online learning community
Building the Future
Starting Jan 2025
Join our online learning community and work on a particular project or a passion that you feel would benefit your future together.
This may be preparing for a competition, a training aspect that may have been overlooked, or improving your skills, confidence and competency. All you need is a willing learner to travel alongside you – we’ve never met an unwilling learner!
You can begin at any time; you can begin at any point. We all learn together: there is no beginner or advanced learners; every time we take a new look at the foundation skills and principles we learn more. We learn to question what was previously assumed.
Inspired
You’ve wandered around the Setter’s Library and been inspired to learn: explore how your Rewards can shift the learning, how your cues can become the markers, or that simple Cup On A Stick can build exquisite understanding.
Clarity will build confidence for both you and your dog. Where understanding changes the way you “see with new eyes”.
Extra
Great opportunities for group discussions on various topics that are likely to affect future learning. Where is the “new” trend coming from? Will this be something we can learn? Will this benefit our dogs?
£165
Three months access
Membership begins 1 Jan 2025.
Setter Membership is required.
If you want to sign up for 6 months make the quantity 2 in your basket, 9 months: 3.
Please note: Membership is not an automated subscription. You will receive a reminder to renew before your Membership expires. You can renew at any time before then.
Format of the Learning
You will be assigned your own section of the Building the Future course-forums to gather your own material, video feedback, resources, journals, projects and plans. You will be able to access this whilst your Membership is active.
You will also be part of the Building The Future group and share your progress and the Live sessions with other learners.
Feedback will be available on your project and plans, with 5 minutes of video per week. Video hosting in NOT within the course you will need to upload the video to YouTube or similar service.
There is a limited number of participants in the course; you can take a break and return at any time, but your place will not be held and you may need to join the waiting list.
Live Sessions
Will be recorded and held alternately on Tuesday 7pm and Wednesday 11am (1900 & 1100 GMT). You can attend either session or both.
Build the Future courses have been running for over 4 years and enjoy a wide range of inspiring and talents dogs and trainers.
These are some of our moments:
☀ Turning around a hesitant pup to a confident, bring-it-on type of learner.
☀ Support for those first few months of a new family member: all the questions that keep you awake at night
☀ Getting it right in the ring: learning what is going to bring out the best in your dog in those challenging surroundings and avoiding the onlooker advice that seems to come from the recipe book.
☀ Cleaning up the retrieve: taking it to the next level and teaching cup stacking precision, match to sample and “where does it belong” concepts.
☀ Proprioception skills for the young, the elderly, the recovery from injury. Rebuilding the walk, seeing the importance of balance and closing perceptive judgements.
☀ Play: those wonderful times where our skills are being tested by the Play Masters: they are so much better than us! The right sort of games played the right way for this dog and this age, that does not leave you exhausted.
☀ Everyday life skills that coast along but you can improve and adjust for that better conversation: doorgate – where it stops being the daily catastrophe; the walking conversations we can enjoy;
☀ The technology that surrounds all our training: targets that add wings to the learning; chains and sequences that can become tangled; the all important cues and our personal discipline for quality delivery.
☀ At the centre of all we do: REWARDS. We will keep learning more about the nuances and discoveries that build this flow between us.
You are welcome to work on your own project, explore new learning and take inspiration from others in our amazing BTF community.
“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.”