That's the limit!
Featured in the Continuing Professional Development training manual
By Sandy McMillan
Category: Personal Development
Credit price: 2 download credits (Single user)
In any relationship, it is important to think about boundaries and limits, something that people often ignore. People need to think about what they expect from one another, and about how far they are prepared to go in giving. This is particularly important in any kind of helping relationship, since we all have personal limitations and can get out of our depth. Also, it is very helpful to know where you are; agreeing some mutual limits to the relationship can make it feel more secure, since both people know there are not likely to be any nasty surprises.
You present the factors which people need to consider when agreeing what they will do together in a mutual mentoring pair. Working in their mutual mentoring pairs, people then examine these factors and make their own decisions about the content of their mentoring contract. These contracts are photocopied so that the two participants and you each have a copy; then you can monitor the progress of the pair and help them achieve their objectives.
Who is it for: This training activity is intended for use by trainers to enable mentoring pairs to explore what they want from one another and what limits and boundaries they want to set on their work together. It gets the mentoring relationship off to a good start.
- Themes:
- Continuing professional development,
- Mentoring,
| Resource Type: | Activity |
| Min Group Size: | 2 |
| Max Group Size: | 12 |
| Typical Duration: | 00:55:00 |
| No of Pages: | 10 |
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Purpose: This is a ‘stand-alone’ training activity which can be used at any time when people are about to set up mutual mentoring pairs. It could therefore be used independently of the other activities from ‘Continuing Professional Development’, or at the point in a learning programme when people have worked through some involvement and support activities and are about to work on one another’s CPD issues. It could conveniently follow the training activity, ‘Have You Got a Match?’ which establishes mutual mentoring pairs.
Download the training activity, That's the limit! as featured in the Fenman training manual; Continuing Professional Development