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Welcome to the Fundamentals of Dog Grooming Resource Center

Below you will find links to all of the slideshows as well as the supplemental workbook. 

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Click on the image to bring up the slideshow. 

Please reach out to me at stephenie@meditativegroomer.com

Week 1

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Foundations of Grooming Safety & Model Dogs

Week 2

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Hands on with model dogs

Week 3

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Discovering Focus
Systems, Safety, and Self-Advocacy in Dog Grooming

Week 4

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Unleashing Your Best
Navigating Pet Grooming with Neurodiversity

Week 5

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Puppies & Hoomans
A Groomer’s Guide to Defeating Difficult Clients

Week 6

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Improving Communication in the Workplace

Conversations to bring the neurodivergent

and neurotypical brains together

Week 7

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Root to Response Part 1

  • Understanding why behavior happens

  • Behavior starts long before the grooming table

  • We cannot change what we do not understand

Week 8

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Root to Response Part 2

• Practice identifying early stress signals in real grooming scenarios
• Determine a dog’s state: thinking, approaching threshold, or reacting
• Analyze the behavior stack (environment, handling, physical, breed, stress)
• Track how behavior changes over time, not just in one moment
• Recognize the moments that lead to escalation
• Apply observation skills to make better handling decisions in real time

Week 9

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Root to Response Part 2

• Practice identifying early stress signals in real grooming scenarios
• Determine a dog’s state: thinking, approaching threshold, or reacting
• Analyze the behavior stack (environment, handling, physical, breed, stress)
• Track how behavior changes over time, not just in one moment
• Recognize the moments that lead to escalation
• Apply observation skills to make better handling decisions in real time

Week 10

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🐾 Final Class: Live Dogs

This is our last class—everything comes together.

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You will:

  • Observe real dogs

  • Read body language

  • Identify early stress signals

  • Practice safe handling

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👉 Shift from knowing → doing

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📍 Location

CLC Grayslake Campus
Building E – Room E118

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  • Enter from Brae Loch Road

  • Park in Lot 9

  • Follow maps below to the classroom

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⏰ Schedule

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  • 10:00 – 10:10 Arrival

  • 🐶 10:10 – 10:35 Dog 1

  • 🐶 10:35 – 11:00 Dog 2

  • ☕ 11:00 – 11:15 Break

  • 🐶 11:15 – 11:40 Dog 3

  • 11:40 – 12:00 Wrap-up

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⚠️ Expectations

  • Stay calm and move slowly

  • Observe before acting

  • Follow instructions before interacting

  • Do not crowd or overwhelm the dog

🧡 Bring

  • Notebook/workbook

  • Something to write with

Workbook 

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Foundations of Dog Grooming

10-Week Course Workbook

Model Dog–Based Learning • Safety-First • No Live Animal Requirement

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