Let's approach Amplifying Awareness within the Primal Games framework, focusing on enhancing intuitive understanding, emotional connection, and adaptive responses.

Conceptual Overview of Amplifying Awareness

• Focus: The goal of Amplifying Awareness is to enhance the dog's intuitive and emotional capacities, fostering a training environment where deeper connections and adaptive responses are prioritized. This involves creating opportunities for the dog to tune into subtle cues and respond with a higher level of understanding.

Practical Application in the Primal Games

Transition from "This, Wait… Next!" to "Where is the Trigger?"

• Original Game Dynamics: "This, Wait… Next!" focuses on controlled anticipation and the strategic use of expectant markers.
• Shift in Focus: Transitioning to "Where is the Trigger?" builds on this anticipation, emphasizing the dog's ability to intuitively sense and respond to specific cues. This shift promotes deeper awareness and emotional engagement, enhancing the dog's adaptive responses.

Go Do Dog Stuff… or Not

• Dismiss the dog and chill, taking up the next step as a separate session.
• Transition Seamlessly into the new game.
• Slip the esssence of Where is the Handler?, Attention for Access, into the This, Wait… Next game.
• Some combo of the above

Transition from "Give & Take" to "Where is the Handler?"

• Original Game Dynamics: "Give & Take" focuses on clear boundaries and expectations through bitework, establishing rules and norms of interaction. Where is the Trigger? may or may not carry over here…
• Shift in Focus: Moving to "Where is the Handler?" enhances this by focusing on the dog's attention to the handler. This tension between Awareness for the Trigger and Attention to the task at hand is invaluable experience, fostering a deeper emotional connection and intuitive understanding of the handler's intentions and harmonizes the team’s subjective Aim.

Enhancements to Training Focus with Amplifying Awareness

• Encourage Intuitive Decision-Making: Design exercises that require the dog to make decisions based on known cues and clear triggers with skills that can be successuflly coupled to this opportunity.
• Enhance Emotional Connection: Use Affective Attunement - match the energy level and emotional tone of the situation at hand to become a better, more alluring opportunity. Dog and handler should learn to read each other, to know what to expect and look for; you know, like they’re teammates.
• Foster Flexibility and Adaptability: Introduce elements of unpredictability and change within the training routines to encourage the dog to remain flexible and adaptive, using their emotional and intuitive senses to navigate these changes effectively.

Detailed Example of Amplifying Awareness