Penny Scott-Fox & Jeff McMahon | Penny Scott-Fox and Jeff McMahon | Getting the Most Out of a Scent Work Camp

When you go to a scent work camp or an all-day seminar, how do you get the most out of it? What stops people from fully committing to new ideas? And when you leave with a notebook full of things to try, what do you actually do with all of it?

This episode was recorded live on the last day of the Penny Scott-Fox Scent Work Camp at Galway Downs in California. I'm joined by Penny and fellow instructor Jeff McMahon. In addition to how to get the most out of an experience like this, we talk about three of the exercises from camp, what they were designed to teach, and what else people took away from the exercises.

What we talk about:

• What stops people from fully committing to new ideas at camp, and why it's more complicated than just being resistant to change
• The difference between going in with a competition mindset and going in with a learning mindset
• Projecting onto your dog, and what it really means when you say you want your dog to have a positive experience
• Breaking old habits and building new ones, and what self-awareness has to do with it
• Trade expectation for appreciation
• The breed genetics distance challenge, dogs off leash 70 feet from a hide, and what each breed did with that
• The lesson inside the lesson, what Scot took away that had nothing to do with breed tendencies
• The "What-if Game", where it came from, what it teaches, and some of the scenarios from this camp
• Why nose work should probably be called nose fun
• The 80 box challenge, the spiral grid pattern, and what being a teammate has to do with finding the hide
• What to do with a notebook full of ideas when you get home
• What lights Penny and Jeff up when they see it happen

Find Penny:

scott-foxdogtraining.com

Find Jeff McMahon:

https://k9noseworkblog.blogspot.com/

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