KPA LIVE! CLASSES
LIVE™ virtual classes are high-impact, short-duration group classes featuring real-time coaching and training from fabulous teachers.
Weekly real-time classes on Zoom
...and recorded to watch on-demand.
Video curriculum guides your training week-to-week
Jump ahead! The full curriculum is available immediately.
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Join a community of trainers sharing progress and recieving feedback.
Choose your experience
Select the level of coaching and interaction that works for you.
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a full year
The works - curriculum, Zoom recordings, and discussion board.
Most classes are offered only once
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The LIVE Class Journey
Learn, Practice, Share
LEARN
The week by week recorded curriculum and exercises prepare you for each real-time virtual class. Super fun for you and your dog!PRACTICE
Live virtual classes with real-time coaching, interactive learning, and Q&A. Most classes are divided into 4 units, and run 5 weeks. New levels of advancement each week!SHARE
Ask questions and share insights, pics, and your training videos. Celebrate progress together!LET'S BEGIN THIS FABULOUS JOURNEY TOGETHER
COMPARE EXPERIENCES
Engage experience
Four LIVE classes over Zoom
Integrated weekly course curriculum with both video and written exercises to train your dog
Class discussion forum for comments, questions, and video sharing
Q&A sessions with your instructor
Access to the live class recordings, discussion group, and curriculum for one year
$199 standard/$143 for CTP members
Excel experience
Everything in the Engage Experience PLUS...
Instructor review and feedback on video submissions in the discussion group
Real-time, individual coaching from our expert instructors during the weekly virtual classes
Prioritized Q&A in the virtual classroom and unlimited discussion with the instructor in the discussion group
SkillCheck Assessment and Badge in select LIVE Classes
Limited to 10 students
$399 standard/$260 for CTP members
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ENROLLING NOW
In this 4-unit, 5-week class, Tabitha will teach you how cooperative care handling creates cooperative care outcomes even when there’s been little or no time for preparation. She has spent years developing handling skills that work in emergencies and everyday situations. Tabitha honed her approach through her work as both a veterinary technician and a trainer with certifications from KPA, IAABC, Frear Free, and Low-Stress Handling. She is also one of only 30 Designated Veterinary Technician Specialists in Behavior worldwide. She will teach you how to read and respond to body language, develop personalized handling plans, and adapt care based on real-time behavior. Through case studies, hands-on demonstrations, and tailored coaching, you’ll gain practical skills for tasks like nail trims, medication administration, and veterinary exams.
With one-on-one coaching, video reviews, and unlimited Q&A, this course offers a personalized learning experience to help you create safer, less stressful care environments for cats and dogs. Join us to transform the way you approach animal care and strengthen the human-animal bond.
Where and When!
- Content unlocks on April 8, 2025.
- Teaching support and discussion board begin on April 22, 2025.
- Ice-Breaker: There will be an optional Zoom session on April 22, 2025, at 3:00 PM PT / 6:00 PM ET. This optional session allows you to meet your fellow attendees and the instructor and learn how to maximize the LIVE Class platform, discussion board, and Zoom sessions.
- Zoom classes will be held on Tuesdays: April 29, 2025, May 6, 2025, May 13, 2025, and May 20, 2025. They will be two hours long and start at 3:00 PM PT / 6:00 PM ET.
Can’t make the live classes? No worries! The Zoom classes are recorded and made available shortly after each class concludes; you can access all of the recorded material for an entire year!
In this 5 week LIVE class, aggression specialist Michael Shikashio will teach you his proven approach to staying safe while handling and working with dogs—from dogs new to you with an unknown history to those you know with an established bite history. This is the most comprehensive leash-handling skills class Michael offers, taught by Michael, one of the most well-versed aggression experts in the business.
You will learn about the safety tools, proactive set-ups, and various defensive leash-handling techniques critical to creating and maintaining a safe environment. If you are a dog trainer, veterinary professional, shelter or rescue staff member, or an animal control officer and want to learn how to avoid dog-bite incidents, this class will equip you with the tools to maximize safety on both ends of the leash. This LIVE class will cover preemptive measures to take when handling a dog with a history of aggression and the emergency techniques to employ during an attack.
Where and When!
- Content unlocks on May 15, 2025.
- Teaching support and discussion board begin on May 29, 2025.
