Mentoring Mindset is designed to help participants understand the role of communication in mentoring relationships as well as to teach active listening techniques to enhance understanding and build trust. Mentoring Mindset instructs on asking open-ended questions to promote reflection and self-awareness and provides strategies for giving constructive feedback in a supportive and non-judgmental manner. It also teaches strategies for effective communication in challenging situations.

Building Resilience and Empowerment in Youths is a workshop designed to instruct about the benefits of a Growth Mindset and gives strategies for cultivating a Growth Mindset and examples of how it can be applied. Building Resilience also instructs about Positive Youth Development, its strategies, and how to address systemic inequalities and promote social justice. The workshop expands on trauma-informed care, its benefits, and strategies for implementation.

New Mentor Training allows new mentors to review effective mentoring techniques and frameworks. MENTOR Virginia utilizes a specialized curriculum that combines the latest research in mentoring and best practices in youth development to teach participants the role of a mentor in a young person’s life and relationship-building techniques as well as stages of relationship development. The New Mentor Training is designed to instruct new mentors on how to communicate effectively with young people while setting boundaries and to learn about trauma-informed practices in mentoring. Register here.

MENTOR Virginia partnered with The Mentoring Partnership of Southwest Pennsylvania to bring Everyday Mentoring®, an effective curriculum and toolkit for adults looking to positively impact young adults in their lives. This training is designed for anyone who interacts regularly with young people, from teachers and sport coaches, to parents/caregivers and crossing guards. Everyday Mentoring® aims to prepare adults to help youth feel known, recognized, cared for, and supported.

The Elements of Effective Practice (EEP) is a workshop series designed for mentoring program professionals or volunteers who are involved in mentoring program operations. MENTOR Virginia offers a 8-part interactive workshop series on the Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring, which are the research-informed and practitioner-approved standards for creating and sustaining quality youth mentoring programs and impactful mentoring relationships.

Each workshop is designed to cover a critical component of mentoring program design, operation, and evaluation. Participants who attend all eight of the live workshops in the series will earn a certificate. We also have an assessment process that will allow those who were unable to attend all eight workshop sessions to remain eligible to earn the series certificate. Contact us for more information.