The Spirit of Mentoring – A Manual for Volunteer Adults (Top seller for mentor training!) Minimum of 10 copies per order

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Minimum of 10 copies per order.

The Spirit of Mentoring – A Manual for Adult Volunteers – (updated in 2017) – has been used as a Resource book for the Mentoring Matters Mentor Training Program, as well as by other community youth mentoring programs in New Zealand and Australia. It was professionally edited and printed by the author’s publishers, Essential Resources. There are many useful tips and strategies to guide and encourage mentors of young people – the content crosses all cultures. It is a user-friendly resource and especially relevant for the post-pandemic season. Much of the basic content has been used by the author mentoring over 1000 teenagers for over forty years. The manual is a wonderful reference point for anyone parenting, coaching, tutoring or mentoring teenagers especially.

The Manual is a tribute to the pioneers of youth mentoring globally and contains ideas and opinions the author has gathered over the years, as well as from his personal experience mentoring approximately 1000 adolescents during his teaching career and training over 1000  adult youth mentors. There is a lengthy Bibliography acknowledging all those who have contributed thoughts and ideas to the collation of the material used in this manual.

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This manual is available in New Zealand only for orders of 10 or more (print on demand). 

The Spirit of Mentoring - A Manual for Adult Volunteers - (updated in 2017) - has been used as a Resource book for the Mentoring Matters Mentor Training Program, as well as by other community youth mentoring programs in New Zealand and Australia. It was professionally edited and printed by the author's publishers, Essential Resources. There are many useful tips and strategies to guide and encourage mentors of young people - the content crosses all cultures. It is a user-friendly resource and especially relevant for the post-pandemic season. Much of the basic content has been used by the author mentoring over 1000 teenagers for over forty years. The manual is a wonderful reference point for anyone parenting, coaching, tutoring or mentoring teenagers especially.

The Manual is a tribute to the pioneers of youth mentoring globally and contains ideas and opinions the author has gathered over the years, as well as from his personal experience mentoring approximately 1000 adolescents during his teaching career and training over 1000  adult youth mentors. There is a lengthy Bibliography acknowledging all those who have contributed thoughts and ideas to the collation of the material used in this manual.

Anyone living in New Zealand and wanting to order 10 or more copies, please contact Robin.

Scroll down to see what Mentors say about the Manual.

Outline of Contents:

There are numerous tips for mentors as they seek to engage with their mentees, as well as strategies for mentors to try as they connect with their mentees. Given the changing nature of the challenges facing young people in the twenty-first century, as more and more research on the so-called Generation X, Generation Y and Generation Z (!!) comes to the fore, as well as new research on the development of the brain during adolescence, the contents of this book will inspire, motivate and assist mentors and anyone working with young people as they encourage young people to reach their potential.

Preface

About Youth Empowerment Seminars

1. Background
Mentoring and being mentored - both are good for you!
What justifies youth mentoring worldwide?

2. Becoming a mentor
What is a mentor?
What does a mentor do?
What skills and attributes does an effective mentor have?
Stages of the mentoring relationship
Key points

3. Setting and getting goals
What is the role of the goal-getting mentor?
Why may a mentee battle with setting goals?
Key results of a realistic goal-setting process
The SMILER process of goal getting
A holistic process of goal getting
Handling truancy or intentions of dropping out
Key points

4. Resiliency
Why should a mentor foster resiliency?
Strategies for fostering resiliency in mentees
Key points

5. Self-concept and other adolescent issues
Introduction
Understanding self-esteem and self-image
Why are self-esteem and self-image significant in adolescence?
Identifying mentees with a poor self-image and low self-esteem
How to help your mentees develop high self-esteem and a positive self-image
Understanding the adolescent's self-concept
Understanding stress
Ideas and strategies for cross-cultural mentoring
Key points

6. Communication
Introduction
What influences communication?
Stumbling blocks to communication
Key points

7. Resolving conflicts
Introduction
Identifying your mentee's conflict style
Choosing a process of conflict resolution
Key points

Bibliography

Much of this material has been updated and can now be found in the author's recently published book, Mentoring Minutes: Weekly Messages to Encourage Anyone Working With Youth.

What Mentors Say

"User-friendly, easy to understand. Readable and not boring. Pleasing to the eye and not tiring to the mind. Great stuff. Job well done!!!"

"It has a lot of useful information. The tips are great; especially the diagrams are easy to understand."

"Excellent all round. Really like the quotes too."

"Great lay-out, lots of information, quotes and tips."

"Definitely user-friendly. Excellent lay-out. Great content. Overall, I'm very impressed. It's something I will use all the time."

"Easy to find relevant information. Easy to read; not an information overload."

"Great writing. Good images and diagrams. Liked the range of ideas for what we can 'do' with a mentee."

"Very informative. Well set out, clear and concise."

"Very, very good. Have yet to read all of it, but it is something I will do in my own time and am keen to do, as I feel there is a lot of good stuff in there."

"Really good. Easy to follow. Good diagrams. Good quotes. I think you have done an excellent job."

"Easy to read. Interesting pictures. User-friendly. Great quotes. Simple but informative. Very professional."

"Fantastic. Interesting. Well set out. Lots of great information."