Professional Development Courses
Understand How and Why behavior change works
Learn alongside a supportive community of like-minded professionals
How it Works
What: Our courses are fully remote and combine lectures, discussions, videos, and interactive activities. Each course is limited to 8 participants and takes place for 1 hour and 45 minutes each session across 5 weeks.
Investment: Enrollment costs $395 per course. All spots are participant spots; we do not have auditor spots in our courses. We offer a limited number of spots with low-cost options for each course, as well as 1 free spot for a BIPOC participant in each cohort.
Continuing Education Units: CEUs are available at no extra cost for the BACB and through IAABC.
Check out our 2024 Course Catalog below!
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Data’s for the Dogs
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This course covers how to measure behavior, analyze data, and make data-informed decisions in training.
Fall 2024 Cohort: TBD
Beyond the Quadrants: Strengthening your Training with Behavior Analysis
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If you work in dog behavior, you are familiar with the quadrants. This course will take you beyond the basics into a deeper understanding of motivating operations, stimulus control, and techniques and procedures to increase desired behaviors.
Fall 2024 Cohort: TBA
Punishment and its Fallout
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Even if you never intentionally use punishment with your dog, they might have experienced punishment in the past, or you might inadvertently be using some punishing behavior now. Join us to learn what punishment really is, what the side effects are, and how to mitigate the fallout.
*Note: this is NOT a course to teach training through punishment, but to facilitate better understanding of and planning for any side effects you may be encountering.
Fall 2024 Cohort: Tuesdays from 6:30 - 8:15pm ET starting Sept. 10th
If Dogs Could Talk: Skinner’s analysis of verbal behavior and what it means for your dog
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Verbal behavior is about so much more than using words and goes far beyond using buttons to communicate! Join us to learn about what verbal behavior really is, whether and how your dog is using it, and how to help expand their repertoire—and yours—to strengthen your relationship and mutual understanding.
Spring 2024 Cohort: Tuesdays from 6:00 - 7:45pm ET starting April 23rd
What’s the Function? Why dogs do what they do
[Pilot Course]
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For dog owners who want to know more. This course offers an introduction to dog behavior from a behavior analytic perspective. Behavior analysis looks at behavior through a single-subject lens, focusing on the individual and their unique interactions with their environment.
This course provides an overview of the principles of behavior science, what we mean by the “function” of a behavior, and why considering the function is an essential first step toward lasting behavior change.
Summer 2024 Pilot Cohort (4 weeks): Tuesdays from 6:00 - 7:30pm ET starting Aug. 6th
“I cannot recommend working with DBI enough. Their approach to behavior change and analysis is unlike anything I’ve seen in the dog training sphere before.”
—Andrea Viveiros, professional dog trainer
