Reactivity Revolution:

Reactivity Revolution: Providing an alternative approach to working with reactive behavior

Many of the protocols trainers use when working with reactivity focus on techniques that use the central tenets of desensitization and counter conditioning. While these protocols can be very useful in helping change dogs’ responses to certain triggers, they can be lengthy, hard to teach and difficult for some trainers and guardians to understand and apply correctly and consistently.

Reactivity Revolution provides a different way of working with reactive behavior – making it more dog-centric, easier for trainers to teach and guardians to understand and absorb into their everyday lives.  This presentation will highlight this new roadmap, ask thought-provoking questions, challenge positive training norms and explore what success means for trainers, guardians and dogs. Building ‘resilience’, helping ‘reactive’ dogs have more ‘impulse control’, and developing ‘coping skills’ are terms that are often used to create a path to success, particularly for dogs that are nervous or fearful, but how are dogs experiencing these terms and are we truly ‘setting them up for success?’

VICTORIA STILWELL – BIO:

Victoria Stilwell is a world-renowned dog trainer best known as the creator and host of the international hit TV series and social media sensation It's Me or the Dog as well as The Dog Academy (Channel 4), Greatest American Dog (CBS), Dogs Might Fly (Sky TV), Dogs with Extraordinary Jobs (Smithsonian Channel and Channel 5), Help My Dog is Out of Control (BBC One), and various featured web series including Arson Dogs, Guardians of the Night and Unsung Heroes. Having filmed over 150 episodes of It’s Me or the Dog since 2005, Stilwell reaches TV audiences with her philosophy of positive training methods in over 135 countries, while the show’s popular YouTube, Facebook and TikTok channels inspire new generations of dog lovers.  A best-selling author of 5 books including her latest, The Ultimate Guide to Raising A Puppy, Stilwell appears frequently in the media and is widely recognized as a leader in the field of animal behavior.

A passionate advocate for positive dog training methods, Stilwell is the Editor-in-Chief of Positively.com, the founder of the Victoria Stilwell Academy for Dog Training & Behavior, and the CEO of Victoria Stilwell Positively Dog Training – the world’s premier global network of positive dog trainers.

Stilwell is the recipient of multiple awards and is committed to helping the cause of animal rescue and rehabilitation and is heavily involved with organizations around the world to increase awareness of puppy mills, dogfighting, animal abuse, pet overpopulation, dog bite prevention and other animal-related causes, but she is best known as a champion for humane positive reinforcement dog training methods.  She is an Ambassador for the RSPCA, International Ambassador for the Soi Dog Foundation and serves on the Advisory Boards of RedRover, The Georgia Pet Coalition, The Grey Muzzle Foundation, and DogTV.

October 15, 7pm CET.  Find your local time here.

The webinar will be recorded so that you can access the recording if you are prevented from participating live. The link for the recording will be sent by email within a few days after the webinar.