If you’re not familiar with Chapter A Day, here’s a synopsis from WPR:
In the 1990s, publishers finally discovered what Chapter a Day listeners have known for decades — everyone loves to be read to.
Chapter a Day brings the best books to radio, read by professional radio performers who have learned to establish a bond between the writer and the listener. They are read in half-hour installments, finishing a book in ten or more readings.
The books have ranged from best-sellers such as Jacqueline Mitchard’s Deep End of the Ocean, Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities and Anne Tyler’s Ladder of Years, to literary gems like Howard Owens’ Littlejohn to non-fiction masterpieces like Stephen Ambrose’s Undaunted Courage and Joseph Ellis’ American Sphinx.
Listeners have enjoyed hundreds of books on Chapter a Day, catching up on the latest books while rediscovering the essential pleasure – the joy of being read to.
Once the broadcast schedule is provided to us I’ll let everyone know!
The Animal Assisted Intervention and the Advanced classes have been merged because there is so much overlap.
All the skills that would normally be considered only for the Animal Assisted Interventions class should be in everyone’s toolbox as they take their dogs out into public for walks, recreation, pick up kids at the school bus, vacations, sports, etc.
Every interaction your dog has with a stranger is a moment to affect that person’s life.
If you have wanted to do the Advanced class to hone skills or prepare for the CGC – this is the class.
If you want to volunteer with your dog to do Animal Assisted Interventions – this is the class for you.
If you are already working your dog on Animal Assisted Intervention visits, this class will help you develop more broad handling and supporting skills.
If you are training your dog to do service work for you, this class will give you the tools so you can work your dog appropriately in public.
If you have questions, or are not sure if your dog is ready for this class, please email me.
The Three Dogs Training Animal Assisted Therapy, Education, and Activities class returns October 30, 2021.
In the last twenty-two years I have taught at least one AATEA class each year except for 2020. I think we all know what happened in 2020…
When we visit people with our dogs we get to experience:
Seeing someone light up with joy when your dog comes to visit them
Seeing your dog bring – voice to the voiceless, awareness to those who sometimes lose their focus in this world, or give someone a moment not thinking about their pain
Watching a child relax as they read out loud to the dog who won’t judge them.
And finding that years later that the now-college-student still cherishes the bookmark she made of her picture reading with your dog.
Boo made them all smile at Maryknoll
Many years ago I wrote this and it stands the test of time:
It is a rare thing in humans to be able to look at the face of a person whose life has so obviously been harsh or has taken a turn in that direction without visible pity and anguish. And it is a rare thing for the person being looked upon to not see the discomfort in the face of the onlooker.
However, it is the dog, the cat, and the rest of our companion animals who do not see what has been, but who look only at the possibility of and need for joy that exists in all of us. For the animals, it’s not about pity, anguish, or guilt. It is about their exceptional and majestic gift of being able to tease out the joy in all things even where there seems to be none left. And it is this that allows them to often go where no person can go to do therapeutic work.
ljedwards 2001
Boo visiting another sister at Maryknoll
If you feel it is time to share the joy of your dog with others, the Three Dogs Training AATEA class will teach you the following:
Skills you will need to navigate your visits
Skills to support and advocate for the safety of your dog
And some little tricks to make the most of the visits for everyone
Since 2000, Animal Assisted Intervention has been a huge part of my life. I have done thousands of visits with three of my own therapy dogs, taught hundreds of teams (maybe more) to go out into the world and bring joy, learning, and therapy with their dogs. I have consulted on campus therapy dog programs for two residential special needs schools. And even my best-selling book “A Dog Named Boo” was re-released this July to get us all back in the animal assisted intervention frame of mind.
[quote style=”boxed”]In what has to be the “feel good” book of the season… Boo’s story reminds all of us that life is full of possibilities and that hope often arrives wagging a tail.[/quote]
Since the review is in their print magazine, here’s a scan of the whole review:
A Dog Named Boo How One Dog and One Woman Rescued Each Other and the Lives They Transformed Along the Way is back.
Originally published by Harlequin non-fiction in 2012, Hanover Square Press (a subsidiary of Harlequin) has released Boo with a new cover and expanded epilogue.
A Dog Named Boo, 2012
A Dog Named Boo, 2021
Boo made it to the London Times Bestsellers list in 2012 and hopefully our little best selling dog will make it into your hears in 2021.
Everyone who got a dog during the pandemic knows how our dogs support and heal us. Boo’s story is all that and more.
His website will be posting excerpts and has some fun baby-dog and silly pictures of Boo.
Baby Boo wrestling the gigantic Dante… click here for more…
