Advances in technology, new ways of thinking about client compliance, and a structured approach to packaging separation anxiety services have made what once seemed nearly impossible – successful resolution of even severe separation anxiety cases – quite doable.

Join Gina Phairas of dog*tec and Malena DeMartini-Price, a California-based San Francisco SPCA Academy grad with over 10 years’ experience and several hundred successful separation anxiety cases under her belt, for the seminar. You’ll learn how to tackle separation anxiety with confidence, help more dogs, and boost your income with this rare and lucrative training niche.

On the training side, you’ll learn:

• The key components of successful separation anxiety case resolution.
• How to incorporate simple new technologies to make the work quicker and more accurate. (And don’t worry – you don’t have to be a techie.)
• How to set up training plans and create the proper environment for client compliance.

On the business side, you’ll learn:

• How to price, package, and schedule separation anxiety to provide maximum support to the client and be properly compensated for all aspects of working these complex cases.
• Easy, inexpensive (even free) marketing strategies to take specific advantage of this rare training niche.

You CAN Fix the Unfixable!

CEUs
CCPDT
6 CEUs per day (12 for the weekend) for CDPT-KA and CPDT-KSA

IAABC
3.5 CEUs per day (7 for the weekend)

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Meet the speakers

Malena DeMartini-Price, CTC:
Malena De Martini-Price is renowned in the dog-training world for her expertise on canine separation anxiety disorder. She is an honor’s graduate of the esteemed San Francisco SPCA Academy for Dog Trainers, where she studied under Jean Donaldson, and is a member of the Association for Pet Dog Trainers (APDT).

Malena has been training dogs professionally for over 10 years, and in this time, she has worked one-on-one with hundreds of separation anxiety cases. Her particular strength lies in reading the subtleties of dog body language and guiding owners patiently and with great enthusiasm through the gentle process of healing their dogs. Today, her practice is focused exclusively on the disorder. When she isn’t working with dog owners in person, she counsels, lectures, and writes to further develop awareness and comprehension of this agonizing behavioral disorder.

Malena lives in Northern California with her husband Kevin—also a certified dog trainer—their two rescue dogs, Leia and Tini, and their forever-hungry cat, Kana, who by all estimations will live to be a hundred.

Gina Phairas, BSC Comms, CTC:
Gina Phairas is one of the forces behind dog*tec, the dog pro industry’s leading business consultancy. A former instructor at the San Francisco SPCA Academy for Dog Trainers, where she helped trainers learn to teach successful classes, Gina develops products that help trainers succeed in their businesses and works one-on-one with dog pros as a business and case coach. She is a dynamic speaker and gifted teacher who has taught workshops across the country. Gina previously ran a successful dog training business of her own and consulted nationally for shelters and rescue groups. 

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Registration includes: seminar support materials, beverages and snacks. Lunch is on your own.

HUDSON, MA:

• $160 – Two days, register and pay on or before February 15, 2012
• $210 – Two days, register and pay after February 15, 2012
  
  
• $100 – One day, register and pay on or before February 15, 2012
• $125– One day, register and pay after February 15, 2012

CUMMING, GA:

• $160 – Two days, register and pay on or before April 30, 2012
• $210 – Two days, register and pay after April 30, 2012
  
  
• $100 – One day, register and pay on or before April 30, 2012
• $125– One day, register and pay after April 30, 2012

Group discounts for auditors available for more than 3 participants from the same business/shelter. Contact Dana Crevling to find out more.

Registration ends 5 days prior to the event or when registration limit is met. Registration at the door may be available depending on space. Check back at this page for walk-in registration information after preregistration ends. There will be a $10/day additional charge for walk-in registration if available.

You may pay for tuition by:

• Personal or Bank Check
• PayPal - using your account or opening a new account
• Visa, MasterCard, American Express or Discover through PayPal's secure system

Complete payment information will come up on the screen after you complete registration. General Payment Information

If the seminar does not meet the minimum (35 participants) and must be cancelled, currently registered participants will be refunded the full amount without penalty. Please familiarize yourself with the Registration/ Refund Policy and the Waiver before signing up.

