Online Mentoring Program
Goal: Provide support to develop courses, workshops or training programs in Biography Work
Overview
- Available for graduates of any recognised Biography Training Program world-wide.
- Mentoring from experienced Trainer and Adult Educator, Karl-Heinz Finke, assisted by Laura Summerfield.
- This is a 3-year Mentoring Program that deepens knowledge of Holistic Biography Work, and increases skills in design and delivery of courses and trainings.
- Available in English and in Mandarin.
- Includes possible participation as a Group Guide in some of the 12 modules (3 Core and 9 Theme) of our 3-year Online Training Program.
- Mentees receive the Learning Packs for all these 12 modules, and attend online sessions as agreed.
- Extra Mentoring Sessions are scheduled to support group facilitation skills.
- Additional modules in Adult Learning extend knowledge and skill.
- This Mentoring Program is available to support personal and/or professional development.
Aims of Mentoring Program
- To support the personal and professional development journey of Mentees over the course of the Mentoring Program.
- To deepen knowledge of the theory and methodology of Holistic Biography Work, and its application to individual biographies, and to provide opportunities to practise and gain skills in group facilitation.
- To encourage deeper understanding of the human life journey, as explored within the different modules of our 3-year Online Training Program.
- To support greater clarity around individual life purpose, life direction and contribution.
- To increase self-confidence in communication and facilitation.
- To deepen knowledge of adult learning, and of adult education, as a specific discipline, different from the education of children and young people.
Outcomes of Mentoring Program
- Completion (sometimes a repeat) of 3 Core modules and any pre-requisite Theme modules from our Online Training Program:
- The Helping Conversation (with Communication Skills)
- Destiny Learning (with Destiny and Karma)
- Meeting Conflict
- Completion (or repetition) 2 or 3 additional Theme modules per year, including pre-requisites as above, from within the Online Training Program:
- Year 1 – Typologies; Mental Health Challenges; Communication Skills
- Year 2 – Life Encounters; Trials and Thresholds; Destiny and Karma
- Year 3 – Mission and Meaning; Mental Health Crisis; Process Design
- Completing three additional modules (one each year) in Adult Learning.
- Guiding Groups: Creating and Holding an Open Space
- Holistic Adult Education: Awakening the Will to Learn
- Designing Holistic Integrated Programs: Learning with Head, Heart and Hands
- Submission of 3 Projects, one each year:
- Personal Vocational Biography
- Personal Spiritual Biography
- Course Design: Design for a series of workshops, or a Training Curriculum
- Graduates have sufficient training, experience and knowledge to develop and facilitate Biography workshops and Trainings of their own.
- Mentees and Graduates are encouraged to join professional networks in their region related to Biography Work, and to develop and maintain collegial support networks.
Recognition awarded as part of this Mentoring Program
Awarded after successful completion of Year 1 – Recognition as a Group Guide in Biographical Studies.
Awarded after successful completion of Year 2 – Recognition as a Tutor in Advanced Biographical Studies.
Awarded after successful completion of Year 3 – Recognition as a Trainer in Holistic Biography Work.