3 hour mentor training powerpoint

2. Agenda
8:45-9:00AM Registration & Light Breakfast
9:00-9:15AM Warm Welcome, Introductions Activity
9:15-10:00AM Why We Are Here
10:00-10:45AM Working Together & Knowing Resources
10:45-11:00AM Break
11:00-11:45AM Tough Topics: Guest Speaker from Counseling Center
11:45-12:15 Wrap Up Q&A
12:15-12:30 Closing Remarks, Surveys

3. Welcome!
Welcoming Remarks
Introductions Activity
Name & Share: Who Has Been Your
Mentor?

4. Why We Are Here
The purpose of the Peer Mentorship Program is to connect incoming BSU
Students who may identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, asexual,
pansexual and queer students with ‘out’ LGBTQ and ally upper class students.
Our goals are to:
● To foster mentoring relationships between new students and current upper class students that offer
support, guidance and resources at Bridgewater State University.
● To provide support for students who are “coming out” in the university community or in their home
communities.
● To provide support for students who feel that they are currently unable to “come out”
● To help answer questions LGBTQ students may have on a variety of topics including, but not
limited to, finding gender neutral facilities, community events, name changes, roommate concerns
and addressing bias in and out of the classrooms.
● To create intergenerational links within the University community.
● To provide helpful resources to students as they explore issues related to identity.
● To provide a safe environment where students can connect to their LGBTQ peers.
Original Pride Flag, 1978

5. Who?
Mentors
Mentors are open LGBTQ or Ally BSU students who
volunteer to be a support for new students on campus.
They must be a junior or senior in good academic standing
and have a desire to help incoming students.

6. What Mentors Do...
• Offer Guidance & Support
• Answer questions about LGBTQ issues
• Be a confidante, resource and role model
• Offer access to “community” networks
• Listen to their mentees
Transgender Pride Flag

7. Mentors Are Not...
• Therapists
• Offering absolute confidentiality
• A replacement for close, personal friends
• A dating service
• Transportation
• A provider of drugs or alcohol

8. Why Are Here... Activity!
Part I - What’s Important?
• Write down the 3 most important people to you
• Write down your 3 favorite hobbies or activities
• Write down your biggest accomplishment
Bisexual Triangles

9. Why Are Here... Activity!
Part II - What’s Important
• Find a partner...someone you do not know so well
• 1 person will have 1 minute to talk to their partner
about themselves. The partner does not say
anything, just listens. After a minute, switch!
• You CANNOT talk about ANYTHING you wrote
down

10. Why Are Here... Activity!
Part III - What’s Important
• Please share your reflections
• How was it to not talk about what you wrote down?
• How must that feel if the things most important to
you were off limits to talk about?
Genderqueer Pride Flag

11. Working Together & Knowing
Your Resources
BSU On Campus Resources
• GLBTA Pride Office – (508)-531-1408
• Center for Multicultural Affairs Office – (508)-531-
6166
• Counseling and Health Center Office – (508)-531-
1331
• BSU Police Department – (508)-531-1212

12. Working Together & Knowing
Your Resources
Gender-Neutral Areas (Bathrooms, Halls, etc)
Residence Life Department
Counseling & Health Services
LGBTQ Friendly Majors & Minors
Safe Zones
Intersex Pride Flag

13. Activity!
Pressure Pit
• All participants should evenly stand in the hoops (If there are
4 hoops and 16 participants, 4 people should be in each hoop)
• Hoops & Spots cannot move
• You must cross the pit via the spot markers to get to the
hoop diagonal from you
• Touching the floor sends everyone back
• Once a spot is stepped on, it is activated. Once activated,
pressure must remain on the spot or it comes out of the
game
• You cannot leave the pit until everyone is in it

14. Activity!
Pressure Pit
• Did anyone emerge as a leader?
• What was required to be successful in this activity?
• Where there different levels of success?
• What resources did you have?
Asexual Pride Flag

15. BREAK
“A mentor empowers a person to see a
possible future and believe it can be
obtained.”
Shawn Hitchcock

16. Tough Topics
__________
BSU Counseling Center
When to Manage & When to Seek Help
Depression & Anxiety
Self Harm & Suicidal Actions
Harm to Others
Self Care
Ally Flag

17. Tough Topics
Scenario Breakout Sessions
• Form groups of 3-4
• Practice scenarios
• Come together as group and process

18. Confidentiality &
Paperwork
Confidentiality
• What to keep confidential and why?
• What to share and with whom?
Paper Work and Housekeeping
• Contract (read together out loud)
• Training Certificates and T-shirts
Feather/Drag Pride

19. Q&A
Questions?
Comments?
Concerns?

20. Closing Remarks
Announcements: Upcoming Events....
Multi-cultural Affairs Leadership Retreat
Film Series: Out With Dad
Surveys
Pansexual Pride

21. Resources
American University Center for Diversity & Inclusion, Spectrum Project: LGBTQ Peer to Peer
Mentoring, http://www.american.edu/ocl/cdi/spectrum.cfm
University of Southern California LGBT Peer Mentoring Program,
http://sait.usc.edu/lgbt/signature-programs/lgbt-peer-mentoring-program.aspx
University of California Riverside Peer Connections,
http://out.ucr.edu/programs/Pages/PeerConnections.aspx
Yale College Experience Peer Liaison Program, http://yalecollege.yale.edu/student-
services/advising/student-advising-programs/peer-liaison-program