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IMPORTANT NOTICE: ALL Web-Class Replays past November 2021 will now be available exclusively on the new ATA website (access is free for all current paying members) ! See information below to get access ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

27th November 2021 – Dr. Susan Friedman & Dr. Joe Layng; A ‘constructional perspective’ discussion

14th November 2021 – Welfare, Training & Ripples in Animal Medical Research {past, present & future} with Autumn Sorrells

30th October 2021 – Mastering the master schedule with Veronica Boutelle

9th October 2021 – The Basics of Stress – with Dr. Kristina Spaulding

25th September 2021 – Teaching duration with a click; With Jan Østergaard 

5th September 2021 – Canine Enrichment for the real world (Book Club)

22nd August 2021 – Guide dogs UK; The STEP program (Standardised Training for Excellent Partnerships)

14th August 2021 – Business End of the Dog: Marketing for the Pet Pro, with special guest Melissa Breau

24th July 2021 – ‘How Research works’; ATA Panel Discussion with special guests Dr. Susan Friedman, Dr. Christy Alligood, Tim Van Loan, Rick Hester, Eva Bertilsson and Ryan Cartlidge.

10th July 2021 – Voluntary eye drop training with Laura VanArendronk Baugh

28th June 2021 – Food and resource guarding in shelter dogs with very special guest Trish McMillian.

14th June 2021 – R+ Parenting; ATA Panel Discussion with Emelie Johnson Vegh, Theresa McKeon, Catja Pedersen, Sean Pogson, Josefin Linderström & Ryan Cartlidge.

28th May 2021 – “Your 10 minute a day dog” … Terrie Hayward; KPA faculty member (ATA Book Club) 

23rd May 2021 – Dog nail care; (Constructional Programs and the Affection Loop) with Sean Will

25th April 2021 – Celebrate approximations (Part 2) – with Sarah Owings & Ryan Cartlidge

18th April 2021 – PORTL – Part 2: Building duration with Mary Hunter

28th March 2021 – Let’s pretend you’re going to Chicken Camp – Terry Ryan

21st March 2021 – Dr. Jesús Rosales Ruiz: Live Q&A (Round 2)

28th February 2021 – Celebrate approximations; a live discussion with Sarah Owings & Ryan Cartlidge

14th February 2021 – Active management is a mindset – Dr. Amy Cook (Q&A session)

24th January 2021 – Working with clients with disabilities with very special guest Veronica Sanchez

11th Jan 2021 – Reinforcers in Animal Training: Assessment and Efficacy with very special guest Dr. Erica Feuerbacher

13th Dec 2020 – Sonya Bevan (Dog Charming, Western Australia); Brave sharing about her dog Zuri and her leg amputation experience/training

06th Dec 2020 – How behavioral science can help increase public pro-environmental behaviour with very special guest Nicolette Canzoneri

21st Nov 2020 – The LRS (Least Reinforcing Scenario) with very special guests! Ken Ramirez, Susan Friedman, Tim Sullivan & Debbie Marrin.

08th November 2020 – The Growth Mindset (ATA Book Club) with very special guest Dr. Afiya Fredericks

31st October 2020 – Constructional Affection with special guest Sean Will

25th October 2020 – Dr. Jesús Rosales-Ruiz – LIVE Q&A

29th September 2020 – Working with extremely fearful dogs: Lori Stevens

20th August 2020 – Malena DeMartini; Separation Anxiety LIVE Q&A

29th August 2020 – Ken Ramirez (LIVE Q&A 2); ‘Eye of the Trainer’ – Book club

02nd August 2020 – Ken Ramirez (LIVE Q&A); ‘Eye of the Trainer’- Book club

27th July 2020 – A behavioural approach to improve sleep with special guest Dr. Gregory Hanley

19th July 2020 – PORTL (Portable Operant Research & Teaching Lab) with Mary Hunter!

