Everyone is welcome to attend: pet professionals, retired pros, dog guardians and animal lovers!

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Building Resilience in Canine Professionals

Coach and therapist Jess Adam will explore the ever-present topic of burnout for canine professionals through the lens of a fellow helping professional. In this lecture, Jess will discuss ways that trainers—and others who work with dogs—can mindfully structure their work around their inherent strengths and values, rather than around common demands of the industry. The well-being of professionals, leads to the well-being of human clients, which leads to the well-being of dogs. When dog trainers build resilience using tools borrowed from the mental health field, they are able to create a more sustainable and fulfilling career within a field that demands so much of them.

Key Points:

• Warning signs of burnout for professionals
• Impact of pet professional burnout on relationships with human and dog clients
• Identifying pet professional strengths and values
• Applying strengths and values to create resilience and sustainability in your career

Q&A

About the presenter

Jess Adam is a coach for dog people. She blends her professional background as a licensed therapist with her lived experience as a dog mom to a lovable, anxious, and reactive lab-pit mix named Dio.

Inspired by a difficult and emotional training journey with Dio, Jess created services to support dog lovers through issues such as

• Coping with the impact of dog behavioural or health issues
• Human mindset & regulation related to the dog training process
• Navigating rehoming or behavioural euthanasia
• Canine-human bonding, relationship, and connection
• Impact of dog-related challenges on human relationships
• Handler confidence building
• Social stigma related to dog behaviour
  ... and so much more!

You can learn more about Jess on her website Handlers & Humans - Mental Health for Dog People.

Continuing Education Units (CEUs) pending.

Everyone welcome: pet professionals, retired pros, dog guardians and animal lovers!

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