1. Pair Mentoring and Team Mentoring
Using a Novel Thought Processor
Laura Voss, Nur Muhammad,
Doug Morrison
Oxford, 7 July 2016

2. Workshop presented by…
Laura Voss
Mentor at 6W2X
lauravoss@live.com
@HildeStarling
Nur Muhammad
Mentor at 6W2X
nurmuhdbs@gmail.com
Doug Morrison
Founder at 6W2X
d@6w2x.com
@6W2X

3. Introductions
• Name
• Organisation
• What you feel grateful for
Please write down what you feel grateful for and we will add it to the tree of gratitude

4. 6W2X
• Accelerator for social enterprises
• Initially for students
• Following OSEP, opened out to the community
• Agile, low cost, easy to replicate
• Democratisation of entrepreneurship

5. Why Team Mentoring?
• Mentoring is most effective form of support
• Mentoring helps the mentor
• Team mentoring gives young people
opportunity to mentor
• Team mentoring widens the pool of mentors
• Mentors learn from each other
• Two heads are better than one
• Greater diversity

6. Why Pair Mentoring?
• All of the above, plus…
• Fits in better with traditional mentoring (just
one extra chair)
• Easier to organise
• Based on Pair Programming in agile computing

7. Novel Thought Processor
We use a novel thought processor, called Thortspace…

8. Thortspace Overview
• 3D thought processor
• Non-hierarchical
• Ideas placed in groups on spheres
• Category sets
• Paths
• Several Presentation modes

10. Linked Spheres

11. Category Sets

12. Category Sets

13. Paths

14. Over to you…
• Today we will do some mentoring to solve
some real problems
• We will use categories from Thortspace to
provoke ideas
• Later we will enter your thoughts onto
Thortspace and use that as a source for
further development

16. Challenge 1
• Use mentoring to help some new
appointments
• 10 minutes

17. Appointment 1
• Product Manager at Oxford Museum of
Happiness
• Needs help to think up new products and
services

18. Appointment 2
• Marketing Manager at Oxford Museum of
Happiness
• Needs help to attract new clients

19. Challenge 2
• Plans for Box of Happiness
• Contents
• Sources
• Marketing
• 10 minutes

20. Order of thoughts

21. Challenge 3
• Plan event for Museum of Happiness
• Suggestions for segments and challenges on
the day
• 20 minutes

23. Thank you!
• Please write down your happiness pledge
• Tweet #myhappinesspledge is…

24. Useful links
http://6w2x.com
http://www.meetup.com/SE-Junction-London/
http://www.pitchforpeople.com/projects/mentors-wanted/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljBlbdk1dXU
https://www.thortspace.com/
http://www.museumofhappiness.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cSN6IAA6AY
http://thecanvascafe.org/