Control Unleashed Weekend Workshop
This 2-day workshop at beautiful Hessian Hill Farm is an immersive opportunity to:
Connect with your dog
Meet other amazing people who love their dogs
Learn from experienced certified control unleashed instructors, positive reinforcement trainers on the cutting edge, best practices in positive reinforcement training
Providing your dog with more agency/choice
Develop or strengthen skills to help your dog feel better
Recognize how your dog is feeling and support them in a variety of contexts
Use in a wide variety of settings that are actually applicable to your life with your dog
To best set our dogs up for success (whatever that means for you and your goals!)
Details
Date: June 8-9, 2024
Location: The Canine Center at Hessian Hill (576 Treadlemire Rd, Berne, NY 12023)
Enrollment: $495/working team; $248/auditor. We will have one sliding scale spot for a working team and one for an auditor; click here to email us for details about sliding scale availability.
Contact: (518) 365-4085 or caninecenterhhf@gmail.com
*The Canine Center at Hessian Hill is a force free training facility*
What is CU?
Control Unleashed is a program developed by Leslie McDevitt. We create predictable, reliable patterns of behavior to help your dog quickly learn that they can trust you, even when other (potentially scary) things are happening around them.
Learn how to turn stress to confidence and distraction to focus using methods that are 110% positive. Leslie McDevitt’s versatile Control Unleashed® program is designed to help dogs learn how to relax, focus, and work reliably in either stimulating or stressful situations.
Who needs Control Unleashed®?
Dog that are easily distracted and have difficulty concentrating
Dogs that are easily aroused
Dogs that are anxious or stressed
Dog that are unable to control their impulses when excited
This training program can change your dog’s life! This class uses patterns and methods that will help your dog learn to become comfortable and happy in the crazy world that we live in.
Who is this for?
Everyone!
CU is incredibly versatile and can be applied across a variety of contexts. We will meet you where you are with your dog and your goals.
You might find CU exercises life changing if you and your dog are working on:
Getting more comfortable at the vet
Holding still for cooperative care at home
Going for comfortable peaceful walks
Participating in dog sports and the trial environment
Preparing for competing in sports
Engagement or focus in the competition ring
Incorporating choice into your training or life together
Finding the right balance of arousal and calm for success in competition or learning
Creating a successful arrival routine for trials, group classes, or novel environments
This is also a great learning opportunity for trainers who want to learn more about Control Unleashed and its applications!
*Current students in the CCUI program can demonstrate exercises for supervision and approval towards their certification*
Instructors
Kim Palermo CPDT-KA CCUI (she/her) specializes in the Control Unleashed program with private clients, teaches a high volume of in-person CU classes, and incorporates CU into all of her membership-style group pet dog classes for her dog training business, BlueDog in Andover MA. She has been professionally training dogs for over 10 years, and has been training dogs personally for over 25 years. She is the teaching assistant for the Fenzi Dog Sports Academy CU classes and is a mentor for the Control Unleashed certification program. Kim has trained and competed in a number of dog sports including rally, obedience, nose work, agility, herding, tracking, and conformation and incorporates CU into every sport.
Ran Courant-Morgan (they/them) is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst and Licensed Applied Behavior Analyst who holds multiple dog training certifications and has been working professionally with dogs for over twenty years. After years of working with dogs independently, Ran joined with Dr. Stephanie Keesey-Phelan to found the Dog Behavior Institute, whose mission is to provide a behavior analytic approach to dog training to support both families and professionals in living and working with dogs.
Stephanie Keesey-Phelan (she/her) is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst who earned her Masters and Doctoral degrees from Simmons University where she continues to teach as an adjunct faculty member in the Behavior Analysis department. Stephanie has been training dogs professionally since the early 2000s and holds multiple dog training certifications including: Certified Separation Anxiety Trainer (CSAT), Certified Control Unleashed Instructor (CCUI), and Fear Free Certified Professional (FFCP) and founded The Dog Behavior Institute with Ran Courant-Morgan.
