The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Proust
Where will your
journey take you?
COURSES in the Learning Community
Build the Future Sep 2023
A Family of Dogs Jan 2024
KEY WORKBOOKS:
Reward Skills
Management or Training?
Build the Learning
For the Benefit of the Dog:
Cup on a Stick
Adding Cues
Hold On Hold Off
Something Simple
For Longer
Sheepdog Resources & Courses
Learning About Border Collies
SheepBalls® Starting in September
The Wrong Sheep
SheepBalls® Teaching Team
Wait Be Ready
WorkBooks
ONLINE
Key learning of the core skills
Unique opportunities to expand your training skills, dig a little deeper into the understanding and learn good technique.
Learning from extensive experience in course design, application and understanding. You are likely to learn these skills only once; make sure you invest in the very best training experience.
Key Workbooks also available as part of Setter Membership
Build the Learning
Lifelong skills built in activities and play. A dog that is curious, confident, resilient with a natural enthusiasm for learning.
£75
Rewards Skills
Learn about the fascinating landscape of rewards and how to make them the centre of your training and relationship.
£75
Management or Training
Find a pathway to suit your lifestyle of living with dogs. When management temporarily supports the learning, or choose training.
£75
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.“
FAQs
Setter Membership
MY RESOURCES
significant LEARNING
For the Benefit of the Dog
WorkBooks
ONLINE
Where a change in understanding can make 100% difference.
♦ WHAT we ask them to learn
♦ the WAY that learning is engineered.
£44
Setter Members 20% discount
Get Setter Membership FREE
#ForTheBenefitOfTheDog
Cup on a Stick
ONLINE
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
A Kay Laurence original.
LEARNING COMMUNITY COURSE
Build the
Future
A journey travelled with friends that is about learning together: increasing your skills, learning with the dog, for the relationship and connection. Work together and work on your own project, build your sport or build your play skills.
Learning for all ages.
Learning for life.
Next Course Sep 2023
£420
LEARNING COMMUNITY COURSE
Family of Multiple Dogs
Another addition is not just an extra bed and bowl.
When we move from a single dog family to two dogs the dynamics of the home naturally changes. The relationships between the dogs will change with activities, locations and routines.
Learning to observe the individuals: how they are living, what they enjoy and their niche within the house is important to build a home that is healthy, content and well-balanced.
It is our responsibility that each dog that touches our lives gets a chance to bloom in their own way.
Starting Jan 2024
£280
20% discount Setter Members
The COURSE is run over 12 weeks with weekly live sessions and individual feedback on your own projects and optional studies. Limited to Setter Members. The course is run 3 times a year and you can begin at any time. Become part of a welcoming and dynamic learning community and let the voyage begin.
These are just some of the comments from participants:
“Build The Future Course has been an absolute revelation for me, has done wonders for Tighnearnan physically and mentally, and has been such a pleasure. I was really worried about how little experience and knowledge I was bringing to it, but Kay and my classmates were wonderfully encouraging and helpful, and I learned so much that I can transfer and apply in so many scenarios.”
“I have never been in a class with so much vigor to learning, so much striving to give and to try so hard to learn new ways and understand. All of this centered around providing the best for the pups!”
“The importance of thinking in terms of developing skills rather than building behaviours”
“The value of a dynamic and engaged learning community where everyone’s working on different skills from which I can learn in so many diverse ways.”
“We discovered more about each other, learned to communicate better, and shared so much pleasure at creating and exploring together.”
FAQs
Setter Membership
MY RESOURCES
workbook ONLINE
Learning About Border Collies
Learn how to bring a good quality of life to your companion, enjoy games designed specifically for collies and understand their quirks and special needs.
£44
learning community course
SheepBalls®
A practical course with individualised coaching to develop your skills and those of your sheepdog.
This is more than a game of playing ball with a dog. We use the games and interaction to release and shape the innate behaviours your dog has inherited.
Next course: Sep 2023
£240
download the pdf
SheepBalls®
Start Right
The first steps to learning about Sheepballs® to be sure you give your dog the best chance to learn well.
- Best Balls to source
- Skills you will need to practice
- How to make the balls behave
- The Foundations to get started
With tips from starting hundreds of dogs exploring their heritage and pleasure.
learning community course
The Wrong Sheep
A practical 8 week course with individual coaching to develop the skills to manage a dog who is prone to chasing: traffic, bikes, joggers etc.
Understand why this is happening, and be able to select good management techniques and activities to rebalance the learning.
Open to both participants who want to work through the course with their own dog as well as those who wish to learn these skills for their own clients.
£240
workbook ONLINE
Wait, be ready
Taking the natural response and teach the stop during movement and hold position. The focus is forwards, ready for action on your cue.
£10
membership
SheepBalls® Teaching Team
Learn the teaching skills for the wonderful games of the Sheepballs Learning Course.
Begin with supervised support, assessment and reviews and access to the Team resources.
£120
Setter Members
Access to The Sett community forum and live Sett Chats
Setter Library with 12 courses, over 70 lessons, covering over 150 topics
Live Courses for Setter Members only.
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