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Name: Webinar – 5/7/20 – Stronger Together: Building Healthier Human-Animal Bonds in the 21st Century – Virox
Start: 2020-05-07T11:00:00-07:00
End: 2020-05-07T12:00:00-07:00

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Webinar – 5/7/20 – Stronger Together: Building Healthier Human-Animal Bonds in the 21st Century – Virox

May 7, 2020 @ 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PDT

Humanity’s fate has always been linked to the health and cooperation of other animals. While it may seem like 21st Century technology has usurped our dependence upon and responsibility for the wellbeing of animals, it has done the opposite. Technology is revealing just how essential the human-animal bond remains. This presentation will reexamine the profound history of the human-animal bond through the lens of the latest science that tells us we are not done “using” animals, because we were never just using them. This is the new awareness that can tap into much deeper and rewarding relationships with animals and make us stronger and healthier together.

Meg Daley Olmert is an expert on the neurobiology of the human-animal bond and its therapeutic effects. In 2009, her groundbreaking book, Made for Each Other: The Biology of the Human-Animal Bond, was published to international acclaim. Scholars from a wide range of disciplines applauded the clear and rigorous scientific case Olmert made that human civilization and animal domestication are an evolutionary coincidence of our shared neurobiological heritage. It is this shared primal brain network that creates the sense of calm and attraction in which social bonds—among and between species—can flourish. This affiliative mind/body state is also essential to the wellbeing of all social mammals.

For the last decade Meg has served as the Director of Research for Warrior Canine Connection, an innovative and highly effective animal assisted therapy that uses the training of service dogs to reduce the symptoms of combat trauma. In 2015 she became the scientific advisor to The Comfort Dog Project in Uganda—the first animal-assisted trauma therapy in central Africa. Meg continues to publish and collaborate with scientists worldwide and is a much sought-after guest speaker at academic and professional conferences and has given two widely viewed TEDxTalks.

https://event.webinarjam.com/channel/Virox-Animal_Health