Mentor Tips and Activities

Use this forum to discuss the art of mentoring, including tips for handling challenging situations, strategies for building trust, and suggestions of fun and meaningful activities matches can engage in.

Welcome to Mentoring Tips and Activities

Posted Mon, 06/01/2009 - 16:57 by Amy Cannata

Welcome!

Mentoring is an art not a science. Just like fine art, in the art of mentoring, there are multiple techniques to achieve your desired result. I will be monitoring this section and look forward to hearing about your great ideas for match activities. Please remember before you get started to review the "Forum FAQs" and the "Forum Guidelines" that can be found by clicking the tabs at the top of the page.

I recently learned how to play disc golf with my mentee. What low-cost activities are your mentor's having success with?

"College Positive Mentoring Toolkit" -- Another wonderful resource from Mentor Michigan

Posted Mon, 10/17/2011 - 11:06 by Kay Logan

Mentor Michigan and Michigan Campus Compact developed the College Positive Mentoring Toolkit, designed to provide mentors with information, conversation starters, match activity ideas, and ready-to-use activities, to help their mentees take important steps toward higher education. The guide is available for free download from the Mentor Michigan website. Although some of the information is specific to Michigan (they list the Michigan higher ed access web sites for example), the guides could be easily adapted for other states.

Group Mentoring

Posted Wed, 10/05/2011 - 07:10 by mr.rodriguez

Hello, I am starting a new group mentoring project for at risk youth. I need some information about mentoring curriculum and standards. As we are a new project we need some help to develop our curriculum. Anything will help.

New Resource and Webinar: Guide for Mentors on Promoting Healthy Eating and Physical Activity

Posted Tue, 05/10/2011 - 10:28 by Kay Logan

The Harvard School of Public Health has published a new resource: Eat Well, Stay Active, Have Fun: A Guide for Mentors that can be downloaded for free.

Grant opportunity from Winning Futures

Posted Tue, 05/10/2011 - 06:28 by kris@winningfut...

At Winning Futures, we have secured $5,000 in private funds to be able to offer our life skills and goal-setting workbooks, handbooks, and training program to organizations focusing on youth development (mentoring programs, schools, and churches). Agencies interested in implementing our evidence-based curriculum into their program just need to fill out a very SHORT application on our website www.WinningFuturesBooks.org.

Selected programs will receive the workbooks, handbooks, and training at no cost!

Initiating Phone Calls & Building Trust Early in the Match

Posted Thu, 01/27/2011 - 10:31 by Amy Cannata

A new program coordinator recently expressed her frustration with teens in her mentoring program not returning phones calls and not wanting to open up to their mentors. Here's my advice to her.

Mentor Discount Program - Need Suggestions

Posted Tue, 11/09/2010 - 10:07 by Emily Aaronson

Hi everyone,

Online Curriculum for Mentors and Mentees on Setting and Meeting Aspirational Goals from Mentoring Partnership of Long Island

Posted Thu, 11/04/2010 - 14:17 by Kay Logan

The Mentoring Partnership of Long Island (MPLI), has launched a new online curriculum for mentors and mentees to guide them in setting and meeting a young person's aspirational goals called Discovering the Possibilities. It is designed for eighth and ninth graders and their mentors and is free for download from the MPLI website.

Centering & Grounding Middle School Girls in Order to Have a Productive Session

Posted Wed, 04/28/2010 - 09:42 by Gary Kosman_Ame...

Eleanor Rouse, a coach with Girls For A Change (www.girlsforachange.org), recently created a phenomenal strategy to help middle school girls focus and center themselves, ultimately leading to greater concentration and teamwork during each mentoring session.

Check out the strategy at http://tinyurl.com/dragongfc.

End of year activity

Posted Wed, 03/31/2010 - 09:05 by Christine Stransky

I'm looking for a fun, end-of-year activity for our school-based mentoring program. The couple activities I have in mind are craft-based and I'm concerned that teenage boys may not like them (and a couple of my mentors!). I really wanted to do something with photos but I'm open to ideas.
Our program serves 40 students, grades 3-12, so we could have a different activity for elementary and secondary students.
Thanks for your help!

Syndicate content