Who can become a Pet Grief Support Service Volunteer?
People well suited to become Pet Grief Support Service Volunteers include those who: • have suffered the loss of a special companion animal, long enough ago to have developed some perspective; • have worked through their own grief and experienced some degree of resolution; • are comfortable with their own mortality as well as that of their animal companions; • are able to talk about their own experience with some degree of objectivity; • have enough perspective to use their own experience to help others; • are flexible enough to accept other views of death without being judgmental; • respect other lifestyles and cultural differences without being judgmental; • are independent enough to work on their own, but also work well as team members; • have a sense of humor as well as empathy; • have a personal life sufficiently stable that they can make a commitment to be there for others; • are open enough to continue learning about themselves as they learn the Service volunteer experience; • c
