About Animal Human Connection

Dogs synchronize with our emotions, and we can synchronize with theirs. This can be organic in nature by merely petting a dog. It can be much more powerful when this is taught with intention. Teaching a student to calm the high energy of a dog using their own energy awareness and transferring it down the leash is amazing.

Watching a highly charged student work on calming themselves, to support the dog they are petting, to be calm, is a biofeedback loop, which is hard to match. Immediate feedback from the dog is priceless. The opportunity for leadership empowers the student. Confidence grows through the canine human bond and magic happens.

The best stress reducer other than a biofeedback loop is exercise and time outdoors. 

Charity needed to be walked everyday at school. It became a bonding time for students, EA’s and teachers as we walked the track with Charity. Conversation, community building and exercise build right into the curriculum by having a dog in the classroom.

Charity’s presence in my classroom the was multi-faceted. 

Her happy dance when greeting the students brought smiles. Even on mornings when smiling was difficult. She brought comfort by just being there to pet when there were tears. Her calm, confidence could de-escalate anger, anxiety, frustration, fear, stress in the students. They began to look for her and call her over in the early stages of an episode. She never turned a student down. Her consistent, non-judgmental ability to be there made our space safe. 

She taught self-regulations, mindfulness, behavior modification in the kindest way. 

The students synchronized their emotions with her calm, happy energy. The epitome of the benefits of the canine human bond. The students and I had a loyal friend to share the highs, the lows, the successes, the roadblocks, the tears, the ordinary, and the exciting. 

Adding AAI to Your Profession.

Are you ready to add to your profession an intervention that is proven to increase school attendance, supports social emotional well-being, improves literacy skills, reduces behavioral issues, promotes stress and anxiety reduction? Animal Assisted Interventions is supported by research.

• Witness the impact of the Animal Human Bond in your profession
• Improve the lives of each member of the professional community
• Address the gaps created by the pandemic with a socially proven strategy experienced by many during lockdown
• Assess a program already in place and add courses, certifications, to align with new standards of practice