My life has changed because I now have the relationship with my animals that I have always wanted. At last I can communicate to them what I want from them and can listen to them and hear them and their fears and their concerns and their "NOs". I understand them now and can show them about the world -that is a human-dominated world through which they must find their way- in a language that they understand. It is still work in progress but work I love doing and they do, too.
P.S.: As a teacher I know when teaching is good or bad. The form of teaching the world about communicating with animals and helping them, created by James French and his team, is outstandingly good. Period.

I cannot put into words the profound benefits on all levels this course has and continues to give me. I am so grateful to have found James, Shelley, Olga and Josh and the Trust Technique. It is a life changing practice to help people and animals and to help heal the planet. It supports reconnection ecology in a beautiful, kind and authentic way. It offers me a way to inform my painting practice through deeper connection experiences with animals and offers me a wonderful new platform for others to step in to. The online course are brilliantly put together and user friendly. The support and backup is unexpectedly personal and efficient. I cannot say enough in support of this practice. At another level the people who engage in the Trust Technique are part of a tribe that I want to belong to. James and Shelley your vision is profoundly important today. Thank you all from my heart.

This course is amazing. I have a dog reactive dog with whom I have tried everything over the last 3 years including behaviourists, counter conditioning, desensitization, other programs, the list goes on and on.
I found and enrolled in the TT Video Program in late February and our relationship has changed ( I have changed) profoundly. We are so healed as a team that I am now enrolled in the Practitioner Program . In only 3 months we have gone from not being able to walk in our neighbourhood and dog fights, to going anywhere we want together without concern. She even received her Canine Good Citizen Title through the American Kennel Club this week! Our relationship is what I been dreaming of and the Trust Technique was the answer we were searching for for our entire family. Thank you so much!!

It did change my life with my horses, cats, ducks and chicken ! I'm eager to learn more !

This video course is the best thing happened to me the last years and is definitely in the top list of the best things ever happened to me. When I first saw the videos with horses “sleeping” next to a human I thought to myself that I can never achieve that. Then I learned this really easy and beautiful technique and 2 days ago I had my first lay down session with 2 two years old “boys” I am taking care of. It was such an amazing session and the whole herd went so peaceful... unbelievable. This technique not just helps the animals but it helps the humans as well. I could route back my anxiety with the horses to my childhood and get peaceful with it. And I could get peaceful with many other issues going on in my life currently and find new ways to look at them and solve them. I highly recommend this video course to everyone, even without animals.

I have just gone through the new videos and my plan is to restart the entire video course! It is so essential to go back and back and back.... 😉

I am so happy to be able to learn this valuable work between humans and animals.
It's the key to people, animals, relationships of both on a deep level.
Thank you both James and Shelley

I am so glad and grateful that I came across James and Shelly's Trust Technique.
This is the key to working on a deeper level with people and their animals.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for letting me experience this.

I am feeling so privileged to have completed the Trust Technique video course. I have seen so many beautiful transformation and exchanges of love and trust between animals and people who really care. It is a gift which deserves the "pass it forward" journey! Imagine the world without cruelty amongst animals from humans, just peace and trust?

this is one of the most important teachings I have ever encountered. Thank you for following your gift and sharing it with everyone, as we all have access to what you are teaching. It is called being in the world as a true human. It is also the only way we can change anything on this earth, for ourselves and the animals around us

Dear James,
I am "only" 28% complete, and in following the suggested order, am just now watching "Rescue Dogs - Cadence".
Not sure I can quite define how much the Trust Technique has already affected me and my dogs.
The original intention of purchasing the TT was to apply this with my 5-year-old mare that will be returning to me in June... although practicing with my dogs has revealed an astounding result.
There are times while watching your videos, and listening to your words, I am so deeply moved that I stop and sit with this deep heartfelt emotion.
The TT can be so easy to apply that I felt doubt at first while doing it until my dogs showed me it was indeed working.
Thank you so much, James. The TT has brought me a sense of peace and indubitably this will have the same effect on my beautiful mare Journi when she returns soon.
You are such a gift to share your wisdom with us! If anyone is doubting the commitment, I was hesitant at first but now am undoubtedly sure of this gift that Journi, my dogs, and myself will share for a lifetime! The TT for many reasons has touched my heart deeply. Thank you as well for all the animals you have assisted in finding peace...

This video course is a real treasure; to me it's a lesson on patience, dedication, trust and love.
It has been such a relief for me to see that people and animals can actually have this amazing connection, and that there are people who help animals in the most beautiful ways.
Having embarked on that journey of practicing being present, I find watching the videos incredibly motivating, since all the animals letting go of old stuff are great company 🙂
I am also grateful for the gentle, positive way in which James presents the cases of the animals who died.
Thank you for the course, it has really opened up a whole new world for me.

Dear James and Shelley,
Thank you very much for enabling those of us who live far away to take this extraordinary online course. I've learned much, not only about regarding, respecting, and consciously creating peace and building trust with the animals I am responsible for, but also myself, and other humans too. This course has enriched my life, my soul, and my heart immeasurably. I had a feeling when I enrolled for this course that it would be for me, a learning process far beyond the physical and mental and important to partake in - it is also a spiritual one. I wished I'd had this knowledge and understanding from day one of my life on planet earth, but as my lovely husband reflected back to me when I shared that thought with him - "the teacher appears when the student is ready". To learn this language between being and being, no matter our physical form is fantastic and is making the world a better place for all. Thank you from the deepest parts of my heart and soul - this has been an utterly wonderful experience.

