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Get Lifetime AccessMichelle Stern
Reducing kid chaos around sensitive dogs
- Management provides peace of mind for sensitive dogs
- Understanding body language prevents excess stress for dogs
- Engaging kids in the act of supporting their sensitive dog
Michelle Stern, founder of Pooch Parenting, is a certified professional dog trainer (CPDT-KA), dog behavior consultant, family dog mediator, mom, and credentialed teacher.
She specializes in helping parents balance the needs of their kids and dogs at all ages and stages, so that their whole family can live in harmony. She has two popular podcasts - the Pooch Parenting Podcast and the Parenting Kids and Dogs 101 limited series.
Michelle has been featured on NBC television and print, has written for CNN, and has been a guest on over 20 podcasts and in several online educational summits. Michelle offers online classes, private consults, a support club for parents with dogs, a coaching collective for other dog professionals, and educational materials to support successful dog placements in families with kids for shelters, rescues, and breeders.
https://www.poochparenting.net
https://www.facebook.com/poochparenting
Gift:
Stop the Ruckus: 4 Simple Tips for Kinder Kids and Dogs
- Management toolkit
- Training games to help dogs feel safer around kids
- Tips for better relationships between kids and dogs

Dr. Holly Tett
The Power Of Observation
- How we can use dog observation to support our dogs
- How we can use self-observation to support our dogs
- Judgement - how to protect our dogs and ourselves
Dr. Holly Tett is a force-free behaviourist and human clinical psychologist. She specialises in helping people to strengthen the connection that they have with their dogs from a trauma informed, attachment perspective.
Holly advocates for supporting your dog to be meaningful, not a chore and for humans and dogs to live a harmonious life together. She offers online courses, memberships and higher level mentorship to both dog guardians and dog professionals. Her flagship programmes are Canine Connection (a supportive group membership for dog guardians) and The Trauma Informed Dog Practitioner Programme for dog pros. She is also the host of two podcasts, Letters From Your Dog (for guardians) and Training Dogs, Training People and Keeping Our ** Together (for pros).
Holly loves sharing her life with her four wonderful dogs; Riggs, Aya, Squid and Strudel who each have their own gorgeous personalities and quirks!
Website: https://www.pawsupdogs.com/
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/kindnessisessentialnotoptional Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/369138013767369
Instagram (dog parents): https://www.instagram.com/pawsupdogstraining/
Instagram (dog pros): https://www.instagram.com/forcefreedogprobusinesssupport/
Podcast (dog parents): https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/letters-from-your-dog/id1570408705
Podcast (dog pros): https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/training-dogs-training-people-and-keeping-our-sh-t-together/id1637517916
Gift:
Access to free anti-overwhelm hub
- A selection of co-regulation resources for your and your dog to do to calm together -
- Some simple exercises to help you to manage your own big emotions

Dr. Christina Chambreau
An Unstressed You Can Choose From Many Holistic Options
- Your mental and emotional state directly impacts your dog
- Multiple holistic approaches help you and your dog, often at the same time
- No right experts, no right treatments as you can decide what is helping the most.
Christina Chambreau, DVM, is an internationally known homeopathic veterinarian, speaker and author of many articles and books. She has spoken and taught thousands of pet parents and veterinarians over the last 40 years.
She does virtual consulting to help you decide what would be the best approaches to heal your companions and prevent future problems, what you can do at home right now and matches you with a veterinarian who will best help your animal. Never give up hope.
As faculty for the Holistic Actions for Companion Animals Academy, she helps you learn new paradigms of health for you and your animals that also heal our planet.
https://www.ChristinaChambreau.com, https://www.holisticactions.com/drchristina, https://www.facebook.com/HealthyAnimalsVet/
Gift:
Healthy dog Journal eBook
- Fifty pages introducing you to how to be in charge of your dog's problems holistically
- Print and create a full notebook to record all treatments and your dog's response to each treatment or lifestyle change
- Focus your mind on the positive by using pretty colors to record the sweet, loving, fun, amazing ways your dog attacks life.

Dr. Laura Donaldson
A Prosody of Safety: What it is, how to do it & why it's important for you & your dogs
Dr. Laura Donaldson, PhD, CDBC, KPA CTP, CCUI is a Professor Emeritus from Cornell University located in Ithaca, New York, northeastern United States.
She is an award-winning writer on dog behavior who has worked as a canine behavior specialist for 20+ years. Laura is a Certified Dog Behavior Consultant (CDBC), a Karen Pryor Certified Training Partner (KPA CTP) and a Certified Trauma Professional. She created the extremely popular program called Slow Thinking is Lifesaving for Dogs®.
Laura currently resides in upstate New York with her husband, two dogs, three cats, and an African Gray Parrot named Obi. When she isn’t speaking, teaching or writing, you will find Laura partnering with her working Border Collies to tend her flock of Navajo Churro sheep.
https://www.facebook.com/ledonaldson
https://fourpawsfourdirections.com/
Gift:
Emotional First Aid for You and Your Dog: A Deep Dive Webinar
Living with a dog who has "issues" frequently causes significant stress for us humans, not to mention the heartache of watching your beloved dog struggle on a daily basis. This course/webinar will help both you AND your dog learn oh-so-effective coping strategies for those times when either of you are feeling overwhelmed. The webinar will include:
1. Evidence-based Emotional Freedom Techniques like Touch & Breathe as well as the fabulous Triple Heater Smoothie, which I have adapted for dogs from human trauma studies
2. These Emotional First Aid techniques can be used for both humans AND canines.
3. Easy to do and easily integrated into any daily routine.

Robyn Hood
The Touch that Teaches
- Importance of physical, emotional and mental balance
- Sensitivity can be expressed in many different ways
- How we make contact influences emotions
Robyn Hood is the sister of Linda Tellington-Jones, Founder of the Tellington Method. Robyn has worked with Linda for the past 45 years developing the method and teaches online and in many different countries. With a life long background in horses, animals have been a key part of her entire life. She enjoys sharing the method to help people and animals develop a positive relationship.
Gift:
Overcoming Contact Sensitivity
- 30-minute Power Point with video
- Helping dogs overcome Harness sensitivity
- This also help with contact sensitivity as well which connects to emotional sensitivity

Helene Lawler
Sensitive Dogs and the Importance of Mindset
I help trainers and competitors master their mental game and achieve optimal arousal with their dogs for optimal performance in dog sports.
I specialize in sensitive and over-aroused dogs, and humans who struggle with anxiety, lack of confidence, trial nerves, and imposter syndrome as they strive to achieve their goals and dreams with their dogs.
https://www.facebook.com/helenelawlercoaching
IG and TT: @helene.lawler
Gift:
Oxygen Mask on First: Loving and Living with Dogs with Big Feelings Webinar
- Webinar on understanding dogs with Big Feelings;
- The critical role of mental management;
- Oxygen Mask on First guide and workbook for trainers

Marilyn Mele
Your Host
Dog Wisdom Workshop & Emotionally Intelligent Dog Academy
It's been an honor and my pleasure to host this live event. I'm grateful to the panel of outstanding professionals who have given their time and wisdom so generously!
I specialize in supporting caregivers of sensitive dogs and other professionals with my signature Academy mentorship and Newsletter subscription, Inside Sensitive Dogs.
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