out WHY will help you better devise a training solution. We discuss how you can do just that in this webinar.
Common Issues
Conquering the Environment in Scent Work Webinar
Instructor: Dianna L. Santos

Does it feel as though it is you and your dog v. the environment in your searches? Learn how to better help your dog cope with what the environment throws at them.
Intro to Odor Program
Pairing: Why and How Webinar
Instructor: Dianna L. Santos

A powerful training technique, we delve into what pairing is, why we use it and how you can incorporate it into your own Scent Work training.
Instructor Program
Canine Body Behavior and Scent Work for Instructors Webinar
Instructor: Dianna L. Santos

As Instructors, we must understand canine body behavior so that we may properly support and advocate for our canine clients.
Common Issues
Stopping the Potty: Tips for Exterior Searches Webinar
Instructor: Dianna L. Santos

You see grass. You see trees. You see vertical spaces. All of this means your dog is going to potty during the search and your heart is racing! What to do?! Find out in this webinar.
Skills Beyond Odor
Car Crate Crazy Webinar
Instructor: Kayla Dever and Samantha Winslow

Does your dog struggle to settle in their car crate or in a standalone crate? Then this is the webinar for you!
Advanced Topics Program
More Than Odor: Environmental Considerations Webinar
Instructor: Judith Guthrie

There's more to competing in Scent Work than just the odor. We must learn to prepare for all the vast possible environmental considerations. Learn how in this webinar.
Trial Prep
From Easily Frustrated to Joyful Searchers Webinar
Instructor: Vicky Lovejoy

High-arousal dogs can easily become frustrated and overwhelmed in their searches. Learn techniques in this webinar to help these dogs develop more resilience and focus.
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
Develop Trial Mind: Decision Making in the Fire Webinar
Instructor: Judith Guthrie

Scent Work trials are fraught with decisions the handler must make a moment's notice. Learn how you can do this without folding under the pressure with this webinar.
Proofing
Find Your Hide - Proofing for Food and Toys Webinar
Instructor: Dianna L. Santos

The most common planned distractors found within Scent Work search areas are food and toy distractors. Proofing our dogs off these distractors is a key element to any training program. Learn how to do just that in this webinar.
Trial Prep Program
Covering the Search Area Webinar
Instructor: Lori Timberlake

Particularly as you climb the levels in Scent Work trials, the need for you to properly cover the search area becomes more and more important. Learn tips on how you can do so in this webinar!
Common Issues
You Can Do It Pup: Building Efficiency Webinar
Instructor: Dianna L. Santos

When it comes to searching, one of our goals is for our dogs to be as efficient and effective as possible. Learn some exercises and approaches in this webinar to weave into your training sessions.
Common Issues
You Can Do It Pup: Building Independence Webinar
Instructor: Dianna L. Santos

Does your dog seemingly rely on you in their searches? Learn some techniques to help your dog be more independent, confident, resilient and tenacious in this webinar.
Senior Dog Program
Senior Dog Searches Webinar
Instructor: Vicky Lovejoy

Working with a senior dog in Scent Work can come with special considerations. Learn how we can adjust our training approaches, outline the types of exercises to try, which organizations to compete with, whether retirement is an option and more to help our senior dogs still be successful as they play the sniffing game.
Trial Prep Program
Barrier Training: What Is It and Why It Matters Webinar
Instructor: Judith Guthrie

Barrier training can help our dogs better understand a variety of odor puzzles in all four search elements. Learn how you can leverage barrier training in this webinar.
Trial Prep Program
Use the Wind Webinar
Instructor: Judith Guthrie

Learn how to design exercises that fully leverage airflow and wind in your Scent Work training sessions in this webinar.
General Scent Work
What Are You Training Webinar
Instructor: Judith Guthrie

Learn how to distinguish WHAT you are working on, WHY you would work on it and WHEN it is best to do so in relation to other concepts and skills.
NACSW Program
All-Level NACSW™ Trial Prep Course
Instructor: Lori Timberlake

Getting ready to trial is about more than simply running blind hides. Consider the entire trial picture and properly prepare with this course.
Proofing
Find Your Hide - Proofing for Dog Odor Webinar
Instructor: Dianna L. Santos

Do you dread it when there is a possibility of dog odor in your search area? Does it seem as though your dog become obsessed and forgets about hunting for target odor? This webinar is for you!
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.
Common Issues
Go Find a New Hide, Please Webinar
Instructor: Dianna L. Santos

Does your dog get stuck a hide they already found? Learn why this happens and how to help them move on to find new hides.
Advanced Topics Program
Hierarchy of Behavior: What Is It and Why It Matters Webinar
Instructor: Judith Guthrie

Judith Guthrie grants Scent Work University license to feature her courses, seminars and webinars on our online dog training platform. All of the content in this online webinar is created by, owned by, and the rights to the content, are reserved to Judith Guthrie.
Handler Skills Program
Tools to Help Design Your Scent Work Searches Webinar
Instructor: Dianna L. Santos

Wouldn't it be great to visualize what the odor may do in a given search area? Learn tools you can leverage to do just that in this webinar!
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