Lifetime Lessons at Zuma’s When Jodi asked for a paragraph on what it means to be a volunteer at Zuma’s, it is doubtful that she expected a dissertation. How can one sum up in a few sentences what volunteering encompasses at Zuma’s Rescue Ranch? My first experience at Zuma’s was begun with the hope of [...]
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Howard Sloane A Basic Science Behavior analysis is a science concerned with the behavior of people, what people do and say, and the behavior of animals. It attempts to understand, explain, describe and predict behavior. Behavior analysis differs from most psychological attempts to understand behavior. Psychological theories study entities such as “the mind” or “the [...]
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So often in our society children become labeled with misguided diagnosis to fit them into a sociatle norm. A perfect example of this would be when a child is removed from a parents supervision by social services, that child is then sent for a psych evaluation and there at that moment the childs’ life becomes [...]
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Current trends in the therapeutic treatment of adolescents Adults benefit from their ability to “talk though” their issues and feelings. They have learned through time to verbalize complex and contradictory feelings and reactions. However, adolescents generally find it more difficult to eloquently verbalize such feelings: they are often overwhelmed and even confused by the seeming [...]
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Love without wisdom has a tendency to be blind, easily misled, foolish in its actions. Wisdom without love may be harsh and cold, unfeeling in its activity. … It is love that looks past appearances to behold the Truth of being. It is love that enables us to live in harmony with all our [...]
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Hello everyone, I hope you are all enjoying the March session of ELP! I think we have seen great progress with many of our kiddos. I see our little ones starting to push some boundaries and test a bit. Our teen group challenged us for the first few weeks, but I think things fell into [...]
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It seems our SYSTEMS today, all of them are symptom based, which we all know treating the symptom of anything will never end the cause of the symptom. No this is not a riddle it is fact and a sad fact at that. Here are some examples that we at Zuma’s face every day. Symptom: [...]
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Michael Hogland of Littleton Colorado first appeared at Zuma’s as a volunteer November 1st, 2009. The weather that day was snowy and freezing cold, but that did not keep Mike and his friends from attending Zuma’s volunteer training. That is true dedication! As a new member of the Zuma’s family, Mike jumped in head first [...]
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Zuma’s Experiential Learning Kids ~ Straight from the mouth of a child. Why I like horses: “They are really big animals. They are amazing. In my heart they are sacred. Like the sacred dog.” (reference to the book, “The Gift of the Sacred Dog” that we both love) What I do at Zuma’s: “I’m learning [...]
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How our son, age 8, experiences life: Every day,filled with numerous happenings that he is not expecting. Not knowing what is going to happen next puts him in a hypervigilant state. Things that trigger him are : someone coming to the door, a loud noise (truck driving by, lawnmower, fire-truck). When he gets scared he [...]
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