Reward-Based Training is a training approach — widely adopted in real-world animal training and adapted in animal-role practice — that emphasises reinforcing desired behaviour through reward, praise or affection rather than punishment. In animal-role contexts it is used as one framework among several for shaping behaviour within a consensual dynamic.

Reward-based approaches gained prominence in real-world animal training in the late twentieth century and have influenced animal-role practice significantly since.

Communities differ in how strictly they adopt Reward-Based Training, and how it interacts with wider BDSM traditions of correction and discipline. It is one of several accepted frameworks.