THE RING CLARITY WORKSHOP
Is your dog sport driving you crazy?
This workshop will help you understand why.
Sometimes, less is more…
We all know the feeling.
Your train positively.
Your dog is capable for the level they’re at.
And yet, in the ring, you still struggle to work your best round when you really want to, and you can’t figure out why.
This workshop explores what’s happening – and what actually helps.
Does this sound familiar?
You go to show full of optimism and hope. In the distance you see the team that beat you in the run-off for first last week. You inwardly groan. You go to watch the round. It’s common sense to evaluate the challenges it presents.
But all too often evaluation slips into preoccupation.
Are that team going to beat us again this week?
What if the dog doesn’t work well?
What’s the judge like?
How badly could the round go?
Nobody performs at their best when they’re preoccupied. And when you’re preoccupied you tend do more…
More planning…more analysis… more thinking…more strategy…more control…more managing…more striving…more arrgh!
But what if the answer isn’t more?
What if the answer is less?
Performance = potential-interference
You and your dog already have the capacity to make the most of the opportunities that lie ahead.
In my Ring Clarity Workshop we explore a subtractive approach to the mental game.
As you subtract the compelling but unhelpful thinking (the interference that’s been preoccupying you), clarity returns, and with it the natural capacity for presence, connection, and confidence, you need.
This is the basis for the ideas I share in this workshop. Ideas that have helped me and thousands of others perform well especially when the pressure is on.
Many of these ideas are the opposite of the advice and tuition offered by mainstream obedience instruction (and those prevalent in the wider dog sport society).
When the sport becomes hard work and a handler becomes disillusioned, the standard offering of the mainstream dog training instruction industry is a simple choice.
Either a quick fix or tip, or a major re-training programme, accompanied by the warning “it will probably get worse, before it gets better.”
If you’ve been round this loop a few times and are curious about a different way of learning and training, my Ring Clarity workshop could be for you.
Here’s how you’ll know if you’re a good fit for my RING CLARITY WORKSHOP.
–Your club is probably an established obedience training club, or you’re a competitor or planning to be.
–You or your club values kind, reward based, positive reinforcement training.
–You know there are no shortcuts and there is no substitute for good training.
–Your dog is well trained, but under pressure things fall apart in the ring.
–You recognise that understanding the mental game is important when it starts to interfere with performance.
–You’re open to simplifying rather than adding more ‘mental game’ tools or techniques.
This may not be a fit if…
-You’re looking for quick confidence hacks, visualisations, breathing techniques or mindset tricks.
-You’ve not competed before. My Prepare Like A Pro Workshop may be a better option for you.
-You don’t get placed in the winners line up very often. But you don’t think or worry about it. Dog training just isn’t something you stress about. You are happy training in your own way for your own reasons. if this is you, please keep doing it.
Hi there, it’s me…
Angela Watson
Specialist Competitive Obedience Trainer & Coach
I’m a dog trainer and I specialise in working with owners of high-performing sports dogs, and those on their way.
I’m an obedience judge and competitor, and I’ve trained my golden retrievers to competition level in Obedience for 15 years, and qualified Berty to compete at championship level. All trained with kindness, fun, and positive reinforcement.
Alongside my dog sport career, I’m an executive coach and master trainer in executive coaching. I have two decades of experience coaching and teaching thousands of people in business and clinical settings to perform well under pressure.
This background informs my approach to competitive obedience, and I understand both ends of the lead better than most.
From this I developed my new Ring Clarity Framework.
A practical, subtractive approach to help you and your dog walk into the ring with the clarity and focus to work together just as you do in training.
Contact me to host a Ring Clarity Workshop for your group/club in the UK, or to join the waiting list for a place on the next workshop at Just Train The Dog, in Berkshire.
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