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Course curriculum

1. Welcome!
2. My history of learning scent work
3. Join the Face Group - Peta Clarke Online Students
1. A few questions...
1. Before You Start Training...
2. The journey mapped out here.
3. Prerecorded Presentation - Seeking Therapy: What is so therapeutic about Nose Work? 1hr11m
4. Prerecorded Presentation - Do All Roads Lead to Rome? 1hr50min
5. Prerecorded Presentation - Introducting Robin to the search game.
6. Presentation: Getting games for building motivation and confidence
7. Class Handout: Scent Work Training is Easy Until its Not!
8. Handling Basics for scent work humans
9. Webinar part 1: Everything you never knew you needed to know about training and trialing in scent work!
10. Webinar part 2: Everything you never knew you needed to know about training and trialing in scent work!
11. Copy of Workshop Handout - Keeping it Fun While Increasing the Challenges
1. Introduction to this Section - Understanding the Learning Process
2. Complete Webinar Series - An Introduction to Applied Behaviour Analysis for Animal Trainers
3. Workshop Handout - Identifying Your Strengths and Weaknesses
4. Workshop Handout - Your Training Sessions
5. Workshop Handout - Keeping it Fun While Increasing the Challenges
6. Webinar recording - The Brain and Behaviour Part 1
7. The Brain and Behaviour Part 2
8. The Devil in the Details - an introduction to the ABCs of applied behaviour analysis
1. How to use a training session - Adventures in Scent
2. Tips for videoing your training sessions
3. Monthly Training Plan Document Explained & PDF download.
4. Scent Work Training Log Explanation and downloadable writable PDF
5. The reinforcement you have on offer is a criteria!
6. What is a S.W.A.T. and what is it good for for scent work training?
1. Introduction to this Section - Understanding Therapy
2. Presentation: Getting games for building motivation and confidence
3. K9 Nose Work® methodology. Sniff Therapy, bar none.
4. PDF Seeking Therapy: What is so therapeutic about Nose Work?
5. Webinar Seeking Therapy: What's so Therapeutic about Nose Work?
6. Webinar replay - Science Rocks! What a simple conditioning experiment taught me about counter conditioning and control
1. Introduction to this Section - Understanding Cues & Signals.
2. Presentation replay - What are you teaching when you focus on teaching an alert behaviour?
3. Workshop Handout - Your Communication System
4. Webinar Replay - All The Worlds a Stage: Antecedents, A Trainer's Secret Weapon!
1. Introduction to this Section - Understanding Reinforcement
2. Workshop Handout - The Reinforcement Process
3. An exercise in assessing your choice of reinforcement
4. Alert Behaviour Ambulance - Your Reinforcement Process - Introduction
1. Introduction to this Section - Understanding the Alert Behaviour!
2. Robin Smells - Alert Behaviour 8 Week Training Review
3. What is an Alert Behaviour really and how this go wrong.
1. Introduction to this Section - Understanding Search Behaviours
2. Webinar Thousand - Hour Eyes. Learning hoe to read scenting dogs in half the time - Steve White
3. Overview of teaching the behaviour of "find another" for multiple hide searches
4. Presentation Robin Smells. Overview of How I introduced Robin to the Searching Game 1hr
5. Workshop Handout - Your Communication System
6. Presentation of Challenge 1 Unobstructed & Accessible Hides!
7. Presentation of Challenge 2 Obstructed & Accessible Hides!
1. Introduction to this Section - Understanding Handler Behaviour
2. Full webinar July 5th 2024 - Everything you never knew you needed to think about when handling a scent work dog!
3. 10 min presentation - (Like a cliff notes for the webinar).
4. Copy of PDF - Slides handout from 5July 2024 Webinar
5. Copy of PDF - Your communication System with charts for your team
6. Copy of Workshop Handout - Your Communication System
7. Prerecorded Presentation March 2023 - Thinking About Handling in Scent Work.
