Personalised one-to-one guidance for dog professionals who want to deepen their understanding, explore real-life cases and develop their practice with greater confidence.
Choose from 3, 6, 10 or 15 sessions and use them flexibly, whenever you need support.
Personalised one-to-one guidance for dog professionals who want to deepen their understanding, explore real-life cases and develop their practice with greater confidence.
CDD changes the starting point. Instead of asking how to stop, fix or manage a behaviour, we begin with the dog: who they are, what they are communicating and how the world feels from their perspective. That lens changes what you notice, the questions you ask and the support you offer.
The shift never stops with one professional. How you understand a dog shapes how you speak to their guardian, which changes how they respond at home. It can ease conflict, rebuild trust and transform how a dog is seen. Across every family your work reaches, that ripple can be extraordinary.
Bringing CDD into your practice can also give your business a clearer identity. You are offering more than help with behaviour. You are offering people a new way to understand the dog beside them. Mentorship gives us space to explore cases, videos, client conversations and business ideas, making the CDD lens practical, flexible and truly yours.
The aim is not to make you a copy of me. It is to strengthen your thinking, voice and confidence so you can build a distinctive practice aligned with your values.
When a professional learns to see the dog differently, it can change every life their work touches.
CDD changes the starting point. Instead of asking how to stop, fix or manage a behaviour, we begin with the dog: who they are, what they are communicating and how the world feels from their perspective. That lens changes what you notice, the questions you ask and the support you offer.
The shift never stops with one professional. How you understand a dog shapes how you speak to their guardian, which changes how they respond at home. It can ease conflict, rebuild trust and transform how a dog is seen. Across every family your work reaches, that ripple can be extraordinary.
Bringing CDD into your practice can also give your business a clearer identity. You are offering more than help with behaviour. You are offering people a new way to understand the dog beside them. Mentorship gives us space to explore cases, videos, client conversations and business ideas, making the CDD lens practical, flexible and truly yours.
The aim is not to make you a copy of me. It is to strengthen your thinking, voice and confidence so you can build a distinctive practice aligned with your values.
When a professional learns to see the dog differently, it can change every life their work touches.
CDD begins with a beautifully simple question: what changes when the dog is no longer treated as the subject of the work, but as a participant within it?
Canine Dialogue Dynamics is a dog-centred philosophy and practical approach that recognises dogs as thinking, feeling and communicating individuals. They have histories, preferences, relationships and their own experience of the world. Rather than reducing them to behaviour, CDD seeks to understand the individual beneath it.
Through word association, narration, meaningful questions and choices, attention to the dog’s response and conversation shaped by context, CDD builds shared understanding. Dogs can express more and take a more active role in their lives, while humans learn to listen, explain, adapt and respond.
Behaviour remains important, but it is no longer the whole story. A bark, pause, refusal or need for distance becomes information, considered alongside the dog’s emotions, physical needs, nervous system, environment, relationships and previous experiences.
This can move families away from battles of will and towards connection, understanding and genuine cooperation. Professionals can help guardians do far more than produce the “right” behaviour. They can help them recognise and fall in love with the individual who has been there all along.
CDD does not ask how closely a dog can conform to our idea of perfection. It asks what becomes possible when we truly meet the dog already beside us.
CDD begins with a beautifully simple question: what changes when the dog is no longer treated as the subject of the work, but as a participant within it?
Canine Dialogue Dynamics is a dog-centred philosophy and practical approach that recognises dogs as thinking, feeling and communicating individuals. They have histories, preferences, relationships and their own experience of the world. Rather than reducing them to behaviour, CDD seeks to understand the individual beneath it.
Through word association, narration, meaningful questions and choices, attention to the dog’s response and conversation shaped by context, CDD builds shared understanding. Dogs can express more and take a more active role in their lives, while humans learn to listen, explain, adapt and respond.
Behaviour remains important, but it is no longer the whole story. A bark, pause, refusal or need for distance becomes information, considered alongside the dog’s emotions, physical needs, nervous system, environment, relationships and previous experiences.
This can move families away from battles of will and towards connection, understanding and genuine cooperation. Professionals can help guardians do far more than produce the “right” behaviour. They can help them recognise and fall in love with the individual who has been there all along.
CDD does not ask how closely a dog can conform to our idea of perfection. It asks what becomes possible when we truly meet the dog already beside us.
Professional life rarely unfolds in neat weekly blocks. One case may bring several questions at once, while another may need time, observation and reflection before you are ready to explore it again. CDD Professional Mentorship is therefore offered as a flexible bank of one-to-one sessions rather than a rigid weekly programme.
