Lead with Calm
Helping overwhelmed dogs and their owners achieve calm, connected walks through emotional regulation and practical skills.
Most loose lead training focuses on control. Lead with Calm focuses on the cause. Dogs will often pull on the lead more when they are experiencing fear, frustration, overwhelm, or over-excitement. Traditional methods often fail as they don’t take the emotional state of the dog into account. The dogs emotional and physiological state are interlinked and when a dog is in a state of physiological stress, this affects how they learn and the behaviour they are able to perform. If your dog still pulls on the lead despite training, this may be the missing piece.
The 3-Step Framework
Awareness
Understanding your dog’s different emotional states, stress signals, and being able to recognise them on a walk
Regulation
Practical strategies to help your dog feel safe and calm
Skill Building
Teaching loose lead walking in a way that sticks
What is included in the Lead with Calm Programme?
Three group field sessions and two training walks together with training videos and weekly homework!
Lead with Calm Foundations
Understanding your dog’s different emotional states and how to recongise them on walks
How to promote calmness and relaxation in your dog
How to increase your dog’s sense of emotional safety
Lead with Calm Skills
Focus work
Loose lead mechanics
Handling distractions
Lead with Calm Real World
Out-and-about training
Confidence building in different environments
Real-life application with training walks
Troubleshooting
What Sets Us Apart
Highly experienced and qualified training with a proven track record of tangible results using positive methods.
Proven track record with hundreds of dogs
We have worked with all breeds, big and small.
Tailored training for each and every dog
You and your dog will be fully assessed to look at what techniques need to be worked on to create solid foundations.
Support for both ends of the lead
Training can involve changing habits and this is hard for you and your dog. This is why we take a compassionate approach and listen to your problems. Full WhatsApp support is also provided.
Focus on real-life results without using pain or physical punishment
We are committed to ensuring our training is both kind to the dog and owner. For this reason, we do not utilise tools or techniques that involve pain or physical punishment. We utilise postiive methods and take the training into real-life scenarious to build tangible results.