- Zoom classes will be held on Thursdays: June 5, 2025; June 12, 2025; June 19, 2025; and June 26, 2025. They will be two hours long and start at 3:00 PM PT / 6:00 PM ET.
Can’t make the live classes? No worries! The Zoom classes are recorded and made available shortly after each class concludes; you can access all of the recorded material for an entire year!
NOTES:
- Most defensive handling techniques this class covers should NOT be practiced with a real dog. Modifications for practice will be demonstrated throughout the class. Your dog will only be required for a handful of the proactive handling techniques.
- Modifications can be made to all mechanical techniques taught in this class based on a student’s needs.
Spots are available on a first-come, first-served basis. If capacity is not reached prior, enrollment will close on 05/28/25.
Cooperative care makes caring for your dog safer, less stressful, and more consistent. However, teaching dogs the behaviors needed for cooperative care can intimidate even the most well-intended trainers and pet guardians. A major challenge is fluency. Since cooperative care behaviors are required infrequently and set-ups are often time-intensive, it’s easy for dogs and trainers to lose interest. This class will help you clear those hurdles.
Imagine if the behaviors needed for cooperative care were fun to teach, learn, show others, and practice. For Sara, cooperative-care success is achieved with fun skills and “trick-style” behaviors that reinforce the learning process for her clients and their dogs. Cooperative care does not need to be “chore-full.” It should be joyful.
In each of the four class units, Sara will teach you to train fun new skills and tricks from the ground up and connect these behaviors to their cooperative-care uses. Sara makes the training easy using objects you have around your house or can access or create.
Additionally, both Excel and Engage students will learn how Sara coaches learners to experience cooperative care fun so you can incorporate Sara’s methods into your work with clients.
Where and When!
- Content unlocks on Tuesday, May 20, 2025, (Pacific Daylight Time).
- Teaching support and the discussion board will begin on Tuesday, June 3, 2025.
- Icebreaker: There will be an optional Zoom session on Tuesday, June 03, 2025, at 2:00 PM PT / 5:00 PM ET. This session will allow you to meet fellow attendees and the instructor and learn how to maximize the LIVE Class platform, discussion board, and Zoom sessions.
- Zoom classes will be held on Tuesdays: June 10, 2025; June 17, 2025; June 24, 2025; and July 1, 2025. They will be two hours long and start at 2:00 PM PT / 5:00 PM ET.
Can’t make the live classes? No worries! The Zoom classes are recorded and made available shortly after each class concludes; you can access all of the recorded material for an entire year!
Spots are available on a first-come, first-served basis. If capacity is not reached prior, enrollment will close on 06/02/25.
ENROLLING SOON
Dogs often have “big feelings” about one or many stimuli in their regular lives, from separation and isolation to fireworks or the mail carrier. Common management techniques, like minimizing your dog's time alone, covering their crates, and sound masking, are often helpful in the moment but alleviate symptoms without addressing causes or teaching skills that can make dogs' and their people’s lives much better over the long haul.
The sustainable, smart solution is to create places where dogs feel at ease and give them the agency and skill to move to those environments independently. Then, we can teach dogs behaviors that help them calm themselves. These principles are put into action in the “Safe Spaces” class.
In this five-week LIVE! Class, Ellen will coach you through creating, conditioning, and maintaining safe spaces for your or your clients’ dogs. These techniques apply whether your dog is merely suspicious of or boisterously reactive to stimuli and can also be applied to non-dog species. However, this class is not designed for dogs with resource-guarding issues.
In this 6-week LIVE class, you’ll learn how to turn communication into your most effective training tool. Whether you freeze up in front of clients, hesitate when repeating the same concept again, or just wish your words came as smoothly as your click timing, this course will help you find your voice—and use it with confidence.
Through bite-sized, approachable exercises and real-time coaching, you’ll build strong communication habits that support effective teaching. You'll also explore the mechanics of voice production so you can speak with greater clarity, comfort, and confidence in any teaching situation.
Dog trainers teach people—it’s the not-so-secret truth of the profession. And while your training knowledge is solid, success depends on how well you share it. Without clear communication, clients may struggle to understand instructions, leading to confusion and frustration for both dogs and their humans.
This course is the expanded, personalized version of the popular “Dem-OH” from ClickerExpo LIVE. With individualized coaching, video review, and hands-on practice, you’ll learn how to make your teaching stick—and actually enjoy the process of speaking to people.
