Dr. Amy Cook's Play-Way Workshop

Name: Dr. Amy Cook's Play-Way Workshop
Start: 2025-05-17T08:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-05-18T17:00:00-05:00
Location: 4500 W Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States, Wisconsin 53208

Schedule

Sat, 17 May, 2025 at 08:00 am to Sun, 18 May, 2025 at 05:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

4500 W Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States, Wisconsin 53208 | Milwaukee, WI

Is your dog brilliant at home but shuts down in class or in new environments? Do they bark at people or dogs? Is he afraid of the novel objects? Is the attention of strangers too much pressure? Does she seem generally stressed? Rather than focusing mainly on food, as many do when working with these dogs, Dr. Amy has established a more nuanced rehabilitation process that revolves around personal, social play. She believes play is a much more reliable method of judging a dog’s true behavioral thresholds, while being equally effective at supporting a dog to make emotional change. Play is both an indicator of stress and an intervention for stress!
The Play Way is Dr. Amy Cook’s method of helping shy and fearful dogs overcome these issues to live a happier, less-stressed life.
During this seminar, you will learn:
- How to identify stress in dogs.
- Threshold management
- How to read a dog so you know what to do and when.
- Relaxed play and its important role in the rehabilitation of stress & anxiety.
- Personal play, food or toys: which one should you use?
- How to help a dog "Look and Dismiss" and take challenges in stride.
For information about the workshop schedule and other resources, visit our website: https://wihumane.me/DrCookWorkshop
About our speaker: Dr. Cook is an International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants (IAABC) Certified Dog Behavior Consultant, a longstanding professional member of the Association of Professional Dog Trainers (APDT), and was one of the first trainers nationally to become a Certified Professional Dog Trainer through independent evaluation. Dr. Cook received her Ph.D. in Psychology from UC Berkeley, with her research focusing on the dog-human relationship and its effect on the problem-solving strategies dogs employ. Dr. Cook is the founder and creator of the Play Way and a popular instructor for the online school, The Fenzi Dog Sports Academy. She has been training dogs for over 30 years and has specialized in the rehabilitation of shy and fearful dogs for over 20 years.
To learn more about Dr. Cook visit her website: http://www.playwaydogs.com.