Ally Dog Team Training Workbook: How to Mindfully Train an ESA for Trauma Survivors
The Ally Dog Team Training Workbook offers a new way for survivors to reduce the impact of their traumatic experience by focusing on the relationship with their dog. This comprehensive workbook guides survivors to work with their dog to become a team that emotionally supports one another. Activities help survivors explore trauma and their stress responses, discover the healing strategies within mindfulness practice, become more emotionally aware of themselves and their dog, decipher human and dog communication, and practice force-free positive reinforcement dog training. There is an art to any relationship between two sentient beings. Through active listening, respectful interaction, and practice, survivors and their dog develop a partnership that positively impacts the mental health of both. It's through this relationship that healing can occur.