Detection For YOU – A Custom-Tailored 3-Day Detection Dog Seminar

Detection For YOU is a completely customized, handler-driven, problem-solving seminar designed to meet your needs, your goals, and your challenges. No rigid agenda. No one-size-fits-all curriculum. This is three full days dedicated to building better detection teams by focusing on what YOU want to improve.

Instead of a preset list of topics, the class determines the direction. On Day 1, each handler identifies their priorities anything from reading their dog more accurately, improving drive and focus, cleaning up indications, solving fringe alerts, handling inaccessible hides, dealing with distractions, building better search plans, or increasing confidence in complex environments. From there, the seminar becomes a collaborative, high-level workshop where every session is tailored to the needs of the group.

What This Seminar Delivers

• Student-driven content: You choose the problems; we build the solutions.
• Objective-based sessions: Each participant sets specific goals for their dog and their own handling skills.
• Practical, real-world training scenarios: Each day includes hands-on working sessions designed around the topics YOU selected.
• Clear, actionable coaching: Individualized guidance to help you refine communication, reinforcement, search plans, and decision-making.
• Problem-solving at a high level: We unpack what’s really happening, why it’s happening, and how to fix it with clarity and consistency.
• Team growth: Both handler and dog leave with improved confidence, skill, and understanding.

Who This Seminar Is For

This seminar is ideal for:

• Professional detection handlers (Police, SAR, Security, EOD, etc.)
• Sport detection teams (NACSW, AKC, UKC, SDDA, etc.)
• Trainers looking for new perspectives or advanced troubleshooting
• Any handler wanting targeted improvement in their detection work

What Makes This Seminar Different

Most seminars teach curriculum focused objectives.
This one teaches your goals and objectives.

Detection For YOU recognizes that every dog-and-handler team is unique. You bring the challenges; we bring the expertise. Together, we create a seminar that is relevant, practical, and immediately impactful.

Outcome

By the end of the 3 days, you’ll walk away with:

• A better understanding of your dog
• Cleaner, more consistent detection performance
• Solutions to the problems you care about
• A training plan for continued progress
• Increased fluency as a detection team

Need More Information

To find out more information about pricing, etc. Please visit our page about hosting a FordK9 team.