Peer Mentor Training - Students' Feedback

Students attending Peer Mentor Training (between 3 and 6 hours in length) made the following comments about the training they had received and how they had benefited from it:

• the new skills we have gained and we are very thankful and honored to be a part of this.
• How we can help others in different ways. Have fun, playing games and acting. Mingle with others and getting to know them.
• The activities and the food – and learning how to be an influential person rather than a leader.
• I enjoyed the activities and being able to interact with the other students in a positive way mostly.
• I learnt a lot about helping and approaching others positively. The activities give me ideas on how to help my mentee and learning to trust others.
• I learnt many new ideas to connect with my mentee.
• Playing activities. Getting to know others better. Learning to become a good mentor.
• Doing the activities and thinking about ways to be a good peer mentor. The free food we received.
• Getting to know what a mentor is and what they do.
• I found the lesson/exercise about gossiping really effective and practical.
• Learning personal values of being a mentor. What it takes to be one of the best mentors.
• Learning and looking in-depth into how to be a peer mentor which can be related to other things in life. Also the listening activities. I enjoyed everything, as I know it is a great benefit to know the things being explained.
• Reminded me of basic acts of kindness and how valuable they are to everyone.
• Our activities and the fact that I’ve learnt a lot about being a mentor because we got to touch base with some stuff.
• Doing different activities not just sitting around.
• Being able to learn more about how to become a better person in order to relate to my student.
• Opening up and having fun, learning qualities that I didn’t even have. I enjoyed every moment and it was fun and good encouragement.
• I enjoyed everything. It was actually good that we all enjoyed the training and was worth it.
• It was funny and helpful and it was easy to follow because it was explained and it got my attention.
• I enjoyed the activities that we did, like the communication activities that we had at the end and the stories that he told us.
• Good job Robin Cox; nice talking and mingling with you. Keep your good job up. “HELP SOME MORE STUDENTS!” Thanks for giving advice.
• Thank you for giving us this opportunity to better ourselves.
• I was actually hoping to gain a bit of confidence in approaching others and I think I’ve achieved that.