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Beneath Behavior:

Becoming Brilliant Partners With Your Dog

Workshop Experience with Kathy Kawalec

A dog mom's guide to understand your dog’s true nature and grow trust, cooperation, and real-life harmony.

Watch the Workshop Replay for Free until July 1st!

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You're Here For A Reason...

Maybe your dog is anxious or reactive. Maybe things look okay on the outside, but something feels off. Maybe you’ve done the training, the socializing, the setups -- and you’re still not getting what you hoped for.
Or, maybe you want to get started right and avoid all of that in the first place.

Somewhere inside, you already know: this isn’t just about behavior.
It’s about relationship.


Brilliant Partners Academy offers a complete lifestyle shift, grounded in neuroscience, social intelligence, and real-life experience, to help you build a relationship that works for both of you.

Welcome to a whole new way of living and growing with your dog.

Let's Get Started!

Use the links in each step to scroll down this page to that section

Step 1: Get Your Dog’s Personalized Archetype Profile (click here)

Step 2. Listen to the Companion Audio Mini-Course (click here)

Step 3: Save the Date and Attend the Live Workshop (or Replay) (click here)

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1. Get Your Dog's Personalized Archetype Profile

Personalized Dog Archetype Profile Report
Your personalized report offers a whole-dog guide to your dog’s unique patterns, sensitivities, strengths, needs, stress responses, and natural gifts. Use it as a living reference as you deepen your understanding of your dog.

The Dog Archetype Quiz
Take the quiz to discover your dog’s primary and secondary archetypes. Your responses will create your personalized Dog Archetype Profile Report. Your custom report will be sent to your email inbox a few minutes after you submit the quiz.

Take the Personality Archetype Assessment Quiz Below

IMPORTANT NOTES:

  1. If you have multiple dogs, complete and submit a new quiz for each dog. Please refresh/reload the page after each dog to reset the quiz below.
  2. Please go to your email inbox and download your report before starting the quiz for your next dog. 
 

2. Listen to the Companion Audio Mini-Course

Understand Your Dog More Deeply
This audio course helps you explore why behavior-first approaches can feel incomplete and how your dog’s archetype can change the way you see them. Listen at your own pace as you look beneath behavior and deepen your whole-dog understanding.

Two Options to Listen:

1. Listen right on this page, with the audio player below. or
2. Listen on your phone, in your podcast app. Click this link for instructions to subscribe to the private podcast feed in your favorite podcast app. 

☯️ Understand Your Dog [1 of 7] Part 1:  Why the Old Training Paradigm Fails Us

☯️ Understand Your Dog [2 of 7] Part 2: When Doing More Makes Things Worse

☯️ Understand Your Dog [3 of 7] Part 3: What You’re Seeing Isn’t the Whole Picture

☯️ Understand Your Dog [4 of 7] Part 4: Why Behavior-Fixing Breaks Trust

☯️ Understand Your Dog [5 of 7] Part 5: The Missing Piece: Understanding Your Dog’s Archetype

☯️ Understand Your Dog [6 of 7] Part 6: Reactive to Remarkable: Real-Life Transformations

☯️ Understand Your Dog [7 of 7] Part 7: The Path to Becoming Brilliant Partners

3. Watch the Workshop

Beneath Behavior: The Real-Life Partnership Shift

Your dog’s Archetype Profile can help you see your dog more clearly, but the real magic happens when you bring that understanding into everyday life.

In this live workshop, we’ll take the archetype lens out of the report and into the real moments that matter: the moments when your dog gets intense, hesitant, distracted, clingy, shut down, pushy, over-excited, worried, or hard to read.

These are the moments when it is easy to fall back into the old surface-level behavior stories we carry about our dogs. We may enter the moment already tense, impatient, embarrassed, or braced for what we think is about to happen. We anticipate. We try harder to keep everything under control. We focus on rushing through the moment instead of using that moment as a bridge to a new way of navigating the world together.

Together, we’ll explore how to use your dog’s profile as a living guide in the ordinary moments where trusting partnership is built.

You’ll come away with a more grounded way to understand what your dog may be feeling, needing, expressing, or trying to resolve.

