The Strength and Honor Program Overview: Tools for Engagement
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Provides some tools for parents to help equip sons to positively contribute to the mentoring relationship.
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The Strength and Honor Program Overview: Tools for Engagement
- 1. Mentor Relationship Tools for Engagement • THE STRENGTH AND HONOR PROGRAM OVERVIEW •
- 2. Get Acquainted Mentor relationships that take time in the beginning to share interests, values and goals are more likely to endure.
- 3. Whole Body Listening • Shoulders • Hands • Eyes • Brain • Ears • Feet • Mouth
- 4. Tell How You Feel Foster emotional vocabulary by teaching feeling words and their emotional definitions.
- 5. Be Curious The important thing is not to stop questioning… Never lose a holy curiosity. Albert Einstein
- 6. Look for the Positive Practice focusing on the good parts of the relationship through audibly listing the positives.
- 7. Be Yourself Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Bruce Lee
- 8. • THE STRENGTH AND HONOR PROGRAM OVERVIEW •
Editor's Notes
- If taking time to become acquainted with one another's interests, values, and goals is given a high priority, the relationship seems to get off to a better start.
- Practice active listening.
- Building emotional vocabulary In order to correctly perceive feelings in yourself and others, you first have to have words for those feelings, a feeling lexicon. Many children are either “happy” or “mad” and miss all the subtle gradations of feelings in-between because they do not have labels and definitions for those emotions. A large and more complex feeling vocabulary allows children to make finer discriminations between feelings; to better communicate with others about their internal affective states; and to engage in discussions about their personal experiences with the world. Children with disabilities (Feldman, McGee, Mann & Strain, 1993; Walker, 1981) and children from low income families (Eisneberg, 1999; Hart & Risley, 1995; Lewis & Michalson, 1993) have more limited feeling vocabularies than their typically developing and middle income peers. Parents and teachers can foster emotional vocabulary by teaching feeling words and their emotional definitions. Adults can increase children’s feelings words by teaching different feeling words and definitions directly; incidentally in the context of conversation and play; and through special activities. Adults can teach feeling words directly by pairing a picture or photo of a feeling face with the appropriate affective label.
- Be curious – ask questions
- Look for the positive in the relationship (list writing) (5)
- Be yourself