Course Details
Adolescence can be a notoriously challenging phase, when often big emotions are at their most difficult… understanding how to navigate this phase and come through it unscathed is a worth knowing! Often, long term behaviour challenges in life and sports are created in this development phase, yet can be avoided, if handled correctly.
Join Kamal Fernandez, to learn how to anticipate, understand and navigate adolescence and beyond.
About the Instructor:
Kamal Fernandez (he/him), Internationally renowned dogs trainer, author, World Championship Level Sports dog coach. With over 33years experience in the world of dogs and dog training, Kamal has helped promote the use of reinforcement based methodology to train dogs from unruly pets to Crufts winners.
He has competed at the highest level in dog sports, and speaks at conferences and delivers seminars all over the world, including the Victoria Stillwell Bite Conference, IMPACT conference for service and military personnel, as well as Television appearances on Sky Televions ‘Dogs Might Fly’, where 12 rescue dogs were followed on their journey to ‘flying a plane’.
In addition to numerous Television appearances both in front and behind the camera, including:
- The One Show
- Dogs Behaving Badly
- The Underdog Show
- Lewis
- Channel 4’s The Dog Academy as a featured trainer
Also author of ‘Pathway to Positivity’ and ‘Relabelling Reactivity’.
Career Highlights so far:
- Multiple Crufts competitor
- Competed in Obedience, Agility, Working Trials and IGP.
- Speaker at Lemonade Conference for FDSA
- Instructor for Fenzi Dog Sport Academy
- World championship level dog sports coach
- Crufts judge/steward/team manager
- Keynote speak: IMPACT conference
- Victoria Stillwell Bite Prevention conference
- International Seminar presenter
- Author of: Pathway to Positivity
- Clicker Expo presenter
- Out on Control Dog Summit keynote speaker
- Decoding Your canine Summit Keynote speaker
- Ding Bat Dogs Border Collie Summit
- Susan Garret’s Dogsthat Podcast guest speaker
- Coach for New zealand Crufts World Cup Team
- Coach for Australian Crufts World Cup Team
- Coach to Crufts Championship competitors
- Coach to IGP World Team members
- Coach to FCI Agility team member
