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Class Information: Jan 7-8, and 14-15
NOTE: This syllabus is approximate. We will cover as many of these subjects as is comfortable for participants. A glossary document will be emailed to each participant. Each session will be recorded. Class members will have at least two weeks to access their class recording. Price is $100 per class, access to DISCUSSION session (and the recording) is for those taking both classes. Cost for the pdf of the glossary, both classes and discussion, and access to recordings of all of these for at least two weeks $200; sign-up below.
Introduction to the tools of SATS and Bridge and Target
Pet Owners
Pros
Mon Jan 7
Pet Owners
What is Bridge and Target?
What is SATS?
How does SATS compare to clicker?
Can I use my clicker?
What bridge to use?
This is what bridges sound like
Pros
How can SATS be used with my other tools?
What am I likely to gain?
The power of creating anticipation
The power of sharing information
DISCUSSION
Tue Jan 8
Pet Owners
Name & Explain
What to name
How to name it
How to test it
Making a plan
Pros
Planning for sharing information
Actions and activities
Body parts
Locations
Types of touch and constraint
Items and individuals
Giving processing time
Asking permission: “Tell me when you’re ready.”
Recognizing the ready stance
DISCUSSION
Mon Jan 14
Pet Owners
Universal gestures:
Ready
Thinking
No
Invitation
tone of voice
Bridges: IB and TB
IB: IB modulation
Pros
Layers of information: all roads lead to Rome!
Safety through communication: Congruent, Coherent, Transparent
10 Uses of the IB
DISCUSSION
Tue Jan 15
Pet Owners
How to teach the Bridges
How to teach the Target
How to introduce Pole and Station Targets
How to create 3 behaviors
Pros
When do we Free-Shape
How to use targets without tripping over them
How to create behaviors using targets
The training program.
The send-away
DISCUSSION
NEXT CLASS:
Builds on the first classes
Types of conditioning- and how they differ
The mechanistic philosophy of operant conditioning versus cognitive learning
Beyond operant conditioning
Terms: reinforcers, punishers, diminishers, interrupts, primary, secondary, tertiary, positive, negative
Tracking behavior in real time
The training transaction
Transactional analysis and word problems: learning to ignore red herrings
And more tools to build trust and relationship and turbo charge your training