MINDS.TS info course in Vilnius, Lithuania Martynas Norbutas

Info course agenda 28th 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 break 11.15 – 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 Lunch 13.30 – 14.00: Why Mentoring? Situations analyses 14.00 – 15.00: Preparing mentoring plan/ coffee break 15.00 – 17.00: Discussion / Recommendations

To the training course we invited youth organizations. Participants To 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 2 Original 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 4. DEFINING A MENTORING PROGRAM

Why we needed changes? “Learning - a process in which the experience is transformed into the knowledge” David Kolb Expierance Reflection/ discussion Conceptualization/ conclusion Adaptation

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

Hopes and expectations Some 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? Leader Presumptuous Competent Tolerant Polite Observant Patient Wiling to make compromises Communicative Curious Initiative Aware of the need Active Cooperating Communicative Responsible Drawing conclusions Mentor:

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……

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”.

Table 2: General Assessment of the Modules Introduction to Mentoring Participants gave high marks to the “Intrests” and “Timing” of the Module; but they gave lower marks to the “Methodology”.

Table 2: General Assessment of the Modules Learn about Mentoring Participants gave high marks to the “Timing” and “Relevance” of the Module; but they gave lower marks to the “Usefulness”.

Table 2: General Assessment of the Modules Transfer the Knowledge into practice Participants gave high marks to the “Timing” and “Relevance” of the Module.

Table 3: Suggestions for Improvements - Maximum number of participants – 15; - The need of individual work.

DEMOS. Institute of Critical Thought Thank you! DEMOS. Institute of Critical Thought martynas.norbutas@socinvest.lt