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 | The Harmony Program Ebook | |
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E-book Title: The Harmony Program
Book Description: No Way To Win
The basic presuppositions of the Harmony programme lie in the idea that a war or a competition produces losers, not winners.
After using "Dominance Reduction Programmes" for some time, it became apparent that in some cases these could be highly destructive to relationships between dogs and owners, and could lead to the presenting behaviour and training problems escalating, rather than being treated successfully.
Dominance Reduction is inherently based on the underlying idea that there is an ongoing power struggle between a dog and their owners, and that in order to "win" the owner must engage in partaking of these power struggles AND on the same level as the dog - the owner, in other words, must stop being a sentient human being, socialised into a system of behaviour where one family member takes care of another and forms intimate bonds, and move instead into a mindset where the family becomes "a pack of wolves" - a "dog eat dog" universe.
For some people, this idea is the very anathema to what their ideal of a relationship with a companion animal should constitute.
For some people, this idea doesn't make any sense and runs contrary to their every fibre of being.
And for some dogs, this "relationship as a war with the ultimate prize being power" approach to behaviour modification becomes indeed a declaration of war, and especially aggression related problems can escalate alarmingly.
The Harmony Programme turns the Dominance Reduction Programme inside out and instead, constitutes a set of treatment strategies for behaviour problems which:
- remove conflict, instead of adding conflict;
- create a more predictable environment, instead of making the dog's environment ever more scary and unpredictable;
- remove power struggles in every aspect of the dog/owner interaction;
- foster understanding, compromise and connection between dog & owner;
- work to increase both the owners and the dogs confidence and self esteem.
- create a sanctuary space of love, trust and understanding in which behaviour problems may heal rapidly.
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