Biography:

Emily Larlham is an internationally renowned dog trainer and artist who resides in San Diego, California and will be moving to Sweden in December of this year.

Emily combines her artistic background and training skills to come up with creative, fast and reliable ways of training and modifying behaviors.  Her passion is using Progressive Reinforcement Training to solve behavior problems in dogs as well as teaching highly complex behaviors and tricks.  Progressive Reinforcement Training is a term created by Emily Larlham to describe a non-violent way of training animals that involves no forms of intimidation. 

Day 1

•Training using Progressive Reinforcement - How to train without using intimidation

•The keys to training without intimidation -

•REINFORCE behaviors you like and they will increase. Reinforce the absence of an undesirable behavior- a dog doing ‘nothing'.
(DRO- Differential Reinforcement of Other Behaviors, DRH- Differential Reinforcement of Higher Rates of Behavior)

•TRAIN an alternate response to the behavior you do not like to replace it.
If you do not like your dog sitting on the couch- train him to lay in his dog bed instead.
(DRI/DRA- Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible/Alternate Behaviors)

•INTERRUPT behaviors you dislike and they will decrease. You can use a previously trained interrupter noise or recall.

•PREVENT - behaviors as well as use management to stop undesirable behaviors being reinforced.

•Training Treat Deliveries, Capturing, Free Shaping and Luring as Behaviors
Treat Deliveries (so that the delivery is not punishing or confusing)
Capturing (“do it again”, “try something else”)
Free Shaping (when to begin and when to end)
Luring (pointing, targeting)

•Backwards Luring Lab and Rear End Awareness

•Combining methods for faster, precise and more reliable results.

•Free Shaping Games

•Impulse Control Games

•Default Behaviors for training situations and real life/ Situational Cues - No mugging, leave it, Settle, What to do between training, loose leash, and default social behaviors

•Communication and Learning Through Primary Reinforcers, Secondary Reinforcers, Voice and Touch How to combine them

•Lowering arousal using Handling and Massage

•Preparation for Massage exercises

•Building a calm foundation

•Reading Dogs- for signs of too much stress

•How much stress is too much? Too little?

•Anthropomorphism and opinion versus scientific evidence

•Chin rests

•Advanced Targeting

•Crazy Tricks Lab


Day 2

•Why Train Tricks?- Building Bodily Awareness, Fitness, Confidence, Balance and Flexibility

•Dog Free Running

•Core Trick Dog Behaviors to use as building blocks

•Core Service Dog Behaviors

•Building Secondary Reinforcers

•Variety

•Premack

•Back Chaining

•Freestyle Flatwork- Positions and Transitions

•Using Freestyle to move onto variable schedules of reinforcement- at home and in your classes

•Techniques for Raising Criteria

•Breaking Up Complex Behaviors

•Multi Dog Households

•Multi Dog Tricks

•Working with Fearful, Reactive and Aggressive Dogs - How to change behavior using primary and secondary reinforcers. Using alternate behaviors. Aggression is a natural behavior. Lowering arousal levels to prevent reactivity, fear, and aggression. Progressive Reinforcement as a way to maintain dogs under threshold.

Upcoming US and International

Seminars 2012
 



Bromolla, Sweden                              Feb 25-26 2012

Dog Training Camp

Details: http://www.rplus.se/


Venice, Italy                                         April 21-22 2012

Details: http://www.asdcanisciolti.it


Windsor, England                              Sept 15-16 2012

Details: http://www.cleverdogcompany.com/


Golmbach, Germany                         Nov 3-4 2012

Details: http://www.chakanyuka.de.vu/


Sornetan, Switzerland                     Nov 10-11 2012

Details: http://www.auf-den-hund-gekommen.net/