Mentoring is one of the key elements to ensure meaningful European Solidarity Corps volunteering projects. People who work directly with volunteers benefit from understanding better, how the volunteers’ mental health can be promoted and supported.
Mentoring Promotes Mental Health
Supporting Volunteers’ Mental Health through Mentoring training focuses on supporting organisations and their mentors to better address the mental health needs of volunteers by strengthening their emotional and mental health skills.
Moreover, this training prepares the participants to recognise the support needed in different phases of volunteering project life cycle.
In this training you will gain an ability to :
- Equip volunteers with coping mechanisms to build up resilience
- Create a supportive environment where open communication about mental health is encouraged
- Recognise potential signs of mental health difficulties in volunteers
- Prepare your organisation for potential challenges that volunteers may face
Objectives
- Raising awareness of mental health in mentoring practices
- Developing mentor’s competencies in supporting volunteers’ mental health
- Understanding the role of mentors in promoting mental health in volunteering projects
- Explore practices useful in the creation of supportive mental health environments
In this training we do not approach mental health from the point of view of diagnosis, therapy, or healing. These approaches belong to the professional work outside the work of European Solidarity Corps volunteering organizations.
Who can participate?
- The training is open for you if you :
- are working directly with European Solidarity Corps volunteers
- are working in a supporting role for volunteers
- are working in an organization with a valid Quality Label for hosting
Time and venue
- Arrival on Sunday November 24
- Departure on Friday November 29
Preparatory tasks
Online training session November 12 at 12 – 14 CET in ZOOM. Selected participants will receive preparatory tasks (up to 2-3 hours needed).
Program
- Day 1: What is mental health and what is my role in promoting it?
- Day 2: How stress affects me and volunteers. What can we do about it?
- Day 3: How can I support volunteers in distress?
- Day 4: What is my organisational and personal support system?
Our activities are accessible to people with different abilities. If you need a support person, accessible room and transport or other kind of support, we will provide it for you. You can tell your individual needs in beforehand so we can support you in your participation.
