Yesterday evening I finished the course and saying goodbye to Graeme and Valentina was quite difficult. This 10-month journey has given me so much and I have grown very fond of these great professionals and wonderful people. I immediately understood that I would have had to do the hardest work on myself. In order to learn how to train a dog you must first deal with your ego because you know, we humans feel superior to any other creature. It was great learning to communicate with Leonardo who was only 8 months old at the beginning of the course. Leo's attentive and amazed look when he realized that I understood him and that we could speak the same language is a satisfaction that is priceless. I started the course with the sole objective of obtaining the means to be able to make my dog live a full and happy life.

Thanks to Graeme and Valentina, we had the opportunity to attend with our Labrador puppy Sofia a 10-month educational journey "tailor-made" for us. Thus, we began to get to know their professional method, very attentive to the dog's well-being, and the search for effective communication at the basis of every relationship. One of our wishes was to have a four-legged friend that could also be taken to work in a physiotherapy studio with us. Thanks to lessons calibrated on Sofia's gradual learning and on ours, we quickly came to share every moment of our lives with our dog! We were able to reconcile this journey with the hectic everyday life, supported by their competence, availability and patience! Now with these bases we will continue with pleasure the path undertaken! Thank you again!

Beautiful experience !!! How to get to know your dog and yourself, since animals are the mirror of our SOUL. I recommend it to everybody! Competence and professionalism are the hallmark of the course. I sincerely thank Graeme and Valentina for the opportunity offered to me.

Changing the mentality: this is what Graeme and Valentina helped me do to get to know, understand and form a brace with my dog. Now that the course is (with regret) over, I realize that Graeme and Valentina have given me the tools to continue to progress in my relationship with my dog. In this course I greatly appreciated the humanity and competence of Graeme and Valentina. Their teachings were personalized on the dog-the undersigned brace so that they allowed us to overcome some blocks of communication and understanding that arose during the training course. The most striking improvements came when I followed to the letter the teachings given, especially the less conventional ones. So I was able to create a unique bond with my dog, who is now an adult dog! I highly recommend this course to everyone: it will improve the life to you, your dog and, not small thing, to all the other members of the family.

Thanks to Graeme and Valentina and to this course I was able to create a much deeper bond between me and my dog. The work done in recent months has given its results and they are what I wanted to achieve since the beginning: to create a two-way direct line between me and her. Obviously the work won't end there, but I have the tools to continue working with her and improve our relationship. So I can only say THANK YOU ❤️ with all my heart. It was an excellent decision to take their course and a real pleasure to get to know them personally. I recommend this course to anyone who really wants to build a deep bond with their dog. ... I have just started taking the online course and am very happy with the way it is handled. I feel well followed: I can express any doubts that come to me so that I can be helped when needed. Unfortunately, when you attend seminars, the questions and doubts often come after practicing and you cannot always have the answers. So I highly recommend this online course. Graeme Sims and Valentina Teghillo are exquisite people! 👌

I agree with everything that Letizia said, also I am delighted to be part of this course. Graeme Sims and Valentina are great.

The course was a fantastic experience. Month after month, I was able to measure progress. Not only has my dog learned the basic elements of education and I have been able to understand her better but above all together we have improved our relationship and built the foundations for any future learning. We have arrived where I did not think was possible and now any goal seems achievable. Graeme and Valentina are very competent and extremely kind and helpful. With them everything became simple.

I attended one of their seminars years ago, but their teachings were the key to a totally different approach towards my dogs, more empathic, instinctive and aimed at their well-being. I highly recommend them for their professionalism, friendliness and humanity.

Thanks a lot to the great team we met!!!! Valentina Teghillo Graeme Sims You are incredible ..full of experience and curiosity.. The time was running  fast and was too short with you..we hope we will meet you very soon for another Adventure!!!

Fantastic experience with two equally magnificent people, full of experience and love for what they do ... grazieeee

Fantastic experience Graeme and Valentina are two exceptional people. Thanks for everything.

... I thank them because they have not spared themselves (until losing their voices) and because they have tried to satisfy the needs of all the participants ... first of all the dogs .... I thank all the participants because they made this meeting really interesting. A great desire to learn, a great desire to understand expressed in numerous questions and comments makes me think that perhaps the dog world is growing in the right direction: that of the welfare of the dog, not the answer at all costs but the right questions to be asked, that of  "you receive from the dog as much as you give". ... These two days have given me food for thought about how I can and I have to improve, they surprised me and conquered me in the dogs I saw and in the difficulties that we have analysed technically or not.

They made me look with the eyes of a shepherd at the qualities of the Border Collie.

Surely the meeting with other people who live the same emotions, the meeting with Graeme Sims, who remains an example of simple humanity addressed to the world of dogs was really BEAUTIFUL.

Personally this experience has made me happy, being able to be in the field near him, seeing how he works and talk to him as if we knew each other well. It was satisfying and fun.

I was reassured about how to handle situations where I felt inadequate.

Seeing dogs that are very different from mine helps me to add sensitivity to the perception of how the dog thinks. The comparison with other methods of work and thought are always useful and constructive.

I had the opportunity to finally work my dogs in the activity (sheepdog) for which they were originally designed. Both my dogs and I have learned many new things. We found ourselves on the same wavelength with Graeme Sims's approach and way of thinking and respecting. The goal is harmony between man and dog.

Meeting with experienced people face to face and with the other participants helps to improve one's own behavior and the relationship with the dog.

I will try to put into practice what I have learned: switch on the light!

There are always things to learn and it was great to see a professional like Graeme working live with dogs.

I have more confidence in the relationship with my dog and I have learned many things more than just interesting.

I learned new things, especially the body language and gestures to communicate with dogs. I liked the atmosphere that Mr. Sims was able to create in the group.

I understood what is meant by the phrase "Love Not Authority"! It is clear the relationship that this formula can create between the dog and its owner; moreover, even if only as a watcher you can observe the owners working with their dogs and learn from them mistakes and also from the positive actions that are taken when working with a particular dog.

I learned to know even more about the characteristics of my dog and its needs, so the things to do in order to make it live peacefully and to make the most of its capabilities.

Thanks for these two days, each moment will return as a beautiful experience and we'll go on with your teaching. Hoping to meet you again.

I understood better how Border Collies think. You also gave me some good advice that I can use in the future.