hey guys this is the recording of the last night's q&a. we cover couple of topics like news and what is coming to this community, importance and essence of impulse control, biting hands and communication during play, general confidence training and bit of fear reactivity.

Hey Team - in this video I show recorded the first session of everyday heelwork (this is NOT focus heelwork we have in the course HH -even though there are some similarities) Even though later on I want my dog to walk with the head down looking at the environment I start with the dog looking at me (face). Reason? dogs are learning placement shoulder-leg on the left much faster as they are much more focused. Also keeping this level of focus (dog looking at our face constantly) is simply not sustainable as dogs cannot walk like that on long distances. Therefore as I progress I allow my dog to look wherever they want and look at me only if I say their name. Teaching dog to switch back and forth look wherever you like - look at me has some practical advantages especially with reactive dogs at early stages of their training or easily distracted dogs. When I walk past the trigger eye contact with the trigger eg. other dog is much more confrontational. I can simply ask my dog hey look at me, your safe with me, you don't have to deal with that. Similar thing we do in our human world - we don't make deep eye contact with other people walking past. Then if someone is staring at us ( that make at least me bit uncomfortable) we often look away or look at the phone to avoid confrontation. With my dogs I want the to look at me and get my support when walking past triggers before they are ready to just ignore them. I will also do that with my perfectly friendly and social dogs- when walking past distractions I will often ask them to look at me so they are less tempted :) Let me know if you have any questions! ps. I have spaniel for residential training now- one of the goals is to teach street heeling. I'm tempted to document that. Shall I?

Hey Team, Play with Purpose Pro and Heelwork for Dummies (soon Heelwork Hackers) is now available here in the classroom for Premium and Vip members. In Premium membership you get access to the course and any future content that will be added including case studies etc. I will be also doing live Q&A's for Premium Members. However if you prefer my direct coaching Vip membership is for you. You will be added to private coaching group where I will give you my feedback to your videos, tailor strategies to you and your dog, answer your questions during regular Q&A's and you can also learn from other coaching members. ⚠️Now all memberships are discounted and if you sign up now you will secure discount forever! If you have any questions let me know please!

Thanks for jumping in here early – you’re basically the founding members of this community. This space is for all of you who already follow my work and want a place to go a bit deeper together. Please say hi in the comments and share: - Who are you and what dog/dogs you have? - What are you mainly working on right now? - What’s the first thing you’d like to learn here – one topic or problem you want me to cover as soon as possible? Many thanks, Alex

🤩 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.