ABOUT

After years’ of procrastination and following my ‘shoulds’, Walking Round In Circles is finally here as I surrender to my heartpull, my passion for dog training and sports.

After 17 years of studying the human experience and 18 years of loving dogs and dog sports, I’ve combined my passions with my love for website design to create Walking Round In Circles, as a beautifully designed and visually rich website.

Created by someone who is at the ‘coal face’ of both coaching and competing, Walking Round In Circles is a programme by international coach, Angela Watson, exploring the psychological principles, innate to all human beings, that combine to create our experience of dog sports and life. It points to a simple yet profound framework for understanding the nature of the human mind and it’s role in shaping our experiences of life, in the context of human/canine relationships, and everyday life with our dogs.

This programme explores what it is to be human in our interactions with our dogs, coaches, trainers, judges, loved ones, and ourselves. Walking Round In Circles is about love, interconnectedness, wellbeing, resilience, transformation, peace, harmony, and joy.

The overarching theme of the programme revolves around the innate capacity of people to realise their potential. By understanding the subjective nature of thought people can experience greater clarity and wellbeing, helping them get more out of themselves, their dogs, and their lives. In a glance or a touch, in a word or a silence, Walking Round In Circles emphasises the interconnectedness and mutually beneficial relationship between dogs and their people.

Angela Watson is an International Coach & Training Consultant who has dedicated her life to studying what makes people tick. She thrives on diversity and regularly works on passion projects like Walking Round In Circles which combines a lifelong love of learning with an 18 year grand passion for dogs. Her work with NHS doctors has won accolades for making a statistically significant difference to the leadership capability of GP’s and was published in The International Journal of Clinical Leadership. She’s also been featured in ILM Edge Magazine, and the local press for her work on leadership development using lessons from the dog world, and she was a contributor to the book, Essential Career Transition Coaching Skills written by Caroline Talbott. Over the last decade she has trained thousands of people in the art & science of executive coaching, and she’s served 1-1 clients from the UK, Europe, and the Middle East. She learned her craft by studying the work of Syd Banks, Garret Kramer, David Grove, Robert Dilts, Nancy Kline, and by working with some of the world’s best teachers – Sue Knight, Jamie Smart, Michael Neill, Kimberley Hare, and Sam Jarman.

Angela is a keen dog owner and trainer and competes at a high level in competitive obedience with her Golden Retrievers, Jasper and Berty. She’s recently joined the Pets On Sets team as a freelance dog handler and trainer for T.V and film, and has also been a guest speaker at Kamal Fernandez Dog Training, Dingbatt Dog Training, Jenny Gould Sports Dogs, and Bickenhill Dog Training Club. She regularly helps other (new & experienced) Obedience handlers train their dogs drawing on the experience she has gained training with some of the UK’s best dog trainers over the last 13 years.

We hope that the beauty of the images and words on this site inspire you to explore further the excellence that lies within you.