BehaviorWorks Book Club

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DESCRIPTION AND WINTER 2025 DATES:

The Behavior Works Book Club is a guided reading group for animal professionals who want to deepen their grounding in the science of behavior change and its underlying philoslophy. Members will read approximately one book chapter per week, and meet once every two weeks for a discussion. Facilitator Kiki Yablon, MA, will provide study questions to consider while the reading and to inform disucssion. There is no eligibility requirement for membership, but graduates of Living and Learning with Animals will receive a $25 discount.

Price: $200 ($175 for LLA grads) for 12 weeks/6 two-hour meetings

We will once again be reading About Behaviorism, by B. F. Skinner, written to explain the philosophy that underlies the science of behavior analysis to a lay audience.

This session of Book Club will officially begin November 20, 2025, with the first meeting on December 4.

Meetings are from 10 AM to Noon Central Time (Chicago, USA) on the following Thursdays:

• December 4, 2025
• December 18, 2025
• [No meeting on January 1]
• January 8, 2026
• January 22, 2026
• February 5, 2026
• February 19, 2026

To register, please Contact Kiki Yablon

BIO:

Kiki Yablon, MA, KPA CTP, CPDT-KA, is a dog behavior consultant and educator who makes behavior science accessible and practical for animal professionals and pet guardians. Kiki has been a co-instructor for Behavior Works’ flagship course, Living and Learning With Animals, since 2014, and in 2022 earned her master’s degree in applied behavioral science from the University of Kansas, where her thesis research examined an intervention for excessive human-directed barking in dogs. In addition to helping her dog training clientele in Chicago, Kiki serves as faculty for the Karen Pryor Academy for Animal Training and Behavior and has presented at conferences including those hosted by the Association of Professional Dog Trainers, the International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants Foundation, Karen Pryor Clicker Training, and the Association for Behavior Analysis International.