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