#136: How to Recover from a Bad Training Session

Drinking From the Toilet: Real dogs, Real training

Drinking from the Toilet: Real Dogs, Real Training

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🗓️ 27 April 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we discuss bad training sessions can happen for a lot of reasons, be kind to yourself (beating yourself up won't help you do better training in the future), fault is the wrong thing to focus on (you are responsible for the training session, yes, but there is a difference between fault and responsibility), do you know what went wrong?, focus on principles and ABCs to avoid getting trapped in stories or labels, don't repeat the same session; change something!, phone a friend and get an objective perspective, stop digging, essentialize - what are you really focusing on in this session?, start small - you may not need to totally ditch your whole training strategy, get a new starting point that guarantees success, look at reinforcement strategy first; did it work?, rehearse the reinforcement strategy first without ANY behavior, it is always better to start with low criteria and be in a position to raise them quickly, rather than start with a failure and be forced to lower criteria, my rule of thumb is to restart at half of whatever I *think* I can definitely get, and quit (or take a break) at half the time you think you could do.

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0:00.0	When you are in the midst of what you are recognizing is a terrible training session,
0:05.2	is not the time to try to make a better training session.
0:09.5	Just pull the brakes and get out of there.
0:11.8	Don't try to rescue a bad session in the moment.
0:15.2	Evacuate.
0:16.2	Don't worry about finding a good thing to end on, right?
0:19.1	Like, that's a trap as well.
0:20.2	Both of you are just going to just, it's going to get worse, right?
0:45.4	Hey there, fellow training nerds. You're listening to Drinking from the Toilet. And I'm your host,
0:50.3	Hannah Branigan, teacher, trainer, podcaster, and author of the book, Awesome Obedience, and its companion, Awesome Obedience, The Field Guide, both of which you can pick up right now from
0:55.2	clickertraining.com. If you're listening to this episode, the week that it goes out, which is the
1:00.3	week of April 26th, my online mentorship program, zero to CD, is open for enrollment. This is a virtual
1:06.4	program, and it is so much more than a class or a course and I really need to find a better word
1:11.0	for it than program because while it does give you a complete plan to fully integrate teaching
1:16.3	skills, building motivation and confidence, strategic distraction proofing, chaining and sequencing,
1:21.6	preparing your routine for the ring where you can't take food or toys, it's also an entire
1:26.1	community with hardcore support and live
1:28.6	events to provide accountability and guidance and reinforcement for you to keep you on track with
1:33.5	your goals. We're all about doing really good training, using best training practices,
1:38.0	using positive reinforcement strategies for dogs and for people, and in the context of preparing
1:43.3	for that first level of novice obedience
1:45.4	to earn your companion dog title. So if you are obedience curious, you can check us out at
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