One day, a dog will enter our lives and will imperceptibly begin to teach us things we never thought we would ever learn... about ourselves.
Welcome to "Conversation with a Dog" - the school for people who have embarked on the path of self-discovery, accompanied by their most faithful companion and close friend - their dog.
Conversation requires closeness, trust, and mastery of the other person's language. Our dogs also need this to convey the messages they bring to us. Every dog comes into our lives with a specific mission and has a certain meaning in it. It depends on us humans whether they will fulfill it.
It depends on us whether the dog will live in darkness in its helplessness to hear it, or will shine shared in our eyes. It depends on us humans whether the dog will become seriously ill, or will blossom with health, immersed in our tender care. It again depends on us humans whether the dog will fulfill its dream promise or simply survive day by day until it finally sinks forever into the farthest corner of our memory. It depends on us humans to start this conversation, to learn to hear, to see and to trust everything that our dog has come to tell us, because it is precisely the thing that will radically change us.
My name is Mira Bonzheva and I created "Conversation with a Dog" to remind people of this invisible dialogue in which our dogs are waiting for us to join at any moment.
A thorough approach supported by understanding and empathy
Developing inner knowledge, skills and intuition
My goal is not simply to introduce you to one of the many dog training methods that you can encounter in today's information-filled world. My goal is to inspire you to have a conversation with yourself while teaching you how to have a conversation with your dog. My approach is based not only on scientific research, discoveries and dry theory, but to a large extent on personal experiences of their application and the realizations that they have led me to. Each of our dogs is a separate person, bringing together a bouquet of qualities. Each brings its own character, its own charisma, and even its own unique smile. Therefore, there is no way to apply a universal approach to all of them. Each needs to learn its language, to find the way to it, so that we can truly understand it. My goal in this process is to be sincere, genuine and open, so that you can meet and fully talk in the way that you are destined to.
This approach will not just solve a specific problem for your dog, but will make you the best person for him. You will gain knowledge, skills and most importantly self-awareness, which taken together will change your whole life. And perhaps it is here that quiet grain of doubt lies, which always scares us - change, the unknown. I know it best. During the different stages of my life, I rebelled against it for a long time, until at one point I decided - to lose myself in order to give the dogs in my life the opportunity to find me again. Therefore, this entire deep process of awareness, discovery and change will be accompanied by full understanding, empathy and support from my side. The only effort you have to make is to trust your dog and embark on the endless and beautiful conversation in which it will lead you.
"We are changing the world of dogs one person at a time"
The dog is the best example of the fact that it is not the most aggressive or strong that will survive as a species, but the one that is the friendliest. For thousands of years, dogs have found their way to us humans with humility and a sense of empathy. The time has come when we need to respond to them appropriately. In a world where, due to our negligence, ignorance or complete unawareness, these creatures are subjected to a miserable experience of their days, daily stress for their survival and extreme insecurity, even within their own "family", it is up to us humans to lend them a hand. To build the bridge over which we can cross together, to meet each other and to respond to them with the same friendly attitude with which they have responded to us.
The Foundation "Walking side by Dog Paws" aims to reveal the path by which we can learn to reach our dogs in the same friendly and understanding way that they have done for centuries. That is why the foundation also supports projects that aim to open the horizons of people with dogs, so as to improve both the life of the dog and the life of the person, because they are fully aware that if one suffers, the whole will suffer.
Conversation with a Dog is a project that improves the lives of dogs by improving the lives of the people who stand by them.