We have curated 1 and 45-minute expert-led discussions to delve deeply into a selected topic.
Discover the 9 masterclasses offered during the Summit. To see the full program, click here
Masterclass
1️⃣ Enhancing relationships : Dive into the depths of fostering inclusive and diverse relationships.
Our main objective is to equip participants with a practical understanding of burnout, stress, and coping mechanisms. This knowledge can be effectively utilized by mentoring organizations, program staff, and mentors. We aim to highlight potential opportunities and strategies that mentors can adopt to support young people dealing with mental health issues. Additionally, we will identify the likely challenges that mentors may face while supporting youth with mental health struggles.
👤 Speakers :
- Tim Cavell, University of Arkansas
- Solenne Bonneterre, Nightline France
🕐 Wednesday April 24th – 4:45 PM – 6:30 PM
Youth initiated mentoring is an innovative approach to mentoring in which youth select and are trained to recruit adults from within their own social networks to serve as a formal mentor. YIM has now been implemented in a number of settings, including residential treatment, higher education, child welfare, and in more traditional community-based mentoring programs. In this masterclass, we will discuss the origins of YIM, its innovations, and key considerations for implementation.
👤 Speakers :
- Levi van Dam, University of Amsterdam
- Jean Rhodes, Center for Evidence-Based Mentoring
- Renée Spencer, Boston University
🕐 Wednesday April 24th – 4:45 PM – 6:30 PM
2️⃣ Expanding mentoring initiatives & innovation : Share insights on growth strategies and innovative approaches to reach new and broader audiences.
Are you looking for ways to spread your mentoring programs effectively? Look no further! We have explored various strategies and models to help you choose how to disseminate your mentoring programs. Whether you operate on a local, national, or global scale, learn from some of the oldest programs in the world as well as some of the newest. Together, they will share their proven methods on how they have developed their mentoring programs and reached new territories; they will share the challenges faced throughout their journey and the best choices made when thinking dissemination.
👤 Speakers :
- Stefanie Biesmans, DUO for a JOB
- Florence Massenot, Télémaque
- Mar Avendaño, Fundació Bofill
- Fleur van IJperen, Big Friends Utrecht
- Gysbert Bergsma, Mentoring Europe
🕐 Thursday April 25th – 4:45 PM – 6:30 PM
3️⃣ Influencing systems : Discuss the systemic and transformative impact of mentoring, spanning from people’s entourage to societies at large.
As a mentoring professional, advocacy might have integrated seamlessly into your everyday activities. Perhaps you’ve engaged in advocacy during fundraising efforts, persuading public entities and companies of mentoring’s impact. Or maybe you’ve taken strong positions for structural changes to enhance the lives of your mentors or mentees. But was it truly effective? From local initiatives to a broader European perspective, this Masterclass will provide you with insights from real-world experiences, within and outside the world of mentoring, about crafting impactful advocacy strategies to drive meaningful change. collaborations.
👤 Speakers :
- Julie Bodson, DUO for a JOB
- Andrei Frank, Lifelong Learning Platform
- Eunice Mangado-Lunetta, AFEV
🕐 Wednesday April 24th – 4:45 PM – 6-30PM
We will explore the inception, evolution, and diverse models of national mentoring ecosystems across various countries worldwide. We will delve into the creation processes of these umbrella organisations, examining the common goal driving their existence: ensuring the provision of quality mentoring programs to the youth they serve. Combining different case studies, we aim to offer insights into the nuanced motivations underpinning the establishment of these entities. Despite differing origins, each organisation seeks to foster youth development through mentoring. Attendees will gain valuable lessons from the choices made, challenges overcome, and future ambitions envisaged by these pioneering organisations, from nascent initiatives to mature ecosystems.
👤 Speakers :
- Maider Maraña, Baketik Foundation
- Nicolas Viennot, Collectif Mentorat
- Ricardo PagerJermaine Myrie, MENTOR
- Tracy Luca, MENTOR Canada
- Gloria Amoruso, Bundesverband soziales Mentoring e.V.
