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)