Chris Macfarlane

Volunteering: keeping it fun or managing your career

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1. vu.edu.au Victoria University CRICOS Provider No: 00124K (Melbourne), 02475D (Sydney) Transition to Practice – 2016 VOLUNTEERING: keeping it fun or managing your career Dr. Chris Macfarlane Osteopath
2. vu.edu.au Victoria University CRICOS Provider No: 00124K (Melbourne), 02475D (Sydney) VOLUNTEERING Definition (Dictionary.com) 1. a person who voluntarily offers him/herself for a service or undertaking. 2. a person who performs a service willingly and without pay. Credit: FFDC Credit: FFDC Credit: FFDC
3. vu.edu.au Victoria University CRICOS Provider No: 00124K (Melbourne), 02475D (Sydney) WHY VOLUNTEER? Its all about me… Summit of Mt Kosciuszko to Sydney – 650 km in 10 days. 6 students, 4+ hours of clinic each day - about 400 treatments, emptied 1 x 40 foot container of bags and partook in 1 or 2 beers… Volunteering – nothing like it! Credit: macfarlane
4. vu.edu.au Victoria University CRICOS Provider No: 00124K (Melbourne), 02475D (Sydney) Helps you! •  Cos I love my job! •  Job variation •  Keeping the current one •  Change support •  I achieve my altruistic goals •  I develop my skillset •  Osteo •  Business •  Leadership •  Training for volunteers – local council, volunteer organisation •  It gives me job variation with little risk •  I have stories to tell my students! •  The evidence supports volunteering being good for my heath •  The OBA require you to reflect on your career to support your CPD. Volunteering supports testing the water and career change … Credit: macfarlane
5. vu.edu.au Victoria University CRICOS Provider No: 00124K (Melbourne), 02475D (Sydney) It is not all one-way! Recipients do get something! •  Get yourself started with volunteering •  ‘Marketing’ •  Get known •  Engage the local community •  Show off your skills •  Help your treatment outcomes: •  Support your patients who are lonely, need support or add a skill •  ‘Loneliness is a common experience; as many as 80% of those under 18 years of age and 40% of adults over 65 years of age report being lonely at least sometimes’ and ‘Loneliness Matters for Physical Health and Mortality’ »  Hawkley & Cacioppo (2010) Helps your business
6. vu.edu.au Victoria University CRICOS Provider No: 00124K (Melbourne), 02475D (Sydney) Why volunteer? Its not all one-way You can help others too! The ‘others’ get A happier healthier practitioner A skilled practitioner Improved treatment outcomes An all round better job! Credit: macfarlane Tassie in 1993 – across on the Sea Cat, cycle 500 Km, serve a few coffees, treat a few people. Volunteering – just like a holiday!
7. vu.edu.au Victoria University CRICOS Provider No: 00124K (Melbourne), 02475D (Sydney) WHERE TO VOLUNTEER? I vary my job We treat the riders! I get treatment experience Credit: unknown/macfarlane
8. vu.edu.au Victoria University CRICOS Provider No: 00124K (Melbourne), 02475D (Sydney) There is no limit! Ask an osteopath… •  Osteopathy Australia •  Avalon airshow •  Refugee organisations •  Uni external field clinics •  Community talks and workshops •  SCTF ANZ •  Disadvantaged children •  Paralympics •  Developing nations Nepal / Thailand / South Africa / Laos •  RMIT & VU Check the resources page next Check your local library & local council Ask around your local community
9. vu.edu.au Victoria University CRICOS Provider No: 00124K (Melbourne), 02475D (Sydney) References •  http://www.helpguide.org/ - Volunteering and its Surprising Benefits •  http://www.helpguide.org/articles/work-career/volunteering-and-its-surprising-benefits.htm •  Borgonovi F, Doing well by doing good. The relationship between formal volunteering and self-reported health and happiness. Social Science & Medicine 2008, 66: 2321-2334 •  Piliavin J A, Siegl E, Health Benefits of Volunteering in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study Journal of Health and Social Behavior December 2007 48: 450-464 •  Hawkley LC, Cacioppo JT. Loneliness matters: a theoretical and empirical review of consequences and mechanisms. Ann Behav Med. 2010;40(2):218-227. Resources •  Volunteering Australia •  http://www.volunteeringaustralia.org/ •  http://www.volunteeringaustralia.org/policy-and-best-practise/definition-of-volunteering/ (Has in-depth definition and principles) •  Pro Bono Australia http://www.probonoaustralia.com.au/ •  Aussie Action Abroad – Nicola Perry (nee Blay) http://www.aussieactionabroad.com/
10. vu.edu.au Victoria University CRICOS Provider No: 00124K (Melbourne), 02475D (Sydney) Current volunteer roles: President: Sutherland Cranial Teaching Foundation (SCTF ANZ) & First Friends of Dandenong Creek BBQ guy Thanks… Credit: V Pearse / FFDC Credit: V Pearse / FFDC
11. NAME: Chris Macfarlane DEPARTMENT: Osteopathy PHONE +61 3 9919 1620 EMAIL chris.macfarlane@vu.edu.au CONTACT DETAILS