Speakers
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Brad GriggsEducator | Presenter | Dog Trainer | Student Of The DogWith over 17 years of professional experience, Brad Griggs is a highly respected Australian dog trainer with a wide array of experience in some highly specialised areas of dog training and canine behaviour.
Although dog training is his craft and his profession, it also remains his passion.
Throughout his career Brad has been a lover of working dogs, and currently owns two Belgian Malinois – Kana (9yo) and Snap (2yo).
Active Engagement – Critical Handler Skills To Earn Fanatical Engagement From Your Dog
Engagement is a critical foundational piece in building strongly reliable, responsive, expressive obedience performances with your dog.
Where handlers struggle to train dogs that experience issues with anxiety, ‘reactivity’, aggression, and/or timidity a lack of engagement is often a centrepiece of that struggle.
Perhaps your dogs foundational work was conducted club based training environments where the structure of the classes and curriculum meant that intense engagement was never going to be possible to develop.
‘Engagement’ has become something of a catch phrase, often thrown around by handlers and trainers alike to describe a host of different things…very few would meet the following definition:
The dog should be actively and exclusive attending to it’s handler with the goal of eliciting activity or the opportunity for activity and associated reinforcement from that handler.
So that’s it folks – that’s what we’re on about here with the concept of Active Engagement.