67: Get Out of the Way and Let Behavior Happen with Ari Bailey, Natural Encounters, Inc.

This episode Ari Bailey, Natural Encounters, Inc., discusses a topic that she will be presenting on at the IAATE Symposium titled “Get Out of the Way and Let Behavior Happen.”  The episode is a great conversation that focuses on recognizing when to fade out and when to implement specific tools such as baiting, prompts, target, etc.  Ari also gives advice on how to approach others with ideas on changing or trying something new in the training process.  The discussion finishes with Ari discussing how getting out of the way of the animal’s behavior can create more consistent and resilient behaviors and learners.   Stay tuned in for Ari’s very unique "Training Tale" about the origin story of a terminology for different sizes of peanuts.  For questions or suggestions about the podcast email ⁠[e-mail]⁠ and to contact Ari email [e-mail] ⁠

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Let's talk some training and banter about behavior! 

• 4:30 Introduction to Ari Bailey 

• 12:55 “Get Out of the Way and Let the Behavior Happen” 

• 21:10 How to recognize that it’s time to move on from an approximation 

• 30:30 Using baiting, targets, prompts in the shaping process 

• 42:00 Advice on how to approach teammates with moving to the next approximation 

• 46:10 How to approach teammates about “testing” something new 

• 53:00 How does this correlate to consistent and resilient behaviors? 

• 1:02:05 “Training Tales”