Choose 3, 6, 10 or 15 sessions and secure your package in advance, either in full or through an available payment plan. Your sessions can then be booked individually and used at a rhythm that supports you. You might meet fortnightly, monthly, around an active case or at wider intervals as your work develops.
Select the number of sessions that reflects the depth, continuity and length of support you would like. Larger packages provide greater value and more space for your development to unfold.
There is no requirement to attend for consecutive weeks. Book your sessions when they will be genuinely useful, allowing time between them to observe, reflect and apply what we have explored.
Each session is completely personalised. There is no predetermined lesson or expectation that every professional will follow the same route. We begin with what matters most to you that day.
Use the space between sessions to try ideas, notice changes and allow new questions to emerge. When you are ready, return with what happened next and continue building from there.
This mentorship is for dog professionals who have begun to feel constrained by a model in which every concern becomes a training plan, every interaction becomes an exercise and every dog is expected to progress through a predetermined curriculum of skills. You may want to move away from rigid protocols, repeated conditioning or making operant learning the primary lens through which the dog is understood.
Perhaps you want to work with communication, meaning, internal experience, context, agency and relationship, while allowing more room for observation, professional judgement and the individuality of the dog. You may want to help guardians live with their dogs without turning ordinary life into a continuous programme of cues, exercises and performance goals.
CDD does not require you to deny everything you know about learning or practical teaching. It changes the centre of gravity. Skills can still have a place, but they no longer need to dominate the relationship or determine the value of the dog in front of you.
This is a space to explore what your practice could become when training is no longer expected to provide every answer.
If you are drawn to a less prescriptive and more relational way of working, sessions can offer a guided introduction to how CDD changes observation, communication and professional decision-making. We can use your real questions and experiences to explore what the approach may open within your work.
Mentorship can help you discover whether CDD feels aligned with your values and begin applying particular ideas with support.
If you want both the foundations and personalised guidance, you can combine your mentorship package with the Practitioner Course or the wider CDD Flagship Collection. This gives you structured learning to return to between sessions, while mentorship helps you question, interpret and integrate it within the reality of your own work.
You can enter through mentorship alone or choose the learning pathway that gives your developing CDD practice stronger foundations.
Every professional arrives at CDD from a different starting point. You may already have CDD learning behind you, be discovering the philosophy for the first time, or want to immerse yourself more deeply across the wider curriculum. Choose the combination of mentorship and learning that reflects what you need now.
For professionals who already own the relevant CDD courses, have established foundations or simply want personalised support around their current work. Choose a single session or a flexible package of 3, 6, 10 or 15 sessions, bringing your cases, questions, videos, client conversations and developing ideas whenever you need guidance.
For professionals who want structured CDD foundations alongside personalised help bringing them into practice. The Practitioner Course provides the philosophy, framework and learning journey, while mentorship gives you space to explore, question and apply it to your own work. This option is available with multi-session mentorship packages.
For professionals who want to explore CDD across a much wider landscape. The Flagship Collection includes the Practitioner Course alongside the core flagship programmes, creating a rich library of learning to return to between mentorship sessions. This option is also available with multi-session mentorship packages.
Choose a single session or a flexible package of 3, 6, 10 or 15 private mentorship sessions, booked at a rhythm that suits your cases, questions and professional development. Larger packages provide greater savings, while every session remains completely personalised around your work and developing relationship with CDD.
CDD Professional Mentorship is not simply a place to receive answers. It is an opportunity to expand the way you understand dogs, deepen the thinking behind your work and develop a practice that feels more considered, confident and distinctly your own.
Place the individual dog’s communication, experience, preferences and agency at the centre of your work, looking beyond observable behaviour to understand the dog more fully.
Explore the emotional, physical, developmental, relational, environmental and experiential layers of each case, building richer understanding than any single explanation or ready-made protocol can provide.
Recognise where learning theory remains useful without allowing conditioning, reinforcement histories or operant frameworks to limit how you interpret, understand and support the individual dog.
Every multi-session mentorship includes full access to Beyond Behaviourism: Rewriting the Rules, worth £197, providing a powerful foundation for moving beyond conventional behaviour-focused professional practice.
Explore perspectives around cognition, communication, nervous-system experience, relationships, development and agency, discovering how wider paradigms can enrich and meaningfully expand your everyday dog-centred professional practice.
Bring your cases, videos, client conversations and professional questions into the room, turning CDD principles into thoughtful, practical decisions that fit the individual lives involved.
