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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

Building Emotional Resilience | Image: Fabian Kleiser via unsplash.com

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

MuC MeetUP FB Cover 2 [Belinda Fewings via unsplash]

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

Core tasks [Kier-in-sight archives via unsplash]

Coaching & Mentoring / Volunteering Abroad

Core tasks of a mentor in European Solidarity Corps activities | Mentoring under Construction

What are the core tasks of a mentor? – The Mentoring and Coaching under Research (2023) pointed out a lack of clarity when it comes to the job profile of a mentor. This blog post summarises the various perspectives of this research: mentoring approaches of publications and inquiries with practitioners in the field. Read more

Mentoring and Coaching under Research | Cover Image

International Youth Work / Volunteering Abroad

Mentoring and Coaching under Research | Insights

Mentoring and Coaching under Research (MCUR)explores the current mentoring and coaching practices within the European Solidarity Corps programme. The research provides insights into the current concepts, practices, challenges and needs concerning mentoring in Volunteering projects and coaching in Solidarity projects. Read more

Accelerate - MUC 2022 [Image Andreea Buzec]

Coaching & Mentoring / Volunteering Abroad

Accelerate! Mentoring under Construction 2022

Mentoring under Construction is a community for practitioners interesting in improving the quality of mentoring within the European Solidarity Corps programme. It is a process to build and develop this community. After a long period of online activities, the growth of Mentoring under Construction accelerated in 2022, it gained speed in identifying, adapting and implementing good mentoring practices. Read more