24th June 2020 – NEI Panel discussion/Live Q&A (Steve Martin, Chris Jenkins & Arianna Bailey)

14th June 2020 – Fitness for quality of life with very special guest; Leslie Eide

31st May 2020 – Conversation skills to help engage with someone who doesn’t necessarily know they’re using (what we might label as) aversives. Hosted by Ryan Cartlidge & with special guests ATA members Josefin Linderstrom & Cristian San

04th May 2020 – Schedules of Reinforcement & Animal Behaviour with very special guest Dr. Eduardo Fernandez

18th April 2020 – Dog Bite Prevention – ATA panel discussion; Helping families navigate the challenges & inviting success. With very special panelists Collen Pelar, Joan Orr & Jennifer Shryock.

11th April 2020 – ABA, Behavioural technology to improve business and culture; Q&A with Bryan Shelton (Aubrey Daniels International)

29th March 2020 – Resilience – For animal trainers & care professionals with very special guest Colleen Pelar

08th March 2020 – Feather destructive behavior, screaming and biting (in parrots). With very special guest Pamela Clark. 

24th February 2020 – Horse clicker training; Essentials for Every Level. With very special guest Peggy Hogan

09th February 2020 – The SHAPE of enrichment (in a nutshell) with special guest Mark Kingston Jones

31st January 2020 – Fitness is so much more than fitness; LIVE Q&A with special guest Lori Stevens

25th January 2020 – Low Stress Farming with very special guest ATA member Josephine Atkins-Darcy

29th December 2019 – Inspiring behavior change in humans with very special guest Bex Tasker

19th December 2019 – Crawling babies … conflicted dogs – with very special guest Jennifer Shryock

21st November 2019 – LIVE Q&A with very special guest Patricia McConnell

04th November 2019 – LIVE Q&A #3 with Dr. Susan Friedman 

23rd October 2019 – Desensitisation and Counterconditioning with very special guest Nancy Tucker

05th October 2019 – How to do animal welfare assessments with very special guest Sabrina Brando

29th September 2019 – Filling the emotional cup for Behavioural Wellness! With very special guests Sarah owings & Sarah Stremming

20th September 2019 – Laura Ryder – Everything Puppy (Puppies, puppies & more puppies)

18th August 2019 – A humanistic learning approach to canine training (a web-class about training people); with very special guest Dr. Robert Hewings

11th August 2019 – Being Evidence-Based with your Animals: Using Data to Optimize Animal Training & Welfare; with very special guest Dr. Eduardo Fernandez

31st July 2019 – Peggy Hogan & Sarah Owings – Two Species, one journey! – Teaching animals to wait for cues without extinction!

14th July 2019 – A Animal Training Content Creation Conversation – With very special guest host Malena DeMartini and presented by Ryan Cartlidge

16th June 2019 – Shaping – from basic to advance with very special guest Agnieszka Janarek

8th June 2019 – Talking about Arousal with very special guest Lindsay Wood Brown

14th May 2019 – LIVE Q&A with very special guest Jean Donaldson

04th May 2019 – Pattern Games in Control Unleashed: The Power of the Pattern with very special guest Leslie McDevitt

29th April 2019 – ATA LIVE Panel Discussion with special guests: Hannah Branigan, Eva Bertilsson, Agnieszka Janarek, Steve White & Carrie Kish

20th April 2019 – Ken Ramirez; LIVE Q&A

26th March 2019 – Carrie Kish: Antecedents, function and non-food reinforcers

09th march 2019 – Peggy Hogan, Eva Bertilsson & Emelie Johnson Vegh; Animals in Control (Start Buttons, Choice/Control/Communication, ABC’s contingencies & more)

17th February 2019 – Alexandra Kurland; Poisoned cues & Training loops

12th February 2019 – Wouter Stellaard; The Bridging stimulus: A crucial tool

27th January 2019 – Steve White; Reading dogs scenting behaviour 

18th January 2019 – Niki Tudge: A Process & System for Training People – Transferring Knowledge & Skills in a Group or Private Lesson

15th December 2018 – Sarah Owings; Teaching starts with brave learning

06th December 2018 – BAT LIVE Q&A: with special guest Grisha Stewart

29th November 2018 – ATA Power Hour. Hosted by Ryan Cartlidge

29th November 2018 – TAG teach with very special guest Theresa McKeon

29th October 2018 – Regain your Brain; Planning & Evaluation (training plans). Hosted by Ryan Cartlidge

20th October 2018 – The Vet-Trainer Connection with very special guest Linda Ryan; Vet nurse/animal trainer, Founder/Director @ Inspiring Pet Teaching & KPA Faculty Member

30th September 2018 – Separation Anxiety with very special guest Malena DeMartini (Subject matter expert)

18th September 2018 – Dog-dog aggression with very special guest; Michael Shikashio, Founder/Director of Complete Canines & Past IAABC president.

