When you are ready to move on from a basic training plan, one with simple goals and behaviors defined step-by-step, it's time to learn about expanding behavior, record-keeping, and those inevitable mistakes.
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A New Year's Exercise for Grownups: Changing your View
By Karen Pryor on 01/13/2009Here's an exercise anyone can try.
During the day, make a point of noticing something someone else is doing that you like—someone at work, someone at home, a stranger even. It need not be something unusual. It can be something you already expect them to do anyway.
How to Write a Training Plan—Part One
By trainer@canines... on 01/01/2009
"I don't even know where to start. It just seems so huge and daunting. I don't know how to define a plan, what steps to include, or when to raise criteria. It's just easier to go out and do something, muddle around. I know that's not efficient, but at least it's something."
A Climate of Abundance
By Karen Pryor on 12/09/2008My friend and colleague Lynn Loar is a social worker specializing in families at risk for child abuse. In one of her programs, she brings several families together weekly for an evening of clicker training, using naïve shelter dogs. The families also play the shaping game with each other—adults clicking and treating children, children clicking and treating grownups—during the course of the session.
Click vs. Voice
By Karen Pryor on 11/11/2008The click means one thing only: "Bingo. You win."
It's like when you're waiting for a special call and you hear the phone ring. It's not the reward itself; it's just the clear-cut, simple message: "You got it."
