Transformation and Healing: New Paradigms for You & Your Dog with Dr Laura Donaldson and Annie Phenix
About this episode
The episode explores new paradigms in dog care focusing on deeper safety and emotional wellbeing rather than obedience.
What if the future of dog care isn’t about better obedience…but about deeper safety? In this powerful and deeply honest conversation, I sit down with Dr Laura Donaldson and Annie Phenix to explore their new course, Transformation and Healing: New Paradigms for You and Your Dog - and the larger shift happening in the world of canine care. We begin by honouring the late Sarah Fisher, whose work invited us to learn from our dogs rather than simply lead or manage them. Her legacy threads through this entire conversation. This episode challenges the long-held paradigm of compliance in our relationships with dogs. Instead of focusing on obedience and suppression of behaviour, we explore what becomes possible when we centre: Deep safety Emotional wellbeing Agency Resilience Trust Social support We discuss what it means to become trauma-informed in our approach, and why that shift is transformative, not additive. We explore: ✨ Why compliance has shaped traditional dog training - and why it’s time to question it✨ Dogs as somatic beings (and how we’ve forgotten that we are too)✨ The intelligence and wisdom of all life forms - and dismantling the “humans at the top” worldview✨ Getting…
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