Awareness

As an Intermediate Team the Dog | Handler | Team have a working understanding of Awareness and recognize that Attention comes after Awareness & without Awareness Opportunity cannot reveal itself.

Stay aware and take care to not let the Attention get away from you:

• Self-Constrained Play
• Authentic Engagement
• Sel Control
• Harnessed Drive
• This, Wait… Next!
• Purposeful Learning Games
• Expectancy for Achievement
• Bite | Drop | Give or Affordance Based Game
• Enriched Marking
• Skills on Demand

Attention

Attention is key, it just needs to be modulated and managed. There are only a few tasks that require sustained active Attention for the Intermediate Team in this aspect of Play:

• Functional Thinking & Moving
• Choice of Affordances
• Awareness of Purpose
• Enriched Marking
• Concerted Purposeful Team Movement