We invite you to join us on the 2025 PADA camp held in the Czech Republic!

What is PADA?

PADA is the abbreviation of Personality Assessment of Domestic Animals.

PADA is an international initiative, discovered and created by scientists and people active in the field of AAS. While many tests look at obedience and tricks, this test looks at the personality and character of the dog and its ability to be trained for AAS.

About the camp

Tine Arets (BE), Suzan Vlaming-Kikkert (NL), Zuzka Prokopová (CZ), Kuba Farkowski (PL) and Jaroslava Bicková (CZ) invite you, together with Christine Olsen (NO), to join them on a fantastic camp in the Czech Republic.

During this camp you will learn more about the PADA test, what it is, how to execute it and how to be a leader or technician during the test. If you are already one of those you can learn more about the roll of evaluator as well!

So if you don’t have any experience with PADA yet, this camp is great to get to know the test a little bit. If you do have experience, you can join us, share your own knowledge and get to know other PADA members from different countries! No reason at all to not participate!

Information

The camp starts on the 9th of June and goes until the 12th of June.

Location:

Dvorce 50, Třeboň 37901 Czech Republic

What are we going to do:

During the camp we’ll educate you in everything PADA has to offer. In the mornings you can participate in testing dogs and in the afternoon you can come to lectures regarding different subject to do with AAS.

Program:

Monday 9th of June 2025:

We’ll meet at 10h and get to know eachother. The PADA protocol will be explained then and we’ll start by testing several dogs
After lunch we’ll maybe test one or two more dogs or you can participate a lecture given by any of our instructors
Normally you’ll have free time after that.

Tuesday 10th of June and Wednesday 11th of June:

9h30: PADA tests
14h: Lecture
16h: Free time

Thursday 12th of June:

9h: PADA adolescent tests
14h: Conclusion of the camp

Lectures:

Zuzka: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Kuba: Subject will be announced later on
Tine: Bodylanguage of dogs, Core quadrants and spaces in AAS
Suzan: Coaching with therapy animals and polyvagaal theory. Training Emotional Support Dogs.

Costs

The costs is €400,- per person for the educational part of the camp. It is possible to book the hotel through us as well at an additional cost of €70,- per person, per night for a double room or €105,- for a single room. It is possible to bring your dog with you for an additional cost of €10,- per night, per dog. The price for the hotel includes breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It is possible to bring your partners as well to the camp if you would like.

IMPORTANT! Before you can attent the camp, you need to start the online course of PADA and you start this PADA journey at Icofa!

Hotel

As said, the costs of the hotel include breakfast, lunch and dinner. You can arrive on Sunday the 8th of June or Monday the 9th (in the morning). You can check in on both dates after 15h. If you arrive on Monday, you can leave your luggage in the conference room where we will be the entire day.

The camp ends on Thursday the 12th of June at around 15h. It is possible to stay a day longer in the hotel.

If you would like to come a day earlier and/or stay a day longer, please let us know in advance so we can let the hotel know as well.