Hey there. Welcome to Drinking from the Toilm, the podcast about training, teaching, learning, and living with positive reinforcement.

Doesn't that sound like a

bumper sticker or maybe a t-shirt? I'm your awkwardly enthusiastic host, Hannah Branigan.

This episode kicks off a short series where we're going to focus on teaching and learning as

humans. The principles are the same, of course, and we'll be taking a dog training perspective.

But since many of us are professional educators in

some way or another, and all of us are lifelong learners, why else would you be listening to a podcast

like this one? So I wanted to take a little time to focus on the human perspective. My idea is that

all of us are here because we want to do better. We want to improve our skill set.

We are all focused on how we can help our dogs to learn better, how we can learn to help

our dogs to learn, and maybe even how we can help other people learn how to help other

people help dogs learn better.

That got complicated.

So anyways, whether you are in a teacher or student role,

that interface where the learning happens is really important.

So we're going to start by talking to longtime friend of the pod,

Andrew Harrison, who you will recognize from

episode 14, about receiving, accepting, and even using feedback.

So yes, we are going to be backchaining again.

I know it's kind of a theme.

And we will work our way forward from here.

But I do think it is very helpful to begin with the end in mind.

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