New Volunteer Candidates for Bedside, Close-Up Magic for Hospitalized Children and Teens - Chicago

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CHICAGO: We're looking for one to two volunteers to add to our program at Rush Children's Hospital. We're particularly looking for suitable candidates to add to this program for AFTERNOON OR EVENING hospital service DURING THE BUSINESS WEEK. This amazingly rewarding position as a Open Heart Magic volunteer magician will allow you to use close-up magic to help kids and adolescents in pediatric units in hospitals. Imagine being able to help make a child as young as four experience a miracle at his or her hospital bedside. Imagine being able to perform "David Blaine" like magic for a teen with a long term illness. We'll teach you everything - we're just looking for committed, outgoing individuals with a sense of laughter who want to help kids and teens in at a hospital. Once you are trained and have started performing, you will have the opportunity to immediately see how your service positively affects someone's life as you bring laughter, surprise, and astonishment to kids in hospitals. You will learn to use professional level magic that has been recreated to be interactive having the magic occur in the hands of the patients and participatory to make the interaction more engaging, meaningful and empowering to the children. You will be also taught how to empower kids in a hospital environment by using these magic and engagement techniques to bring them out of the fear and isolation that can occur from a long or short-term illness or traumatic situation. The magic routines used and taught are professional level, extremely visual and astonishing yet they can be learned in a shorter time horizon, if you practice on a regular basis. In this work, you will be able to mix close-up magic therapy with your imagination, performance ability and social skills to build suspense, create laughter and add energy and excitement to each child's hospital stay. Even though your work will be focused on helping children, you will also have the opportunity to do magic with older patients as well as anyone who may need a little magic in the hospital including patients' parents, friends, nurses and hospital staff members. You will be provided with and required to participate in on-going training, information sharing, and presentation practice with the support of other Open Heart Magic volunteers through your attendance at monthly meetings. Your attendance at these monthly meetings is required so you can learn new techniques and become better at helping kids. Aside from your close-up magic and child therapy training, you will also receive instruction on hospital processes and requirements so you are familiar with a new environment.