Saturday, March 1st & Sunday, March 2nd: Click to Calm for High Performance
9AM-4PM each day

A full weekend seminar

When competing, and out in the great wide world, the challenges are many:

• Fighting for your dog’s attention when in highly arousing situations.
• Teaching your dog a variety of foundation behaviors that can be especially helpful in any situation.
• Dealing with dog and people reactivity in novel environments.
• Working on going from excited to calm in a matter of seconds.

The cleaner the training loops, the faster our dog’s behavior will become reliable. 

Join us for this fun-filled, two-day seminar with Emma Parsons, author of “The New Click to Calm”. This seminar will focus on applying the Click to Calm methodology to deepen the connection between you and your dog, and grow the reliability of their training skills. This workshop is geared toward dog sport competitors and pet dog owners aiming higher! This seminar is also great for professional dog trainers who work with challenging handler/dog teams.

Grounded in learning theory, we will explore such topics as how contextual cues and accidental behavior chains can inadvertently teach our dogs behaviors that we deem unnecessary or inappropriate. Learn the difference between a behavior loop and a behavior chain and how to intentionally build these up — or break them! Turn distractions into cues for better behavior and learn useful foundation behaviors to improve connection. 

This seminar includes video for your benefit! Emma will record the working sessions and send each participant videos of their own dog. (This is optional, and you can decline if you prefer not to be filmed.) 

Online Registration

Full Weekend Packages
working spot both days ($400 + tax)
auditing spot both days ($150 + tax — SAVE $50!)

Single Day Registration

single-day auditing spot ($100 + tax)
Because the seminar exercises will build up as the weekend progresses, single-day working spots are not available for this event. 

***CEUs pending. If you would like CEUs from a particular organization, please contact us prior to registration.***

About the Instructor: Emma Parsons, CDBC, KPA Faculty

Emma Parsons is currently a Canine Behavior Training Consultant at Gemini Dogs in Littleton, MA as well as owning her own business, Emma Parsons, LLC. She specializes in managing and rehabilitating the reactive and aggressive dog and has authored three books on the subject. Emma also works with agility competitors who are having emotional difficulties with their dogs. Emma is a faculty member of Karen Pryor Academy for Animal Training & Behavior (KPA-CTP) as well as of the Karen Pryor Clicker Expo conferences. She is also certified by the International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants (CDBC).

She taught reactive dog classes for twelve years at Masterpeace Dog Training in Franklin, MA.

Emma holds a BA degree from the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and shares her life with her husband, Greg, and their three clicker-trained competition dogs—two Golden Retrievers, Austyn-Roque and Spirit-Rayne, and a Border Collie, Joshua Lee Hunt.

About the Host: Crossbones Dog Academy

Crossbones Dog Academy is an 8,000 square foot dog training, daycare, & retail facility located right off I-95 in Providence, RI. Our training hall is 45×75′ with Great Mats interlocking agility flooring. Our facility is climate controlled with ample off-street parking. Indoor crating space is available for quiet working dogs in a space adjacent to the training hall, or you may work out of your car. Chairs will be provided.

Crossbones is less than 20 minutes from TF Green Airport and approximately an hour from Logan Airport in Boston.