About the President of the Canadian Institute of Animal-Assisted Interventions

Esther Delisle is an author with a Ph.D. in political science. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/esther-delisle-ph-d-678953163/)

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• In 2004, she became a certified animal-assisted therapist.

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• She has worked with people with Alzheimer's, dementia, mental retardation and with people in palliative care (end of life).

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• She implemented two programs of animal-assisted learning in 3 elementary schools in Montreal. Based on that experience, she co-wrote an article published in the magazine Childhood Education International (2012).

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• She sat for many years on the board of the Corporation des zoothérapeutes du Québec (Quebec Corporation of Animal-Assisted Therapists.)

 

She also participated in many international conferences on the topic of Human-Animal interactions.​​​

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• ​She gave a presentation at the 14th triennial conference of IAHAIO (Paris, 2016)

• She gave three presentations  at the Second International Conference on Innovations in Animal-Assisted Therapy (Jerusalem 2013).​

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She is inviting you to share her journey.​

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