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by Matt Germany with you and we are raising funds this week for the hunter
school
and the sale in children's village up in Romney new hampshire
you can check out their website hunter school dot org or co-insurance village
.org
the toll free number if you'd like to make a donation is 800
not 897 897
83 58 897
8358 and Ryan barbers with sees a house burned at the hunter school hey Ryan
hello can you hear me I hear you just fine and I i ca2+ on skype
are not a great to have you with us so tell us
no you know what what is it like what's an average day like it at the hunter
school
what y'all up to well I think really never expect anything one where the
attic distinction go pretty much any way with
these kind of children but at an average day per house parent now use
most a misstep there for a week at a time and so we can have to live so to
speak
but an average day would be consisting of in the morning a
you know 7 o'clock sick 6270 start waking the kids up in
their checking on them usually have to go to the bathroom couple
animal will make breakfast will have a have a family breakfast and then we
getting ready for school
which is right on campus and that we actually have a national pathway that we
built
family walked the kids the school along the pathway I'll
so before that we actually have them walk through a labyrinth I we built
a a mine palabras that they walked through and at what they do is they take
a little stone
and they think about with the stone in their hand just as an exercise
survey said intention for the day and
and with that they they walked through the labyrinth and place it in the middle
and where there's a little you know bucket in the middle that they can
they play in any walk and then they walk to schools that serve sets their day off
so they
they start their day with that in mind and
once they go to school they have it you know they they do their normal school
session it is an alternative school so it's
it may not be you know they have more recess in each classroom is different
catered to
to the great that they ran into that learning style each individual
and that's a whole nother you know another program from the residential ish
which I mostly work in I'm so we tend to have a few hours of during the day as a
house pair and other there's usually some
something we need to do on campus chores are paperwork or something to figure out
and with their with it the school
and and then the after we pick them up and I we basically provide a family
lifestyle for them with some structure of course
a.m. we walk back we you know we have a snack and then they
we have some free time for them or schedule activity and whatever it may
be. bike riding hiking around
*** assertive interactive game something like that and then that we cook dinner
and
and have a family dinner and then have an evening activity and then and
and we put them to bed you say we'll regroup story or
I am users to house parents in each house
*** so what will go one-on-one and each read them a story or have a group
depending
you know could be a little different each day that's just about in general de
something that's as it sounds idyllic I nah but
you know i i kno with that very often
these kids I mean these are kids who literally can't make it in public school
and very often can even make it in a
in a normal home in their family home the arm
a lot of them have explosive rage issues the
problems being on the autistic spectrum mmm
what are some other challenges that you face way as I just there's a lot of
different tack
types have kids and so there's a lot of different styles have those kinda
behaviors that could come up by then
yeah we do you deal with Joe these children being so sensitive to their
surroundings database they could have outbursts for sometimes for no reason
often per is for a good reason at least from their perspective
and but we might not often no will have to figure out maybe even after we
we get them back into a state of mind where they can be rational
and because they they get themselves and even as adults we we just learn to Sir
cover it up we might have
you know some feeling and anger are distaste toward something in our lives
but
children don't have the structure in their brain developed yet to be able to
handle that
but externally so so they display that in a visual way that we can all see
and you know we we take care but hopefully
we don't have to restrain them we do have to actually physically hold them
sometimes it but that's only if they're being actually unsafe to themselves or
others are
or destroying something I'll ideally we we can sort of get them in a space where
they can calm down
and then you know in their comp state of mind it be returned to their rationality
and
when they're able to talk about it in and and that so we kind of have a
restorative process where we learn from the experience and and through this
through that process they're able to to see more rationally
see clearly have maybe in the future they could they could work on that when
that when that feeling comes
tell me about you said mindfulness early on the
the the maze in are
what he called labyrinth in um talk about mindfulness in relation to the
the way you're working with these kids well ideally where we're trying to teach
them how
on you know these stylist children whether ADD ADHD or Aspergers or or some
other undefined
and in a problem they may have inside
we try to teach them how strongly there their mind can affect
you know the way they feel so the idea with the labyrinth is the
in it gives them a moment to realize how strongly there
their mind in their intentions can can project the outcome of their day
so by starting him off I in that quiet moment
walking to the lab rent with with that one thing in mind or
you know letting them I roam free you know well within the confines of the
labyrinth
the labyrinth allows you know your your your decision-making party your brain to
to ticket arrest for a moment because the in the lab and automatically guide
you into the center
so during that time there they can quietly walked through it and they sort
of have a moment
we're all those other distractions don't necessarily have to be bothering them
and they can only focus on either nothing or you know whatever comes them
or
or specifically that intention apso
so that brings them that to a place where in that they may not even realize
is happening but it brings into a place so
a understanding how powerful the thoughts can be
I do I resigned from the board of directors and become one of the kids
this s I I'm just joking
iight but the you're doing great work Ryan I know and and and
it's difficult work I've I've been there and done it and
and I've really really I know what you doing thanks so much for coming on here
today ensuring
your story and the underscore story us and I'll interest
thank you I thank you Brian Barbour his house parent at the hunter school
the website is after school dot orkut and if you would like to donate to help
Brian keep doing a great work is done and the program keep going 800
897 8358 or hunter school
you're listening to but Tom Hartman program
call 866 987 thon
that's so the hunters cool it under schooled out or
or say on children's village that or 800 897
8350