About our workshops
Since its inception NZYMN has had a focus on strengthening intentional youth mentoring in Aotearoa. Part of this work has concentrated on building mentor capability and sharing resources. To achieve this aim we offer a Guide to Effective and Safe Practice in Youth Mentoring and have developed training workshops to support this document.
Foundational Skills
This two day workshop delves into the foundational skills required to be an effective mentor to a young person. You'll gain insights into the art of mentoring; guiding young people in exploring their identity and culture; handling risks and behaviour when engaging with them; fostering effective communication; and aiding in their personal development. Whether you’re new to mentoring or looking to refine your skllls, this workshop promises valuable takeaways.
Quality relationships
This workshop is focused on the art of forming and maintaining relationships with young people in mentoring.
Workshop objectives are to learn more about effective mentoring, to develop specialised skills to build relationships with young people, and to provide new frameworks, research and skills to strengthen quality mentoring relationships, available for all levels of mentoring programme delivery, including coordinators, teachers, mentors, youth workers and volunteers.
Whai Wāhitanga
This workshop is all about encouraging active youth participation in mentoring.
Workshop Objectives
Learn more about effective mentoring, with a particular focus on the unique perspective of young people.
Practise what we preach and involve young people in training others about youth mentoring.
Support young people to share their experiences in mentoring.
Consider what helps and hinders young people engaging in mentoring.
Understand and enable the conditions of real youth participation (what needs to be in place).
Become familiar with relevant models and frameworks, starting with mātauranga Māori and locating ourselves in a global context.
Reflect on your own, and your organisation’s capacity to involve young people in decisions that affect them.
Develop specialised skills, in mentors and mentoring organisations, that encourage and support youth participation in decision making.
Strengthen regional and national networks in the well-established youth mentoring community.
Strengths-Based Skills
We are excited to announce a brand new workshop in our Sharing the Kaupapa series. This new workshop is all about exploring strengths-based approaches in Youth Mentoring.
In this workshop our aim is to:
increase depth in understanding the strengths-based philosophy
identify the relevance of a strengths focus in youth mentoring
shift youth mentoring practice and the language we use with and about young people to become increasingly strengths-based and mana-affirming
explore a reflective process to guide change (the Column Tool)
practice 12 strengths-based skills
build even stronger youth mentoring networks, and of-course
have fun!
Hosted workshops
We are pleased to be able to offer in-house / community based workshops on request. Please contact us to discuss your requirements - james@youthmentoring.org.nz
