Mentorship
Pair your online course with a working trainer
The course is your textbook. The mentor is your lab partner. Together they cover what neither can alone.
How the pairing works
Your course
Explains the principle, shows a demonstration and gives you homework.
Your mentor
Watches you apply it, tweaks your timing and shows you how it changes with each dog.
What to bring to a mentor
- The lesson you just finished and one thing you did not understand
- A video of you practising, if the mentor is happy to review it
- A question about a real owner problem you have seen
- Willingness to be corrected, kindly and often
What a mentor covers
Live demonstrations, supervised handling, coaching owners, running classes, reviewing hard cases and the practical realities of scheduling and pricing. Choose someone who is actively working, lets you watch before you commit and handles dogs in a way you would be comfortable having used on your own.
What K9PN says about its role
K9PN’s owner, Michael Leal, used to be a dog trainer. K9PN says it teaches people how to become dog trainers and sets them up with the systems they need, which means a CRM, a website and SEO. The first step is a conversation about where you are starting and the order to learn things in. K9PN can also help you work out how to find a mentor where you live and coach you on parts you want help with. We do not list fees, lengths or outcomes here. The K9PN page is the source for those.
