Workshops & Seminars

Tricks Training Like the Stars! - with Frankie Joiris

Saturday, November 14, 9-5 with a break for lunch
Sunday, November 15, 9-5 with a break for lunch

***Note: tricks taught the first day won’t be repeated the second day. Participants can come to both days!

Join us for a fantastic fun day of learning all kinds of tricks and new ways to look at teaching and training. If you’re looking for a way to de-stress your life, laugh a lot, connect with your dog, and develop new skills, this is it!

Drawing from over 40 years as a professional theatrical animal trainer, Frankie Joiris’s approach to animal education focuses on enhancing our conversation with our dog, and enjoying the process while expanding both our own and our dog’s skills. From taking a selfie to ring toss, bowling to balancing - this trick seminar focuses on finding the stuff that works best for your team, and creating trick routines that are a blast for everyone involved. In addition to learning new tricks, the basic concepts learned are great for your training toolbox in agility, obedience, rally, and just every day life with your dog!

This is a very interactive workshop, expect to be busy most of the day and tired at the end of it!

IF YOU DON’T KNOW FRANKIE...
Frankie Joiris has been teaching dog training since 1976, teaching pet and competition obedience classes in NYC for 25 years before switching to agility training in 2001. For thirty years her ‘day job’ was training and handling animals for theater, television, and film, which has given her experience training pretty much anything that breathes and moves, from turtles to tigers (mostly smaller mammals, birds, and farm animals).

More recently she has been involved in teaching dogs thinking games. With the assistance of researchers from the Animal Interaction Lab at Georgia Tech, the Messerli Research Institute, and others she and her dog Know Me are discovering just how much he can learn. Frankie has been a regular writer for Clean Run Magazine, writing articles on foundation, fitness, focus and training, including the popular ‘Total Team Performance Puppy,’ series based on Total Team foundation program from start to finish.

Frankie is also the author of the popular Dog Potential Unleashed newsletter

Working spots limited to 20; teams will work in groups of 10 at a time. Unlimited space for auditors.

Cost: Working spot Member, $140 per day; non-member, $155 per day.
Auditor: Member $50 per day, $75 for both days; non-member, $60 per day, $90 for both days.

Your First Agility Trial – with Sally Silverman

Friday, November 20, 6-8 pm

Description: Are you dreaming of being an agility star, or just getting your feet wet? Thinking about the sport but don’t know what is involved in competition? Please join us for a seminar.

It’s never too early to learn the answers to all those nagging questions—and the questions you didn’t even know you had!—about entering and competing in your first agility trial. In this seminar we will discuss the various venues, options for classes and levels to enter, getting your dog measured, what to bring, and other things you need to know to be prepared. Whether you are just starting in Agility Foundations, or thinking about entering your first trial, there will be lots of info to help you feel more comfortable with the process.

I have dozens of years experience competing for in AKC, ASCA, USDAA, and UKI agility.

We will NOT be working with dogs in this seminar, though quiet, well-behaved dogs are welcome to come and listen, too!

Cost: $25 for members, $30 for non-members.

Holly Bushard Nose Work Workshops (offsite at Bryn Athyn College)

NW1/NW2 Coaching Day: Thursday, November 19
8:30-10, 10:15-11:45, 12:15-1:45, 2-3:30, 3:30-5

3 dogs per 90 minute slot. $175/member, $200/non-members

NW3/Elite Coaching Day: Friday, November 20
8:30-10, 10:15-11:45, 12:15-1:45, 2-3:30, 3:30-5

2 dogs per 90 minute slot. $200/member, $240/non-members

Summit Day! Saturday, November 21
9am-4:30pm

This seminar focuses on some of the unique mental and skill challenges presented at this exciting level! Whether you're already competing in Summit or if it's still on the horizon, this is a day to play with convergence, elevation, pressure, wide open spaces, and blended elements! 12 working spots.

Cost: $350/members, $390/non-menbers. Unlimited auditing, $40.

From Find it to Finish Sunday, November 22
8:30am-12:30pm

Looking at the search as a behavior chain and making sure every link is strong. Topics covered: Start line work, moving off of found hides, distractions, finish calls. A nice deep-dive into the complexity of a search. Appropriate for all levels of dogs fluent on odor. 6 working spots.

Cost: $180/members, $210/non-menbers. Unlimited auditing, $40.

Special Consideration Hides Sunday, November 22
1-5pm

Some hides present complicated and unique challenges! Join us for a day of exploring elevation, inaccessibles, convergence, mirrored hides, and more! This seminar is appropriate for all dogs who are in the skill-building phase of their career! 6 working spots.

Cost: $180/members, $210/non-menbers. Unlimited auditing, $40.