And you’ll take away one simple, powerful practice you can use right away to pause, see beneath the behavior, and support your dog wisely in real-life challenging moments. This is where understanding becomes practice. And where cooperation and harmony grow stronger, one moment at a time.

A Note from Kathy...

For more than 30 years, I’ve been a guide for thousands of brilliant, devoted women who know there has to be a kinder, wiser, more connected way to live with dogs, beyond obedience, control, and training-as-usual.

Again and again, I’ve seen that the struggles we have with our dogs are rarely just about “behavior.” 

More often, they come from hidden patterns, unmet needs, and misunderstandings that make everyday life feel harder than it has to be.

That’s why I created this Beneath Behavior experience.

Through your personalized Dog Archetype Profile, the private companion audio mini-class, and our live workshop together, I’ll help you look beneath surface behaviors to the deeper patterns, sensitivities, strengths, and needs that shape how your dog moves through the world.

This isn’t about labeling your dog or putting them into a box. It’s about seeing your dog with more compassion and clarity, so you can support them more wisely and nurture the kind of trusting relationship where cooperation can grow naturally in real life.

My invitation is to step into a different kind of conversation with your dog.

Come into this experience with curiosity about your dog, about your relationship, and about the small shifts in understanding and support that can make all the difference.

I am eager to share this experience with you!

With love,
Kathy xo

Phalen and Dee

“What do I say about a program that changed despair to joy?”

“My dream dog had become a nightmare, my life was in turmoil and my family was miserable. With our partnership foundation, life is liberating, joyful and totally works! Who knew?”

~Dee and Phalen

Bettina and family

“I'm so proud of my 3 fur kids, and forever grateful for Kathy and her program.”

“I thought: I’ve tried everything, training classes, behavior sessions, reactive dog classes, I have nothing to lose. 10 months later, we all enjoying our Brilliant Partners lifestyle and I’m so proud of my 3 fur kids!”

~Bettina, with Murphy, Mary and Bear

Jane with Skye and Hannah crop

“Kicked out of obedience class … to brilliant partners!”

"After being kicked out of obedience class, I found Kathy Kawalec. Instead of focusing on obedience and training, we breathed a sigh of relief and began focusing on appreciating each other and observing and listening to each other. Life since is a daily delight with my girl!”

~Jane and Skye

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need to sign a contract, or commit to a certain amount of time?

No, you may cancel your membership subscription at any time. Simply email Kathy at least 24 hours before your renewal date ... that's it!! Easy peasy.

Is there a guarantee?

Absolutely! Try BPA out for up to 7 Days, and if you don't love it, just send an email to ka***@***********ts.org to cancel your membership for a full refund, no questions asked. After 7 days: Stay as long as you want! It's like a family, and many members never leave! Cancel Monthly membership subscription any month. Cancel Annual membership subscription before renewal date.

What if I enjoy training my dog ... will I have to stop my positive reinforcement training?

Absolutely not! In fact, you'll find that your level of success will dramatically increase when you add in this partnership based foundation! Remember ... our partnership lifestyle meets the core needs of our dogs ... and the training is the additional stuff.

I'm really busy...I'm not sure I have time for this.

One of my philosophies in life is to make choices on how to spend my valuable resources like time and money, and choose where my dreams can be nurtured, and I can live the life I envision. I hope you do the same.

Yes, You will need to devote time to watch the video lessons, and catch the coaching calls live or on replay...

Remember: a partnership lifestyle is just that - no need for special training sessions, setups and all that. I want to spend my precious time enjoying my life ... not struggling with unnecessary training ... and I want that for your too. And you have 24/7 access to the entire program for as long as you're a member, so you set the schedule that works for you!

What if I can't attend the coaching calls Live, because of my schedule?

Replays!! Many of our BeePees catch the replays - it's so convenient ... and you get to choose what time is best for you.

What if I am not on Facebook? Will I be able to use the program?

Yes. All of our courses, replays, masterclasses, workbooks etc are organized for easy access inside of our members HUB...a special website just for my members to enjoy! That said, there are easy ways for you to join our community discussions which are AWESOME without getting sucked into endless social scrolling. There are apps to help you with that, so that you only go directly into the BPA page. It's worth it, really!! But it's also ok if you don't. xo

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