Volunteer Group Facilitators Wanted

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Can you facilitate and teach in a group environment and create a safe community for low income women and women in homelessness?

The Blossom Project and Downtown Streets Team are partnering to give women experiencing homelessness the emotional and physical tools necessary to empower their lives.

Blossom and DST is looking for 2 group instructors to teach and facilitate a small group of women (8-12) that are ranging from 40-75 years of age, every week on Fridays from 1-3pm.

About:

The Blooming Room is a 13-week volunteer lead course divided into 2 classes weekly on Thursdays and Fridays from 1-3pm.

The purpose with Blooming Room is to create an atmosphere of inclusion and empower vulnerable women to be and feel part of the community and to create a safe environment to build their life again. This is done by strengthening women's self-confidence by highlighting the skills and competencies they already have and supporting them in acquiring new ones.

Through Blooming Room, the women hereby have the opportunity to prepare for their future by finding and believing their own resources. The project's activities also support women in finding relationships and building healthy communities.

A part of this curriculum is to create a safe space to have conversations on topics important for the women.

The conversation café is an opportunity for women to get a breather from everyday life and from the stamp as 'homeless' and to spend time with other women in pleasant and safe surroundings. Here, women have room to talk about the things that occupy them today - small as well as large. It is also a space where women can share their experiences of homelessness and other issues with each other and therefore can both experience getting good advice or helping another woman along the way. An important element of the conversation café is also to work with mental resilience, which helps to handle adversity, stress and challenges.

The group of women that would be a part of this group range from 40 - 70 years old.

Duties and Responsibilities

The group of women that would be a part of this group range from 40 - 70 years old.

You, along with the other volunteer, be responsible for:

• Facilitate group and teaching the subject of Conversation Cafe (based on designed curriculum)
• Design teaching material (based on designed curriculum)

• Establish productive relationships with each an every client with no bias or prejudice towards race, religion, age, sex, disability, or sexual preference.
• Must be friendly, outgoing, and most importantly patient with the group of women

Time commitment

2 hour per week + cleanup. You undertake to teach every week from1-3pm from First week of February to the end of April.

Qualifications:

We imagine that you are a trained social worker, nurse, teacher or psychologist, if you are a student you are probably on the final part of your education. You can also be a job seeker and have / want to be an NGO volunteer. The framework for your background is wide, so contact us and we will have a chat. Most importantly, you must want to be part of creating a successful course for our participants.

As a person you are calm, embracing and with no judgement, and want to work with women who come from a different background than you, and you are passionate about making a difference to the target group.

Interviews and training:

Interviews will be held on December 12th or 13th between 10am to noon

Volunteer Training will be held on Saturday December 14th from 9am-11am.

If interested please send a short cover letter with experience and motivation and a resume.