Gen Abacab: Understanding the Original Teaching Table Game

03/18/20 • 45 min

Almost 20 years ago, Kay Laurence developed a game to teach communication skills and learning concepts to students.
Over the years, Gen Abacab has been used in universities, schools and seminars for human and dog training, and on ships in the middle of the Caribbean.
Just as doing a task is not the same as learning a task, experiencing the learning process is not the same as observing the learning process. Experiencing and learning skills of puzzle solving are unique to each individual - person, dog, chicken.

The Gen Abacab game is a valuable experience for learner and teacher and everyone should have experience in both roles. Experience of poor teaching is as valuable as much as experience of good teaching. Good teaching will leave the learner enthused, satisfied, confident and "expanded" !
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Best Ways to Learn About Dog Training

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What is the best way to learn about dog training?
In person working seminars or auditing one?
How about a webinar, a conference, or a lecture?
How about online courses?
There are many ways to add to your knowledge base about dogs and training, but not all are created equal.
On this episode of the Learning About Dogs podcast, Kay Laurence and Sue McGuire debate the good and the not so great about different ways to learn.
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Hands and What They Should Mean to Our Dog

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Dogs are aware of our every move and have decided which ones are relevant to them and which are of little consequences.
This is so apparent when we use our hands, be it, living our daily lives with them, or participating in a training sessions.
When puppies come to us, this is when we should be teaching what hands mean.
Hands are always a sign of welcome....
In this episode of Learning About Dogs Podcast, Kay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire, a TAKL graduate and manager of a canine behavior program at a shelter near San Francisco, talk about the use of hands.
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The Art of Teaching Dogs is a six week in person course offered by Sue McGuire at the Humane Society of Sonoma County, in Santa Rosa, California.
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