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Kay’s Classics ~ Build the Learning
~ Living with Dogs
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Proust
Where will your
journey take you?
Starting 18 Oct 2024: ➤
The Walking Conversation: learning the skills of walking together
Starts 29 Jul 2024
Introduction to Working with Border Collies
This 6 week course is suitable for anyone who works with clients that share their lives with Border Collies and similar Sheepdogs. This is not general herding breeds but dogs that are inward facing to the sheep and bred to work using a balance of eye and flanking.
The course will provide a greater understanding and include practical activities that can be applied when working with Border Collies and Associated Sheepdogs.
£175
Discount for Setter & Flock Members
£21 for 3 Month’s Access
and the Flock Talk forums
Learn More About Border Collies
A unique collection of resources
Support and Guidance for both you and your Collie to live together enjoying each other’s company.
Regular New Features
online learning community
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: April 2025
£240
10% discount for Flock Members
SheepBalls® Trade Mark is protected from use by any other business, group, individual or organisation without the express permission of Learning About Dogs Ltd. Trade Mark No: UK00003901470
Team SheepBalls® is group of specialists that can provide support, practical work and recommendations to People With Collies and collie-cousins.
Next Course: Jan 2025
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.
Next Course 2025
£295
The COURSE is run over 8 weeks with weekly live sessions and individual feedback on your own projects and optional studies. Limited to Setter Members. The course is run regularly and you any course. 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
Step Up Reward Skills
This is a 4 week course suitable for:
Dogs of all ages, learners of mixed experience: we all travel the road together.
➤ Rethink reinforcers and learning to think rewards instead.
➤ Learn and Teach Cue Seeking:
➤ Details that matter to your dog:
➤ Ensure the joy flows into the learning:
➤ Do your reward choices compliment the learning?
Develop and build your relationship, connection and skills.
£130
20 % Discount for Setter Members
This course will run again in 2025
WorkBooks
ONLINE in the setters library
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.
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.
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, available as a stand alone course.
A Kay Laurence original.
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
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.
Share your learning, upgrade your thinking