I'm only 8% through this course so far but I am absolutely loving it. I can't wait to get on to the practitioners course as doing this has so told me that that is what I should've been doing as a career all my life. Still, it's never too late to start doing what you love..... even though I'm very nearly 70.
I just hope that not too many people learn how to do this for themselves or I'll be redundant before I've qualified!! :))

75% way through and just watched bears of Asia. I had seen a documentary on this awful practise some years ago. It was uplifting to watch James with the bears.

Hi everyone, well, I have done it just purchased my TTVC Yawooo, so excited, and here I go, a journey of a lifetime.

I've had dogs all my life, and worked with them Professionaly for the last twenty puls years. This Course has given me new insight, and a new appreciation for HOW we can comunicate.

I would love to take the Practitioner's Course when I complete the rest of the Trust Technique.

Thank you for the work you do with Sancuaries, and teaching the staff this Technique so they can apply it to help all the animals in their care.

Thank you for sharing!

Trust Technique really appealed to me because of its gentle and peaceful approach to being with animals. I had long felt at odds with many conventional animal training methods so this looked just the ticket. And it is! I am just about to complete the online video course, but I want to watch the videos all again! I have started to use the TT with our four dogs and my horse over the last few weeks and subtle changes have already begun to show. Our dogs can be particularly excitable. They're all related as well so the pack bond is strong! Our Mummy dog visibly relaxed when she realised she doesn't have the burden of care for the entire family unit, it was so magical. She has become more playful with us, and not just her two babies. She actively seeks us out for "together time" instead of sitting apart from us. Her brother has grown in confidence too and no longer lets the male pup push him around; there is a growing respect between the two of them. It's making outings tranquil and more enjoyable too. We are all more relaxed and gentler with our communications to each other on a human level as well! We all just love it! So happy to have discovered TT. It has answered all my animal concerns. Thank you James and Shelley.

I have only just begun the video cause and so far I have found it mesmerising. Very meditative and relaxing. Thank you James.

I love it 😉 I am so impressed by James clarity, lucidity and gentleness. Thank you. I am going on to build up a great relationship with my horse.

I cannot wait to do the course. I have 22 horses and heaps of other animals that would benefit and include myself. Thanks for Sharing.

I have just started this program and have been mesmerized with the technique. Because of changes in my life right now, moving to a new place, I've had to put the course on hold for a bit. But I am very anxious to get back to it and intend to go all the way, perhaps even into the practitioner program. The work that James and Shelley do is amazing, and the courses are very easy to use and follow. I found out about this technique and program from a friend who went thru the program, and from the moment I watched the first messages of trust, I was hooked. This program is truly a gift!

What an incredibly beautiful technique to learn and practice. What a gift. Thank you

My doggle, Sophie, is a rescue and incredibly sensitive. I've tried to work with several trainers but I am not comfortable with the pack leader/dominant type of training. It just feels wrong to me, especially with this sweet dog (not to mention, it has backfired on us both). I was praying for a miracle to help me with her, and I don't even remember at this point how I found the Trust Technique...but I found it.
I love this way of working with Sophie, and of course, me!

It is a beautiful technique, and it brings results in a gentle and respectful way for my dog.

Thank you, James and Shelley, for creating this system and making it available to us!

I love the trust Technique and have used it for years with all animals. It is so awe-inspiring to have troubled horses lay down and finally be able to relax. What a gift!

