The Divine Feminine Dog Trainer Podcast - E:4 - How Spirituality & The Logical Levels Impact Dog Training with Sandra Vesterstein

E:4 - How Spirituality & The Logical Levels Impact Dog Training with Sandra Vesterstein

03/04/23 • 72 min

In episode 4 of the Divine Feminine Dog Trainer Podcast I interview Sandra Vesterstein of Thrive Learning Collective https://thrivelearningcollective. Sandra is a Life Coach and Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) practitioner. NLP is a model for learning how to create change in your life and in your relationship with your dog or your clients. You can reach Sandra via phone at ‭+1 (802) 598-6078‬.
This was an exciting episode for me because Sandra lays down such an incredible foundation through the logical levels to show you how focusing on the pillars of the logical levels; environment, behavior, skills & capabilities, values & beliefs, identity and finally spirituality can create incredible transformation in a client's life and our own!
We talk about how NLP can shine a light on how we may become better communicators, take radical responsibility for where we're at in our life, learn to become in alignment with our clients and their values, build strong rapport with clients, create beautiful containers for them to feel safe, learn to become a better guide and ask high quality questions to see a fuller picture of where a client is coming from.

We dive deep into the conscious mind, unconscious mind that drives 95% of our behavior and the higher mind. How creating a pause in our life allows us to co create the experience we want expanding our options, discernment, choice and freedom rather than being stuck in old patterns and behaviors. We talk about unity consciousness and how impactful taking 100% responsibility for what energy you bring to your relationship with your dog can be.
Lastly, how impactful focusing on the spiritual nature of our relationship with dogs can be on our dog training. How dogs are here to shine light on our shadows so we may spiritually evolve to bring forth our gifts to help others in this world and when you say 'YES!' to the multitude of invitation we often see through our dogs unwanted behaviors, we start to live in faith and life starts happening for us.

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E:3 - Creating Confidence and Safety in the Absence of Obedience with Kate Walker

Professional Dog Trainer, Kate Walker talks about how she creates confidence and security in her client’s dogs without obedience. The story unfolds with Kate talking about how she used to focus on obedience to help dogs and what it was like switching over to more behavior modification in order to build emotional skills in the dogs. Learn why she’s moved away from obedience and why dogs don’t need as much when you focus on creating confidence and security in the mindset of the dog and resolving their emotional and energetic problems.

Learn why Kate uses food to help clients and their dogs with their stress. She shares the process she uses that starts in the home to resolve the dog’s general anxiety in their life that greatly impact the dog’s ability to cope with their bigger stressors like reactivity, aggression or fear.

After this podcast you’ll learn why focusing on the mindset of the dog is vital to the dog’s success learning to feel safe in the world and be emotionally and physically at ease. Plus, why building emotional skills can be more impactful in dogs rather than obedience skills to truly create a happy healthy dog that listens.

Kate is a behavior modification professional dog trainer based in Central Pennsylvania. With a love for animals she holds a bachelor's degree in Animal Sciences and a minor in Equine Science, from Penn State University. She taught middle and high school Science for 10 years before resigning to focus solely on The Incredible K9. She has combined her love for animals and her love for teaching others by training dogs and helping owners.

You can find Kate Walker and The Incredible K9 by visiting
https://www.theincrediblek9.com/

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E:5 - How Dog Trainers Can Benefit From Teaching Management Techniques with Jess Gorham

On this episode of the Divine Feminine Dog Trainer Podcast Rhonda interviews Jess Gorham of A Dog's Trail in Burlington, VT. Jess talks about meeting Rhonda because of her need for dog training for her reactive rescue dog, Sturge and her journey to becoming an incredible dog trainer for others now.
Together they talk about how much trainers miss out when they don't learn from other trainers on the other side of the fence and how important understanding active management has been for their clients.
Learn why using management in your training is a game changer and what management is.
Through this podcast you may start to rethink how much punishment you use and start to replace it with more active management.
You can learn more about Jess Gorham and her training at https://www.adogstrailvt.com/
Learn more about Rhonda and Jess's online course coming up called https://www.safeschoolfordogs.com/