Peer mentoring
Student Services provide training and support for those wishing to be peer mentors. This training consists of studying following a six unit course designed by the Mentoring and Befriending foundation.
This course covers the following units:
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1. What is mentoring?
- Who have been your mentors?
- What is a mentor?
- Skills for mentoring
- Helping skills
- Boundaries and confidentiality
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2. Interpersonal and communication skills
- Questioning styles
- Listening skills and Building rapport
- Ten steps to positive communication
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3. Differences, values and attitudes
- Exploring differences
- What are values and principles?
- Personal values
- Assumptions
- Cultural awareness
- Self-awareness
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4. How do we help?
- Barriers to learning
- Peer Mentoring and Support strategies
- Helping skills
- Who else can help? (Signposting)
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5. Ground Rules
- Boundaries
- Confidentiality
- Ground rules
- Top tips for mentoring success
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6. Engaging in the mentoring process
- Planning your first session
- Guidelines for mentoring
- Mentee questionnaires
- Timing and structure of sessions
- Winding down the mentoring relationship
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