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2 people are interested
Classroom Animals & Empathy Story Reader
ORGANIZATION: One Heart Wild Education Sanctuary & ROOTS Institute
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2 people are interested
Retired or part-tIme teacher? Community educator? Experienced storytime reader? One Heart Wild would like to talk with you!
We are looking for 2-3 people to join our Animals and Empathy (A&E) team this spring. A&E utilizes stories, activities and animal ambassador visits in the classroom to help students develop empathy and social and emotional skills that improve our relationships with people and animals.
A&E Volunteer Readers visit each classroom four times to read pre-selected stories, facilitate conversations with the children, and lead extension activities. A Board Member accompanies the A&E Reader at each classroom session to lend a hand and lead the animal ambassador portion of the visit. Training is provided.
If you are interested in becoming an A&E Volunteer Reader or would like more information, please contact us today and get signed up for early December training.
More opportunities with One Heart Wild Education Sanctuary & ROOTS Institute
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About One Heart Wild Education Sanctuary & ROOTS Institute
Location:
12620 Willamette Meridian Road Northwest, SILVERDALE, WA 98383, US
Mission Statement
We exist to promote the health, well-being and welfare of humans, animals, and nature through mutually beneficial relationships. One Heart Wild Education Sanctuary envisions a community that inspires healing, kindness, and advocacy through empathic relationships with all life on earth. One Heart Wild is committed to recognizing the rights of all individuals to mutual respect; acceptance of others without biases based on differences or status of any kind, including but not limited to, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender, or species.
Description
The importance of the human-nonhuman animal connection is becoming widely understood. What began as casual observations--how aquariums can reduce blood pressure or how petting a dog can reduce anxiety in nursing homes--has grown into exciting scientific disciplines. Within mutually beneficial experiences, Animal Assisted Self Development & Psychotherapy has the capacity to improve social-emotional skills, emotional intelligence, mindfulness, and nonverbal communication.
Healing and growth is a two-way street at One Heart Wild. Here, animals, many with physical and emotional wounds created by traumatic experiences with humans, are carefully selected to meet our requirements--especially those governed by capacity limitations, quality of care standards & environmental impact. With time, understanding, and a stable social environment, the animals to which we provide sanctuary not only recover, but grow an increasing capacity to help heal our human community.
ROOTS Institute represents a scientific, and ethically sound paradigm shift in animal assisted self development/ psychotherapy training. ROOTS facilitators enable mutually beneficial social-emotional growth using tested principles of psychology, ethology, and neuroscience while meeting or exceeding the Animal Assisted Therapy in Counseling Competencies developed by the American Counseling Association & Animal Assisted Therapy in Mental Health Interest Network.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Local Elementary SchoolsKitsap County, WA 98383
DATE POSTED
December 10, 2019
SKILLS
- People Skills
- Problem Solving
- Storytelling
- Public Speaking
- Relationship Building
- Reading / Writing
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- Driver's License Needed
- Background Check
- Must be at least 18
- Orientation or Training
- 4- 1 hour visits + 2.5 hr field trip