Develop the confidence to think critically, hold complexity and make considered professional decisions without depending upon rigid formulas, prescribed curricula or somebody else’s ready-made answers.
Find clearer language for explaining what you see, why it matters and how you work, helping guardians understand your guidance and participate in the process.
Shape a practice with a recognisable philosophy, stronger values and a distinctive professional voice, helping aligned clients understand exactly what makes your work meaningfully different.
CDD Professional Mentorship can be taken entirely on its own. You do not need to have completed the CDD Practitioner Course before beginning. If you already own the course, mentorship gives you a dedicated space to explore your cases, videos, client conversations, challenges and ideas through the CDD lens.
If you are newer to CDD, we can begin exactly where you are. Every multi-session mentorship package includes complimentary access to Beyond Behaviourism: Rewriting the Rules, giving you a strong foundation in the thinking that underpins CDD and the move towards a more relational, dialogue-centred practice.
Mentorship alone does not lead to CDD Practitioner Certification. If becoming a Certified CDD Practitioner is your goal, you will also need to complete the CDD Practitioner Course, either separately or as part of one of the combined mentorship programmes below.
The course gives you the complete pathway. Mentorship gives you the space to apply it to your own work.
Complimentary access to Beyond Behaviourism: Rewriting the Rules
8 recorded live sessions exploring the foundations behind moving beyond behaviourism and towards a more relational, dialogue-centred approach.
Flexible Payment Options Available.
Six sessions for bringing CDD confidently into your professional work. Ideal when you want ongoing guidance across cases, client conversations and practical decisions while developing a clearer, more consistent professional approach.
Three focused sessions for exploring a current case, challenge or developing idea. Ideal when you want enough space to reflect, apply the CDD lens and return with observations, questions and progress.
Ten sessions for integrating CDD across your cases, communication and professional identity. Ideal when you want sustained support, room to explore complexity and time to build confidence through reflection and application.
Fifteen sessions for making CDD a natural part of how you think, communicate and practise. Ideal when you want long-term mentorship while shaping more confident, distinctive and deeply aligned professional work.
A focused space for one immediate question, case or professional decision. Ideal when you want a fresh CDD perspective, practical guidance and greater clarity without committing to an ongoing mentorship package.
Bring the depth and structure of the CDD Practitioner Course together with personalised one-to-one mentorship shaped around you, your work and the questions that arise along the way.
The course guides you through the complete CDD philosophy and provides your route towards becoming a Certified CDD Practitioner. Your mentorship sits alongside that journey, helping you explore the learning more deeply, apply it to real dogs and families, and develop a practice that feels confident, thoughtful and genuinely your own.
When you choose the course as part of a mentorship programme, it is available at a preferred programme rate reserved for mentorship clients. Explore the different mentorship levels to find the balance of structured learning and personal support that feels right for you.
Pair any multi-session mentorship programme with the complete CDD Practitioner Course for £395 rather than its usual price of £597. You will receive lifetime access to the course, while your private mentorship sessions help you explore the learning through your own cases, questions and professional development.
Your pathway combines your chosen number of private mentorship sessions with the complete CDD Practitioner Course. The course contains eighteen recorded live classes, each approximately ninety minutes long, providing around twenty-seven hours of in-depth teaching. You will receive lifetime access to the course and its supporting learning materials.
The course explores the emotional systems beneath behaviour, neuroscience, trauma, regulation, instinct, reactivity, relationship and the ethics of guidance without control. You will study the foundations of CDD, including word association, narration, questions and choices, recognising the dog’s response and developing meaningful contextual conversation.
The course provides the structured foundations of the CDD Method, while mentorship helps you make that learning practical and personal. You can bring real cases, videos, client conversations and professional questions into your sessions, allowing us to explore how CDD can be applied thoughtfully within your own work.
Yes. Certification is achieved by completing the Practitioner Course and its required learning and reflective work. Your mentorship sessions provide additional personalised support, but certification is awarded through the course itself. This is a method-specific certification issued by Canine Dialogue Dynamics.
Receive three private mentorship sessions and lifetime access to the complete Practitioner Course. The course is added for £395, saving £202, while the Insight mentorship package saves a further £30.
Complete price: £665
Programme saving: £232
Use your mentorship sessions within four months.
Receive six private mentorship sessions and lifetime access to the complete Practitioner Course. The course is added for £395, saving £202, while the Application mentorship package saves a further £90.
Complete price: £905
Programme saving: £292
Use your mentorship sessions within eight months.
Receive ten private mentorship sessions and lifetime access to the complete Practitioner Course. The course is added for £395, saving £202, while the Integration mentorship package saves a further £200.
