minds.ts info course in vilnius, lithuania

MINDS.TS info course in Vilnius, Lithuania

Martynas Norbutas

Info course agenda28th of March

09.00 – 09.10: Registration of Participants;09.10 – 09.20: Introduction of the project; 09.20 – 11.00: Introduction of the participants;11.00 – 11.15: Coffee break11.15 – 12.45 : Exercise: What is mentoring? Who is a mentor? Who is the mentee? What are the benefits of mentoring? In what situations the mentoring can be used?12.45 – 13.30 Lunch13.30 – 14.00: Why Mentoring? Situations analyses14.00 – 15.00: Preparing mentoring plan/ coffee break15.00 – 17.00: Discussion / Recommendations

ParticipantsTo the training course we invited youth

organizations.

Why Youth organizations?

– Their weakness in continuity of activities;-They are strongly connected only with one leader, and mentor can help young volunteers to see wider world, not always follow the leader.

- The members of youth organization are more interested in using new methods;

Participants

The red cross of Vilnius, “Coalition of NGOs and

experts “I can live”, Lithuania Youth center, “Association

“XXL”, “Youth Initiative Group”,

“Children and teenagers Social Network”,

“Development principles”, “DEMOS. Institute of Critical

Thought”

Changes in the module 2Original Ours version

1. INFORMING ABOUT PRACTICE SIDE OF MENTORING

3. BUILDING A PROFILE OF AND MENTEE

2. INFORMING ABOUT OFFICIAL DEFINITION OF MENTORING AND ITS UNDERSTANDING, MENTORING PROGRAMS AND RELATIONSHIPS

2. INFORMING ABOUT OFFICIAL DEFINITION OF MENTORING AND ITS UNDERSTANDING, MENTORING PROGRAMS AND RELATIONSHIPS

3. BUILDING A PROFILE OF AND MENTEE

1. INFORMING ABOUT PRACTICE SIDE OF MENTORING

4. DEFINING A MENTORING PROGRAM

4. DEFINING A MENTORING PROGRAM

Why we needed changes?“Learning - a process in which the experience is transformed into the knowledge”

David Kolb

Team Building Activities, and exercise to identify the benefits of the course.

Methods

Hopes and expectationsSome hopes:“To learn how to use new non formal education methods”

“To share the experience and to know more about the mentoring…”

Some expectations:“I will not know how to use this method in the practice”“Too much people who need help, I

wonder if mentoring could help in all situations”

“Will be too boring…”

Mentoring definition

It was too hard for participants to make mentoring definition so we asked to find words whish might will be connected with mentoring:

Some answers: Help; Experience sharing; right decisions; voluntary, communication…

What features must have mentor and mentee?

Mentor:

Mentor Mentee

LeaderPresumptuousCompetentTolerantPoliteObservantPatientWiling to make compromisesCommunicative

CuriousInitiativeAware of the needActiveCooperatingCommunicativeResponsibleDrawing conclusions

The benefits (if any) of Mentoring in their organization

Some answers:

“Allowed to rise up the professionalism of the new organization members”

“Mentoring can be used as the main method in our work”

Feedback on the Evaluation Form……

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3,6

3,8

4

4,2

4,4

4,6

4,8Relevance of theCourse

Clarity of Objectives

Level of Achievement

Contents of theCourse

Course Material

Timing and Logistics

Table 1: General Assessment of the Info-Training Course:

Participants gave high mark for “Timing and logistics” and “Relevance of the course” , and lower marks for the “Level of Achievements”.

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Table 2: General Assessment of the Modules Introduction to Mentoring

3,6

3,8

4

4,2

4,4

4,6

Usefulness

Interest

Timing

Relevance

Methodology

Participants gave high marks to the “Intrests” and “Timing” of the Module; but they gave lower marks to the “Methodology”.

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Table 2: General Assessment of the Modules Learn about Mentoring

3,8

4

4,2

4,4

4,6

4,8

Usefulness

Interest

Timing

Relevance

Methodology

Participants gave high marks to the “Timing” and “Relevance” of the Module; but they gave lower marks to the “Usefulness”.

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Table 2: General Assessment of the Modules Transfer the Knowledge into practice

4

4,2

4,4

4,6

Usefulness

Interest

Timing

Relevance

Methodology

Participants gave high marks to the “Timing” and “Relevance” of the Module.

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Table 3: Suggestions for Improvements

1. - Maximum number of participants – 15;

2. - The need of individual work.

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Thank you!

DEMOS. Institute of Critical Thought

martynas.norbutas@socinvest.lt