- Fiona Soler Harroche, Collectif Mentorat
🕐 Wednesday April 24th – 4:45 PM – 6:30 PM
In this masterclass, we will try to define the roles that parents can play in the development of their child mentoring relationship. For participants involved in a mentoring structure, this masterclass will be an opportunity to enrich their practices of supporting parents. This masterclass will be divided into three segments. In the first segment, we will define the concept of parental engagement in education and attempt to apply the parameters of this concept to the parent-child-mentor relationship. We will then review the latest knowledge on parent-child-mentor relationships, notably drawing on the highlights of the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada Longitudinal Study (2006-2016). In the second segment, we will highlight AFEV’s experiences in the field of parental engagement with the aim of illustrating the facilitators and barriers in the deployment of parental support practices. The final segment will be dedicated to discussions with participants on parental engagement and mentoring.
👤 Speakers :
- Simon Larose, Laval University
- Eunice Mangado-Lunetta, AFEV
- Remy Verlyck, Familles Durables
- Alexanne Bardet, VersLeHaut
🕐 Thursday April 25th – 4:45 PM – 6:30PM
4️⃣ Ensuring quality & impact : Shed light on strategies to maintain, measure and improve the quality of mentoring relationships and programs.
The mentoring landscape in Europe is rapidly expanding in response to our varied social challenges and diverse conditions. Both within research organizations and among mentoring providers, there is a growing recognition that methods and guidelines borrowed from other contexts, particularly the USA, may not fit our own realities. Exciting innovations within mentoring practice are unfolding, allowing us to venture into new horizons. Nevertheless, advancing mentoring beyond its current boundaries could be more successful by involving diverse stakeholders in a co-creation of ‘knowledge and innovation’. How do we establish a mentoring ecosystem where public research, mentoring providers, users (mentors and mentees), and public administrations collaborate? This master class aims to showcase examples of how diverse actors intersect and depend on each other. Through plenary discussions and smaller groups, our goal is to explore opportunities for advancing the field of mentoring in Europe across various levels.
👤 Speakers :
- Òscar Prieto-Flores, University of Girona
- Eberhard Raithelhuber, Bertha von Suttner Privatuniversität
🕐 Wednesday April 24th – 4:45 PM – 6:30PM
MENTOR (USA) created the Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring in 1991 to provide programs with research-informed and practitioner-approved standards for creating effective youth mentoring programs. While the EEPM gives programs a good starting place, quality is multidimensional and complex and that using cookie-cutter definitions often misses many relevant and unique contexts and perspectives. With this in mind, MENTOR and Mentor Canada each developed Quality Mentoring Systems. Our respective QMSs include self-assessments and consulting models that allow programs to assess their strengths and areas for growth and to partner with us on their quality journey. Grounded in research, both systems provide practitioners with opportunities to reflect on two critical questions: why and how they operate their programs. This masterclass will provide opportunities to learn more about the lessons learned from this work, including: 1. the importance of blending research and on-the-ground wisdom and innovation; 2. context matters; 3. quality efforts must also confront issues of equity.
👤 Speakers :
- Tracy Luca, MENTOR Canada
- Nicki Patnaude, MENTOR
- Renée Spencer, Boston University
- Tim Cavell, University of Arkansas
- Thomas Keller, Portland State University
🕐 Thursday April 25th – 4:45 PM – 6:30PM
Over the past four years, Collectif Mentorat has been committed to helping its members scale up their mentoring programs and establish quality mentoring services throughout France. We will follow their journey, which started from an informal conversation between eight mentoring organizations, to the development and implementation of a national mentoring plan for youth recovery after COVID-19. We will also explore Collectif Mentorat’s commitment to quality, including their creation of the first mentoring incubator for social mentoring programs, as well as the recent launch of their quality system. With the support of their members, we will gain an understanding of the government’s involvement and goals and how they, along with Collectif Mentorat, were able to make this bottom-up public policy a success.
👤 Speakers :
- Nicolas Viennot, Collectif Mentorat
- Camille Béquet, Collectif Mentorat
- Sébastien Lailheugue, Proxité
- Sabrina Deal, JobIRL
🕐 Thursday April 25th – 4:45 PM – 6:30PM
