Positively Together
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  • GOT KIDS?
  • GOT DOGS?
    • GOT DOGS?
    • My story >
      • Gallery >
        • ABOUT >
          • Print Media
          • Interviews - podcasts
          • Meet the team
          • Training philosophy
  • GOT HORSES?
    • Worldwide: Online courses & virtualcoaching
    • In person: Clinic dates
  • EVENTS
  • Contact
  • Store

THE POSITIVELY TOGETHER TEAM

Meet the magic makers!
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Bex Tasker
Founder & Head Trainer 

Bex is the face and the drive and the passion behind all the various arms of Positively Together. 
Bex is a certified trainer through Karen Pryor Academy (KPA-CPT) and has been training animals professionally and for the joy of it for over 20 years.
Adults and kids, horses, dogs, sheep and chickens, real life and virtual teaching, we do it all! 
​Visit "My story" to find out more about my professional background and credentials, and our journey.
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Brooke Friend
​Head Trainer - Youth Programme

Brooke has been a driving force behind our flagship Next Gen Trainers youth program right from day one, and now also leads the Animal Adventurers therapy program. She is a youth worker with a Diploma in Pastoral Leadership as well as being Bex's bestie and fave business advisor. Brooke juggles these important roles with her full-time job as mum to little Adelina and her growing dog walking/ training business, Paws & Thrive.  Brooke lives with her cavoodle named Joey who attends Animal Adventurers and Junior Animal Trainers workshops.
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Radha Foulds
Coach & horse support

Radha teaches weekly kids riding lessons, and coaches our Junior Animal Trainers program. She also helps with dog classes and Animal Magic public trick shows.  Radha is a patient and kind teacher and a skilled trainer. She is at the farm almost every day helping care for the horses and other animals.  
As well as her dog Henna, she has a Kaimanawa filly called India who she adopted direct from the wild (mustered April 2025) and did all the taming and training herself.
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Georgie Brown
Coach - youth programmes

Georgie coaches our Junior Animal Trainers and Animal Adventurers program.  
Georgie has a background in working with neurodivergent youth as well as intellectually & physically disabled kids. She has a Diploma in Pastoral Leadership with a focus on kids programs and event planning. Georgie shares her life with Juno the toy poodle and a 21yr old cockatiel named Beau.

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Awhi
PR & Demo Dog

Awhi is a gentle, happy dog who takes his job very seriously. He is in charge of greeting all our students as they arrive, he is a demo dog during our training classes and enjoys teaching people of all ages how to interact with and train dogs. He also takes care of the baby lambs, keeps the mice and wild bunnies on notice, and makes sure Bex  gets away from the admin work on the computer and goes outside to play.
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Cat Wendland
Assistant Coach - dog classes

Cat supports Bex with coaching the Basic Manners and Brain Games group classes. 
Cat's dog training obsession  began when she adopted a retired working dog who needed help adapting to pet life.  She has since developed a special interest in high drive and teenage dogs.  Cat works full-time in adult education, and is now developing her dog training business, Partner Canine.  Her fabulous support team is her imported husband Paul, her heading dog, Bandit, and her young border collie, Quest.