#59: Balance with Alex Kurland

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Drinking from the Toilet: Real Dogs, Real Training

How To, Education, Pets & Animals, Kids & Family

4.7 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This week we talk to Alexandra Kurland about the topic of Balance in training. I asked Alex to talk about this, because the word Balance tend to have a particular usage in dog training circles, and that's not at all what Alex means when she says the word balance. Of course, Alex isn't a dog trainer. She's a phenomenally skilled horse trainer, who is responsible for introducing clicker training concepts to the horse world back in the 1990s with her first book Clicker Training for Your Horse. Even though she works primarily with horses (and sometimes goats) there is a LOT we can learn from her approach to training that is completely applicable to our training with dogs... and of course people, too! For full show notes, visit: www.wonderpupstraining.com/podcast/59

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0:00.0	Hey guys, welcome back to drinking from the toilet. I'm your host and fellow training nerd, Hannah Branigan.
0:19.0	I'm pretty excited this week because I have a
0:21.5	bunch of cool new guests coming to hang out with us over the next few weeks, including this
0:26.3	week. Several of those conversations I've already recorded. They're in the hopper, so it's just a matter
0:30.7	of getting the conversations edited and published so you can hear them. So keep your earbuds
0:34.9	peeled as they roll out over the next couple of weeks.
0:44.0	So in addition to several brand new to the pod guests coming on the podcast, I'm also teaming up again with my Swedish friends and repeat guests, Emily and Eva of Carpy Momentum, to give
0:49.4	you guys a live workshop on the fascinating topic of start button behaviors, which you may remember from
0:54.5	episode number 31, if you want to go check that one out just to review.
0:58.0	This workshop will follow a very similar format to the one we did last month on the
1:01.8	conditioned emotional response, aka ball feelings.
1:05.0	In that, you'll get a homework assignment to read in advance that includes some example
1:08.8	videos and background information and some figures that I did myself. And then we'll meet live on the internet on Thursday,
1:15.4	June 14th at 3 p.m. Eastern, which I believe is 9 p.m. in Sweden, which I'm impressed
1:21.1	because it's pretty late. But we'll meet then and we'll continue the discussion and answer your
1:25.5	questions and generally geek out on the subject.
1:33.9	In fact, I'm really pleased that we're following the CER workshop with this one because what's cool about using start button behaviors in your training is that it gives you a practical way to make
1:39.2	sure that you're actually training the emotional response that you want, especially when you're
1:43.6	working to change an emotional response or you want, especially when you're working to change
1:44.5	an emotional response.
1:46.0	Or you're working with some kind of stressful experience or distraction, like the movement of
1:50.8	the teeter and agility, which is their kind of classic example of this type of behavior.
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