Recent research has shown that mentoring is an effective tool to combat reoffending and support those leaving prison (Hean & Sæbjørnsen, 2023), (Lowther-Payne et al., 2024). In London, organisations such as Spark Inside, Switchback, and Standout are all using mentoring or coaching to help prison leavers turn around their lives. Continue reading
This spring, join recent graduates of our PGCert in Coaching and Mentoring for more short, free mentor Continuing Professional Development (CPD). Each guest speaker shares a passion for applying their learning in diverse areas, from mentoring prison leavers, leading without raising your voice, to becoming a thinking partner. So, please come and share interesting ideas. We expect an inspiring series of 30-minute lunchtime discussions!
Our winter season of short free mentor CPD is here. Our guest speakers will take you deeper into the use of an ikigai mindset, considering how mentoring can impact an organisation, exploring strength-based mentoring, using stories as a mentor and providing ongoing support for mentors. Please come and share some interesting ideas. It’s going to be an inspiring series of lunchtimes!
This autumn, a short series of free mentor CPD. Our guest speakers will take you from a framework for deepening mentoring conversation, via mentoring with Ikigai, to a discussion of mentoring and burn out. So come, meet some interesting people, eat your lunch maybe and definitely share some interesting ideas. It’s going to be an inspiring series of Monday lunchtimes!
A guiding hand: “If you had told me when I started this role 18 months ago, that I would be confidently doing what I am doing now in a year or so’s time, I wouldn’t have believed you. I did not think I had the necessary capability. Thank you for believing in me and supporting me, from the person I was then, to the one I am now”.
During 2022, the WWF global mentoring programme saw an increasing number of staff joining the programme from Africa, Asia and South/Middle America. 60% of mentees and nearly 30% of mentors came from the Global South. Regardless of location, mentees say that mentoring assisted them with work-related challenges, built skills on the job and made them more confident. Mentors were motivated by the programme and found it developed their leadership skills.
When I ask people to describe their current mentoring relationship, or a past mentoring experience, I find it fascinating how much the depth of these mentoring relationships can vary. So let’s explore the diversity of learning richness that can occur in mentoring relationships and whether mentoring is just a nice chat, or a conversation with a purpose?
I am still glowing with pride that I ran the London Marathon last week. Yes, I was very slow — 5 hours and 8 minutes to be precise! However, it is 19 years since I last ran a marathon, I am over 60 and have had three major operations since 2019, so I am actually thrilled with my result.
Continuing the fun that Lis and some of our loyal mentor community have enjoyed with our recent series of CPD sessions, we would like to invite you to more mentor development learning sessions on the following topics over the next few months.
We are having enormous fun with our 2022 lunch-time webinar series. Next up are sessions to enhance mentors’ skills when mentoring a woman.
We are delivering these particular topics in recognition of International Women’s Day on the 8th March 2022.
