Date

Feb 07 - 09 2025

Time

10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Cost

70.00

Play+ Social Seminar @ John K9’s | Plant City, FL | Feb 7-10, 2025

Discover the Play+ Universe

Play+ is more than a training method. It’s an exploration through a universe where dogs and handlers engage in a profound, dynamic dance of learning, interaction, and growth.

Play+ gamifies training for dog and handler. You (and the dog) learn what a game is and how to start one as the team experiences and embodies key elements of play.How to construct the rules to get cooperative Performance? How to construct the rules for more or less intensity? Sharper or softer work?

How about a game that develops the skills for our unicorn trick? How do we create the idea, train the actions, and develop the skill of Initiative (conscious turn taking) in cooperative play?

What can one do with such ideas and experiences? Don’t just pass these thoughts by… Do you know how to do these things? Anyone ever teach you about this stuff?

Your dog does have a brain. Your dog does have feelings. How you move and act matters; much more that ‘Reward Schedule’. Your dog plans, your dog knows what is coming. Your dog knows far more than they can do. Tap into this and have a good time doing it and create a thoughtful teammate with Play+.

Why Choose Play+ ?

  • Holistic Development: Play promotes the development of both mental and physical skills, ensuring well-rounded growth for both dog and handler.
  • Dynamic Engagement: The philosophy of play encourages continuous interaction and adjustment, keeping both parties fully engaged and motivated.
  • Philosophical Depth: Rooted in natural philosophy, Play offers a rich, nuanced approach to understanding and shaping behavior.

Employ & explore Play+ and embark on a journey where every interaction is an opportunity for growth, every game a step towards deeper understanding, and every moment a chance to connect more profoundly with your canine companion. Experience the future of dog training with Play+, where philosophy and play unite.

Core Concepts

1. Primal Games:

  • Embodied Play Experiences: These 7 elemental games offer real-world experiences that teach both dogs and handlers the subtleties of play and learning.
  • Structured Learning: Games are designed to be replayed, explored, and mastered, providing both new and experienced teams with continuous growth opportunities.
  • Live Play with Low Stakes: Primal Games deliver actual experience of purpose driven play. The games are low stakes, they’re silly and unimportant on their own so they enable Live Play. It becomes easy for dog and handler to fall into a session of authentic Play.

2. The Play+ Framework:

  • Actual World vs. Ideal World: Engage with the real-world experiences and the idealized concepts that shape behavior. Learn how to get out in and out of your head quickly & Efficiently.
  • Perception Action Cycle: Information from the field is required to turn behaviors into adaptable skills. Skills are behaviors (actions in Play+) that are coupled to the handler and the environment. Read & Recall key moments of interaction and process and adapt skills to fit the environment.
  • Mental and Physical Flow: Cognitive engagement and physical action are required for Flow. With Play+ we tune to Flow by creating & leveraging physical or mental challenge. Physical is Classical Conditioning & Action, Mental is Operant & Skill Exploration; For the Training nerds: we run, tune, and manage Classical & Operant at the same time.

3. The Science of Play:

  • Flow Theory: Apply Csikszentmihalyi’s principles to achieve optimal engagement and performance in training sessions.
  • Classical and Operant Conditioning: Seamlessly integrate Pavlovian and Skinnerian methods to create a robust training framework.
  • Affective Neuroscience: Based on concepts like SEEKING, PLAY, and other emotional systems to map the training process. Play+ maps to all 7 mammalian affects.

4. Attunement and Affordances:

  • Affective Attunement: Foster a deep emotional connection between handler and dog, ensuring each session is tailored to the dog’s current state and needs.
  • Affordances and Action Capacities: Leverage the environment and the dog’s innate capabilities to unlock new possibilities for interaction and learning.
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Play+ 3 Days | GoDoDogStuff
$300
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3 days of embodied play experiences via Play+ Primal Games.

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Play+ - Friday | Go!
$125
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A single day of Play+ on Friday as we introduce the Games to everyone. This is where we get going.

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Play+ - Saturday | Do!
$125
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Day 2 continues the trek for multi-day participants and revisits the Games and methods of Play+. Single day participants work along side multi-day participants and get a look at where we're going with this stuff.

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Play+ - Sunday | DogStuff...
$125
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Sunday has the multi-day participants leading the way and generating their own games & honing skills. Single day participants get introduction to the games and have the multi-day participants to model and follow.

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Daily Auditor Spot (or Extra dog/human/working spot)
$70/day
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Watch the sessions and take notes or add an additional working spot. This is a single day auditor spot or additional working spot for another dog or additional handler.

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