Well first off I just wanna say I had this blog done, then realized I wrote about the wrong subject so I deleted what I had then also realized I could have saved the one I just wrote for later but its to late for that now....eff my life haha. Anyways lets get started, for this weeks blog we are talking about establishing and maintaining relationships. This chapter could possibly be one of the most important chapters in the book because when we meet our new mentees it is very important that we establish the right kind of relationshiop with them. We need to be trusted by them yet also not to far into the friend area where lines are crossed into the unprofessional area. You can think of your relationship as more of a partnership than friendship. In the book it talked about how there is stages of a mentors relationship. It starts with asking question about where you are in the stages, and by your answers it helps to tell you just where you are in the relationship. I thought this was a really good thing because sometimes you can be close to the person or so called "project" and may not even realize til you take a step back where you are. This can then help you to make corrections and or move forward.
In class Deb and Joey did a really good job with their presentation. They really got the class involved and called upon our acting skills, like Greg who played the great role of a young lady. The part that I liked about the skits we did was that they were real life situations that we could encounter next year. It actually got me thinking that if I'm out an about next year that and I see a mentee I still need to be professional about the situation and handle it in a way that doesn't reflect poorly upon myself and the University. I hope for every ones sake that no one gets in a situation that makes them feel super uncomfortable and if you so I have the up most confidence that everyone will handle it in the most professional way possible. Hope everyone has a great and enjoy some weather that is -28! Out
I agree when you say that this is most likely one of the most important chapters to our learning experiences in becoming a peer mentor. We must learn how to establish an adequate peer mentor to mentee relationship which can be hard to do in some instances but Deb and Joey did a great job in helping us visualize and 'act out' potential scenarios to how we must handle our future relationships as a peer mentor. Great observations!
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