NACSW CEU Opportunities

We are constantly looking to create more continuing education opportunities for our fellow colleagues. These online training services have been approved for NACSW CEUs.

NACSW CEU Opportunities
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Trial Prep 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.
Foundation Sniffing Program
Foundation: The Four Pillars of Nose Work Webinar Instructor Michael McManus Without a solid foundation, you and your dog will falter in your Scent Work training and trialing goals. Learn what the four pillars of a solid foundation in Nose Work are in this webinar.
Foundation
Foundations: Behavior and the Scenting Brain Webinar Instructor Nancy Reyes The first entry in a three part series, this webinar explains how sniffing directly influences the brain and emotional state, helping dogs regulate arousal, reduce stress, and stay engaged—so your setups and training choices support both learning and emotional balance.
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
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.
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
Games for Maintenance Webinar Instructor Michele Ellertson Remember when you first introduced the game of Nose Work to your dog and they loved it, excited and driven to play? Learn how to further build and maintain this drive all throughout their Nose Work journey 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.
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.
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.
Live Virtual Event
Grieving While Training Virtual Event Date December 17th at 4:30PM PT / 7:30PM ET (5:30PM MT / 6:30PM CT) Losing a member of your pack is hard in so many ways, especially when that dog was also a highly trained partner in the sport you love. Aleks and Natalie will share their own experiences with loss, grief, and finding the motivation to keep training and competing with their other dogs, while still making space to honor and grieve their best partners.
Live Webinar
Handlers Having Fun in Scent Work Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos People can sometimes get the idea that Scent Work is boring for the handler. Nothing could be further from the truth. In this webinar, we will outline ways to make our search engaging, fun and riveting for both ends of the leash.
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.
Handler Skills Program
Help: Why, When, How and the Aftermath Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos The final installment for this 3-part series, we will take a deeper dive into the help handling option, when to use it and suggested follow-up training exercises to ensure your dog has the skills they need to be successful.
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
Helping Your Dog Find That Last Hide: Friend or Foe? Webinar Instructor Sue Sternberg We've all had that search where our dog is struggling to find the last hide. There are several ways we can step in to "help", but is doing so truly helpful? Delve into this topic and learn other paths to take in this webinar.
Trial Prep
Hide Placement in Training: Making Odor More Fun Webinar Instructor Jill Kovacevich Effective hide placement can ensure our dogs develop the search clarity needed to tackle their searches, even rather complex ones. Learn how we can use hide placement to help our dogs develop healthy search habits that will serve them well through their sniffing journey.
General Scent Work
Hierarchy of Behavior Webinar Instructor Judith Guthrie Hierarchy of behavior is your dog's understanding of the rules of life and how they fit into it, affecting their decision-making in sometimes unexpected ways.
Instructor Program
How to Keep It Fresh Webinar 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!
Trial Prep Program
How to Make Your Trial Official (and Instructor) Cringe Webinar Instructor Michele Ellertson Our nerves can cause us to do crazy things at a Scent Work trial...some of which make trial officials cringe. Find out how to avoid these pitfalls and have smiling officials instead!
Trial Host Program
How to Run CSW Test Prep Classes & Mock ORT/Trials Webinar Instructor Lori Timberlake Hosting mock ORTs, trials and CSW Test Prep classes can be an excellent way to further support of your clients. Learn how to best hosts these type of events 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
Hunt Drive Webinar Instructor Tony Gravley What is actual hunt drive? Does your dog have adequate hunt drive and how can you get the most out of your dogs hunt drive? Learn all of this and more in this informative webinar.
Trial Prep Program
Inaccessible Hides Webinar Instructor Tony Gravley Inaccessible hides can be tricky for many dog and handler teams. In this webinar, learn how to train for these hides, avoid common pitfalls and how handlers can better read their dogs.
Trial Prep Program
Influence of Dog's Reactivity on their Scent Work Training and Trialing Webinar Instructor Sue Sternberg Can a dog’s temperament qualities influence their performance at a Scent Work trial? Does a dog’s reactivity with other dogs affect their distractibility during searches? Sue will discuss this and more in this webinar!
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.
Instructor Program
Instructors: Bark Less, Teach More Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Are you a Scent Work instructor? Then this webinar is for you! We will discuss ways instructors can be more effective in communicating with their human clients, setting them up to be more successful and enjoying the process.
Instructor Program
Instructors: Find the Why Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos As a Scent Work instructor, it is essential that we be able to identify and explain the "why" behind any given exercise, how we have designed our our overall program or any suggestions we make to a team. We will discuss how you may better find and explain your "whys" in this webinar.
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.
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?
Instructor Program
Instructors: Maintaining the Joy Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Being a Scent Work instructor can be incredibly rewarding and challenging at the very same time. Burnout and becoming disillusioned is a strong possibility! Learn how you may avoid these pitfalls and reignite your joy for teaching in this webinar.
Instructor Program
Instructors: Make Scent Work Foundations Fun Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Do your clients moan and complain at the thought of running a foundational exercise? They want the snazzy and fun searches! Learn how to make those foundation searches just as appealing in this webinar.
Instructor Program
Instructors: Teaching and Training Scent Work Foundations Seminar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Are you an instructor looking to start offering Scent Work classes? Perhaps you are currently teaching and looking to further evaluate or build upon your program? This seminar is for you! We will walk through the program we offer through Scent Work University to help you develop your own!
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Intelligent Disobedience...SAY WHAT?!?!? Webinar Instructor Judith Guthrie Ever heard of intelligent disobedience? Want to know what it is? How to implement it? Why you may need it?
Trial Prep Program
Intentional Practice for the Extreme Webinar Instructor Vicky Lovejoy Help your dog develop the skills they need to tackle a variety of searches regardless of what the search area throws at them. Great for trial-prep or simply taking your sniffing game to the next level.
General Scent Work
Intro to Mastering Vehicles Seminar Instructor Tony Gravley Is your dog just getting started in vehicle searches? Perhaps you have been tackling vehicle searches for awhile but are struggling. This seminar is what you have been looking for!
Handler Skills Program
Is That Odor or Not Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Handlers can struggle being able to tell whether their dog is sniffing odor or not. We will try to help in 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
It's About More Than Just Stuff Webinar Instructor Dianna L. Santos Are you finding that your dog is obsessed with checking "stuff" when they are searching? Scent Work is about so much! See how you can change up your dog's perspective to focus more on odor as opposed to items within a given space.
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.
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