The Just Me Project
Do you have now, or have you had, an emotional connection to an animal or pet?
Do you talk to your animal in a different voice than you would people?
Have you ever felt that an animal was a part of what keeps you healthy or happy?
The Just Me Project is one of several structured programs designed to build on coping skills and engage participants in reframing their experiences. Through the innocent voices of the animals, we discover our strengths, build resilience, and transcend and transform hate, intolerance, disability and grief. Becoming resilient is a journey from victim to hero, from experience to understanding to imagination and then to effort. The Just Me Project material serves as a tool for preventive intervention by using a children’s book about a cat, and a workbook based on the reality that we all speak to our pets in a different voice. Hence the project is able to reach beyond assumptions and barriers to initiate a dialogue about vulnerability and pain.