Curriculum Vitae
Michelle Ternovšek
Love for work with children and youngsters • Curios and imaginative • Broad, deep and specialised knowledge about various subjects • Extremely well organized with great attention to details • A hard worker and flexible team player • Great language skills Personal Information
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Date of Birth
Work Experiences
Aug. 2011 – Present
Sept. - Dec. 2009
June – September 2009
July 2006 – April 2007
Michelle Ternovšek
Ljubljana, Slovenija
********.*********@*****.***
Slovenian
02.12.1982
COUNSELING AND WILDERNESS RETREATS, ART
PERFORMANCE & ANIMATION, ART THERAPY, YOGA
AND MEDITATION FOR CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS AND
FAMILIES
- Adventure and Wilderness Summer Camp Counselor, in California
(implementing daily activities and fun programmes, teaching basic survival skills, stress relief workshops and therapeutic counseling);
- Animation for Kids learning skiing in cooperation with a Kids Ski School in Lech, Austria;
- Cooperation with Friends of Youth Maribor since 2003
(animation, planing and implementation of various events, thematic workshops, Yoga and meditation, art therapy, teaching);
- Meditation projects in the open forest kindergarden in Bad Schwalbach, Germany.
THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE IN STRASBOURG –
Directorate for Children's Rights, France
- Conceptual design, planning and realization of public awareness raising campaigns on sexual abuse and violence of children;
- Reasearch, preparing reports and guidelines on violence among children;
- Personal assistance to programme director - preparing correspondence, reports and confidential materials, scheduling meetings and accompanying the director at international high level meetings and conferences.
FOUNDATION TOGETHER – Regional Centre for
Psychosocial Well-being of Children, Ljubljana
- Project planing, coordination and realisation;
- Conceptual design, venue selection and PR for high level cultural events hosting Slovenian delegates and celebrities;
- Office and task management, client liaison, providing admin support, planning and realisation of meetings with different institutions;
- Personal assistance to the executive director.
UNICEF SLOVENIA & UNICEF CALCUTTA
- Participating in the field activities of UNICEF Calcutta;
- Active participation in the dancing therapy for abused children and women;
- Reporting back to the UNICEF Slovenia on the work of UNICEF Calcutta, participation in the organization of different activities, field trips monitoring different projects – sanitation, education, AIDS prevention;
- Presentations/tutoring in EU-schools on the UNICEF work in India;
August 2003/2004/2008
August 2005
August - Sept. 2004
Education
October 2011
July 2011
April 2011
Dec. 2009 – July 2011
2007-2008
2001- 2007
Language Skills
Computer Skills
Artistic Skills and
Competences
3 SUMMER-CAMPS WITH THE ASSOCIATION FRIENDS
OF YOUTH in Croatia
- Striving for a better future of children from poor families;
- Organisation, animation and realisation of evening activities;
- Monitoring and coaching different activities and workshops
(drawing, reading and poetry, clothes and accessories production);
- Design, realisation of 3 fashion shows for and with children. CO-ORGANIZATION OF THE PROJECT “MOVE TO
CREATIVITY” in Liechtenstein
- Planning, coordination and realisation of the exchange promoting tolerance and organisational competences of youth from different countries;
- Coaching and tutoring the Slovenian group of youngsters. INTERNATIONAL TRAINING COURSE FOR YOUTH
LEADERS AT THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE in Strasburg,
France
- Improving French language, teaching and organisational skills, group dynamic and basics of human rights law.
Teacher Training – Simply Meditation
http://www.haleclinic.com/treatment/simply-meditation Art therapy Foundation Degree, British Association of Art Therapists, London, www.baat.org
Teacher Training – Yoga for Children, Rainbow Kids Yoga http://www.rainbowkidsyoga.net/
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design,
London – Fine Arts, Graphic Design & Art Direction European Master in Human Rights and Democratisation - Joint Master Degree of University of Padua, Italy & University of Seville, Spain
Human Rights, Women, Children and Indigenous Peoples Rights. University of Ljubljana, Slovenia - University Graduate Political Scientist
Political Sciences, Psychology, International Relations. Slovenian (Mother Tongue), English (Advanced), German
(Advanced), Spanish (Advanced), French (Upper Intermediate), Serbo-Croatian (Upper Intermediate), Russian (Basic) Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point), Stat
Graphics (SPSS), Adobe PhotoShop
Drawing and painting, Reading & Theatre, Modern Jazz, Yoga
& Meditation, Snowboarding, Jugglig, Poi Spinning, Climbing, Photography