26th August 2018 – Susan G. Friedman, Ph. D.,  Psychology Professor Emeritus and Behavior+ Works; LIVE Q&A #2 (mp3 Included)

06th August 2018 – Husbandry opportunities are all around us with very special guest Laura Monaco Torelli. (Founder & Director of Training with Animal Behavior Training Concepts & KPA Faculty).

28th July 2018 – Want to help more dogs? Rethink your marketing! With very special guest Veronica Boutelle; Founder/Director of Dog biz

14th July 2018 – Target training with very special guest Stephanie Edlund (Founder/director of Understanding Parrots in Sweden & Chair of the Parrot Division at IAABC).

16th June 2018, 7:30 -Sam Turner, Adolescent dogs; Development & Proprioception (balance/coordination) training.

8th June 2018 – Denise Fenzi, Socialisation; Offerings from Denise’s personal experiences & thoughts.

19th May 2018 – Choice & Control, frustration & Problem Solving with special guest Nicholas Bishop (Manager of Nature Theatre at Zoo’s South Australia and Founder/director of Behaviourtects).

30th April 2018 – Animal training flowcharts with special guest Eva Bertilsson – Co-founder of Carpe Momentum.

23rd March – Snake Training (choice and control with ectotherms) with special guest Carrie Kish from Reptelligence

9th March 2018 – Voluntary behavior, free shaping, fluency, cues & Stimulus control; LIVE Q&A with special guest Morten Egtvedt; Co-founder of Scandinavian dog training school Canis.

19th February 2018 – Animal Emotions with special guest Dr. Karolina Westlund

12th February 2018 – Group Training with special guest Peter Giljam from zoospensefull

28th January 2018 – Stimulus control & cues

14th January 2018 – Jackpots

30th December 2017 – 10 lessons Fibi-dog taught us in 2017

02nd December 2017 – Top 10 ATA podcast hacks from 2017

27th Nov 2017 – Contra freeloading with Special Guest Hilda Tresz – Behavioural enrichment and international animal welfare coordinator at the Phoenix zoo/mentor for the Jane Goodall Institute

12th Nov 2017 – Reactive/fearful dogs with Special guest Louise Ginman – President of the Australian branch of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers (APDT) and head carnivore keeper at Taronga Zoo, Sydney

30th October 2017 – Making time for psychological wellbeing with special guest Margaret Rousser – Conservation manager at Oakland Zoo

8th October 2017 – Voluntary eye drop training/problem solving with special guest ATA member Frank Boedker

22nd September 2017 – Incorrect responses flowchart with special guest ATA member Sylvia Czarnecki (Web-class mini-course included).

10th September 2017 – Interpreting our animals body language (Web-class mini-course included).

26th August 2017 – live Q&A with Dr. Susan Friedman. Audio MP3 file included

14th August 2017 – Motivation; A case study – Pepples the Antipodes Island Parakeet With special guest Debbie Marrin and Bonnie Wilkins.

30th July 2017 – Clickers/bridge/markers (Web-class mini-course included).

13th July 2017 – Cat enrichment and Basic Training with special guest Jose Gomes from Train Me Please

02nd July 2017 – Time-outs & LRS (Least Reinforcing Stimuli) (Part 2).

18th June 2017 – Time-outs & LRS (Least Reinforcing Stimuli) (Part 1).

28th May 2017 – Target training

14th May 2017 – Relationships/partnerships & Trust

30th April 2017 – Problem-solving

16 April 2017 – The Environments intricate relationship with behavior.

31st March 2017 – communication and timing (Animal Training).

18th March 2017 (“What does your animal go nuts for? … behavior is a study of one).

25th February 2017 (R+ horse training with special guest Kate Southcombe).

12th February 2017 (Enrichment).

30th January 2017 (Pre-mack Principle).

15th January 2017 (Group training).