“That was much more than I expected.”
Training is integral to the Journey process. The program takes 16 hours and includes, lectures, group work, peer exercises, private/personal reflection and unstructured conversation over meals.
Training is conducted by a team. Our training team leader, Paul Stewart, helped write the Australian Youth mentoring Guidelines.
The sessions cover many topics. To give an idea:
Defining Mentoring
- Earn the Right
- The power of the opportunity before you
- The nature and limits of the relationship.
- Knowing what a successful outcome looks like.
Getting Started
- The mentoring agreement
- Preframing your relationship
- Boundaries Enmeshment and rescuing
- Matching mentors and mentees
- Privacy/Confidentiality/Duty of Care
- What do I have to offer
Building Relationship
- Valuing relationship
- Listening/Questioning
- Staying “present”.
Decision Making and Problem Solving
- Decision Making
- Problem Solving
- How to be a person who can occupy this space with others.
Maintaining Relationship
- Trust – what it is, how to build it and keep it.
- Ego
- Inter generational understandings
- Being/Doing
Soul Searching
- Integrity
- Morality/Etrhics
- Role modelling
- The promises you make and expect to be made to you
Big Issues
- What is your “nightmare” scenario?
- Confronting your fears
Closing a relationship
- Triggering
- Mourning
- How to close and say goodbye
- Revisiting the mentoring agreement