Kemble's Field
Clicker Training and Dog Handler Skills Spring Camp - 27th April to 1st May 2026
Clicker Training and Dog Handler Skills Spring Camp - 27th April to 1st May 2026
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Clean up your handling skills and develop a better approach to your dog training at our Clicker Training and Dog Handler Skills Spring Camp.
Are your handling skills holding your dog’s training back? While much of the focus is placed on what our dogs are learning in their training classes, a great deal of the successes in training, in competitions, and when working in the field, can be attributed to our training and handling methods.
This five-day camp will help you get your dog training off to the best possible start in 2026. By focusing mainly on you, the handler, we will look to develop your clicker training skills, how you manage yourself and equipment during training and how you communicate what you want to your dog - all of which will improve the quality and reliability of your dog's behaviours.
Our Clicker Training and Dog Handler Skills Spring Camp, led by Helen, is suitable for:
- All dog trainers who would like to develop their clicker training skills.
- All breeds of dog, all ages (including puppies) and all abilities.
- Handlers of all levels - whether you have just started training with your first dog for fun, or are a professional dog training instructor.
- Dog trainers involved in all dog training activities (e.g. agility, showing, gundogs, heelwork to music, obedience, rally, scentwork, hoopers, mantrailing, and more).
Our Clicker Training and Dog Handler Skills Spring Camp will cover topics including:
- Clicker training
- Reinforcement management
- Drive and motivation
- Cue delivery
- Cue selection
- Temporary cues, including the benefits of changing cues and when to, how to and why to
- Targets
- Chains and sequences
- Shaping behaviour
- Isolation of cues
- Troubleshooting and how to manage errors
- How to build behaviour and create crisp and clean responses to cues
The exercises will be set to meet the needs of the participants. It will be a fun task-based programme of learning for you and your dog.
FAQs
What shall I bring for my dog?
Please bring with you a large quantity of high value treats. Something that your dog would not normally have as a meal, e.g cheese, sausage, cooked heart, liver, dried fish, garlic sausage, or chicken. Please chop a portion quite big that will easily be found in the grass.
You will also need a clicker, flat collar and 6ft long training lead, a limited slip lead, whistle, tug type toy or ball on a rope, standard dummy, treat bag (please no plastic bags in your pockets). If you have been using a target then please bring this.
A coat for your dog at rest time might be useful and a towel to dry them just in case we get to water work or it is raining. In the summer there is limited shade so you will need to bring something to cover the car although the dogs will not be expected to spend long periods in there.
What will I need for me?
You will need comfortable clothes and shoes. Please keep the weather in mind and bring layers if you think you might get cold, or if it is raining.
Refreshments will be provided throughout the day, but you will need to bring your own lunch if it’s an all-day event. You will be able to use our kitchen facilities, including a microwave, toaster and fridge.
I can no longer attend, what shall I do?
Please email hello@kemblesfield.co.uk as soon as you are aware you will be unable to make it. If you are cancelling on the day, please contact your instructor Helen (as well as emailing) on 07947 043330.
Please familiarise yourself with our cancellation policies before booking they can be found here: Terms of service
How do I get there?
Directions to Kemble's Field, Charlton, Worcestershire, WR10 3LQ.
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The postcode does not take you right to the door so please read the directions before setting off.
Follow Ryden Lane from the village of Charlton, drive past Whitehouse Farm on the left, through the national speed limit sign on the right-hand side, and then take the first track on the left. You will see a sign for Kemble's Field. Drive down this track to the end and the entrance to the field is on the right-hand side. If you missed the track and reached the purple house you have gone too far, turn round and retrace your steps until you reach a track on the right-hand side, turn right here.
If you arrive early, the gate might still be locked. Please wait in the lane for your instructor to arrive.
Otherwise, please drive through the gates (and if they are closed, please close them again behind you) and park in the car park outside the building on the right.
Toilet facilities are in the building and will be open on arrival.
What do I do when I arrive?
After you have parked your vehicle, please come into the barn initially without your dog.
If it is a warm day, please cover your car first and open any doors / windows to ensure your dog is both secure but has ventilation. Dogs will not be expected to stay / wait in cars if it is hot and dangerous for them to do so.
If you have had a long journey, you are welcome to toilet your dog before coming into the barn. Please keep them on a lead as other training sessions might be in progress and keep to the edges of the field.
You MUST pick up all of your dog’s poo please, which must be bagged and put into the bins provided. Please supply your own poo bags and do not put any unbagged poo directly in the bin.
About Helen Phillips
Your host Helen Phillips is the owner of Kemble's Field and Clicker Gundog, author of the popular ‘Clicker Gundog’ Training Book, co-founder of the Gundog Trainers Academy Ltd, a qualified teacher and Animal Training Instructor with the ABTC, and owner of Cotswold Dawn Hungarian Vizslas.
Helen has been shooting and working dogs in the field for over thirty years and has been breeding Hungarian Vizslas since 1998. Having owned a variety of breeds from crosses, to Spaniels and HPRs, Helen has an extensive understanding of living with and working with hunting dogs.
Currently, Helen owns Vizslas, Jack and Dibble, and English Springer Spaniels, Teal, Wren and Lark. All the dogs work in a variety of roles on the shoot from beating, picking up to partner on the peg.
Together with her husband Chris, Helen manages the small shoot at Kemble's Field. Previously, Helen was involved in the organisation and running of a small syndicate shoot in Worcestershire, she has also been responsible for running varied types of beating lines and has worked her own dogs on different types of shoots from large commercial shoots to rough shooting days.
Helen has also achieved the Kennel Club Working Gundog Certificate on Dummies and on Game with both Vizlas and Springer Spaniels. Helen has competed in working tests and participates in grouse counting.
