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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 exploitation "Dominance Reduction Programmes" for several time, it became apparent that in several cases these could be extremely
annihilating 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 in progress 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 another words, must finish being a sentient human being, socialized into a system of behaviour wherever
one family member takes care of another and forms intimate bonds, and come instead into a mentality wherever
the family becomes "a pack of wolves" - a "dog eat dog" universe.
For several people, this idea is the really anathema to what their ideal of a relationship with a companion animal should constitute.
For several people, this idea doesn't do any sense and runs contrary to their every fibre of being.
And for several dogs, this "relationship as a war with the ultimate prize being power" approach to behaviour modification becomes so
a declaration of war, and especially aggression related problems can intensify alarmingly.
The Harmony Programme turns the Dominance Reduction Programme inside out and instead, constitutes a set of treatment strategies for behaviour problems which:
- move out conflict, instead of adding conflict;
- create a much certain environment, instead of devising the dog's environment ever much chilling and unpredictable;
- move out power struggles in every aspect of the dog/owner interaction;
- foster understanding, compromise and connection between dog & owner;
- activity to increase several 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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