PROGRESS II EVS mentor training

Event: Training in Italy
Contact person: Emiliano Bon
Coordinating organisation: Xena centro scambi e dinamiche interculturali
Host: Xena: http://www.xena.it
Location: Torri Superiore (ventimiglia), Italy
Deadline: 19/01/2012
Start: 11/06/2012
End: 16/06/2012
open only to participants FROM PROGRAMME COUNTRIES
The general aim is to help EVS mentors at the beginning of their career to be able to provide quality support to their volunteers.

OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE:
- to deepen knowledge about and reflect upon the concept of mentoring
- to connect personal experience of being a volunteer/a mentee with the concept of mentoring, and transform this experience into practical ideas
- to overview the tasks of an EVS mentor and learn practical ideas, tools and methods to be able to carry out these tasks efficiently
- to experiment with tools and methods which can be used by mentors
- to deeply understand and explore the EVS framework, seeing the restrictions and possibilities inherent in the structure (EVS as a process: before-during-after, separating the role of the mentor and that of other parties involved in an EVS project, priorities of the programme, inclusion issues, recognising key competences, Youthpass, etc.)
- to share experience, fears and doubts, just as well as good practices of mentoring; to word feelings and motivation
- to empower ‘beginner’ mentors to feel safe and competent, identifying the competences needed for a mentor, encouraging self-evaluation and the revision of strengths and weaknesses and offering resources to support further professional development
- to connect participants, creating a supporting “network of mentors” of them, which can be used also after the course
PROFILE OF THE PARTICIPANTS:

EVS mentors at the beginning of their career, with a concrete project in which they are already working or about to start working

It is an important prerequisite that participants must either
- have already started mentoring in an EVS hosting project, or
- have a written agreement with an accredited hosting organisation about their becoming EVS mentors in a close future.

The working language is English, so participants must be fluent in English.
Participants will be lodged in rooms of 2-4, with shared bathrooms; meals (prepared of mainly local, organic products) will be organised on a buffet basis, together with the resident community of the ecovillage.
the project covers the cost of food, accommodation and the programme. Travel costs are reimbursed 70%. An additional contribution is required , the amount of which is 20-50 Euro, to be agreed.
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PROGRESS II EVS mentor training

Event: Training in Italy