A Ranch Workshop
KEN RAMIREZ PRESENTS
Success Under All Conditions
Join Ken Ramirez (in person!) to learn how to achieve outstanding training success in environments where consistent 90-99% success rates are not just desirable, but may be the only option.
Ken has a long and consistent track record of raising training success to unparalleled levels. He has helped numerous professional organizations—search-and-rescue, bomb detection, environmental protection, guide dogs—achieve a level of program success with their dogs that they have not been able to achieve on their own. How? Why?
You can get those answers and find out how Ken achieves his success—in person over two days at the Karen Pryor National Training Center in Washington state (The Ranch). The secret lies in Ken’s particular approach to teaching generalization and stimulus control.
LEARN ABOUT OUR NEXT RANCH WORKSHOP!
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
For the first time, Ken has designed a two-day workshop to experience, watch, practice, and learn his techniques in the beautiful and practical setting of The Ranch.
Ken’s positive reinforcement methods are applicable for trainers on an agility course, in scent competition, in service dog and guide dog work, in law enforcement, in cooperative-care medical contexts—really, in any environment where the goal behaviors must be achieved within a variety of contexts, under a variety of conditions, and with unpredictable distractions.
Fluent and reliable performance under distracting, changing environments is gorgeous to experience on its own but it also is becoming more necessary. Looking ahead, few of us can confidently live with our animals without distractions and may need them to perform their behaviors under distracting, but expected conditions (traffic, wildlife, etc.) as well as unexpected environmental conditions (floods, heat, fire, smoke) in order to keep them safe.
The workshop has applicability for both people working in professional environments as well as people who want their dogs to achieve a consistent high level of performance in the city, in the country, or in their sport—or simply want the kind of safety recall that provides confidence to go into the distracting environments of the real world.
Join Ken and learn how to achieve Success Under All Conditions
AGENDA
Sample daily schedule:
Each day of the seminar consists of several lectures each of which is connected to a training session. Working teams will train with their dogs, while observers participate through role-play, observation, and data-taking. There is also a segment in the day where all students work with the Ranch Animals.
A sample day would look like this:
9:00 am: Welcome and Topic #1 - The Importance of Desensitization
10:00 am: Training Session # 1- Basic Desensitization
11:00 am: Topic #2 - Ensuring Fluent Responses to Cues
12:00 pm: Training Session #2 - Cue Fluency
1:00 pm: Lunch
2:00 pm: Distraction Training: An experience with the Ranch Animals
3:30 pm: Topic #3 - Distractions You Can Control
4:00 pm: Training Session #3 - Distraction Training
5:30 pm: Discussion and Q&A
6:00 pm: End of Day
PRICING
LEARNER SPOTS
$325
DOG/HANDLER SPOTS
$499
SOLD OUT
This workshop is designed for up to 30 students and 6 working dog-handler teams; it will be offered just once in 2024. Spots are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Dog/Handler
Team Requirements
CONTINUING EDUCATION UNITS
Students who take this workshop are eligible for:
Learners
- CCPDT
- CPDT-KA and CPDT-KSA will earn 15 Knowledge CEUs
- CPDT-KSA will earn 1.5 Skills CEUs
- CBCC-KA will earn 15 Knowledge CEUs
- IAABC
- Lecture Hours: 15
- Workshop Hours: 1
- CEUs: 16.5
- 16.5 CEUs from Karen Pryor Academy
DOG/HANDLERS
- CCPDT
- CPDT-KA and CPDT-KSA will earn 13 Knowledge CEUs
- CPDT-KSA will earn 4.5 Skills CEUs
- CBCC-KA will earn 13 Knowledge CEUs
- IAABC
- Lecture Hours: 13
- Hands-On Hours: 3
- CEUs: 17.5
- 17.5 CEUs from Karen Pryor Academy
Students will receive information on the application process at the conclusion of the course.
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