Why is Teaching better than Training?

• Saving Time and Money
• Learning Schedules
• Problem Animals
• Working and Competing Animals
• Practitioner Safety: Vets, Practitioners, Handlers, Farriers
• Opportunity
• Limitations
• PE is Not...
  

Saving Time and Money

Compared to other training techniques, methods employed speed up the animal's learning process many times over. What a traditional trainer would spend 7 or more one-hour lessons teaching an animal, PE can teach in one. So, if you have one traditional lesson per week, PE can teach in one hour what others may need two months to train. Generally, desensitizing to fear evoking scenarios takes hours instead of months. Teaching new athletic skill can also be achieved virtually overnight and without a drop of sweat as opposed to weeks of traditional training. Because the animal chooses to learn each behavior of his/her own free will, there is no need for constant repetition, brushing up, repeated lessons, or months of training. New skills and behaviors are learned internally and are not "person dependent". Any goal can be achieved within weeks and at much less cost than would be incurred with traditional trainers.

Learning Schedules

Animals have an attention span of roughly 2-4 hours, repeatable up to three times a day, allowing 6 hours a day of teaching time. Sessions which last as long as the attention span of the student are most efficient. Or, sessions may be blocked hourly per owner request. Sessions do not require repetition. Teaching multiple animals in one day is an efficient use of time, giving each animal a break between sessions while attention is given to others. Standard learning curve maps are provided to owners. PE students require no gear up/gear down, so consecutive visits require zero review time, regardless of weeks or months elapsed between sessions.

Dangerous, Anxiety Bound, and Fear Driven Animals

Aggressive, frightened, unpredictable, anxious, unruly, and dangerous animals are recoverable. Bad habits that fall into these camps are nearly always caused by previously experienced abuse, neglect, accident, trauma, or injury. After traumatic events, behavior can change drastically, or phobias can generate slowly over time. With PE, animals learn how to CHOOSE to confront their own fears, to self-desensitize, to trust their human handlers, and they learn how to handle painful memories in safe and constructive ways. PE does not force fearful animals to learn; they are invited to overcome fear at the pace they choose. The pace increases exponentially as the animal builds upon his or her own emotional strengths.

Working and Competing Animals

Owners of animals who have jobs involving higher levels of physical and mental demand often meet technical challenges along the way. At certain glitch points, unexpected changes in motivations, abilities, or intentions can confuse or stall progress. Sometimes causes and or solutions for these glitches are unclear to trainers and handlers. PE works in conjunction with the animal-human pair by first observing and interpreting the pair's working interactions. PE then improve upon skills in effective application of requests. See Will-Skill Classes

Animal health practitioners all have certain cases who are less than active partners in their treatment because they present defensive or offensive habits and because they are dangerous to self and others during treatment. When sedation is not an option due to elevated risk, the animal's voluntary participation is of paramount importance. Partnership Engineering can help.

Inside every "bad" tendency there lies an opportunity to teach the opposite belief, motivation, and behavior. Much can be learned about your animal's intellectual and emotional perspective and how to use that specific "mental fingerprint" to achieve flexible, courageous, calm, and rational behavior. PE helps the animal to discover and use his/her inner tools to survive, accept and actually choose scenarios that were previously trouble provoking. PE teaching puts the responsibility on the animal. Teaching the owner comes next.

Limitations

Is your animal too far gone to fix? Here is a good gauge. If there is any situation at all, even at rest or leisure, where your animal acts very predictably, s/he is a good candidate for the teaching process. Mild neural and even sizable physical limitations do not detract from progress. The PE process is perfectly suited for teaching animals to learn how to adapt to disability or physical impairment. The only animals that cannot be helped with this process are those suffering from moderate neural pathology, diagnosed or undiagnosed, or severe physical pain.

What Partnership Engineering is Not...

PE applies only learning analysis and motivation analysis methods.

PE does NOT utilize Energy Field, Healing Touch, Mapping, or other physical contact methodologies.

PE does NOT utilize Medium, Psychic, Communicator, Telepathy, or any Spiritual methodologies.