
One Caring Human Society - Our story
Our mission
One Caring Human’s (OCH) mission is to offer compassionate presence and touch by registered massage therapists to decrease stress and improve quality and meaning of life for the dying in hospice and the elderly in residential care.
Introduction
Kelly Graham Tick, Registered Massage Therapist (RMT) since 2012 and teacher from 2016 to 2022 at a college of massage therapy, ran an outreach program with her students. The program offered a presence and therapeutic massage to the elderly in a care home in Surrey, BC. In 2020 the program was suspended due to COVID, and visits were able to be resumed only 18 months later, in the fall of 2021.
During those 18 months of lockdown, residents suffered greatly from isolation, lack of stimulation and loneliness. In retrospect, some would have rather taken a chance with contracting COVID if it meant they could visit with their loved ones. One resident commented that if just one caring human had been allowed to visit regularly to give them company, compassion and touch, it would have made things so much easier.
And thus One Caring Human was born.
What we’ve accomplished / what we’re doing now
How you can help/Get involved!
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We offer compassionate presence, therapeutic touch, social inclusion, advocacy, and community connection to the elderly and the dying in residential care, hospice, and in the communities of the Lower Mainland of BC, support caregivers, raise awareness with research and education, and expand our impact by collaborating with organizations that serve vulnerable populations.
We offer chair massage events for organizations who serve vulnerable populations. We work with municipalities, non-profits, and charities as a way to impact those they serve with human connection and safe touch. Previous events include International Overdose Awareness Day, Point-in-time Count day of service for those facing housing challenges, and fundraising galas.
We are available for in-service training or pre-service training and development workshops, speaking engagements, hands-on classes, consulting, and group facilitation. Offering personal coaching, small or large organization training for you, your staff, and your stakeholders.
We are committed to supporting a membership of exceptional caregivers and volunteers, in order to increase the quality of life for those we serve.
Nurturing touch and compassionate presence have profound effects on human nervous systems, inducing a sense of well-being.
One Caring Human explores ways for all of us to be seen, and to understand what it means to reconnect with ourselves, our communities, one another, and live into our open-hearted potential.
“To be transformational, we must be relational and not just transactional.” - Aiko Bethea
Kelly is an RMT, an educator, facilitator, life coach, storyteller, writer, collaborator, lover of life, people, animals and the planet, hugger of trees, hand holder of the olders, resounder of respite, duchess of nurturing touch and compassionate presence, proud mama of amazing humans, plants, and fur babies.
Kelly is passionate and dedicated to sharing love, increasing humanity and access to quality of care for elders, those at the end of life, and those who are isolated and vulnerable in our communities.
Kirni is an RMT, an educator, facilitator, collaborator, sorcerer of soul seeking, lover of life and learning, queen of compassion, natural nurturer, empress of empowerment, goddess of gratitude, arbiter of authenticity and abundance, allower of individual journeys.
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