8. Copy of Peta and Robin trial video analysed in the Q&A - Choosing to stay on lead because of the timer (human distractor for Rob!)
9. Copy of Peta and Robin trial video analysed in the Q&A - Vehicles search bad lead and toy handling (not to mention I reinforce before calling "Alert").
10. Copy of Peta and Robin trial video analysed in the Q&A - Container search just after the vehicle search where my focus is on clean exchange of toy for food
11. Copy of BONUS! Teaching your dog to deal with your dumb handling - one game you can play!
1. Introduction to this Section - Understanding Odour Movement
2. Webinar replay - Wind! An Introduction to Scent Dynamics for ANKC/ACSW handlers Part 1
3. Webinar replay - Wind! An Introduction to Scent Dynamics for ANKC/ACSW handlers Part 2
4. Copy of Recording of S.M.E.L.L. presented by Caitlin Sallway.
5. Using a bubble machine to learn about odour movement 1
6. How odour moves bubbles - air flow direction, speed and variability
7. Robin the scent work molecule
1. Introduction to this Section - Understanding Competition
2. Links to Competition Governing Bodies in Australia
3. Search Area Analysis - Excellent Exteriors NSDTC 20 January 2024
4. Search Area Analysis - Advanced Containers SWWP 1 March 2024
5. Search Area Analysis - Excellent Exteriors Tamworth 21 August 2022
6. Search Area Analysis -Excellent Exteriors BBCNSW 18 May 2023
7. Search Area Analysis - Novice Interiors Cowra 11 March 2023
8. Search Area Analysis - Advanced Interior Cowra 11 March 2023
9. Search Area Analysis -Excellent Interiors (SA1) Cowra 11 March 2023
10. Workshop Handout - Scent Work Classes@ Canine Ed Containers are Different!
11. Search Area Analysis - Advanced Exteriors Sydney Royal Easter Show 23 March 2024
12. Excellent Exteriors Sydney Royal Easter Show 23 March 2024
13. Master Containers Search Sydney Royal Easter Show 2024
14. Search Area Analysis - Advanced Vehicles Border Collie Club 4/9/22
15. Search Area Analysis - Advanced interior Border Collie Club 4/9/22
16. Search Area Analysis - Novice Interior Hills District Dog Training Club 27/4/24
17. Search Area Analysis - Advanced Interior Hills District Dog Training Club 27/4/24
18. Search Area example - Advanced Interior 22nd August 2022
19. Copy of Part One: Everything you never knew you needed to know about training and trialing in scent work!
20. Copy of Part Two: Everything you never knew you needed to know about training and trialing in scent work!
21. Copy of Bonus! Questions from the webinar - introducing pooling odour, converging odour and blank area searches!
22. Copy of Bonus! Questions from the webinar - getting distracted in a trial and trial foundation skills for the handler.
23. Copy of Example of letting Robin choose to leave a toy distractor and helping him to move away from the timekeeper (human distractor!)
24. Copy of Bonus! Questions from the webinar - odour management dos and don'ts, cocktails or single odours?
25. Link to YouTube video on how to prepare scent aids (tips) for competition
26. Copy of Research Papers concerning training dogs on single or cocktail odours.
27. Copy of RESEARCH PAPER - The impact of training method on odour learning and generalisation in detection animals
28. Copy of Bonus! Questions from the webinar - should training replicate a trial? Do you recommend using a marker? Do you recommend a training journal?
29. Search Area Analysis: Robin novice interior search 21 June 2024
30. Search Area Analysis - Excellent Exteriors Dobe Club 5th July 2024
31. Search Area Analysis - Advanced Exterior 14th June 2024
1. How to use a training session - Adventures in Scent
2. Playing With Pooling Odour - Adventures in Scent
3. 2 hide search where I control movement from the first hide - Adventures in Scent
4. Clarifying Target Odour - Adventures in Scent
5. Making Training Decisions in the Moment - Adventures in Scent
6. Value in source odour Feb 24 - Adventures in Scent
7. High clove hide Feb 24 - Adventures in Scent
8. Session just on the value of Anise 22 June 2023 - Adventures in Scent