I have found the video course to be invaluable. I stumbled across the Trust Technique at a time in my life where I had worked very much on my own mindfulness and this seemed to be the final piece of a puzzle that very much brought all my past experiences with both my animals and myself together. I am a veterinary nurse and have also worked as a reward based trainer in the past. I have owned dogs and cats and have always been interested in behaviour and training. Having come up against some 'restrictions' and concerned how my animals seemed to be becoming more 'wired' using reward based training I looked elsewhere for alternative theories and methods. Coming to my own conclusions that over stimulation (especially with youngsters) was causing many of the behavioural problems seen in dogs it was a real eye opener to see how using the present moment could be used to further help to calm and ultimately resolve behavioural problems. I have seen dramatic results using the trust technique not only in my own animals but also in dogs that I have dealt with in the shelter where I currently work.
I really do hope this way of working becomes more mainstream. It is an invaluable tool to have. Thank you so much.

What a wonderful tool to connect and be with animals. I`ve already had so many touching moments with the horses in the shelter I am working as a volunteer. They love being in the Present Moment and I love sharing this moment with them. It makes me immensely happy. Thank you!

This course is an inspiration for a kinder, gentler way of working with animals.
It's OK to have patience and to work according to the animal's timing. It seems to me that this is also a good way to work with kids--or with any traumatized person or pet.
Now to have patience with myself as I practice the present moment.

Dear James and Shelley:
Many years have elapsed since, in a single and firm act of volition, I decided to drastically quit smoking, drinking alcohol and eating the product of the slaying of innocent animals… I have to accept the fact that it was not an easy turn, but that single decision strengthened my will power as I wouldn’t even dream possible. The fact is that since then, April, 1966, I have not eaten any part of murdered animals, I have not had a single shot of Scotch, nor have I smoked a single cigarette. Through that simple act I firmly took my first step on the narrow Path that takes us to the Eternal Present. In my trajectory I found Meditation, Yoga, Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, Great Universal Brotherhood, Occultism, Dianetics, etc… trips to India, Gurus, Ashrams, Sadhanas, and on, and on. Many years later I came to the conclusion that all those Schools, Teachings and Gurus have a common factor: The search of that Light mentioned in each one of them. The ultimate goal is always the same, even if they give different definitions and directions. Most of them offer the “one and only way” to reach the Eternal Home while very few accepts that “all roads lead to Rome”. Each offers a direct ticket to the end point, as long as you submit to their norms, sometimes unreachable and many say the destination is only attained after death, because no one is accepted in Paradise while wearing the fleshly costume… (their idea of hell and heaven drastically rejects the fact that we carry both of them as a portable item and either one is readily attainable depending of our state of consciousness).
In my 82 years on this Planet Earth I never heard such a simple way to explain, and prove, their simple steps to reach “the present moment”, “the HERE AND NOW”, the Divine State of Consciousness that opens the door to the other dimensions.
I have only finished Section 2 of the Trust Technique Video Course, and I have been able to observe not only the perfect response of so many types of animal to your silent command, but I have also seen the easy it is for you to teach other people, real profanes of the subject, the technique you use to enter the silent state which is the way all animals, and maybe plants, communicate with each other.
All those theories that state that “All is One” are clearly seen throughout your videos… but the best part of it all is that now it is so easy to be Here and Now… and this is not only I who can practice the Trust Technique but its doors are open to anyone who is really interested and ready to works for it .
To put it in few words, this Technique is one of the greatest discoveries of our times, because this wonderful practice has been delivered to the world so the people of good feelings can help not only those beings so called irrational animals, but also the practitioner is helped way beyond his own comprehension.
What do I think of it?
Three qualifying adjectives
1.- Enlightening
2.- Awakening
3.- Extraordinary
Thank you for sharing the blessings you have received!

Federico Landaeta

Brilliant course. It has changed my life for the better.

Oh my goodness, this is the best website ever! James is so endlessly patient with his presentation of information. He reminds me of Mister Rogers. High praise! The information is presented so simply. I love watching all the animals and how they each interact with this technique. It is so beautiful and informative. I love the real tough animals. It is so amazing to watch them go all the way through the process, and that the animals are participating. Thank you so very much for all that your organization does for these animals and the non-profits. Thank you also for making this available. Forget the News, the world is truly becoming miraculous!

The first online course confirmed my motivation for my new choice of life helping animals.
I was often moved by the videos : Ares the Lion, Bella, the bears and the last one with the horse in Mane Chance sanctuary (beautiful !).
The session that seemed very long to me, compared to others, was the one with the puddle and the vaccum cleaner !!
I didn't understand all the english, especially at Hope Pastures because of the accent and all the noise behind.
I have received my camera GoPro and can't wait to start the course in June, hopping my english will be good enough !

Adrianne (from France)