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Massachusetts Location:
 

DOGS! Learning Center
577 Main Street
Suite#130
Hudson, MA 01749

From Interstate 495 North or South: Take exit 25A for State Hwy 85 toward Hudson (0.4 mi). Merge onto RT-85 (1.3 mi). Turn left at RT-85/Washington St (1.2 mi). At Main St/Wood Square rotary, take the 1st exit onto Main St/RT-62 and continue to follow Main St.
Dogs! Learning Center is part of a brick business complex on the right (3.6 mi). Look for the digital clock in the brown metal sign with white lettering.
Enter the west driveway and locate suite #130. Dogs! entrance has a ramp walkway and is next to loading dock H. If you enter the east driveway, drive around the back of the building to get to the west side.

From other roads and highways: Click on this link for directions

Hotels near DOGS! Learning Center: If you are attending a non-working seminar, CHECK PET POLICIES BEFORE MAKING RESERVATIONS! Make sure you understand ALL the fees and restrictions. Policies and rates may change.

The following hotels are dog friendly:

• Best Western Royal Plaza Hotel, Marlborough, MA (approx. 4.5 miles away)
  Phone: 508-460-0700; Dog Fees: Small pets allowed w/deposit
  Room Rate: $120
  
  
• Marriott Courtyard, Marlborough, MA (approx. 7 miles away)
  Phone: 508-480-0015; Dog Fees: Pets allowed ($79 sanitation fee)
  Room Rate: $105+
  
  
• Motel 6, Framingham, MA (approx. 10 miles away)
  Phone: 508-620-0500; Dog Fees: NO FEE; 1 pet per room
  Room Rate: $50
  
  
• Red Roof Inn, Framingham, MA (approx. 12 miles away)
  Phone: 508-872-4499; Dog Fees: NO FEE; 1 pet per room
  Room Rate: $75
  
  
• Red Roof Inn, Southborough, MA (approx. 14.5 miles away)
  Phone: 508-481-3904; Dog Fees: NO FEE; 1 pet per room
  Room Rate: $60
  
  
• Econo Lodge Inn and Suites, Northborough, MA (approx. 18 miles away)
  Phone: 508-842-8941; Dog Fees: $10/night/pet; dogs under 75 pounds only
  Room Rate: $75
  
  
• Comfort Inn, Marlborough, MA (approx. 9 miles away)
  Phone: 508-460-1000; NO PETS
  Room Rate: $90
  
  
• Holiday Inn Express, Hudson, MA (approx 3 miles away)
  Phone: 978-562-1001; Service Dogs only
  Room Rate: $95+
  
  

Area Airports:

• Manchester, NH - about 55 miles away
• Boston, MA - about 30 miles away

 

Georgia Location:

Lanier Technical College, Forsyth Conference Center
7745 Majors Road
Cumming, GA 30041

Directions going North:

• 400 North
• Take Exit 13, Route 141
• Right onto Route 141
• Right onto Ronald Reagan Boulevard
• Entrance to Forsyth Conference Center is before intersection of Majors Road on the right

Directions going South:

• Take Exit 13, Route 141
• Left onto Route 141
• Right onto Ronald Reagan Boulevard
• Entrance to Forsyth Conference Center is before intersection of Majors Road on the right

Hotels: If you are attending a non-working seminar. Make sure you understand ALL the fees and restrictions. Policies and rates may change.

• Comfort Suites
  905 Buford Road, Cumming, Ga 30041  Ph: 770-889-4141
  www.choicehotels.com/hotel/ga030
  $79/night plus tax. Includes breakfast.
  Pets are $25.00 per night, per pet

 

• Holiday Inn Express and Suites/ Cumming
  870 Buford Hwy., Cumming, Ga 30041 Ph: 678-845-7100
  http://www.hiexpress.com/cummingga
  $85/night plus tax. Includes breakfast, No pets.

 

• Hampton Inn
  915 Ronald Reagan Blvd, Cumming, GA 30014 Ph: 770-889-0877

Area Airports:

• Atlanta, GA - about 50 minute drive

 

 

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No audio or videotaping please. This is a non-working seminar. Please leave your dogs at home.