about us

Mission Statement

Our mission to provide a safe and accepting place for all dog lovers to come and learn how to work with their dogs and play fun dog sports! Through a wide selection of training classes, private lessons and events we hope to help bring dog sports and the joy of dog training to all parts of our dog loving community in Colorado!

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Our Vision

We dream of having a large indoor dog training facility that can facilitate all aspects of our dog training world! Allowing teams and individuals from all over to enjoy training and competition with other dog enthusiasts.

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Our Values

Communication is Key!

We are committed to ensuring that every client feels understood, respected and listened by allowing our clients to communicate openly with us. We will take everything to heart and find ways to modify any policies or procedures that will increase our ability to communicate and listen.​

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Diversity and Inclusion are Crucial!

We will always be respectful and inclusive of diverse identities by honoring and respecting our individual clients. We will not discriminate against any person based on gender identity, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, or disability. We will refer to all of our clients by their indicated names and pronouns. We will be respectful of accommodations anyone may need to feel comfortable in our space as we believe that dog training should be accessible to everyone, of any ability.

 

Open Learning Environment!

Our learning environment will be accessible to everyone by making sure our space is ADA compliant and accessible to all. We will work hard to provide multiple forms of learning for the material presented in class​. We want everyone to feel safe in our space​ and we will take necessary action to prevent hateful or disrespectful speech in our classes. ​

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Strong Community!

We will support our community and the people who live here by providing exposure to dog training and sports, as well as providing opportunities to get involved. We will work with various community partners to accomplish a number of goals, including, fundraising for local charities, community events, and providing scholarships for training opportunities. 

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Our Training Philosophy

We truly believe that dog training is about strengthening your relationship with your dog through trust, mutual respect and communication. We enjoy dog training because it connects us with our dogs through a deeper friendship. The flagstone of Beyond Elevation is to continually assess, enrich and build upon this amazing relationship with our dogs through mutually enjoyed activities.

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We base our training on evidence-based science and what each dog is telling us through open communication. Our goal is for our methods to work on the widest range of dogs possible. We try to use the "first, do not harm" commitment to work along side our dogs instead of against them by prioritizing positive emotional states for both the dog and human. We believe that communication is the cornerstone of all learning and we strive to be the most effective communicators with our clients while we also teach our clients how to communicate with each other.​

 

We guide our training by the LIMA model, which stands for Least Invasive, Minimally Aversive. This model refers to the Humane Hierarchy, proposed by Susan G. Friedman.

“The commitment to using the most positive, least intrusive, effective interventions allows us to think before we act, so that we make choices about the means by which we accomplish our behavior goals. In this way, we can be both effective and humane. This is the minimum standard of care we should stretch to meet on behalf of the welfare of learners and caregivers alike.”

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