Empowerment Training: Training for Creativity, Persistence, Industriousness, Resilience & Behavioral Well-Being

Empowerment Training is a guide for professional animal trainers to promoting behavioral wellbeing in companion animals by conditioning for empowerment. It brings together a vast body of research on topics related to empowerment and general behavioral wellbeing, summarizing the research findings and providing practical rehabilitation strategies and tactics. It presents a triadic model of empowerment, characterizing empowerment by persistence/industriousness, creativity and resilience. It discusses how we can train for empowerment, rehabilitate disempowered companion animals and contribute to allowing the best possible experience in life.