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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Aug. 2011 – Present

Sept. - Dec. 2009

June – September 2009

July 2006 – April 2007

Michelle Ternovšek

Ljubljana, Slovenija

003**-**-***-***

acynoz@r.postjobfree.com

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

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