online learning community
Building the Future 2026
Tuition for individual goals
Join our amazing 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
Explore the Voyage of Discovery WORKBOOKS and be inspired to learn: how Rewards can shift the learning, how 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”.
£235.00
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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 6 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 11am and 8pm (1100 & 2000 GMT). You can attend either session or both.
Build the Future courses have been running for over 5 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.
☀ 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”
“We discovered more about each other, learned to communicate better, and shared so much pleasure at creating and exploring together.”