You may be worried about how to begin your Mentor Meetings, or how to fill
30 minutes chatting with your Mentee.
Below is a sample format for your meetings.
Feel free to adjust this to meet the needs of you and your mentee.
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Mentor Meeting Agenda Sample 23-24.pdfThe beginning of your meeting is to UNITE. This is time for an icebreaker question or activity.
You can find a list example questions HERE.
Next you will want to DISENGAGE STRESS. Your mentee may have just come from a difficult class or have personal things going on at home. Either way, you want to give your mentee the opportunity to disengage from all of their stress- even if it's only for a few minutes. This can be done with breathing exercises.
Then you will CONNECT. This is the main part of the Mentor Meeting where you do an activity together or discuss a topic of your mentee's choosing. At lease for the first couple of meetings, until your mentee gets comfortable talking with you, you'll want to have a couple of conversation starters ready. Remember to take the lead from your mentee- if they have shared that they like soccer, ask about their game or if they saw the score of the last Orlando City game.
The last piece of every Mentor Meeting is goal setting- this is the COMMIT step. YOu will work with your mentee to create 1-2 goals for them to work toward. They can be academic or personal. The most important part is the goal has to be important to your mentee. If you hear your mentee share a struggle, you can guide the conversation to set a goal for that topic. You can use this Mentee Goal Setting sheet or your mantee may want to have a notebook/journal to track their own progress.
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