Mindful Training for Peak Performance
An In-Person Mental Management® Seminar
With Teah Anders, CPDT-KA, CNWI, Certified Mental Management Instructor and Founder of Gentle Touch Pet Training and NoseWorkMind.com
Once basic skills have been developed or any dog sport (including Nose Work, Agility, Obedience, Rally, Freestyle, Herding, Musical Canine Freestyle, etc.), handlers and their dog ideally need to learn to work exceptionally well together as a team for top performance. In this seminar, we will explore what makes an excellent handler and how your efficiency as a handler will affect your dog’s performance in training and trialing. As a professional dog trainer, these same skills and techniques can be used in your dog training business or professional setting to deal with challenging situations, difficult clients and group presentations. In addition, these skills are critical for any dog trainer that wants their students to excel in training.
Discover the secrets used by top competitors to consistently perform at their best:
- Understand the elements of performance so as a team you and your dog can perform at your best.
- Learn how to focus and perform under pressure to the best of your abilities.
- Discover what makes excellent performance easy when handling a dog.
- Learn how to set goals that are realistic, yet will allow you and your dog to stretch as a team.
- Develop tools to easily track your dog training performance and accomplish goals easily.
- Learn how to have consistent performance as a handler and avoid mistakes that will throw your dog off.
- Understand how you perceive yourself and your dog will affect your performance as a team and learn how to change that perception.
- As a dog trainer or business owner, learn how to smoothly handle difficult situations such as the client “melt-down,” unhappy clients, or unexpected events during a class or dog event.
Host an In-Person Group Seminar for Your Students or Club:
The in-person Mental Management Seminar can be structured for one or two days. The two-day seminar typically includes working sessions with dogs. The seminar will cover the following topics:
The Mental Management Model
In competition there is a place between effort and ease, where excellent performance seems easy. There is a feeling of being sympatico with your dog, understanding their body language and knowing just what to do to support them. Learn how to balance the parts of the mind to allow you to feel focused and relaxed as you navigate the trial day. Learning the building blocks of Mental Management helps us understand how our minds work and how we can bring our mind to a place of optimum performance as a handler.
The Mental Management System®
Imagine being able to control your thoughts in a pressured situation like a Nose Work Trial. Instead of those niggling little fears or doubts that might enter your mind on the day of the trial or right before you enter the search, imagine being able to fill your mind with thoughts of your choosing. Learning how to take control of your thoughts before, during and after an event will help you feel confident and focused on the day of trial.
Performance Under Pressure
Why do we show up as different handlers the day of the trial versus practice? Ever notice that you are confident in class and feel great and yet sometimes the day of the trial here come the butterflies and you feel unsure about your abilities? Learn how to turn that around so that you can use pressure to your advantage and actually look forward to the opportunity to test your skills! Plus we will discuss how to handle all those pesky distractions at trials including parking lot chatter.
Building Self-Image
Our self-image has a huge impact on everything we do in life. Self-image includes our habits and attitudes and often feeds into our perception of the world in general and either positive or negative associations with specific situations. By learning to take control of your self-image, past negative experiences or what others may have said no longer has to hold you back from performing at your best. Discover how to build your self-image so that you can participate in a Nose Work Trial or any life situation with confidence.
Day Two – Applying Mental Management Techniques (Optional)
In day two, we have teams perform nose work searches, breaking down and applying different aspects of the Mental Management System. After each search, we have a group discussion to debrief and answer questions. Auditors are asked to help us by playing certain roles in the “audience” that mock a real-life parking lot situation. We have fun with this and the nose work searches, and help participants understand how to actually apply the system.
Seminar Costs: One-day seminar – $1,200 plus expenses. Two-day seminar $2,200 plus expenses.
We request each participant purchase the book “With Winning in Mind” by Lanny Bassham and a high-quality and useful Performance Journal to track your training progress.
All seminar participants will also receive a special discount on optional follow-up, one-on-one coaching.