THE RIGHT PACK: Understanding Your Dog's Social Personality

About the Seminar

The Right Pack is an immersive, hands-on educational experience designed to help you truly understand who your dog is,  their personality, their social needs, and which dogs they genuinely thrive with.

This is not a general training course. Over four sessions (two online and two in person), you and your dog will go through a personalised process: from a detailed personality assessment before the event, to carefully matched group walks in a real-world outdoor setting in London.

Rather than applying one-size-fits-all socialisation rules, this experience invites you to observe, understand and support your dog as an individual,  and to see what respectful, well-matched canine socialisation actually looks like in practice.

You will leave with a full written personality profile of your dog, a better understanding of how to read them in social situations, and practical tools for your daily life together.

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Who Is This Seminar For?

This seminar is open to:

Dog guardians who want to truly understand their dog's unique personality, receive a complete individual assessment, and get real support on how to socialise them in a way that allows them to thrive,  not by pushing them into situations that stress, overwhelm or put them at risk, but by finding the right dogs, the right environments, and the right approach for who they actually are.

Canine professionals who want to learn how to create genuinely harmonious social groups — understanding how to match dogs based on personality, communication style and individual needs, so that every group they build is safe, balanced and positive for every dog in it.

Participants may attend:

With their dog, as part of one of the selected dogs that will also be part of social groups. Places are very limited and require a prior application and assessment.

As observers and learners, without bringing a dog. This option is particularly valuable for professionals who want to apply this knowledge directly in their work.

You do not need to be a professional to attend. This seminar is accessible to guardians and highly valuable for professionals.

What You Will Receive

A full written personality profile of your dog, developed from pre-event videos and questionnaire, shared with you before the in-person days.

A personalised group match, placing your dog with the companions that genuinely suit them.

Practical daily life advice tailored specifically to your dog.

A Certificate of Attendance issued by the Respectful Canine Association.

Professionals attending as observers will receive a Certificate in Canine Social Profiling & Ethical Group Dynamics.

What You Will Learn

How to identify your dog's social personality and what it means for their daily life and interactions.

What genuine, respectful canine socialisation looks like, and how to tell the difference between a dog who is coping and a dog who is truly thriving.

How to choose the right dogs, environments and situations for your dog to socialise in.

How to read canine communication in real-time group situations, and what it is telling you.

When to step in during a group interaction, and when stepping back is the right choice.

How to apply this understanding in your daily walks, your professional groups, or the way you support the families you work with.

Teaching Approach

Paula and Alicia's approach is rooted in individual observation. Before the event, each dog's guardian completes a detailed questionnaire and submits videos, which the educators use to build a full picture of each dog's personality, history, emotional style and social preferences.

Their work draws on ethological foundations and respectful canine education, not prescriptive techniques or quick fixes. The goal is to build genuine understanding, so that guardians and professionals can make better, more informed decisions for the dogs in their care.

Paula and Alicia are the educators behind Perros y Humanos en Desarrollo (gruposdesarrollomadrid.com), a collaborative project focused on ethical canine socialisation and education, with an established online academy and years of experience running real-world social groups in Spain.

Why This Seminar Is Different

Your dog receives an individual personality assessment before the event, this is not a generic activity where any dog joins any group.

Groups are built with intention, matching dogs by personality, communication style and individual needs, not by who signed up first.

Learning happens in real outdoor environments, in real social situations, not in controlled or artificial settings.

Both guardians and professionals leave with practical, applicable knowledge they can use immediately.

The focus throughout is on understanding and wellbeing; not performance, obedience or compliance.

Certification

All participants will receive a Certificate of Attendance issued by the Respectful Canine Association.

Professionals attending as observers will receive a Certificate in Canine Social Profiling & Ethical Group Dynamics, which may be considered continuing professional education.

Tax deductibility depends on individual circumstances and local regulations.

Practical Information

📍 Location: NW London (exact venue to be confirmed) 

📅 Online sessions: Monday 22 & Wednesday 24 September 2026 (1.5 hours each, live via video call) 

📅 In-person days: Saturday 26 & Sunday 27 September 2026 

🎓 Format: Blended  (online preparation sessions + in-person experience) 

👥 Places: Very limited. 12 dogs maximum / 5 observer places 

🌐 Languages: English and Spanish with live English interpretation 

🔴 RCA Members benefit from reduced ticket prices

Investment

Guardian + Dog (full programme including online sessions): Early Bird £135 | Full price £150 Observer / Professional (no dog): Early Bird £90 | Full price £100

Early Bird rates are available during May only. 

RCA Members receive a 15% discount on all RCA seminars. Discounts are not cumulative.