Humanistic Guidance by Volunteers
Wanted: Humanist Guidance volunteers
Are you, as a person and a humanist, interested in the world of experience of others?
Are you good at listening to others, understanding the concerns of others and able to respond to them with a cool head and a warm heart?
Humanist Guidance by volunteers offers you the opportunity to experience how valuable it can be to use those qualities.
What do you do as a Humanist Guidance volunteer?
Humanist Guidance by volunteers is part of the Haaglanden department of the Humanist Association. As a Humanist Guidance volunteer, you are part of a team of volunteers.
Your work as a volunteer mainly, and often only, consists of offering a listening ear. Through your guidance of the person seeking help, that person becomes able to give meaning to life again. Common requests for help arise from (lack of) meaning, old age, illness and loss.
In order to support your personal approach to the person seeking help with previously acquired knowledge and experience, you will participate in the intervision and theme meetings of the volunteer group. Of course, you can also go there for advice on questions for help that you have encountered in practice. As a volunteer, you are active in the South Holland region for the Haaglanden (also Leidschendam-Voorburg), Delft and Leiden departments of the Humanist Association.
Your work consists of:
- Making home visits to the person seeking help;
- Taking stock of the question for help with the person seeking help;
- Conducting conversations with the person seeking help;
- If necessary, referring and guiding the person seeking help to other (professional) care institutions;
You are someone:
- Who wants to do something for others;
- Who wants to use his or her life wisdom and experience for others;
- Who recognizes themselves in the humanist philosophy of life;
- Who is aware of the expectations that others may have;
- Who knows what he or she can do for others;
- Who is independent, empathetic, open, eager to learn, social and involved;
- Who can listen, reflect and advise well;
- Who can be critical of the actions of themselves and fellow volunteers;
- Who has at least a higher professional education level of thinking and working.
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