Your Challenges. Your goals. Your Next Level.

Take your training to the next level with personalized coaching designed specifically for you and your dog. Private lessons allow us to identify what's holding you back, refine the details, and create a training plan built around your team's unique needs.

Whether you're working on handling, performance skills, ring confidence, distance, start lines, or simply want to become a more connected team, we'll focus on the things that matter most to you.

Strategic training. Meaningful progress.

Locations:

Zephyrhills Florida  November - March

Salida, Colorado May - October

Other locations TBD.

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Stop rushing. Start flowing with your dog.

Great handling isn't about moving faster, shouting more, or trying to control every stride. It's about timing, trust, connection, and knowing when to let your dog do the job. Laura breaks handling down into simple, practical pieces that develop smoothness, commitment, obstacle focus, and connection so you can navigate the course with confidence instead of rushing from one thing to the next. You'll learn to truly see your dog's commitment, sharpen your handling timing, and recognize when your dog has the information they need. You'll also explore the mental side of course walking and how thoughtful planning can create effortless-looking runs. Remove rushing and stop causing pressure that leads to off-courses, refusals, dropped bars, and frustrated dogs. Smooth is fast. Fast is smooth.

Your dog can be brilliant in training—and still fall apart in competition.

Sniffing. Slowing down. Checking out. Barking. Spinning. Worrying. Over-arousal. Shutdown. These aren't simply training problems. They're signs that your dog's nervous system is struggling with the competition environment. This Seminar takes you inside the neurobiology of competition stress and gives you a powerful, practical framework for creating change. Laura's signature “Recipe for Change” combines science, strategy, and creative problem-solving to help dogs become more resilient, regulated, engaged, and confident in the ring. And you don't have to wait for a problem to appear. Even dogs competing successfully can become overwhelmed by the intensity and unpredictability of competition.

Go beyond training the behavior. Learn to change the experience.

Get out of your dog’s way—and discover what they can really do.

Imagine getting further ahead on course while your dog confidently drives their line, commits to obstacles, and keeps working without you running to every obstacle. In Daring Distance, you’ll build the skills and communication needed for speed, confidence, precision, and true obstacle commitment at a distance. Learn clean verbals, layering, lateral and linear distance, discriminations, threadles, backsides, directionals, and more. We’ll explore techniques used by top distance handlers while developing your dog’s ability to work independently and confidently. Perfect for handlers who want to add distance skills to their toolkit, improve gamble skills, or create a more efficient partnership because of mobility limitations.

Stop running to every obstacle. Start trusting your dog to go

Turn big energy into thoughtful, connected performance.

Does your dog struggle to think in the excitement of agility? Start-line battles, explosive arousal, frantic behavior, or difficulty settling around the ring can make it hard for your dog to access the skills they know. Find Your Focus teaches you how to build focus, engagement, and self-control in high-energy environments without trying to shut your dog down. Together, we'll identify your dog's individual starting point with arousal-control games that help your dog learn to think, regulate, focus, and make better choices. You'll practice practical exercises you can take home and use in training, classes, and competition.

For excitable, high-drive dogs who are ready to find their thinking brain.

Confidence, resilience, and skills for shining bright.

Calling all young agility dogs! Build confident, enthusiastic performance through jump and tunnel sequencing, speed, commitment, and sustained attention—all while creating positive associations with the excitement of competition.

Through fun, purposeful games, we'll develop focus, resilience, confidence, and coping skills so your young dog can stay engaged, recover from challenges, and learn to love the game.

The future is Bright!

The right handling skills. The right level. The right challenge.

Every handler needs different things from their handling system. Handling by Level gives agility clubs the flexibility to offer a seminar specifically designed for their Novice or Masters teams—with each level taught as a stand-alone seminar. Novice Handling focuses on building a clear, confident foundation: understanding your dog's commitment, improving timing and connection, learning effective handling choices, and developing the skills needed to navigate courses with greater confidence and consistency. Masters Handling takes those skills to the next level. We'll explore sophisticated handling decisions, challenging course analysis, timing, commitment, cueing, and the subtle details that create faster, cleaner, more connected runs.

ISC Skills & Handling

The Art of Engagement

Reinforcement Revolution

The Winning Routine

Canine Fitness 

Contacts

Find the Fastest Line

Concrete Connection and Commitment

Handling for Motivation