Tertiary Online Mentoring Program
Mentors find it easy to explain different elements of mindset.
Highly successful when incorporated in existing mentoring programs.
THE SUCCESSFUL MIND FOR STUDY, WORK AND LIFE
For more than 20 years, researchers have investigated the inner world of students to see which psychological elements (ways of thinking, feeling, behaving) contribute to high performance and wellbeing at university and in their subsequent workplaces.
Now we understand how successful university students think about themselves, their studies and the world of work. Dr Bernard has created a mentoring program that involves mentees (often upper-level university students) mentoring first-year undergraduate students in the ten elements of a successful mind.
This 10-session tertiary mentoring program includes an online Mentor’s Guide and a digital, interactive, 140+ page Student Guide.
Program Overview
Based on the latest research and best practices in social-emotional learning, positive psychology, and cognitive-behavioural, rational-emotive therapies, this program includes a session on each of the 10 essential elements for a successful mind.
- Growth Mindset
- Character Strength
- Goal Setting
- Resilience
- Mindfulness
- Self-Acceptance
- Optimism
- GRIT
- Time Management
- Relationships
The Successful Mind for Study, Work and Life mentoring program is designed to be presented by a mentor to one student or a small group of students (mentees).
The program assists mentors to help mentees become more aware of and develop their psychological strengths.
Mentors incorporate within their traditional role of listener, supporter and problem solver three areas in which they can influence their mentees:
Helping mentees become aware of the 10 elements of a successful mind.
Providing mentees with an understanding of their own development of these elements at this stage of their lives.
Assisting them to develop elements of the successful mind they have selected by applying them to their study and daily encounters at university and as they prepare to engage with work experiences.
Each mentee requires a copy of the 145 page Student Guide to The Successful Mind at Study Work and Life (author: Dr Michael E. Bernard).
The Student Guide has been written using non-technical psychological language which is easy enough for mentees to understand.
Rather than mentees who are non-teachers nor counsellors having to explain psychological content to mentees in their own words, the idea is for both mentor and mentees to review the ideas on the pages of the Student Guide, for the mentor to ask questions, seek comments and for mentees to complete one or more activity sheets that appear in each section of their Student Guide that will help them understand and use the elements of the successful mind.
