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PROFESSIONAL COURSE

Unlocking Resilience: The Big Course

PROFESSIONAL COURSE

Unlocking Resiliency: The Big Course

It’s all in one place.

Everything is connected. It’s difficult to truly understand how the many different aspects of behavior fit together without spending a lot of time with the material. That’s why this course exists – to take all the different pieces of information related to stress and resilience and put them all into one cohesive, in-depth narrative. This one course will cover everything you need to know about the impacts of stress and how we can cultivate the development of resilience in our animals. I am SO excited to teach this course – and I know you’ll love it too!

Take a deep dive into the following topics:

  • Welfare and well-being – what do animals need to thrive?
  • The biology of behavior – evolution, neurobiology, genetics
  • The physiology of stress
  • The impacts of stress
  • Emotion
  • Cognition
  • Why some animals are more affected by stress than others
  • Preventing and mitigating stress
  • Building resilience and stress coping
  • Emotional/mental health in animals

This course includes:

  • 16+ hours of live lecture (it will also be recorded)
  • 16 hours of live discussion and applied activities with Dr. Spaulding  (full students only)
  •  Homework assignments (full students only)
    • Previous students report spending 3 – 4 hours a week on the course (including attending lecture and discussion).
  • Access to the Science Matters Facebook group
  • Certificate of Completion and logo for your marketing materials (for full students, upon succesful course completion)
  • 21 CEUs from CCPDT and 25 CEUs from IAABC for full students
  • 16 CEUs from CCPDT and IAABC for auditors
  • Course access for 18 months as an auditor. If you would like to retake the course as a full student within 18 months, you just need to pay the difference between the full student and auditor price. The course is updated every six months.
  • Want to know more? Check out a partial copy of the course syllabus here.

 

Get the full picture and completely change your approach to training and behavior modification. You’ll be glad you did!

FREE informational sessions:

  • Wednesday, August 14th at 12 pm ET
  • Ask questions about the course – content, set up, coursework or any other questions you have!
  • Ask questions about stress, resiliency, emotion
  • 30 minutes – drop in sessions. Come for the whole thing or only part of the session. There will be a short presentation about the course and the content at the start of each session.
  • No registration necessary

Zoom info for informational sessions:

Join Zoom Meeting

Meeting ID: 872 7685 1383
Passcode: 749523

Course details

 
How long we’ll hang out

16 weeks

What we’ll do
  • Weekly live sessions
  • Lecture, discussion, interactive application activities & short in-class assignments
  • Additional assignments to cement your knowledge & gain your CEUs
 
CEUs

CCPDT – 21 for full students, 16 for auditors; IAABC  – 25 for full students, 16 for auditors

Your tuition

$1260* for full students; payment plans available, 6 monthly payments of $210

$780 for auditors

*Discounts available for Research Bites members.

Course schedule
  • The next course is scheduled for February 2025, with classes running on Wednesday evenings. Exact start date will be finalized by early December, 2024.
  • Lectures – Wednesday at 6:30 pm ET (also recorded) 
  • Discussion – Wednesdays at 7:30 pm ET (full students only, live attendance required) 
  • ***Note that there is a time zone change in the US on March 9th which may change the course time for international students. To convert to your time zone click here for August, September, and October and here for November and December.

We believe everyone should have access to quality education. Therefore, we have a limited amount of funds available for students who truly cannot afford to pay full price for this course. If you’d like more information on scholarships, please e-mail sciencerocks@sciencemattersllc.com.