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Hi I'm Alex Lato, M.Sc. Animal Science, Dog Trainer & Author 📖 🐕 Discover my clear dog training frameworks for companion and performance dogs.

Play with Purpose - The Lab: formula that turns play into a powerful training tool for focus, confidence relationship and emotional regulation.

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I need your help! (2 minutes)
I’m finishing Play with Purpose – Second Edition, which builds on the original challenge and goes deeper based on real implementation and the questions that came up from you. Because you’re inside this community, you’ll get free access to the Second Edition when it’s released. Here’s where I need your help. If you’ve already been through Play with Purpose and it changed how you use play, motivation, or structure in training, I’d appreciate a short, honest review. Nothing polished. Just: - where you were before - what shifted - what you do differently now You can leave it here: https://g.page/r/CeTWEis3qMEnEAE/review or in the comments or by email. If you’re also waiting for Heelwork Hackers, community members will get priority access and a loyalty discount when it opens! Thanks to everyone who’s been in this early group — your feedback directly shapes what I build next. — Alex
I need your help! (2 minutes)
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@Petra Oltheten thank you 🙏
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@James Jaggard many thanks mate 🙏
Play with Purpose -> Heelwork Hackers
How and why we need engagement and focus before heelwork training.
Play with Purpose -> Heelwork Hackers
1 like • Jan 1
@Katie vZ hahaha yes of course! After saying it with all small dogs there is a stage where our back hurts lol the most important thing is to have a framework on how to make this stage as short as possible ;)
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@Karen Johnston most likely it will run soon after PWP 2 :)
Quick Announcement 🚨
🤩 First of all - Welcome New Members! I'm super happy our community is growing! 🎾 Just quick reminder - you can still join PWP Challenge and get benefits of community, live Q&A's and my mentorship on play formula that builds motivation, confidence, relationship and emotional regulation. I'm really loving this this challenge and the community there is absolutely amazing! link here: https://www.skool.com/play-with-purpose-the-lab/about 🤓 Couple of you asked when there will be free webinar- it is coming and will be on 'Can play help your reactive dog?' is that something you would be interested in? let me know in the comments! 🥋 we have now belt system to reward the most active members! Skool is measuring your activity- the more you post/comment, like the higher score you get. You can see it on Leaderboards tab. the most active members will get free/discounted memberships, merch, mentorship/private calls etc.
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Need your opinion?
What is the most important skill in dog training? If over the next 30 days you could acquire one dog-training skill as a superpower, which one would you choose? ps. If you think I missed one, comment it.
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0 likes • Jan 22
@Petra Oltheten very interesting! tell us more about that
3 likes • Jan 22
my pick is between motivation and emotional influence... as @Samantha Preece said those are very connected. with absolute motivation for the reinforcer I use that is stronger than anything I can reward alternative behaviour to any unwanted one, can distract or redirect even if my communication is not great.. i feels like it would override if timing and consistency are not great. Practically speaking hands on when I train motivated dog everything is sooooo much easier. However emotions are driving behaviours - desired ones and those that are getting us in trouble. But practically speaking unless we have a magic wand we need some motivation to influence emotions. Working on emotions alone is hard. Feelings and emotions are complicated and usually it takes a lot of time, effort, consistency and management to influence them. On top of that I believe that we are overestimating how well we know how our dogs feel. Only the dog knows what the dog feels. Behaviours are black and white. So if I had to choose one superpower I would go with emotional influence as I feel that would allow me being not great in other areas.
Play with Purpose- 5 Week Implementation Lab🐕🧪
Hey Team, I’m opening the second edition of Play with Purpose — this time as The Lab. This is a live, coached environment where we break down play and motivation and remove the guesswork. 📦 What’s included - 🧩 Core course – Play With Purpose: Step-by-step framework to build engagement, confidence, motivation, relationship and focus in high arousal - 👥 Community: learn with other like minded dog owners and trainers - 🎯 5 week of my direct coaching - 📲 Weekly live Q&A (your questions answered) - 🎁 Bonuses (Luring Mastery, Powering Recall with Play, Retrieve Anything Guide) - Ps. Grads of PWP will have priority for Heelwork Hackers once is up. 🐕 Who This Is For - 🧠 Dog trainers - 🏆 Sport & working dog handlers - 🔥 Ambitious dog owners and all of us that are using rewards in training :) 💰 Pricing (clear and honest) Most “challenges” charge around £100 for one week. This is five weeks, live, with coaching. Early access price: £97 total (129 USD) • Now only available inside this community • Limited to first cohort • Price will go up later If you’re in, don’t wait. Click here: https://www.skool.com/play-with-purpose-the-lab/about?ref=7f1c744ba01a4ce68aae9b8cda9235c6 I will see you inside!
2 likes • Jan 19
Apologies for confusion @Petra Oltheten I accidentally removed the comment. I will dm you shortly.
1 like • Jan 19
@Lynne Willmott @Samantha Preece yes - once the PWP The Lab is up and competed I will grant you an access to the course material for free. Unless you are interested in coaching/feedback (like during the first edition then let me know :) )
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