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Expanding the Concept of Match Supervision: Helping mentors, mentees and coordinators manage expectations to improve match longevity. This workshop. Explore what drives people away Understand how our human expectations are sometimes our biggest obstacles
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Expanding the Concept of Match Supervision: Helping mentors, mentees and coordinators manage expectationsto improve match longevity
This workshop • Explore what drives people away • Understand how our human expectations are sometimes our biggest obstacles • Cultivating sensitivity and understanding • Learn new tools and learn from each other how best to inform, educate and inspire others
The Facts about Relationships • Consistent contact • Match closeness or connection • Some shared interests • Social activity encourages closer relationships • Prescriptive vs. youth oriented approach • Strong connections early • Sufficient mentor training • Perceived lack of mentee motivation • Continuous agency support • Poor relationship skills • Unfulfilled expectations
What is YOUR unfulfilled story? Turning on Your Skills & Tools To Use • Start with a CONVERSATION! • Learn how to REFRAME & rename! • Growth & Learning can be PARALELL PROCESS… notice what you are holding onto.
Correct Perceptions Early On • Orientation Messages: What are you saying in your outreach? • Screening out those whose expectations are too lofty or unrealistic. • Deliver a training that helps lower expectations while keeping them interested and excited to be involved in something worthwhile. • Understand that every interaction can be a good time to correct misconceptions and every interaction with a mentor holds an opportunity to reframe challenges into opportunities.
Your meeting your mentee today…. • What are you feeling just before your meet? • What happens when you come face to face with your mentee? • What does your mentee look like? • What do you do on your first visit with each other?
Mentors’ Self Evaluation 1.______________________________________ 2.______________________________________ 3.______________________________________ 4.______________________________________
Bruce Beckwith, Director of Services (212) 953-0945 bbeckwith@mentoring.org