All Mentoring articles – Page 2
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BlogReady-to-use Mentoring: Invitation and Challenge
A couple of years ago I was drafted in to help a rural youth work trust with a couple of youth groups and drop-ins – the leader had stepped down from the groups because it was clearly not working for him or the young people…
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IssuesReady-to-use Mentoring: YouTube Channels
YouTube channels are big business these days – teenagers are earning millions of pounds, getting millions of views each month and often making careers out of it. Of course, the majority of teenagers are consumers, spending hours watching this content. Yes, this can be unhealthy, but it can also be educational and it can actually raise aspirations in young people who might otherwise not have aspirations.
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IssuesReady-to-use Mentoring: The Character Pyramid
This character pyramid is a resource that could easily structure a whole term of mentoring sessions. This session just covers the basic idea.
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IssuesReady-to-use Mentoring: Clarity
This year I moved into a new role mentoring artists for a Christian record label. One of the key issues I find musicians struggle with is the muddiness of ‘not knowing.’ Not knowing what to do, how to do it, or why it matters. It restricts their creativity, undermines their goals and paralyses their to-do list! My advice is mostly common sense, but without an outside focus they don’t know where to begin or what to get on with first. The potential is there, but confusion robs them of achieving it.
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IssuesReady-to-use Mentoring: Comfort, Stretch and Panic
Ask your mentee to suggest the first word that comes into their head to do with what it means to have character, starting with each letter in the word ‘character’ (eg courage, heart, accountability etc).
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IssuesReady-to-use Mentoring: Are you Dave Gorman?
A few years ago, comedians Dave Gorman and Danny Wallace coined a new approach from which they were able to build a career …
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IssuesReady-to-use Mentoring: Faith and Deeds
Last month a friend of mine posted a comment online about how much pain he was in from a persistent knee problem. I knew he wasn’t a Christian but felt compassion for him and had faith that God could heal his knee.
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BlogReady-to-use Mentoring: One of your five-a-day
Here’s a challenge… Don’t think of a pink elephant… I said don’t! I bet you can’t get that image out of your head now.
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IssuesReady-to-use Mentoring: Lost And Found
What’s the most precious thing you have ever lost? When I was 18 I had my backpack pinched – and with it, a diary I had kept for several years, including throughout my amazing gap year teaching in Tanzania. It contained my memories, thoughts, experiences, poetry, drawings, doodles and so on (I also lost my Walkman and Michael Jackson cassette tape but let’s leave my age out of this). As you can imagine, I was gutted.
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IssuesReady-to-use Mentoring: Petit Fours
This month’s mentoring resource is all about fours. Hopefully the following ‘fours’ will help you to bake some delicious delights of your own with your mentee as you follow your own special recipe for discipleship! Bon appetit!
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IssuesReady-to-use Mentoring: The listening game
I recently did some mentoring training for a fab youth discipleship programme called The Ascent. I loved their heart for discipleship and willingness to learn new mentoring skills in order to get alongside young people and walk with them through their ongoing faith and life journey.
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IssuesReady-to-use mentoring: Get out of the office
‘Learning by doing’ is a hugely important principle in contemporary youth work and specifically in mentoring. It embodies the wisdom that is a few years old now, around the shift from a believe-behave-belong faith development to a belong-believe-behave progression.
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IssuesMentoring: Never Giving Up
It’s not often that I’m met by a wall of paparazzi flashes when leaving XLP’s offices. After being shouted at to get out of the way, I accepted that perhaps they were more interested in Will and Kate than they were in me…
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BlogReady-to-use Mentoring: From great to good
Good is the enemy of great.’ (James C. Collins Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t)
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IssuesReady-To-Use Mentoring: Spiritual Growth
Unlike business, which can collect data on performance, or social media, which can count ‘likes’ and ‘shares,’ things-of-thespirit are rather more tricky to quantify.
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IssuesReady-to-use Mentoring: Straw Polls, Straw Hats and Straw…Berries?
Youth ministry is often earmarked by its use of tenuous links. Making bread is a good one (to lead into talking about what ‘yeast’ we allow to grow and rise in our lives) or having a Nerf gun fight (to introduce the topic of what ‘fiery darts’ we shoot at each other with our speech). It struck me that this approach works well in mentoring too. As many of us meet in cafes, there’s often plastic straws knocking around so here’s ten ideas of discussion starters using straws!
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BlogReady-To-Use Mentoring: What are you hiding?
I heard a story of a mentee who said that he holds back in relationships to protect people from himself. He felt so negative about his bad points and shameful secrets that he felt he needed to put up walls for their sake. Perhaps this is extreme, but we all have areas we hide, indicative of low self-esteem or unresolved issues.
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IssuesThe Youth work Lab: Mentoring
Welcome to the Youth Work Lab: the place where key youth work theories are tried and tested by on-the-ground practitioners. Each month,
the team from StreetSpace selects and explores a piece of youth work theory, and puts it to the test in creative and pioneering ways -
IssuesReady-to-use mentoring: Listen up!
The worst mentoring relationship I have ever been in came early on in my mentoring ‘career’ …
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IssuesReady-To-Use Mentoring: The relationships matrix
There is precious little instruction and guided reflection on how to have a healthy (offline) social network and how to develop a range of healthy relationships. There’s no qualifications needed to become a parent, no training courses on how to be a good friend; a bit of thought could help us to reflect God better in our key relationships.
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