Thank you Kayce - VERY interesting! I am particularly going through a bad
stage at the moment, no patience whatsoever, and am trying hard to school
myself, but it's difficult. My biggest problem is time! Having quite a few
dogs they take up all my time and what little is left over is spent trying
to earn a bit of money to feed them <G>

What I found interesting about your mail is that when I sell puppies I
always try to educate people that the most important thing in training the
dog is their attitude :-)

Is it possible to post details of any future seminars here, in the hope that
I could get to one? Especially if it is close to me!

Regards
Jill
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Jill & Ian Terry
Babrees Canaan Dogs - http://www.babrees.co.uk
British Canaan Dog Society - http://www.thecanaandog.co.uk

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kayce Cover" <k_cover@...>
To: <cheal@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 12:10 PM
Subject: [CHEAL] whoops! Re: Hostility and Agression Workshop


> --- In cheal@yahoogroups.com, "Jill Terry \(UK\)" <jill@b...> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm new to all this - would love more details. Do you mean (hopefully!)
> > Cambridge in the UK? What are these exercises?
> >
> > Regards
> > Jill
> > ---------------------------------
> > Jill & Ian Terry
> > Babrees Canaan Dogs - http://www.babrees.co.uk
> > British Canaan Dog Society - http://www.thecanaandog.co.uk
>
>
> Hi again Jill,
>
> I missed answering your question about exercises. I was referring
> specifically to directions (and practice, at the workshop I attended)
> in "autogenic breathing" which is ridiculously simple and yet very,
> very relaxing. I had learned this in my dance training earlier on,
> but forget to apply these things in the press of life. But, it is
> really great.
>
> I got interested in these sorts of things as I worked teaching other
> trainers. I started to see people, who were technically excellent,
> fail miserably in encounters with animals - yet I could usually go in
> and defuse the situation in seconds. I worked hard to empower these
> new trainers to be successful - so I was really befuddled on what was
> happening. As I started observing myself more, I realized that I took
> time to center myself before encountering an animal - particularly a
> challenging animal, like one that tends to be hyperarroused or
> hypersensitive, or dolphins or monkeys (ay-yi-yi on both the latter).
> So, I started teaching trainers to do exactly that - we started
> little mini meditations before going before the animals. I saw
> definite improvement. Since then, I have canvassed other trainers and
> it turns out that we usually do not talk of these things, fearing
> making other people uncomfortable, but we virtually all work in these
> ways. In fact, Suzanne Clothier's book "If Dog's Prayers were
> Answered, Bones Would Rain from the Sky", she talks a lot about the
> intangibles of relationship and interaction. It is a subject that can
> make a trainer wax poetic! ;>
>
> Anyway, Mike Meredith covered the autogenic breathing at a workshop
> that I asked him to do during the seminar I presented at Wood Green
> Animal Shelters. It got a good response (numbers of people so relaxed
> they were lying on the carpet) and I saw that, compared to how
> seminars often go, the people seemed a bit rejuvenated and more ready
> to go on, after both the breathing exercise (after lunch) and after
> the longer seminar (end of day when I was dragging a bit).
>
> Anyway, if you are able to go, let us know how it goes.
>
> Best,
> Kayce
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