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A mentorálás varázsa

We are thrilled to report that e-Advantage has already trained 130 peer mentors, 90 more than our original target of 40. There are still another six months of our pilot peer mentor training programme to go and we hope to train even more.

Az elmúlt két évben valóságos mentor képzési dömping szemtanúi lehettünk, úgy az online, mint pedig az offline térben. Ez nem meglepő, hiszen a Covid 19 okozta pandémia sok ember reziliencia határát feszegette. A nőket kimondottan befolyásolta, ha csak azt vesszük figyelembe, hogy bezártak az iskolák és a napközi otthonok, így az otthongondozás nagy gondot okozott, továbbá aggasztóan megnőtt a nemi-alapú erőszak esetek száma is a lezárások miatt. Sajnos mindezek a jelenségek, még mindig jelen vannak a Covid utóhatásaként.

"Minden területen, az egészségügytől a gazdaságig, a biztonságtól a szociális védelemig, a COVID-19 hatásai a nők és lányok helyzetét pusztán nemük miatt súlyosbítja."
United Nations, Policy Brief

Mindezek fényében a kortársmentorálás lehetővé teszi a nők számára, hogy átrendezzék életüket, és megtervezzék, hogyan folytatják üzleti és magánéletüket, amely teljesen más, mint amilyen volt 2019-ben. Hiszen sokan kénytelenek voltak felfüggeszteni a terveiket, munkahelyi elbocsátással, gyásszal vagy krónikus betegséggel kellett megbirkózniuk.

A megszokott rutinszerű nehézségeket és küzdelmeket súlyosbította a világjárvány, amely természetesen sok új stresszt is hozott. Sokak számára felbecsülhetetlenül fontos volt a mentorok támogatása, az alábbiakban bemutatott cikkek pedig azt mutatják, hogy az e-Advantage mentor program hogyan segítette a nőket az 5 partnerországban.

Wandsworth Lifelong Learning, London

In Wandsworth we’ve been talking about what makes a good peer mentor. Nearly 40 women have trained as e-Advantage peer mentors in Wandsworth and without exception, say that being trustworthy, non-judgmental and able to listen are essential qualities for a peer mentor. Many of Wandsworth’s peer mentors have also been mentees and they feel that experiencing both sides of the process has given them great insights and certainly enhanced their peer mentoring skills.

While most enjoyed doing their training and mentoring online, many also really relish meeting face-to-face. Several have now set up their own WhatsApp groups to keep in touch and organise social as well as mentoring meetings.

e-Advantage and our earlier sister project, BREW, are showing how women aged 45+ continue to build their resilience, support one another and plan for their future.

“I can really say that this [e-Advantage], has kept me sane over the past few months. Meeting other women in the online workshops was great and we learnt a lot from the tutor who had great experience and was really able to communicate it. For me, it certainly helped me become more confident. And,I found out that I could do something like be a peer mentor that I hadn’t even thought I could do before. I think I helped my mentee to work out what she needed to do to take the next steps in talking to her manager at work and, she gave me some good ideas on setting up my business plan – so we were co-mentoring each other for a while. It felt like magic!”

Spektrum Educational Center Foundation, Romania

We had clear goals and a well paved path, when we started the peer-mentoring course with 25 women. On the first meeting, we realised, that the participants come from various backgrounds and the question was, how can we build o community of such different women. But we soon realised that they are looking for the same things: reassurance, self-esteem, a way to give back to society, a lot of doubts about the usefulness of their knowledge. They were eager to pass over their experienced, but all of them were convinced, that they are not ready to mentor somebody.

As we passed through the courses, they realised, that they have a mean to become mentor, but they lacked the confidence. So, we created micro-communities, where there was a mentor, a mentee, and a supervisor. Everyone had 2-3 topics, that they felt, they need help as a mentee. Then everyone read the list, and chose the topic, they felt they could be of use. The supervisor was a person, who was interested by the topic. All mentoring groups followed through. More than 2/3 of the participants tried all three roles, in different groups. The results were just mesmerising.

At the evaluation event we saw women with changed posture, you could read a healthy self-esteem from their body-language. We went through all mentoring processes from all three perspectives. The common gain in every process was: all participants realised, that they have valuable information to offer. Everyone tried to stick to the method they have learnt, but soon realised, that the theory is a safe grid, and they can freely express themselves. All feedback showed that they implemented the courses and even developed it, furthermore.

At the end we have a very compact community of mentors, with a wide perspective and experience-based knowledge about mentoring. They have plans to work together in the future and mentor women from a local entrepreneurial community. This programme was a success, and we are in the process of facilitating the follow-up of this project. May it be so empowering as this programme was.

 

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V EDUCE současné době probíhá praktické trénování dovedností, kdy mentorky zkouší aplikovat získané znalosti v praxi.  To znamená, že mentorky mentorují zájemkyně o mentorování nebo se mentorují i navzájem. Zkouší si otevřené otázky, ale i aktivní naslouchání, neposuzování, stanovování a upřesňování cílů a podávání zpětné vazby. Tím vším jsme si prošly v on-line a prezenčních kurzech. 

Zorganizovali jsme celkem 3 kurzy mentorování, z toho jeden byl ve spolupráci s Česko-Moravskou asociací podnikatelek a probíhal v Ostravě.   Naše kurzy celkem navštěvovalo asi 50 zájemkyň o mentorování z toho se kurzů pravidelně účastnilo a bylo vyškoleno 27 mentorek.

Budoucím mentorkám poskytujeme podporu i formou individuálních konzultací. Rovněž se jedenkrát měsíčně se scházíme většinou on-line pro výměnu zkušeností. Na těchto setkáních dáváme možnost budoucím mentorkám, aby se prezentovaly. Informace a novinky o mentorování sdílíme navzájem v naší skupině na Whats App.

V sobotu 11. června jsme připravily celodenní setkání naší komunity mentorek a mentorovaných u nás v Jablonci, kde jsme sdílely zkušenosti a nové zážitky z mentorování.

A co chystáme? Rády bychom podpořily další ženy, aby se účastnily mentoringu. Dále plánujeme připravit další setkání prezenčně i on-line, webinář a konferenci.

Pokud jste žena 45+ a měla byste zájem se do naší skupiny zapojit a být mentorovaná, případně i absolvovat kurz mentorování, ozvěte se nám na info@educa-jbc.cz.  Ještě není pozdě.

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