the jrh academy | courses
If you’ve been looking for real-life, honest information built on genuine industry experience from someone who can walk the walk as well as she talks the talk; put in a way that reframes from bias or predudice and focuses instead on presenting informed opinions and practical how-to’s that work then you are in the right place.
Check out the courses offered at the JRH Academy below - but don’t forget, you can gain access to every single one of these courses as well as more exclusive content for just £47.99 a month if you join The Academy as a subscriber.
Join the academy
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Imagine getting top-notch scientifically sound, practically pointed tuition every single week. The academy seeks to provide trainers with the practical skills and the scientific underpinning to walk the walk AND talk the talk.
Access grants you to everything that is released from Jo-Rosie along with a bunch of exclusive content such as case studies, science paper shredders and the full Understanding Adolescence course.
£39.99 a month
EVENING LECTURES
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Evening Seminar Series – “An Evening With…”
These evening seminars are short-format, high-impact professional education for dog trainers and behaviour practitioners who want depth, clarity, and real-world application without committing to multi-day courses.
Each session is a three-hour evening lecture, delivered monthly from 6pm to 9pm at Manchester Cats and Dogs Home.
With the following dates and titles:
Resolving Separation Anxiety: a professional guide : 16 March
Resolving Resource Guarding: a professional guide: 20 April
Resolving Dog Aggression: a professional guide: 18 May
Resolving Human Aggression: a professional guide: 15 June
Integrating dogs with…kids, cats, dogs and smallies: 20 July
Understanding, assessing and working with Herding breeds: 17 August
Understanding, assessing and working with Hunting breeds: 21 September
Understanding, assessing and working with Dogs from abroad and street dog behaviour: 19 October
Understanding, assessing and working with Gun dogs: 16 November
Understanding, assessing and working with Bull Breeds: 14 December
For more information click the link below
The UnAdoptables
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The Unadoptable: Behaviour Work With High-Risk Dogs is a 5-day intensive professional programme delivered inside real rescue environments. It is designed for staff and trainers working with dogs whose behaviour presents genuine safety, welfare, and ethical challenges.
Participants work directly with centre dogs to learn structured behavioural assessment, risk management, behaviour modification, progress tracking, and ethical decision-making, including rehoming suitability and end-of-life considerations. This is realistic, evidence-led work focused on what genuinely improves outcomes for dogs and people.
Duration: 5 days (10:00–16:00, flexible)
Format: In-kennel, practical, case-led
Cost: £990 (non-members) | £800 (Academy members)
Rescue Dog to Super Dog
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Rescue Dog to Super Dog: Support, Service & Working Potential in Rescue Dogs is a 5-day practical, in-kennel programme exploring the potential for rescue dogs to succeed in support, assistance, or working roles. Delivered inside real rescue environments, the course focuses on assessment, foundation training, welfare boundaries, and realistic role suitability, not novelty outcomes.
Participants work directly with centre dogs, learning how to assess suitability for different roles, train core “super dog” foundation skills, and understand where working potential supports welfare, enrichment, and rehoming success — and where it does not.
Duration: 5 days (10:00–16:00, flexible)
Format: Practical, in-kennel, real-dog work
Cost: £990 for non members £800 for Academy Members
Skills, Drills and Mechanics
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Skills, Drills & How Dogs Learn: Core Training Mechanics is a 5-day practical, in-kennel training programmefocused on building clean, effective training mechanics that directly improve dog welfare, handler confidence, and rehoming outcomes. Delivered inside public-facing rescue environments, the course concentrates on how dogs learn, how trainers communicate clearly, and how small mechanical improvements create faster, more reliable behaviour change.
Participants work hands-on with centre dogs to develop outcome-led training plans, refine luring, shaping and capturing skills, apply markers and reinforcement with precision, and proof behaviours for real-life environments.
Duration: 5 days (10:00–16:00, flexible)
Format: Practical, in-kennel, real-dog work
Cost: £990 for non members and £800 for members
The Real Dog Yoga
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Dog Yoga: Choice-Based Handling & Stress Reduction Protocol is a 5-day practical, in-kennel programme for professionals working with dogs experiencing shutdown, fear, or chronic stress. Delivered in real rescue environments, the course teaches a structured, choice-based handling protocol designed to reduce anxiety, increase perceived safety, and support calmer, more predictable day-to-day care.
Participants work hands-on with centre dogs to learn how to identify stress signals, apply a mat-based protocol, measure stress reduction using observable metrics, and integrate choice-led handling into routine interactions and trigger exposure.
Duration: 5 days (10:00–16:00, flexible)
Format: Practical, choice-based, real-dog work
Cost: £990 for non members and £800 for academy members
Bitches Unmuzzled with Jo-Rosie & Kelly Dunbar
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Jo-Rosie and Kelly Dunbar have been close friends for around 15 years since they met at a Scent Workshop in the UK. They felt it was time for some raw, unedited opinions and conversations in the dog training industry so decided to record their catch up calls and release them to the public. With no subject off the cards, nothing but truthful opinions and no experience censored: enjoy Bitches Unmuzzled...
Play Therapy & Behaviour Mechanics
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This two-day intensive workshop introduces a structured, psychology-informed approach to assessment and behaviour change, using live case studies to demonstrate the work in real time. Participants observe full behavioural assessments and progressive intervention with dogs presenting with severe problem behaviours, including separation anxiety, human aggression, dog-to-dog aggression, excessive barking, and resource guarding.
The workshop integrates Play Therapy as both an assessment and modification tool and places strong emphasis on behaviour mechanics, showing how precision in handling, movement, and timing can dramatically alter outcomes.
Duration: 2 days
Format: Live case studies, observation-led, practical demonstration
Cost: £220 for non members This two-day intensive workshop introduces a structured, psychology-informed approach to assessment and behaviour change, using live case studies to demonstrate the work in real time. Participants observe full behavioural assessments and progressive intervention with dogs presenting with severe problem behaviours, including separation anxiety, human aggression, dog-to-dog aggression, excessive barking, and resource guarding.The workshop integrates Play Therapy as both an assessment and modification tool and places strong emphasis on behaviour mechanics, showing how precision in handling, movement, and timing can dramatically alter outcomes.
Duration: 2 days
Format: Live case studies, observation-led, practical demonstration
Cost: £220 for non members £195 for members
THE JRH ACADEMY: MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP
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A monthly subscription grants you full access to every course released through The JRH Academy (that’s 40+ hours of lectures, workshops, case studies, crash courses, training secrets and more!) PLUS exclusive members-only content, live Q&As, discounts and resources to help you on your training journey. Flexible, monthly learning - at your own pace.
MEET YOUR lecturer
Jo-Rosie Haffenden
Trainer, behaviourist, TV presenter, author, though leader and industry expert
The dog training industry pits science against practical experience on a daily basis, when really the two should be working together.
Learn to walk the walk and talk the talk. I’m sick of the divide between varying methodologies; people who rave about academia over practical experience; and people who think if you can do it, you can teach it and that the science is unnecessary. Essentially it’s all a grey smudge there is no black and white; or wrong or right way. Like all things it’s a mix of science and art: skill and understanding.
These courses are designed to help trainers understand the how’s and why’s but most importantly know specifically how to use the how’s and why’s to create more effective, ethical and client centred training programs.