My Qualifications

Training for NHB Course Instructors: Only individuals who have at least three years of experience in handling dogs are eligible to be NHB trainers.

The training must include the following:

Legal foundations concerning the animal welfare-compliant handling of dogs and the training of dogs and their owners.
Species-specific needs, breed-specific uses, social behavior, feeding, and zoonoses (diseases transmissible from animals to humans) of dogs.
Learning behavior in dogs, animal welfare-compliant handling of dogs, the corresponding training methods, and proper and safe handling of a dog.
Basic knowledge in lesson planning and designing,
Course administration and organization,
Teaching methodology/didactics, creating presentations,
Applied learning psychology, communication, and rhetoric.
The minimum duration of the training is 140 lessons (theory and practice). The training must be completed with an exam.
NHB professionals are required to attend one day of further training per year with the responsible training organization.