Friday
16:30 - 17:00 Registration
17:00 - 17:15 Welcome and Introduction
17:15 - 18:30 Leanne Smith: - What's Going On In There? (Seminar)
18:30 - 20:00 Meal and Networking opportunities
Timetable for both days
09:00 - 09:15 Introduction
09:15 - 09:30 Time to get to workshops and seminars
09:30 - 11:00 Workshop 1 and Seminar
11:00 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 13:00 Workshop 1 repeat and Seminar
13:00 - 13:45 Lunch break
13:45 - 15:15 Workshop 2 and Seminar
15:15 - 15:45 Break
15:45 - 17:15 Workshop 2 repeat and Seminar
Saturday
Workshop 1
Lisa Mappin: - Hunting Games (Workshop)
Gwen Johnson: -Balancing Drive to Create a Thoughtful Working Dog (Workshop)
Morning Seminars
Dr Robert Falconer-Taylor: - Supercharged Learning: The neuroscience of sleep and why most of what you’ve learned is (probably) wrong. (09:30 - 11:00).
Dr Robert Falconer-Taylor: - Redundant Evolutionary Relic or Recently Unravelled Super-sense: What every gundog trainer needs to know about smell. (11:30 - 13:00)
Workshop 2
Lisa Mappin: - Stop To Flush (Workshop)
Gwen Johnson: - Having Fun With Heelwork (Workshop)
Afternoon Seminars
Dr Robert Falconer-Taylor: - Frustration, Impulsivity, Compulsivity, Addiction: The secret weapons of the champion gundog and how to harness them (13:45 - 15:15)
Dr Robert Falconer-Taylor: - Growing or Hoeing? What does the science tell us about the first 18 months in the life of a gundog trainee? (15:45 - 17:15)
Sunday
Workshop 1
Lindsay Hermann: - Introduction to Directional Casting (Workshop)
Leanne Smith:- Transitions (Workshop)
Morning Seminars
Dr Robert Falconer-Taylor: - The Angels and Demons of ‘Arousal’ and ‘Stress’: Understanding and harnessing the power of these mysterious physiological states.(09:30 - 11:00)
Dr Robert Falconer-Taylor: - Beyond Virtue Signalling: What defines you as a Positive Gundog Trainer? (11:30 - 13:00)
Workshop 2
Lindsay Hermann: - Building and Fine-tuning your Directional Casting (Workshop)
Leanne Smith:- Noise in Gundogs (Workshop)
Afternoon Seminars
Dr Robert Falconer-Taylor: - Two Brains, One Mind: 35 years of human mental health neuroscience and why it’s important for dogs too. (13:45 - 15:15)
Dr Robert Falconer-Taylor: - The Problem of Chronic Pain in Working Dogs: What you need to know. (15:45 - 17:15)
Saturday evening
Meal from 6pm
6 Handler places are available on each of the main workshops for each of the presenters, these are booked prior to the conference. Spectators can choose which sessions to attend on the day. The seminars are not booked in advanced as there are no Handler places available.
In order to be able to offer some workshops that look at more advanced training there will be prerequisites for the handler places on some of the workshops. These are covered in detail on the Speaker's Profile page where the content and any prerequisites are covered in detail.