MARILYN MELE
Dog Wisdom Workshop
The Emotionally Intelligent Dog Academy is my signature program for the caregivers of sensitive, traumatized, or reactive dogs.
Learn how to lead the sensitive dogs you love to the joyful, resilient lives they deserve!
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Core Value:
The Dog's Well-Being is more important than learning a task.
What do reactive, sensitive, or traumatized dogs really need?
The dog's emotions are the source of their behaviors.
When we help dogs regulate their emotions, their behaviors change as a result.
If we're listening, the dogs tell us what they need to overcome their fears:
They need to feel heard and acknowledged, safe and loved, and free to make choices without fear.
The Emotionally Intelligent Dog Academy, my signature program for stressed, traumatized, or reactive dogs, evolved throughout my 45+ years of guiding people and dogs to enjoy living together in harmony.
We meet the dogs where they are and then we gently lead them to emotional safety with Knowledge, Empathy, and Attunement.
Marilyn
Emotionally Intelligent Dog Academy
Marilyn has helped us work through two challenges: reactive barking at people walking by/coming to our house, and stress disengagement in the agility ring. With Marilyn's guidance, we have made great progress in both areas. Life is so much more fun without all that stress.
Wendy Carey & Amber
Reactive to Regulated: A Gentle Path for Sensitive & Traumatized Dogs
Emotionally Intelligent Dog Academy
Learn the essential practices to build your dog's confidence, resilience, and self-regulation.
Gently guide your dog, connect to his energy, and meet his emotional need to feel safe.
Help more dogs. Apply to become a Certified Resilient Dog Practitioner
Online lessons for the caregivers of reactive dogs are more effective than in-person training.
Here's why...
Predictability helps anxious dogs feel safe.
Reactive dogs have trouble adapting to unfamiliar people and events. They learn more easily from a trusted person in a low-distraction environment.
Therefore, you are the best person to lead your dog from stress to calm when you have the knowledge and skill set to help your dog. There's no benefit to the physical presence of an unfamiliar person.
A trauma-informed approach evolves gradually.
Healing trauma takes time. You learn to read the dog's signals that she's ready for the next step.
You understand that "problems" are expressions of unmet physical, mental, or emotional needs.
Expert online coaching is a powerful means to becoming attuned to your dog's trauma-healing transformation.
Co-Regulation is your Healing Superpower
Your energy is your dog's safe haven and emotional anchor. Your dog reflects back to you the energy you send. Co-regulation through benevolent leadership is your healing superpower.
You'll sharpen your proficiency with co-regulation, empathy, and leadership.
Beneath every behaviour there is a feeling. And beneath each feeling is a need. And when we meet that need rather than focus on the behaviour, we begin to deal with the cause, not the symptom.
Ashleigh Warner, Diversity Kids
Meet Your Dog's Emotional Needs First...
Watch the video, download the PDF, and discover how my exclusive and proven A-Stack System can help your emotionally distressed dog feel calm.
