The Branches of Mentoring, the Roots of Elders
An intensive day long workshop with storyteller & mythologist Michael Meade
Saturday, October 6 ~ 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
Akron Urban League
440 Vernon Odom Blvd, Akron, OH 44307
To register or for more information email kwame222@msn.com or call 330-665-5920.

The Branches of Mentoring, the Roots of Elders offers orientation and training in the core ideas and purposes of mentoring. The word 'mentor' refers to 'lived knowledge,' it comes from an old myth in which Mentor acts as guide and teacher using inspired ideas and a keen knowledge of survival.

The mentoring process involves passing on living skills and essential arts for surviving traumatic experiences and the challenges of contemporary life. Through The Branches of Mentoring, the Roots of Elders people can discover and clarify what they have to offer in the way of teaching, guiding and mentoring others.

Each mentoring situation depicts a story in which both mentor and youth find their own way and even exchange places on occasion. Mentoring involves stories longing to be heard and waiting to be told. For, mentoring is the way the story of culture is fashioned, exchanged, learned and reinvented.

While mentoring naturally involves the youth of a community, it also extends to re-imagining meaningful roles for elders. The role of the mentor can be seen as a bridge which invites youth more fully into life and which prepares 'olders' to become elders.

Typical outcomes of this intensive workshop include: a deepened sense of identity as a mentor; awareness of inner resources within individuals and groups; an increased understanding of the spiritual components of mentoring; a new framework for understanding the living core of community. This process can be applied to existing organizations and agencies and may be used to fashion new forms for developing community based projects.

Themes include: Origins of mentoring; Mentoring as natural and instinctive; Genius to genius connections; Mutual mentoring; Bridges to community; Making 'olders' into elders; The elder-youth connection

The Branches of Mentoring, the Roots of Elders benefits teachers, mentors, parents, artists, social activists; those who work with youth and value community.
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WORKSHOP INFORMATION
DATES: Saturday, October 6 ~ 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
LOCATION: Akron Urban League 440 Vernon Odom Blvd, Akron, OH 44307
Workshop Fee: $60.00
To register or for more information email kwame222@msn.com or call 330-665-5920.