ELLEN MAHONEY - SEACHANGE MENTORING VISIT
COUNSELING AUDIT
Visit Details
WHEN: Monday, 4 to Friday, 8 September 2023
WHERE: MPR 2/3
FEES: Free for ISKL Faculty
FOCUS: Counseling Curriculum and Program Audit
Visit Objective
On (Sept 4 - 8, 2023), Ellen Mahoney from SeaChange Mentoring will be visiting to conduct an audit of our counseling curriculum and program. She will be working with the counseling team to understand our current practices and needs all within the context of the new International School Counselors Association Model.
Ellen Mahoney
Ellen Mahoney is an alumna of international schools and founded Sea Change Mentoring in 2013. Exploring the intersection of SEL and international education, she is the host of The Sea Change Podcast. Since 2019, she has served as a Council of International Schools (CIS) Affiliated Consultant and continues to be a frequent contributor to CIS’s wellbeing work.
Ellen is certified in mentoring supervision by Fordham University's Graduate School of Social Work. In her previous role as a director at the national nonprofit, iMentor, she built the policies and procedures for all of its mentor management functions; recruited, screened, and trained 4,800 mentors in New York City; and aligned all program functions with evidence-based best practices.
Ellen has contributed to major youth-mentoring publications such as the National Mentoring Partnership's Research Agenda (2021), the E-Mentoring Supplement for the Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring, and has co-authored a chapter on university transitions and suicide prevention in the book, Preventing and Responding Student Suicide. She co-authored the award-winning research study, Surveying the Landscape: Common Practices, Challenges and Opportunities in International School Transitions-Care.
She lives in New York and California when she is not on the road.