Cynopraxic Training and the LIMA Principle With Steven Lindsay

Name: Cynopraxic Training and the LIMA Principle With Steven Lindsay
Start: 2024-07-14T09:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-07-15T16:30:00-05:00
Location: St. Charles Convention Center

Schedule

Sun Jul 14 2024 at 09:00 am to Mon Jul 15 2024 at 04:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

St. Charles Convention Center | St Charles, MO

Please join us for this enlightening 2-day seminar, where passion meets expertise, and embark on an extraordinary and unique journey towards a stronger bond with your canine companions and happier clients.
Spaces are limited, so secure your spot today for a memorable educational experience to benefit your clients and the dogs you care for and train.
Cynopraxic Training and the LIMA Principle is the Association of Service Dog Providers' annual National Service Dog Conference kickoff event.
The 4-day experience starts July 14, 2024, in St. Louis, MO. Space is limited.
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www.ServiceDogs4Vets.org/conference
Experience the transformative power of cynopraxic training with Steven Lindsay and discover a deeper connection with dogs through training. Steve emphasizes giving due consideration to the sentient, social, and life interests of dogs in training. Lindsay recommends the LIMA (least intrusive, minimally aversive) Principle to limit a dog’s exposure to intrusive and aversive motivational incentives to the least necessary and effective amount needed to serve a dog’s best interests by the benefit of training, enhancing social relationships and improving the dog’s quality of life.
Over the two decades since its introduction by Steve in the influential Handbook of Applied Dog Behavior and Training, LIMA has been misappropriated and refitted by some to reinvent the profession rather than to advise and educate trainers.
LIMA has become a familiar and widely circulated acronym that some dog trainers and organizations embrace as an “ethical” prescription to impose on others, for whom LIMA has become an undeserved bludgeon of a modern-day inquisition striving to make itself the only way to train dogs.

Recognizing that the “least” and the “minimal” are relative to the dog’s needs and training demands and not necessarily delivered in gradual increments, either or per a stepwise map of rules; instead, the trainer’s judgment and competence (rational agency) are the critical assets for deciding on the necessity and amount needed to train a dog in keeping with LIMA and the best interests of the dog.
Underscoring the imminent danger on the horizon, a bastardized version of LIMA has recently appeared in the wording of pending legislation to license dog trainers and enforce arbitrary and impractical “purely positive, force-free” restrictions on the dog training profession that are contrary to the bulk of scientific evidence, practical experience, and common sense.
As the discussions around the LIMA Principle continue to evolve, one thing remains clear: the well-being of our canine companions should always be at the forefront of any training methodology—not ill-conceived ideological agendas that don’t work, pretending to be the only and best way to train all dogs.
Please join us for this enlightening 2-day seminar, where passion meets expertise, and embark on an extraordinary and unique journey towards a stronger bond with your canine companions and happier clients.
Spaces are limited, so secure your spot today for a memorable educational experience to benefit your clients and the dogs you care for and train.