Colleen shares her winding path from volunteering to a Special Victims Advocate and Facility Dog Handler. She and Jim also dive deep into how the mind-body connection with yourself can positively impact your relationship with your facility dog. Also, Jim shares how he was connected to his “career changer” dog.
Episode Highlights
1:00 - Colleen’s path to becoming a Special Victims Advocate
4:30 - Volunteering opens a different path
5:30 - Transforming language to make an impact
8:30 - Creating spaces to have trauma conversations
11:00 - Adverse Childhood Experiences
13:00 - Settling into Arizona
14:00 - Creating a Mind Body Connection
17:30 - The value of yoga & meditation for healing
21:00 - Connecting these concepts into the criminal justice community
22:30 - How dogs are influencing these conversations
24:00 - Moving into full time advocacy & training future advocates
26:00 - Colleen is introduced to Facility Dogs
28:00 - Jim shares how he got his “career changer” dog
32:15 - Creating a partnership with a dog
35:00 - Blake’s impact in Colleen’s world
Links To References
ACE’s- Adverse Childhood Experiences
The Body Keeps Score - Bessel Vander Kolk
National Adoption Day Ceremony
Guardian ad Litem Program in in the Florida Keys (Monroe County)
To learn more about what they are doing to change the criminal justice system, go to courthousedogs.org.
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