Workshop facilitated at GWT's national Conference on 6th march in Glasgow by Sarah Barr, Quality & Support Officer and Kasia Czarnecka, Project Scotland

1. Intergenerational Mentoring – Could
Mentoring Work for You?
Sarah Barr, Amanda Skinner-Welsh
Scottish Mentoring Network
Kasia Czarnecka
ProjectScotland

2. Agenda
• Intro/welcome
• Ice breaker
• SMN, who are we?
• What is mentoring?
• Mentoring befriending spectrum
• Types of mentoring
• Benefits and challenges of mentoring
• ProjectScotland Mentoring Programme
• Practical considerations
• Questions

3. Our Values
At Scottish Mentoring Network we believe
passionately in the effective use of mentoring
to help:
• Reduce social exclusion and isolation
• Instil confidence in the most vulnerable
• Ensure everyone living and working in
Scotland can reach their true potential
• We work with a wide range of providers
across all sectors and seek to be their voice in
influencing policy makers and funders.

4. What is Mentoring
• Mentoring is practiced across a wide and
varied spectrum of interests, including:
youth; health and disability; education; social
care and justice; employment and business
and has an equally broad spectrum of
definitions.
• For the purposes of simplification, Scottish
Mentoring Network’s definition provides a
focus on mentoring described as …

5. What is Mentoring
‘a process of learning in which a usually
more experienced person (the mentor)
passes on know-how to someone less
experienced (client/mentee). Typically
it will take place at a transitional or
critical time in the client/mentee’s life
when this type of support can be most
beneficial’.

6. What is Mentoring
‘to support and encourage people to manage their
own learning in order that they may maximise their
potential, develop their skills, improve their
performance and become the person they want to
be." (Eric Parsloe, The Oxford School of Coaching &
Mentoring.)
‘a process whereby an experienced, highly
regarded, empathic person (the mentor), guides
another individual (the mentee) in the development
and re-examination of their own ideas, learning
and personal and professional development’ (UK
Department of Health)

7. What is Mentoring
• The core principles embedded in those
definitions: empowerment; effective
learning; personal and professional
development, trust and respect are
found within all successful
programmes which give mentees the
resources and support they need to
achieve their potential.

8. Mentoring/Befriending Spectrum

9. Types of mentoring
• 1:1
• Group
• Peer
• Telephone/Email

10. Flip Chart Exercise
• Can you have a think about what type of
mentoring programme you think would be
useful to incorporate into your work?

11. Benefits and Challenges of mentoring
What do you think the benefits of using
Mentoring are?
What do you think would be the challenges in
coordinating a mentoring programme?

12. Helping young people in Scotland
to get on in life
through volunteering
WHO ARE WE?

13. WE BELIEVE
IN YOUNG PEOPLE
OUR BELIEF
Their skills, talent and energy are the key to Scotland’s
prosperous future, and it’s our job to give them the
support and opportunity to shine

14. PS IN NUMBERS

15. MENTORING
• Over 120 mentors across Scotland
• 40-60 mentoring relationships each month
• Weekly mentoring sessions
• For 3-12 months

16. Recruitment and training
Matching process
Ongoing support and supervision
Safeguarding
Evaluation
Mentor retention
PRACTICAL
CONSIDERATIONS

17. Practical Considerations
• Matching purpose with performance
An effective mentoring project is clear about what it is designed to
achieve, can demonstrate its impact in ways which are relevant to it
stakeholders and has a commitment to continuous improvement.
• Managing resources and accountability
All aspects of managing the project’s resources comply with
recognised good practice and the project is accountable to its
stakeholders in a way which is transparent and understandable.
• Putting the client first
The design and delivery of the mentoring project is dictated by the
specific needs of its client group so that their best interests are at the
heart of its service.

18. Practical Considerations
• Providing committed mentors
• The project is geared to providing mentors who have the
commitment and attributes required to work productively with the
client group.
• Employing skilled staff
• The project ensures that skills and knowledge of its staff are directly
linked to effective service delivery and that staff performance is
geared to meeting stakeholder requirements.
• Active safeguarding
• The project makes the safeguarding of its participants a central
priority and has the policies and procedures in place to
demonstrate this commitment.

19. Questions
Sarah@Scottishmentoringnetwork.co.uk
0141 559 5001
www.scottishmentoringnetwork.co.uk
@ScotMentoring
kasia.czarnecka@projectscotland.co.uk
0131 564 1951