Leadership.

When clients sign on for training, 7 of our ten online courses are included in the training package, as well as a Welcome Kit and a Training Workbook. Our programming is comprehensive, covers a lot of bases, and for good and valuable reason. The bulk of "dog training" is actually training, equipping, empowering, and developing the human end of the leash. The one responsible for the dog. The one who the dog is looking to for what to do and how to feel. The one responsible for raising and equipping the dog.

Leadership is a noun AND a verb. It's an approach, a state of being, and an energy. Embodying, representing, and stepping up through this space of leadership is a challenge for many, and is an ingredient often lacking in a lot of human-canine dynamics. Not because we're "doing life wrong", but because we're telling ourselves a different story (damn you, negative self talk...and thank you, negative self talk, for revealing what needs to be tended to). Most of us are showing up through our fear, worry, anxiety, wounding, and with extra baggage.

"We might not get the dog we want, but we always get the dog we need." One of my favorite quotes from Cesar Millan. Behavior is information, a manner of expression, a response, and a form of feedback. Dogs are super dialed in to the information we're putting out, on an energetic and instinctual level (we say far more without speaking); and will always challenge us in ways that benefit us. 

Do we need to....

Grow some more patience? 

Work on building confidence? 

Make time to still our minds and turn inward?

Center and ground ourselves?

Stop projecting and discharging onto others?

Heal underlying anger? 

Question our trigger points?

Face what we've been avoiding? Or numbing, suppressing, denying, resisting....

Become more clear and decisive?

Take ownership of what we're saying and doing?

Do we need to step outside of ourselves and show up more for those who are depending upon us? 

What do you think you're saying without speaking? What do you think you represent in the eyes and in the mind of the dog? Would you feel safe and secure following yourself in a strange and unknown world? Would you trust you "got this" and could handle whatever may come your way? Does the information you're consistently showing up with *authentically* align with what you're dishing out?

I'm thinking of creating a Leadership course for the human end of the leash; maybe a 21 Day Leadership Challenge, as well.

Tell me... what does the term "leadership" mean to you?

Pretty please respond to this~ I sincerely WANT to hear the varying perspectives about this: kimberly@packfit.net