Spaniel & HPR Training Workshop
with Helen Phillips, Clicker Gundog
Helen Phillips ( Author of the Clicker Gundog Book and the Clicker Gundog Training Centre ) will be spending two days teaching you all your dogs breed specific training and how to get the best out of your dogs abilities.
Saturday 10 & Sunday 11 September
10am-4pm
Handler Places - £175
Spectator Places - £95
Includes refreshments and light snacks
Enhance your Gundog Hunting Skills
This 2-day weekend workshop will be fun packed and focussing totally on the Spaniel and HPR Hunting elements of Gundog training. The weekend is a chance for you to spend 2 days trouble-shooting the hunting sequence based training with specific direction and feedback from leading expert Helen Phillips.
The venue has a little more challenging environment to enable handlers to increase their skills in. This workshop will explore and improve quartering, the flush, the point (HPR), whistle cues and the hunting sequence.
It will involve improving confidence in the field, building stamina, retrieving skills, delivery, marking, distance, re-direction, arousal management and may include shot depending on the dogs that attend.
Throughout each day Helen will work with each handler individually and will set specific exercises to suit individual requirements, together with the opportunity to chat through areas of weakness and work individually on what they want.
Dogs should be ok to spend small amounts of time in the car.
About Gundog Training
Gundogs have inherited specialised skills that have been honed over hundreds of generations and as more and more owners are getting Gundog breeds as pet dogs, owners are realising that their pet Gundog is capable of much more but also needs much more. These dogs have been bred to work hard, sometimes work all day and have strong innate instincts and high energy levels.
Good field work is built on an understanding of the dog’s ability to maintain self-control and the handler’s ability to understand this and the environment. With Clicker Training your Gundog, you can learn how to develop a partnership using reinforcement strategies in depth and learn how to use careful planning so that you build a high level of control that exceeds the stimuli of the hunt and shoot.
About Helen Phillips
Helen is the owner of the ‘Clicker Gundog’ Training Centre and is the Author of the popular ‘Clicker Gundog’ Training Book. She is a qualified teacher and has also been a business partner with Learning About Dogs Ltd for almost ten years. During the last ten+ years she has also taught a Canine Training and Behaviour Course at Warwickshire College. She also manages a small shoot and runs a team of beaters on another small syndicate shoot in Worcestershire. She is an Instructor for The Gundog Club..
Helen has been shooting for many years with her team of Hungarian Vizslas and Springer Spaniel. The dogs accompany Her on a range of different types of shoots from large commercial events to a pleasant day rough shooting. Helen has a Distinction in the certificate in Canine Training and Behaviour from Warwickshire College and has taught the same course at two levels for 6 years. She also has the City and Guilds level 5 qualification in Teaching. She has obtained the Learning About Dogs Clicker Trainers Competency Assessment Programme levels 1, 2 and 3 with Distinction and is an active assessor for the scheme. She also teaches a variety of Clicker Training and Gundog courses around the world as well as in the UK.
To Book Your Place
Due to the requirements for me to prepay guest trainers, locations, & other fees for workshops, refunds cannot be offered.
If you are unable to no longer attend a workshop we will offer the place as available on social media and if it is filled then we can return your fee to you. If however, if cannot be filled you will forfeit the fee for the workshop.
