The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Proust
Where will your journey take you?
Choose how you like to learn.
Follow a GUIDED, paced course over set weeks with feedback and discussions.
Build The Learning ~ Build Your Future pdf to travel at your side.
Membership access to the WORKBOOKS and The Flock, search and explore in your own time.
Individual tuition in Building the Future with support and guidance, feedback and an amazing community.
The Year of Go Further Training:
Sprints and marathons are both foot races, but they have very little in common.
The training is different, and so is the technique.
Which one are you signing up for?
Are you trying to get there faster, or do you seek to go further?
Seth Godin
Build The Learning
~ Build your Future PDF
Of all the books I could recommend to my students, this is the one I would place directly into their hands. It is not simply another training manual; it is a thoughtful, intelligent, and deeply respectful exploration of how dogs learn and how we, as teachers, can rise to meet them
Emma Parsons
£19.50 A combination of the Reward Skills, Management or Training and Build the Learning workbooks with practical activities for skill building. 184 pages.
Resting hands. Luring hands. Delivery hands. Hands as signals and cues. Stillness as a mode.
Body cues as the backing chorus.
Giving the best information TO the dog to enhance their understanding of what we are asking, how we are responding and are we listening? It may begin with our hands but incorporates our balance, our poise, our intent: all quite readable by the dog – they are the experts.
£192
Starting 15 Apr 6 weeks
Skilled luring is the most relevant form of learning for dogs who are designed to follow scent.
Communication that is clear and clean builds strong learning without confusion: a difference between a hand to be followed and a hand open for delivery. How the reward is presented, at what speed, where, and with what pleasure it suggests are all part of the communication.
£192
Starting 3 Jun 6 weeks
A reinforcer may function to increase the likelihood of repetition but a reward will function to build pleasure into the action, a desire to repeat.
Does the reward anticipation compliment or contradict the learning?
Learn the technology of Reward Predicting Stimulus and the undercurrent of the cue as a marker and the marker as a cue.
£128
Starting 22 Jul 4 weeks
Developing Micro-shaping© Skills: begin with sufficient guidance for initial success then fade the guidance to self-teaching learning.
How do dogs process their learning and what does this tell us?
What is salient to your dog and using their choice of learning to build learning confidence?
£128
Starting Aug 26 4 weeks
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Attend all FIVE courses and continue the learning from any of the courses through to 30 Nov.
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Starting Apr 15 – Nov 30
Planning, teaching and maintaining a chain or sequence of two, or even several, behaviours as a compound behaviour.
Do we build the elements forwards or backwards or in clusters? How does each element impact on the following behaviour; can the dog change their arousal level into precision movement?
Does the anticipation of a reward point de-stabilise behaviours? Practicing the single elements or the whole?
£192
Starting 30 Sep 6 weeks
Passionate about learning?
3 month’s Membership gives access to all the self-teaching WORKBOOKs in the Voyage of Discovery
Build The Learning, Play and Games. Reward Skills and Technology, Management or Training, Adding the Cue, Duration of Movement, Good Form, Wait There, Cup on a Stick, Flock of Collies, Flock Talk Forum.
35% Discount
on LIVE taught courses, for paced learning where you get direct feedback on your own progress.
£60
SheepBalls®
The Ultimate Game for NoSheep Dogs. Individual coaching to develop your skills and those of your sheepdog. More than a game of playing ball with a dog. Games and interaction to release and shape the innate behaviours. Includes The Flock and Herding Games
£280
Starting 16 Apr 8 weeks
up to
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Building the Future
Always open. Start any time, start at any point. Individual tuition to work on a particular project or a passion that you feel would benefit your future together.
All you need is a willing learner to travel alongside you.
Access to all WORKBOOKS in the Voyage if Discovery included.
£235 – 12 Weeks
For People who want to Learn more about Border Collies
The Collie Wiki ~ Quirks and The Collie Brain ~ What do you want your Collie to learn and how?~ Flock of Collie Games and Play ~ Rearing a Collie Pup for the best future Living Together: balancing with Collieness and lifestyle ~ The Myths and Legends of Border Collies
Flock Talk Forum for the 1001 questions that you will be asking: why does my Collie …. ?
£30 Membership gives 6 months access
Discounted when enrolling for SheepBalls® Course.
A Voyage of Discovery is not about seeking new solutions but changing the way you see your dog
Team Sheepballs®
➤ Learn more about what is happening and why; the unique Border Collie Brain.
➤ Fine details in management techniques for both people and Collies living together.
➤ Teaching the essentials of the Pet Brain Repertoire; Sheepballs® Games, the Boring Walk.
➤ Building healthy lifestyle for your Collie.
next enrolment Summer 2026
Workbooks and Courses included in Setter Memberships
Cup on a Stick®
Elegant and simple technique to teach accurate and fluent movement. For fitness, for understanding, build exceptional learners that will be walking on air.
10 Lessons from the Foundations through to Advanced techniques, available as a stand alone course.
A Kay Laurence original.
Included in all Sett26 Memberships
Build the Learning
Lifelong skills built in activities and play. A dog that is curious, confident, resilient with a natural enthusiasm for learning.
Reward
Skills
Learn about the fascinating landscape of rewards and how to make them the centre of your training and relationship.
Management or Training
Find a pathway to suit your lifestyle of living with dogs. When management temporarily supports the learning, or choose training.
Completely transformed the picture
“These workbooks guided me through a new understanding and insight into how dogs move through the world and what my role can be in that process, giving me the tools to plan, engineer, adapt, and assess their learning regardless of the objective.“
Changed my way of looking at dogs
After going through the Workbooks, I’ve come to realize that my perspective on dogs has shifted. Instead of viewing them as a system that I could program with tricks and systematic tasks, I’ve begun to consider their point of view and emotions on my day to day interactions. It really changed my way of looking at them.“
Comprehensive and rich resource
“The workbooks contain, by far, the most comprehensive and the richest resource I know about reward based training, combining for instance rich descriptions of the multiple variations underlying the use of food, of the complexity of play and of the use of powerful innovative tools developed by Kay such a “Cup on a stick” and luring.“