Animal Communication is a technique that helps you understand the animals in your life at a much deeper level – and helps your animals to understand you!

Sometimes referred to as ‘animal whispering’, animal communication is a two-way telepathic conversation between human and animal made via a heart-to-heart connection. Across that connection information can be exchanged with them, in exactly the same way that two humans would have a conversation.

These two-way conversations let you get to know and understand your animals fully – their behaviour, health issues, likes and dislikes. You can find out more about why they show signs of being aggressive, anxious, timid; and ask them about their wishes and their purpose in life. No more guessing if they like their food, or why they bark so much, or pull at the lead. You will be able to ask them and then help them make changes.

Jacqueline’s Introduction to Animal Communication workshops give you the knowledge and skills to understand your animal at a whole new level.

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What the course is about:

You will find out what animal communication is and the science behind how it works. You will learn to send clear messages to your pet that they can understand and pick up accurate responses from them. You will learn techniques to overcome any blocks that get in the way including self-doubt, overthinking, and pressure. These obstacles can come up in many areas of life, so the techniques you will learn can be of value in many other areas of your life.

We cover how to work with behavioural issues that can affect an animal’s quality of life, such as separation anxiety, fear, aggression and timidity; as well as over-barking, scratching, toileting issues and much more. You will learn how to get to the root cause of the problem and how to work with them to find a healthier solution. You will practise having conversations with animal guest teachers as well as with one another’s pets.

This workshop offers much more than learning animal communication. It also offers you ways to reconnect – with mother nature, with animals, with yourself. You will connect with your most authentic self as you explore the art of animal communication. You will play with expanding your conscious awareness allowing essential aspects of your being to unfold and shine.

Topics covered:

The principles and techniques of interspecies communication
What telepathic communication is and how it works
Meditations to relax the body and mind
How to send and receive messages effectively
Exercises to increase your sensory receptivity
Explore your own unique way of receiving information from animals
Learn how animals see the world and how they express themselves
Practice communicating with animals distantly using a photograph
Work with another student practising with each other’s animals
Received feedback from another student’s animal

Key benefits for you:

Understand your animal better in order to help improve their life
Find out what your pet needs to recover more quickly when it is unwell
Help your pets to let got of unwanted or unwelcome behaviour
Use animal communication to help any animal at anytime, anywhere
Get quicker and longer lasting training results
Feel more connected to all animals, both domesticated and wild through increasing your sensory receptivity
Understand the messages that animals and nature are sending you, and work collaboratively with them
Deepen your relationship with the natural world

Key benefits for your animal:

Give your pet what they need – find out which food they like, if they want more walks, want a different bed or their scratching post moved
Help them become more confident, calm and relaxed – improving their quality of life
Support animals through changes in their lives – helping them to take them in their stride
Help your pet adjust to a new family member so they can live together happily right from the outset
Support your pets through sickness and help them to feel better quicker
Help them pick up training techniques more quickly by explaining what you would like them to do and why, so they are fully engaged in the whole process
and much more…

You will also begin to see they world as your animals see it, helping you to communicate with them in ways that they can understand. In this way you can help your pets to make sense of our human world and our ‘strange’ human behaviour!

Who this course is for:

Animal Custodians – understand your animal better, address their concerns and improve their life
Rescue Workers – understand their past and what they need to help their rehabilitation
Animal Trainers – increase training effectiveness and produce quicker results
Dog groomers – relax and calm your pet clients while you work with them
Animal Therapists – add a deeper understanding of their needs alongside your current skills
Veterinarians & Vet Nurses – use animal communication to soothe and reassure animals as they receive treatment and care

All courses include:

In-person coaching by Jacqueline
WORKBOOK containing details of activities, exercises, meditations and practices that will support your ongoing development
FREE first session with Understanding Animals’ online Practice Group
Membership of Understanding Animals’ private practice group
The chance to take part in small group Mentoring Sessions

I answer a lot of questions about the onsite courses and the content in the video below:

If you still have questions you can book a free 20′ discovery call with me.

These courses are suitable for ages 14 years and older. Please contact me to find out about our children’s one-day workshops, or if you’d like to discuss bringing a person younger than 14.

Introduction to Animal Communication is available either online in four half-day sessions, or onsite over a weekend. Find details of current courses below.

EVENTS IN 2025

Onsite courses:

Healing with Animals : five-day Immersive Retreat
26-31 October 2025
Gleniffer, NSW, Australia

For full details about this course please follow this link to our ‘Retreats’ page

Healing with Animals – weekend workshop
7-9 November 2025
Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia

A three-day workshop combining equine facilitated experiential learning with animal communication.

Have you wanted to deepen your relationship with the animals you love but you feel like you’re struggling to connect to them on a deeper level?

During the weekend you will learn how to overcome the most common relationship barriers through embodied healing practices supported by a herd of horses, enabling you to experience a deeper, more loving relationship with all animals. Free from the limitations of emotional blocks, you will learn to tune-in to your animals and have two-way conversations with them, as you learn telepathic animal communication.

When animals are acting out they are often picking up on and mirroring back to us the unconscious and dysfunctional elements of our own energy. When we can become aware of and heal our own repressed emotions and emotional trauma, we become more open and in-tune with our animal companions.

We can rediscover our own innate ability to empathically attune to their needs and communicate with them clearly. As we heal ourselves, we help to heal them too.

In this course you will learn:

– To develop a deeper awareness of your emotions and how they affect your relationship with your animals.
– How to send & receive clear messages and have two-way conversations with animals
– To access, acknowledge and heal the dysfunctional energy in your relationship with your animal
– How to to support animals through times of change
– To improve training techniques
– How to help anxious, fearful animals become relaxed and confident
– To embody a more authentic and loving presence
– How to release and heal emotional pain and trauma.
– To connect to your higher self and develop fully your empathic and intuitive abilities

Course Facilitators

Jacqueline Buckingham is an animal communicator, teacher, Transpersonal Counsellor and mentor working in Europe, Australia and online. She has been communicating with animals since childhood, and as a teacher was mentored by and worked alongside renowned animal communicator Anna Breytenbach for several years. She is passionate about creating greater harmony and understanding between animals and their humans.

Ben Skerrett started his journey as a horse behaviour specialist, educator and clinician. Exploring a passion for personal development, led Ben, to the knowledge that working with horses was more about developing self-awareness, and less about training them. As a result, Ben started to use horses to facilitate healing and transformation in people. He became a qualified Eponaquest Equine Facilitated Learning (EFL) instructor, and a Riding Focused Instructor (RFI). He also has a diploma in Counselling.

Online courses:

Introduction to Animal Communication
Online Training

This is a live, fully interactive online version of the onsite weekend training.

Taught in four three-hours sessions, Jacqueline guides a maximum of eight students in real-time through the foundational techniques of animal communication. There are multiple opportunities to practise the skills as you move through the sessions, as well as ideas on how to apply these skills daily with the animals in your lives.

Dates:
Friday 10th, Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th October

Times:
Fri 9am-11am, Sat/Sun 8am-11am [7pm-9pm / 6pm-9pm AEDT]

Fri 6.30pm-8.30pm, Sat/Sun 4pm-7pm

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More details on course content and times can be found via the button below

Please email me if you are interested in hosting a course where you live to find out more.