Thank you James,

Margaret Cruise

It is really amazing to me what we can achieve when we practice the present moment.
Yesterday I worked with my cat and to day also with my horse.
First story about my cat:
As i wrote already my cat has ben injured and I just can´t get her to a doctor in a cave and car. So I bought a really big one for dogs and where she can´t get more injuries. I tried to get in the present moment just to help her not getting so wild. But it was so difficult for me to came down my self. And it happened that she some how was able to open the zipper of the cave and all of a sudden she was next to me in the car. And also down at my feet. Uh I had to turn aside it was too dangerous to keep on driving. Then I calmed down myself and told her, listen this was just a little ride and we will go home now. At this moment I stoped thinking and she sat on my lap and looked out of the window and we drove home like that. And at home after she went outside and had something to eat she went asleep in her scratch tree and I saw her back leg in firmly. Then I again practiced the PM and then I started to do feldenkrais (I learned thin in swisserland during one year of teaching) and I realized that also when I do feldenkrais with animals I have to get into the PM. And my cat started to release her pain und also her leg. So with the PM I was able not only to help her with her leg I could also help her to release her drama, when she was put on the street as a baby and all alone. Today I gave her feldenkrais again starting with the PM. And as I learned from the course I had to prove my thoughts. Wich was also not so easy. And I found out when it is a thought and when I started with thinking about a thought.
So next my horse:
Anton, he is stressed I think, because it must be stressful when you always look for food, no. That means he checks my pockets. And it not nice to be pushed just because he asks for a goody. So I said to my self why not try the PM and see what happens. It took me at least 20 min. He went back and forth he turned to the other horses and banged against the door auf our cleaning area. But once in a while he come towards me and asked again for a goody. I gentle pushed him aside. And he went away. I had to go back to the PM every time he came and went. But the interesting to me was that his ears always turned to me. And after some work he came on my side stayed there nice and quite without pushing me. I waited for a minute. I thought too long is not good. Just to keep this good moment for him. I just took the holster put it over his head, he was still standing and not bothering. And for my first time he went back with me to his place in the stable passing two haysacks and not one look to the hay. I could easily lead him on a lead rope. I was so happy and thankful. And then you won´t beliefe it all the other horses except the leader where sleeping on the ground. I though could that be that these horses enjoyed also what I did with mine?
And coming home I worked again with my cat. It is so wonderful to see and understand their questions and thoughts.
I found out when my cat tells me - please stroke me - and when she doesn´t want it. Getting to know that I also learned through the lessons with James when I should go back to the PM and leave the cat without stroking and when she starts asking for a stroke. And at the end she asked me to put my hand under her head and she let go and relaxed stretching her legs and yarning. And on the pic you can see that her leg is no more firmly tightened. I can only post one pic but next time you get the nice one of my horse. Because after I did the PM with him he also went back and relaxed.
Just wonder full. Thanks for sharing.

The trust technique has really opened my eyes how you can interact with animals on a deep level that does not include ideas of dominance and leader. My relationship with our dog has changed into mutual respect and understanding. I now see her as a being with species specific needs and little problems have relaxed. Thank you James and Shelley for teaching all animal lovers another way. And thank you very much for your generosity!

I have actually two testimonials.
1. my horse Anton. He was always testing me when I wanted to get his front hoof. And since I started to practice the present moment it changed a lot. Almost 9 out of 10 times he just lifts the hoof by him self. I just need to point at the leg and ask him if it is OK to take it and clean it.

2. my cat Lilli. She was a baby cat when she was found on the street alone by her self. A family took her home to Austria and there she stayed for one year. And then they had to give her away as their daughter became allergic to the cat. There are two subjects I am working on.
The first is her wilderness as she sometimes gets so exited on what ever that she just scratches me to hard.
and the second is, that she gets bitten by other cats quite often and the first time she didn´t allow me to get close to her at all. And just today she was injured again. And now she lets me get closer and closer. She also put her had into my palm of my hand. And then I started to practice the present moment after she wanted to lay on a different place. And it was so good to see her relaxing and stretching. Wanderful.

Yesterday, I applied James' s practice, delivering a message of love to my cherished dog, Yoghio, I was so much at pain to put to sleep a year ago. Yoghio was fifteen years old with generalized cancer of the bowels and under sedation. Yoghio was a black labrador type mixed with French Hound and Bas Rouge (sheperd). He was a wonderful companion very noble in temper and I had him with me since a puppy.
Well, I don't what to make of it but he visited me in my sleep: unmistakably him but with the brilliant black robe of his teens and without the white moustache of his later days. A pure moment of joy!

I am presently following the video course dealing with the necessity to work at the pace of the animal. My English is not that fluent that I can catch every bit of the verbal interchange. But thanks to the videos I get the overall feeling of what is being demonstrated plus the pleasure to watch how responsive to the technique the animals are.

Hi Team, I am beginning the Course and enjoy it! It is also very emotional.
I do practice too : today with a fly, that I rescued from yesterday drowning in my dogs' bowl of water. Today, the fly doesn't escape when I'm approching it and comes down on my hand to eat. AC helps too. Thanks a lot for sharing this course with me, as a member.
Bye, I have some more videos and tutorials to work an 🙂 Kind regars, Benedicte.

I thought this course would teach me about animals. But James French does so much more. He teaches us how to live with compassion and understanding with all scient beings. Be prepared to embark on a surprising journey of self discovery and healing to our world . Amazing work....

As a human being, I'm deeply touched by the message of hope this course gives: that loving kindness works, that it's enough, we don't need the harsh corrections. As a long-time animal lover, meditator and craniosacral therapist, I'm impressed by the way this course finds a way to extract the basics of the human-animal relationship that leads to trust, healing and learning, so that other people can obtain results through practicing simple steps. As a scientist, I'm impressed by the value of the documentation these videos represent, in so many different areas - trauma, mindfulness, connection, sensitivity, behaviour.... It's amazing. As a vet, I'm excited by its potential to heal chronic disorders where classical approaches fail. Thank you, thank you, thank you. And congratulations with a wonderful course!