3:30 Prep - Mentors and program staff arrive and prepare for the mentees
4:00 Bonding - Mentees arrive. Mentors should engage the mentees in 1:1 or small group conversation.
The conversations are not guidance, show showing interest and developing a bond in the mentees.
4:30 Presentation #1
4:42 Presentation #2
5:00 Guidance - Group Session
5:30 Ending
Duties:
Mentees show up and enjoy the benefits of interactions with adult men who provide mentorship activitites in a structured and supervised enviroment.
Presenters speak in their area of focus for 10 - 12 minutes. The message and presentation should be fun, involving, and motivational if possible.
Facilitators run the show. They tell the mentors what to do, make sure that mentors are speaking 1:1 to the mentees when they arrive in the session, direct the assembly to sit down for the presenters, introduce the presenters, break the group into two or more groups for the group discussions, and tell everybody when to go home.
Group Leaders run the groups when that time comes.
Mentors simply follow the directions of the Facilitator and interact with the mentees.
Supervisors are mentors who have a confidential additional responsibility of monitoring the activities of all assembled during and immediately following the sessions to ensure a safe enviroment.
We do not provide an asigned mentor to a mentee format. Our mentors do not engage the programs' mentees in meetings outside of our sessions. Mentors, program staff, presenters should never provide their contact info' to a mentee or take contact information from a mentee. If a mentee or their parent requests such a connection refer them to Program Developer or Program Adminsitrator and they will handle the decision and further contact from that point.
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The Golden Fold Mentor Movement serves boys aged 11 – 17 as mentees and males aged 18 – 23 as movement interns by providing seminar based mentorship activities in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Participants enjoy a structured, supervised mentoring relationship with men of the community who have guidance, and life experiences to share with the youth. We employ a Bonding-Presentation-Guidance model in most sessions. Contact: thegoldenfold @ yahoo (dot) com or call/text message 757-353-7008.
