{"id":20338,"date":"2026-10-05T09:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T13:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allopsycho.com\/?p=20338"},"modified":"2026-10-05T09:51:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T13:51:26","slug":"le-jour-ou-un-lievre-arctique-a-fait-mon-travail-dintervenant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allopsycho.com\/en\/le-jour-ou-un-lievre-arctique-a-fait-mon-travail-dintervenant\/","title":{"rendered":"The Day I Teamed Up with an Arctic Hare"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"20338\" class=\"elementor elementor-20338\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-385c9663 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default sc_fly_static\" data-id=\"385c9663\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d0f75f1 sc_layouts_column_icons_position_right sc_content_align_inherit sc_fly_static\" data-id=\"d0f75f1\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fbfccd3 sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-toggle\" data-id=\"fbfccd3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"toggle.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-2641\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2641\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-square-down\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><i class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened far fa-caret-square-up\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-toggle-title\" tabindex=\"0\">Key Takeaways<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-2641\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-2641\"><ul>\n<li>That night, I realized that trying to control everything with my lofty principles from university was pointless. Faced with a dead end, accepting that I could no longer control everything made way for the magic of the unexpected.<\/li>\n<li>This experience forced me to set aside my \u201cexpert\u201d stance. In Kangiqsualujjuaq, the solution didn\u2019t come from my theoretical knowledge, but from the village itself\u2014from its young people, its family ties, and a healthy dose of humility.<\/li>\n<li>Before that hare, I was a nervous young counselor who feared the unknown. Afterward, I became a professional capable of trusting the process, knowing full well that a solution always eventually presents itself, even in the most absurd way.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3c4066b sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"3c4066b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-70423303 elementor-drop-cap-yes elementor-drop-cap-view-default sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"70423303\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;drop_cap&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>I receive a call on the emergency cell phone from a mother who is worried about her 10-year-old child, who still hasn\u2019t come home. It\u2019s around 10 p.m., and I\u2019m the on-call social worker in a village in Nunavik, in the far north of Quebec.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, I had just graduated from university and was working in youth protection in a postcolonial context with the Inuit people. The mother in question was one of the clients I was assigned to, and our relationship of trust was still tenuous. It\u2019s also worth noting that I had only been in that village for five months.<br>I get out of bed, get ready quickly, and start up the red nursing Jeep, known in the community as \u201cthe social services van.\u201d I make a turn or two and spot the young child in front of a four-unit apartment building with a few people of various ages. I pull over, and before I even have time to get out of the car, he takes off, darting between the houses. He might have been only 10 years old, but he had the intuition of someone much older with a lot of life experience!<br>I quietly get out of the car and lean against the curb: \u201cWhat am I doing here? How am I going to take this child to his mother?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barely a few minutes pass before a group of young men\u2014probably teenagers\u2014heads in my direction. I remind myself: it\u2019s late at night, I haven\u2019t met many people since I arrived in the village, and I brace myself for the worst.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you looking for Johnny?\u201d one of them asks me in English.<\/p>\n<p>I don't answer in the affirmative, trying to uphold professional secrecy and confidentiality. But in a small village like Kangiqsualujjuaq, word gets around despite our best efforts.<\/p>\n<p>That said, these young men set out to find the boy, and all I could tell them was to avoid physically restraining him, scaring him, or threatening him until I arrived.<\/p>\n<p>About fifteen minutes later, there I was with young Johnny, along with five or six teenagers who had come to my rescue. I tried my best to convince him to come with me back to his mother's house\u2026 do you think he complied?<\/p>\n<p>Not at all! He walks away, realizing that I won\u2019t physically stop him. So I walk alongside him and try to reason with him. I told you it was a small village, right? Well, we run into another young boy, about twelve years old, who tells me he\u2019s Johnny\u2019s uncle and tries to help me convince his nephew to go back to his mother.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the unexpected help I received that evening, despair crept in slowly but surely, and all I could think about was that I would have to spend the night on my feet with this young man, since there was no other option\u2026<br>Suddenly, a little fur ball\u2014quite round, actually\u2014dashed off in front of us and disappeared between the houses.<\/p>\n<p>They immediately chase after the animal, which I quickly realized was a Arctic hare. Since the village is in the mountains, we end up on our stomachs, crawling toward a slope where the hare had stopped. One of the boys throws a rock at it, causing it to run off again, and we lose sight of it.<\/p>\n<p>We get up, and I ask him if he\u2019s ready to go back to his mother\u2019s house, which he agrees to. I end up in my bed around midnight, staring blankly at the ceiling, wondering what just happened.<\/p>\n<p>To this day, this story never ceases to amaze me. Every time I tell it, I have a hard time believing it myself, since it still seems unreal to me even today.<\/p>\n<p>You know what? 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