Complete price: £1,195
Programme saving: £402
Use your mentorship sessions within twelve months.
Receive fifteen private mentorship sessions and lifetime access to the complete Practitioner Course. The course is added for £395, saving £202, while the Fluency mentorship package saves a further £375.
Complete price: £1,520
Programme saving: £577
Use your mentorship sessions within eighteen months.
For professionals who want to explore CDD across every stage of a dog’s life, this pathway brings personalised mentorship together with our entire core Flagship Collection, including the CDD Practitioner Course.
The collection gives you an exceptionally rich foundation of learning, while your mentorship provides the space to question, reflect, apply and make meaningful connections across the courses. Together, they create a deeply supported route through the wider CDD philosophy, helping you bring it into your professional practice, your client relationships and your own life with dogs.
The Flagship Collection already offers considerable value compared with purchasing each course individually. When paired with a mentorship programme, it is available at a further preferred rate, creating our greatest overall level of value.
Pair any multi-session mentorship programme with the complete CDD Flagship Collection. The seven courses have a combined individual value of £1,501. Beyond Behaviourism, worth £197, is included as a complimentary course and is therefore separate from the programme savings shown below. The Flagship Collection is normally £697 and is available to mentorship clients at a preferred rate of £497.
Your pathway combines your chosen number of private mentorship sessions with the complete CDD Flagship Collection. This includes the CDD Practitioner Course alongside all of our core flagship courses, providing a substantial library of professional CDD learning. Every included course comes with lifetime access.
The Practitioner Pathway gives you the complete professional foundations of the CDD Method and a route to certification. The Flagship Pathway includes that same Practitioner Course, but expands your learning through our wider core curriculum, allowing you to explore CDD across different stages of a dog’s life, professional contexts and behavioural experiences.
The Flagship Collection gives you an extensive body of structured learning, while mentorship helps you decide what that learning means within your own work. You can bring real cases, videos, client conversations and developing ideas into your sessions, allowing us to connect different areas of the collection with the dogs and families you are currently supporting.
Yes. Because the Flagship Collection includes the complete Practitioner Course, you can work towards becoming a Certified CDD Practitioner by completing its required learning and reflective work. You will also receive lifetime access to every course included within the collection, allowing you to return as your experience and professional practice continue to develop.
Receive three private mentorship sessions and lifetime access to the complete CDD Flagship Collection. Purchased individually, the courses and three equivalent Single Sessions would have a combined value of £1,541.
Complete price: £765
Programme saving: £839
Use your mentorship sessions within four months.
Receive six private mentorship sessions and lifetime access to the complete CDD Flagship Collection. Purchased individually, the courses and six equivalent Single Sessions would have a combined value of £1,841.
Complete price: £1,000
Programme saving: £904
Use your mentorship sessions within eight months.
Receive ten private mentorship sessions and lifetime access to the complete CDD Flagship Collection. Purchased individually, the courses and ten equivalent Single Sessions would have a combined value of £2,241.
Complete price: £1,295
Programme saving: £1,009
Use your mentorship sessions within twelve months.
Receive fifteen private mentorship sessions and lifetime access to the complete CDD Flagship Collection. Purchased individually, the courses and fifteen equivalent Single Sessions would have a combined value of £2,741.
Complete price: £1,620
Programme saving: £1,184
Use your mentorship sessions within eighteen months.
CDD Professional Mentorship is flexible, personalised one-to-one support shaped around you and your work. Rather than following a fixed curriculum, we can explore your real cases, videos, professional questions, client conversations, ethical considerations and developing ideas through the CDD lens. It is a space to think more deeply, strengthen your judgement and develop a way of practising that feels genuinely your own.
The mentorship is for established dog professionals, those moving into professional practice and those developing a more dog-centred direction within their existing work. This may include trainers, behaviourists, walkers, sitters, groomers, veterinary professionals and people working within rescue or foster care. You do not need to be an existing CDD Practitioner, but you should be open to exploring dogs beyond behaviour, conditioning and conventional training structures.
No. You purchase your chosen number of sessions in advance and arrange them when support would be most valuable. Sessions might be relatively close together while you are exploring a particular case, or spread across several months as your practice develops.
Single Sessions should be used within eight weeks. Insight sessions are available for four months, Application for eight months, Integration for twelve months and Fluency for eighteen months.
You can bring real cases, videos, client communication, professional uncertainties, business ideas or areas of CDD that you would like to understand more deeply. We might examine what a dog is communicating, consider the wider emotional and environmental picture, explore different ways of supporting a family or develop language that helps you explain your approach with greater clarity and confidence.
