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Developing Intercultural Awareness and Competence

MuC MeetUP #4 Growing with GROW [Francesco Gallarotti via unsplash]

Coaching & Mentoring / Learning & Development

Growing with GROW: Guiding the learning journey with the GROW model | Mentoring under Construction

The GROW model provides a structured framework for coaching conversations and it is used to facilitate personal and professional development: With GROW you can help individuals clarify their objectives (goals), understand their current situation (reality), explore possibilities (options), and take effective action towards their goals (way forward). Read more

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Coaching & Mentoring

How to support the learning process of a volunteer

One of the core tasks of a mentor is supporting the learning and development of volunteers. It’s all about guiding the volunteers’ learning journey and supporting them to learn and grow both personally and professionally. How does this look practically? What are your experiences with supporting learning? What approaches and non-formal methods do you use? Read more

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Coaching & Mentoring / Learning & Development

How to plan ahead with your volunteer | Mentoring under Construction

Goal setting and action planning – once volunteers have arrived and become more acquainted with their work, the organisation and the local environment, it is time to make plans: How to help volunteers to set goals and action steps towards them? How can you support them to overcome obstacles? How can you keep them accountable? What strategies and tools can you use for goal setting and action planning? Read more

Step it UP! Mentoring under Construction Review 2023

Coaching & Mentoring / Volunteering Abroad

Step it UP! Mentoring under Construction 2023

Mentoring under Construction is a community of practitioners who share a passion for mentoring/coaching. This community supports learning, developing and growing mentoring and coaching competences and helps improving the quality of mentoring and coaching within the European Solidarity Corps programme (and beyond). “Step it UP!” is a review of Mentoring under Construction activities and events in 2023. Read more

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Coaching & Mentoring / Learning & Development

Building Emotional Resilience | Mentoring under Construction

Volunteers and colleagues, friends and families, but also we experience difficult moments in life, face challenges, get stuck and struggle in moving forward. In such moments it is crucial to be well-equipped and resourceful to cope with them in order to get unstuck, go ahead and thrive again. Key to this is building emotional resilience, the ability to “bounce back’. Read more

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Coaching & Mentoring / Learning & Development

How to develop empathy | Mentoring under Construction

When it comes to developing mentoring competence, there are a lot of (micro-)skills like listening or asking questions that are easy to train and acquire. Other abilities are more complex in nature and take more time, effort and consistency to develop. Empathy is one of them. In our Mentoring under Construction MeetUP on empathy we explored, how we understand empathy in the context of mentoring and how we can develop empathy. Read more