Participation in a fun, positive weekend of shared adventure and self exploration creates comrades with a depth of relationship that generally takes much longer to establish.
As part of the weekend program, your mentors and mentees explore and appreciate their self-concept, strengthen their sense of community, and develop effective approaches to problem solving and goal setting.
Comprehensive training in problem solving, goal setting, active listening, and crisis communication provides mentors with confidence and skills to engage in meaningful relationships with youth.
Participation in a rich, fulfilling experience opens new possibilities and creates momentum that contributes to an added commitment to the mentoring experience.
Polaris Education & Guidance, Inc. is dedicated to creating life affirming educational experiences. Since 1994, Polaris' professional staff have worked to provide consulting, training, and direct services to "at risk" youth programs.
AM’s relationship building training draws attention to the critical elements that go into creating rich, rewarding, interpersonal connections between individuals. AM recognizes that mentoring relationships have the potential power to nurture and change the lives of all those involved.
Relationship Building elements include:
- Creating Shared Experiences
- Exploring the Personal Commitment
- Why do we want to engage in these relationships
- Laying the Foundations of Trust Between Individuals
- Encouraging Reliability and Consistency
Personal Self
AM recognizes the importance of the individual with respect to being a part of a powerful life-affirming relationship. To this end, AM’s programs focus attention on changing one’s personal expectations of what is possible. AM works to strengthen the personal skills of everyone involved in the programs.
Personal Self elements include:
- Self Awareness / Observation
- Self Worth / Self Esteem / Self Appreciation / Self Acceptance
- Self Responsibility
- Encourage Creativity in Life / Living
- Goal Setting
- Anger / Conflict Management
- Personal Understanding of the Context of Our Lives
Life is to be lived now, not in the past, and lived in the future as a present challenge.
Trust between youth and adult (mentor - mentee) is essential, the foundation on which all other principles rest, the glue and beginning point.
Competence makes a difference; youth should be helped to be good at something, and especially at schoolwork.
Time is an ally - working on the side of growth in a period of development when life has a tremendous forward thrust.
Self-discipline and control can be taught.
The cognitive competence of youth can be enhanced; they can be taught skills and strategies for life management and coping with the complex array of demands placed on them by family, school, and community.
Feelings should be nurtured; shared spontaneously, controlled when necessary, expressed when too long repressed, and explored with trusted others.
The group is very important; it can be a major source of instruction in growing up.
Ceremony and ritual give order, stability, and competence to youth, whose lives often seem chaotic.
The body is the armature of the self, the physical self around which the psychological self is constructed.
Communities are important for youth, but the uses and benefits must be experienced to be learned.
In life, and particularly in growing up, a youth should know some joy in each day and look forward to some joyous event for tomorrow.
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