9. Value of Anise and "Any More" (search for more hides) cue 24 June 2023 - Adventures in Scent
10. Using Premack (swallow chasing) a great example of how my position helped October 2022 - Adventures in Scent
11. Resetting Robin in a mock trial - Adventures in Scent
12. Our first go at unknown number of hides - Adventures in Scent
13. 3 reps on the same hide, 3 totally different scent puzzles! - Adventures in Scent.
14. Practicing Inaccessible Hides with a Toy - Adventures in Scent
15. Obstructed Hide Exercises October 2022 - Adventures in Scent
16. Toy Hide at the Beach 6 July 2022 - Adventures in Scent
17. Playing with building value of target odour 8 August 2022 - Adventures in Scent
18. A very lumpy training session 3rd April 2024
19. Torn between two lovers, food distractor training 22 September 2024 - Adventures in Scent
20. Adventures in scent - what IS the reinforcer? For Robin, it's not the TOY, it's the GAME.
21. Trial! Advanced Vehicles NQ / TO
22. Trial! Advanced Vehicles Q 5 July 2024
23. Trial! Advanced Containers Q 5 July 2024
24. Trial! Advanced Interiors Q 14th June 2024
25. Distractor training April 2024
26. Basic distractor session - chose odour over everything else!
27. Early distractor training - building the clean loop
1. 17th March 2024 - How to create a positive experience for new trialers and rookie errors!
2. 26th April 2024 - Q and A with Peta Clarke
3. Q&A With Peta Clarke July 2024
4. Q&A With Peta Clarke - September 8th 2024 Part One
5. Q&A With Peta Clarke - September 8th 2024 Part Two
6. Presentation on introducing your dog to multiple hide searches
7. Sparrow ignoring food to find target odour May 2017
8. Presentation on some different getting games for scent work therapy for dogs
9. Q&A with Peta Clarke January 17th 2025 Part One
10. Q&A with Peta Clarke January 17th 2025 Part Two
1. Scenario 1 - What do you do when your dog false alerts in training?
2. Scenario 2 - What do you do when your well trained dog alerts beautifully in a trial and the judge says "No!"
3. Scenario 3 - What do you do when your dog can't find an "easy" hide?
4. Scenario 4 - What do you do when you have trained nose on source so well your dog can't take the reinforcement until they have done it?
5. When does Robin first hit odour?
1. Ann McGloon Weekend Notes 18th & 19th May 2024
2. Michele Ellertson - Building and Effective Scent Work Training Program notes
3. Michele Ellertson - Scent Work Games for Manitenance notes.
4. Michele Ellertson - Hides on Three Planes notes
5. Michele Ellertson - The Dog Driven Container Search and the Dog Driven Vehicle Search notes
6. Michele Ellertson - Handling Workshop
7. Michele Ellertson - Leash Handling Workshop
8. Workshop notes from WSSWC workshop 15th June 2025
9. Workshop notes from Excellent/Masters Interior Workshop 18th August 2024
10. Workshop Notes from Mangrove Drop-in 31st October 2024
11. Workshop Handout - Your Training Sessions
12. Workshop Handout - Keeping it Fun While Increasing the Challenges
13. Workshop Handout - Identifying Your Strengths and Weaknesses
14. Workshop Handout - Your Training Sessions

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Peta Clarke Scent Work Members Resource Center

Course curriculum

Welcome to our Scent Work Community Area

Short survey to help me know what you are interested in learning

New to Scent Work? Start Here!

Understanding the Learning Process

Understanding Scent Work Training

Understanding Therapy

Understanding Cues & Antecedents

Understanding Reinforcement Processes

Understanding the Alert Behaviour

Understanding Search Behaviours

Understanding Handler Behaviour

Understanding Odour Movement

Understanding Competition

ADVENTURES IN SCENT - My Training Videos

Question and Answer Session Recordings

What Ya Gunna Do (that's Australian for "What are you going to do?") and other training scenario challenges.

Workshop Notes and Videos

About this course

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What you have in store...

Video Lessons and Webinars

📆 Monthly Challenges for Ongoing Growth