Sure! Here’s how to approach Banishing Action within the Primal Games framework, focusing on minimizing aggression, conflict, and excessive competitiveness to promote a more cooperative, calm, and controlled training environment.
Conceptual Overview of Banishing Action
- Focus: The goal of Banishing Action is to reduce the intensity and potential aggressiveness in training, promoting a more measured, peaceful, and teamwork-oriented approach. This involves fostering cooperation, control, and strategic thinking. This is part of Mental Flow, this session flow can and will tamp down the dog, handler, and team’s Subjective Tone (classical condition).
Practical Application in the Primal Games
1. Transition from "Where is the Trigger?" to "This, Wait… Next!"
- Original Game Dynamics: "Where is the Trigger?" typically requires quick, aggressive responses to specific cues.
- Shift in Focus: Transitioning to "This, Wait… Next!" focuses on clear, predefined tasks that the dog must execute in sequence, promoting patience, precision, and controlled actions over speed and force.
1.5. 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
2. Transition from "Which Way?" to "Where is the Handler?"
- Original Game Dynamics: "Which Way?" involves making quick strategic decisions and handling dynamic, coupled team movement.
- Shift in Focus: Moving to "Where is the Handler?" emphasizes paying attention to guidance and directions in a more cooperative context, fostering calmness and controlled engagement. The dog earns access to next. This is key for fostering Opportunity | Expectancy | Achievement.
Enhancements to Training Focus with Banishing Action
- Reduce Aggressiveness and Intensity: Focus on training exercises that require calmness and precision rather than speed and force. This might involve tasks that emphasize accuracy and control over quickness and power.
- Promote Teamwork and Cooperation: Introduce elements that foster cooperative rather than competitive interactions. This could involve group activities where the dog and handler work together to achieve common goals. Energy should be Affectively Attuned to match the task at hand.
- Foster a Calm, Steady Pace: Create a training environment that emphasizes a methodical and paced approach. This helps in developing a strategic and less reactive mindset in the dog, ensuring that tasks are approached with thoughtfulness and control.
Detailed Example of Banishing Action