What is Mentoring ?

Mentoring is a powerful personal development and empowerment tool. It is an effective way of helping people to progress in their lives and is becoming increasing popular as its potential is realised. It is a partnership between two people and is a helpful relationship based upon mutual trust and respect. A mentor is a guide who can help the student to find the right direction and who can help them to develop solutions to issues that the student needs to resolve in order to achieve great things . Mentors rely upon having had similar experiences to gain an empathy with the student and an understanding of their issues.  A mentor should help the student to believe in themselves and boost their confidence. A mentor should ask questions and challenge, while providing guidance and encouragement. Mentoring allows the student to explore new ideas in confidence.  Mentoring is about becoming more self aware, taking responsibility for your life and directing your life in the direction you decide, rather than leaving it to chance.

The Life Skills Mentoring Courses

The Life Skills team have developed three very effective mentoring courses for young people, which are attached to the main Life Skills course. Each mentoring course is designed to be delivered to young people with specific characteristics or personality issues which have led to either bad behaviour, a serious lack of confidence or for young people that excel in a particular activity and require some assistance to further improve their performance both mentally and physically.

Bad Behaviour -
A unique experience in which the participants of the course are taken through a series of exercises to enable them to understand their current behaviour, what they need to learn to change this behaviour and the positive results of making these changes. This course is designed to provide an immediate change in behaviour and as a result is delivered in a boot camp style.

Low Self Esteem & Confidence - 
A very effect set of exercises designed to explore the reasons for the students low self esteem and confidence, the positive ways to overcome this personality trait and how to achieve great things in the future by applying a simple set of rules. 

Improved Performance - 
We get to meet young people on a daily basis that have a specific talent at their chosen subject or sport. As a way of nurturing this talent, we have designed a child friendly mentoring course to provide these young people with the required skills to develop this talent to its fullest potential and to make them realise that the skills to become the best they can be at one subject can be applied to all activities.

For further information on these mentoring courses, contact us...