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Adult Mentoring: Skills & Activities

Get a mentee talking about what's really going on, with sharper listening and a bank of simple activities for when conversation stalls.

  • 53 minutes
  • 1 CPD hour
  • Certificate
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About this course

Some mentees know exactly what they want to work on. Many don't, or can't find the words, and a mentor who fills the silence with advice ends up solving the wrong problem.

This is about listening properly and helping people tell their own story. You'll look at how tone and body language carry more than words, and how to set your own assumptions aside. Then there are about 20 activities to pick from. Use a blank clock face to talk through a mentee's day, a school map coloured red, amber and green for where they feel safe. Try blob trees, a text from their 80-year-old self, or a made-up character called Sam for talking about hard things at one remove.

None of them is compulsory. Pick the one that fits the person in front of you, and leave the rest.

Modules

25 modules
  1. 1Wrap up
  2. 2Introduction1 min
  3. 3Communication Skills7 min
  4. 4Mentoring Activities3 min
  5. 5Conversation ladder3 min
  6. 6Do Something1 min
  7. 7Clock face1 min
  8. 8Letter to self3 min
  9. 9Route maps2 min
  10. 10School map2 min
  11. 11Blob tree2 min
  12. 12Values and wish list2 min
  13. 13Extremes2 min
  14. 14Marginal gains3 min
  15. 15Scaling2 min
  16. 16Rating1 min
  17. 17Visualising2 min
  18. 18Stories and avatars2 min
  19. 19Shadowing1 min
  20. 20Advice line1 min
  21. 21Questionnaires2 min
  22. 22Using exceptions1 min
  23. 23Role play2 min
  24. 24Links4 min
  25. 25Negative Automatic Thoughts (NATs)2 min

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