BAT - Behavior Adjustment Training Seminar  (full day)

Seminar Title: Give Your Dog a Behavior Adjustment! BAT for Dog Aggression, Fear, and Other Behaviors

Seminar Date/Time: Friday, January 8th, 2010, 8-9:30 pm in Seattle, Washington State

Speaker: Grisha Stewart, MA, CPDT, CTP

Seminar Description:

Learn about Behavior Adjustment Training via live dog demos and lots of video. Learn how to build dogs' coping skills and decrease fear using Behavior Adjustment Training. You’ll see how to add BAT to your behavior modification toolbox, including pitfalls to avoid, and ways to integrate BAT with other dog-friendly methods.

Behavior Adjustment Training is a system for rehabilitating problem behaviors, including aggression, fear, pulling on leash, and more. Just about any 'bad' behaviors that are maintained by the environment can be replaced by more appropriate behaviors, using the same environmental triggers and rewards.

When working with aggression, BAT uses *operant* counter-conditioning with systematic desensitization to build social skills, confidence around the trigger, and trust in the handler. While food or other rewards are used with BAT in some cases, the main focus of BAT is on using environmental rewards that already maintain the problem behavior.

You'll also learn how to apply BAT to other problem behaviors that don't involve aggression or fear.

About the Seminar Presenter: Grisha Stewart is the owner of Ahimsa Dog Training.  She specializes in the treatment and prevention of dog aggression. 

Grisha has a Master's in Mathematics from Bryn Mawr College. She is now pursuing a Master's in Psychology with an emphasis in animal behavior at Antioch University, while still running her 8-trainer business and doing private consults for aggression cases. Her first career as a theoretical mathematician and college instructor serves her well in dog training and behavior consultations, because she relies heavily on the problem solving, critical thinking, and teaching skills she gained in that field. Since founding Ahimsa Dog Training in 2003, she has found her canine and human students to be much more excited about learning than her college students!

Canine behavior fascinates Grisha and she is highly motivated to help improve our techniques for rehabilitating and training dogs. This led her to develop BAT, Behavior Adjustment Training, which uses environmental consequences to reward the dog and eliminate problem behaviors.  Click here to learn more about Grisha.

Other "Behavior Adjustment" Seminar Details

• Learn more by also attending the Patricia McConnell seminar.
• Location is the Westin Hotel in Seattle (1900 5th Avenue), in Grand Ballroom 3. [directions]. Once you register, look at the seminar instructions to get a special hotel rate.
• No pet dogs, please, except for pre-arranged demo and decoy dogs. Let us know if you have a service animal that you will be bringing. Please be aware that, because of the nature of this seminar, animals will need to sit near the rear of the room.
• CPDT:  Certified Pet Dog Trainers will probably earn 6.5 CEUs for this seminar. More info soon.
• We will have morning coffee and two beverage breaks. Restaurants will be nearby for lunch.
• Want to host your own one- or two-day seminar on BAT? Email info@doggiezen.com

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"Behavior Adjustment" Seminar Fees & Registration

• 1-day Seminar Fee is $185. 
• We also have a seminar by Patricia McConnell on Dog Aggression & Play on Sunday, with an automatic discount if you register using the button on the row that reads "Both days." Don't miss this opportunity to see Patricia! Sign up EARLY with coupon code "batplay" to save an additional $35 on the two days, valid through Feb 5th, 2010 (valid only at time of checkout).
• If more than one person at your organization wants to attend the 2-day seminar, you'll need to put them in one at a time.  Save $25 off of the registrations for the 2-day combo, after the first one, using a coupon. Look for the class instruction page in the registration email.  There will be a coupon code in there (valid only at time of checkout).
• Please see our Terms & Conditions for the cancellation/change policy for "Advanced Workshops & Seminars".