Raise a calm, confident puppy — with a plan for every week
A complete, step-by-step online programme that walks you and your puppy through the most important months of their life, from the day they come home to a steady, happy six-month-old.
Self-paced · Lifetime access · Learn from anywhere
Everything your puppy needs, week by week
- 7 structured modules following your puppy's real development
- Force-free methods grounded in behaviour science
- The Puppy Resource Vault of guides & trackers
- 4 weeks free access to our puppy-parent community
- Learn in your own time, at your puppy's pace
The first months matter most
These early weeks shape the dog your puppy becomes
The window between eight weeks and six months is when your puppy learns how to feel about the world. Get the right support in now, and you set up a lifetime of calm, confidence and connection. The Attuned Puppy Course gives you a clear path through all of it.
So much advice, so little agreement
Every website, neighbour and forum tells you something different. You want one trusted path you can follow with confidence.
The clock is ticking
Socialisation and early learning windows don't wait. Knowing what to do, and when, makes all the difference.
You want to get it right
You love this puppy and want to do right by them. You don't need pressure — you need a guide who's done this thousands of times.
Darran Rowe
Your guide
You don't have to figure this out alone
I'm Darran Rowe, founder of Mindfulness4Dogs. For over two decades I've helped families raise calm, confident dogs using force-free, science-led methods — connection, not control.
The Attuned Puppy Course is the same week-by-week journey I take my in-person clients through, built so you can follow it from anywhere, in your own time, at a fraction of the cost of private sessions.
What's inside
Seven modules that grow with your puppy
Each module unlocks the skills your puppy needs at exactly the right stage, so you're always one calm step ahead.
Bringing Puppy Home
Settle your new arrival, set up their world for success and build trust from the very first day.
Daily Life & Regulation
Sleep, routine, calmness and toilet training — the foundations of a settled, happy puppy.
Becoming Connected
Learn to read what your puppy is telling you, so you can respond with understanding, not guesswork.
Foundations of Learning
Marker training, focus and the first real skills — taught in a way your puppy genuinely enjoys.
Outside World Skills
Confident walking, recall and meeting the world calmly — one positive experience at a time.
Social & Environmental Maturity
Guide your puppy through the changes of adolescence so they stay steady, social and self-assured.
The Puppy Resource Vault
Your library of guides, checklists and trackers — including the Socialisation Tracker — to return to whenever you need them.
Included with the course
The online Puppy Journey — your puppy's whole first year, in one place
The course teaches you what to do. The Puppy Journey keeps track of how it's actually going — a private, online record of your puppy's days, their socialisation, and how quickly they're growing up.
The daily rhythm
Two taps to log anything — the pattern builds itself.
Track the day
Log the day as it happens
Naps, meals, walks, toilet trips, biting, chewing, the moments they tip over the top — each one takes seconds to log, and the rhythm behind your puppy's day starts to show.
Yesterday, last week and last month are always there to look back on, so you can see how far you've already come on the days it doesn't feel like it.
- A clear picture of naps, meals and toilet trips
- Toilet-training progress summarised for you
- Biting, chewing and energy plotted against the day
Where the gaps are
Plan the window
A full socialisation planner and tracker
Seventy-nine things worth meeting, sorted into people, animals, places, noises and things that move — with the days left in your puppy's most receptive period counted for you.
Log each meeting as loved it, coped or hated it. The tracker fills in a month-by-month grid and shows you exactly where the gaps are, so the next outing has a purpose instead of being a guess.
- Know what's still missing, at a glance
- Repetition counted — two good meetings beat one
- Age bands worked out from your puppy's date of birth
Track how your puppy changes over time
One photo a week — they change faster now than they ever will again.
Keep the memory
A photo age journal you'll be glad of later
Add a photo a week and the strip fills into a record of your puppy growing up, week by week and month by month. Download the whole set as a PDF whenever you like.
Your photos stay yours. Nothing is shared anywhere unless you tick the box to say so, and you can change your mind at any time.
Patterns predict — and prevent
Most puppy problems have a pattern behind them: biting that always lands a couple of hours after the last nap ended, chewing that follows a walk that was too short, accidents after a long stretch in the crate. Once you can see the pattern, you stop reacting to what already happened and start changing what comes next — which is how unwanted behaviours are prevented rather than fixed.
"A puppy who feels safe and understood becomes a dog who can meet the world with confidence."
The result
By the end, you'll have a puppy who…
Settles calmly at home, alone and around the family
Meets new people, dogs and places with curiosity, not fear
Walks happily on lead and comes back when called
Communicates clearly — and is understood in return
Handles adolescence without falling apart
Trusts you completely as their calm, confident guide
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Give your puppy the best possible start
Full programme · Lifetime access
- All 7 modules, from 8 weeks to 6 months
- The complete Puppy Resource Vault
- Socialisation & progress trackers
- Force-free, behaviour-science methods
- Learn at your own pace, keep it for life
Step inside our supportive puppy-parent community for a full month — included with your enrolment, free.
Trusted by puppy parents across New Zealand and beyond.
Questions
Everything you might be wondering
My puppy is already 4 months old — is it too late?
Not at all. The programme runs right through to six months, and every module stays available to you. Start where your puppy is now and work forward, then revisit the earlier foundations whenever they're useful.
How is this different from a YouTube video or free advice?
This is a single, structured path built around your puppy's real development, drawn from over two decades of professional behaviour work. No conflicting advice, no guesswork — a clear plan for each stage, in the right order.
What if I'm new to dog training?
The Hub is designed for first-time puppy parents. Everything is explained simply and shown step by step, so you always know what to do next.
How long do I have access?
For life. Work through it at your own pace and return to the Resource Vault whenever you need it — through adolescence and beyond.
Is this force-free?
Always. Every method is kind, modern and grounded in behaviour science — connection, not control.
The best time to start was the day you brought them home. The next best time is today.
Give your puppy a calm, confident start — and enjoy every moment of these early months.
Buy the Attuned Puppy Course