Recap of Michael Ellis 2021 3-Day Seminar

By Ed Frawley  |  Last modified: October 7, 2021

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We had a great 3-day Michael Ellis seminar at Leerburg last weekend (September 24-26th). Because of COVID-19 we had to cap the attendance at 70 people. Michael's style of teaching seminars lends itself to working with a larger number of students. Hands down he is one of the best lecturers we have ever worked with. We preselected (from videos that were sent in) dogs to demonstrate the topics being talked about and our students learned a lot.

We filmed the seminar and will use the video in several new online hybrid courses. The first being “Leash Reactivity with Michael Ellis” which we hope to release before the end of the year. The new Hybrid Courses are slightly different than what we have done in the past. The self-study course will still be available but there will be an option for the hybrid-interactive course in which once a month at a designated time Michael will hold a live chat with students to answer questions. Details on when courses will be released will be posted on our website and in our newsletters.

On Friday, Michael lectured on “Developing Your Relationship with Your Dog" and focused a lot on engagement and using markers to communicate. We spent a full day on Saturday covering “Leash Reactivity” using a lot of the topics and skills from Friday. On Sunday we finished with the final stages of training and Michael had a great discussion-provoking segment on “How to Introduce Remote Collar Stimulation to Your Dog”. He also lectured extensively on “Positive and Negative Reinforcement" along with “Positive and Negative Punishment”.

We always learn a lot when Michael comes to visit us and we hope that the students who were able to attend did too. It was great getting to meet some new people in the dog training community and even see some familiar faces as well. Thank you to everybody for coming out and making this event so wonderful!

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Ed Frawley

Ed Frawley is the founder and owner of Leerburg.com and has been producing professional dog training videos since 1982. Over the years, he has collaborated with some of the most respected dog trainers in the country. His body of work includes 194 full-length training DVDs and 95 comprehensive online courses. In addition to these, he has produced and published over 4,000 short training videos available free of charge on Leerburg.com and across the company's social media platforms.

Ed and his wife, Cindy—also a professional dog trainer—bred working-line German Shepherds and Belgian Malinois for more than 35 years. Although they retired from breeding in 2009, they had produced over 300 litters by that time.

Ed also served as a K9 handler for the local sheriff's department for 10 years, working in partnership with the West Central Drug Task Force. During his time in law enforcement, he handled multiple narcotics and patrol dogs and conducted more than 1,000 K9 searches. If you want to learn more about Ed, read about his history here.

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