No. Mentorship can be booked independently, and you may already own the Practitioner Course or other CDD courses separately. However, the Practitioner Course provides the most comprehensive foundation for professionals who want to understand and apply the complete CDD Method. For this reason, you can pair any multi-session mentorship programme with the Practitioner Course at a preferential course price.
No. Mentorship supports your professional development, but it does not lead to CDD Practitioner certification by itself. Certification is achieved through completing the CDD Practitioner Course and its required learning and reflective work.
You can complete the Practitioner Course separately, pair it with mentorship or choose the Flagship Collection, which includes the Practitioner Course alongside our wider core curriculum.
Every multi-session Mentorship Only programme includes Beyond Behaviourism: Rewriting the Rules at no additional cost. The course contains eight recorded live classes and approximately fourteen hours of video content, all available with lifetime access.
Beyond Behaviourism examines the assumptions that have shaped conventional dog training and behaviour modification. It explores learning, conditioning and behaviourism before expanding the picture through emotion, neuroscience, nervous-system experience, communication, choice, relationship and the dog’s individual perspective.
It provides a valuable foundation for professionals who want to move beyond surface-level behaviour and begin questioning not only which techniques they use, but how they understand dogs in the first place. The complimentary course is included with Insight, Application, Integration and Fluency Mentorship Only programmes and is also included when mentorship is paired with the practitioner’s course or Flagship courses. It is not included with a Single Session.
The CDD Practitioner Course is the complete professional pathway into the CDD Method. It includes eighteen recorded live classes, each approximately ninety minutes long, providing around twenty-seven hours of in-depth teaching, alongside supporting materials and reflective learning. Every class can be revisited through lifetime course access.
The course explores the emotional systems beneath behaviour, neuroscience, trauma, regulation, instinct, reactivity, relationship and the ethics of guiding without control. You will study the practical foundations of CDD, including word association, narration, questions and choices, recognising the dog’s response and developing contextual conversation.
It is designed to strengthen the way you observe dogs, interpret what they may be communicating, make professional decisions and support the people around them. Successful completion provides the pathway to becoming a Certified CDD Practitioner.
Certification demonstrates that you have completed the comprehensive Practitioner Course and developed an understanding of the ethical foundations, emotional framework and practical application of CDD.
You will be able to describe yourself as a Certified CDD Practitioner, use the CDD Practitioner logo within your professional materials and be recognised as part of the growing CDD professional community. This is a method-specific certification issued by Canine Dialogue Dynamics rather than an externally regulated qualification.
The CDD Flagship Collection is our most comprehensive learning pathway. It includes the CDD Practitioner Course alongside all of our core flagship courses, allowing you to explore CDD across a much wider range of professional contexts, behavioural experiences and stages of a dog’s life.
The collection is designed for professionals who want more than an introduction to the method. It provides a substantial library of learning that you can return to as new cases arise, your professional role changes and your understanding continues to deepen.
The courses are worth £1,241 when purchased individually. The Flagship Collection is normally £697, but it can be paired with a multi-session mentorship programme for £495. This provides a total course saving of £746 against the individual course value. All included courses come with lifetime access.
Yes. Whether a course is included complimentary with Mentorship Only, purchased through the Practitioner pathway or received within the Flagship Collection, you will have lifetime access to the course and its recorded content.
This applies to the course material rather than your mentorship appointments. Mentorship sessions must be used within the timeframe attached to your chosen programme.
You can simply choose one of the Mentorship Only options. Your sessions can help you explore the course material more personally, apply it to real cases and develop greater confidence in bringing CDD into your professional work.
You will never be expected to repurchase the Practitioner Course in order to access mentorship.
Yes. Flexible payment plans are available for the multi-session mentorship programmes and course-paired pathways. The overall programme price remains the same, allowing you to spread the cost without paying more for choosing instalments.
The Single Session is paid as one payment of £100.
You are very welcome to get in touch before booking. Tell me where you are within your professional journey, what you would like support with and whether you already own any CDD courses. I can then help you identify the pathway that offers the most relevant level of support without encouraging you to purchase more than you genuinely need.
Yes. A Single Session is available for £100 and can be used for one focused professional question, a particular case, video exploration or an area in which you would value a second perspective.
The Single Session does not include Beyond Behaviourism and cannot be paired with the Practitioner Course or Flagship Collection. If you would like ongoing support or accompanying course learning, one of the multi-session pathways will provide better overall value.