The Youth Mentoring Network

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Sharing the Kaupapa

Quality Relationships in Youth Mentoring 

This workshop is focused on the art of forming and maintaining relationships with young people in mentoring. 

Workshop objectives

  • To learn more about effective mentoring
  • To develop specialised skills to build relationships with young people
  • To reintroduce and remind practitioners about the Guide to Effective and Safe Practice in Youth Mentoring (2nd edition)
  • To expand upon Section 3 of the Guide: The Mentoring Relationship
  • 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.
  • To strengthen regional and national networks in the well-established youth mentoring community
  • To have fun!

Workshop content and structure

The workshop is structured to mirror the typical mentoring relationship journey.

  • Youth mentoring recognises culture
  • Youth mentoring requires contemplation
  • Youth mentoring prioritises connections
  • Youth mentoring creates covenants
  • Youth mentoring includes challenges
  • Youth mentoring needs continuity
  • Youth mentoring enables change 

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