Online Course – 3/4/21 – CARAT™: Ethology of the Individual – Suzanne Clothier (fee applies)

Did you miss CARAT last time? Here’s your chance to join us and find out why people say, “CARAT changes everything!”

CARAT is a novel temperament assessment system that categorizes behavior traits in multiple components that are intuitive and practical. CARAT is truly a game changer that will alter how you assess, understand and work with dogs.

CARAT takes a detailed view of the individual dog as a unique combination of many factors working together to influence, exacerbate, mitigate and enhance each other. In the profile created by the nuances and specifics of this complex interaction of multiple traits, an accurate picture is created of the individual, regardless of breed or age.

At all times, behavior is assessed according to how productive, functional, or adaptive it may be, with a full understanding that what may be productive, functional or adaptive in one context may not be in another context. For example, there would be great differences in the CARAT profiles for a successful guide dog, competitive agility dog and a suitable companion for an elderly person with mobility issues.

What Does CARAT Assess?

CARAT looks at these main categories and specifics of temperament traits:

1. CORE:  Arousal, Resilience, Energy
2. SOCIAL: Sociability, Social Tolerance, Social Use of Space
3. SENSORY: Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic, Olfactory
4. PERSISTENCE: Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic, Olfactory, Predatory/Chase
5. INTERACTIVE:  Patience, Biddability w/Familiar, Biddability w/Stranger
6. Complex traits:  Social Confidence, Environmental Confidence, Self Modulation

This is an online course, with all events taking place online through Thinkific & Zoom. The details:

·      The complete content will be presented in 8 sessions, each approx 1.5 hours in length.

·      Upon completion of the course, access to private CARAT discussion group.

·      We will release two pre-recorded sessions each week for 4 weeks.

·      You may watch the recorded sessions any time, at your convenience.

·      Q&A Zoom meeting each week. Attend live, or submit questions ahead of time.

·      In all cases, the Q&A sessions will also be recorded. Link provided to those recordings.

·      Slides for all presentations will be available for you to download and use for note taking.

·      The CARAT Introduction Handout will be available for you to download.

·      You will have access to all online materials for 120 days from start date.

Suzanne Clothier, Instructor

Begins March 4, 2021 – 5 weeks

Fee: $350.00 (Early BirdDog discounts and payment plan available)

CEUS for IAABC, PPAB, CCPDT

WEB LINK:  https://relationshipcenteredtraining.thinkific.com/courses/carat-spring-2021