Mentoring Community Dialogue Series

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Mentoring Community Dialogue Series

Hosted by the University of Arizona MENTOR Institute Fellows, these series of conversations feature mentoring experts who tell their own mentoring stories and discuss important topics to enhance best practices in mentoring for the professional advancement of faculty and graduate students. 

 

Series 3: Tough Times, Tough Conversations: Mentoring Strategies for When Things Get Challenging

Thursday, November 7, 2024, 3-4pm (Register here)

During this one-hour dialogue, two University of Arizona mentoring experts will share insights on how to navigate difficult conversations during common institutional mentoring challenges. This session will focus on using effective questioning and listening techniques to help mentors acknowledge the mentee’s context while empowering them to discover their own positive solutions.       

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Dr. Alice Min Simpkins and Dr. Sue Brown

Series 2: Cultivating Community: Unlocking the Power of Mentorship

Thursday, April 18, 2024, 3-4pm 

During this one-hour community dialogue, you will hear from the recipients of multiple mentoring awards. These UArizona mentoring experts will share their own mentoring approach, and we will learn what made their applications stand out from their peers.  Through meaningful discussion and poignant stories, they will share how they have used mentoring as a tool for building community support: their key lessons learned, successes, and challenges as they worked to build unique and impactful mentoring partnerships and communities.         

              

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MCDS Series 2 Panelists

Please click on the link below to view the Zoom recording of this event. 

Mentoring Community Dialogue Series: Cultivating Community - Unlocking the Power of Mentorship

Series 1: Why Mentoring? Creating a Culture of Care and Belonging

Thursday, January 11, 2024, 3-4pm 

The following four panelists addressed the unique value mentoring adds to university culture by supporting all levels of career progression with a humanistic approach and provided attendees the opportunity to consider how mentoring impacts their lives personally and of those they influence during this one-hour virtual event.  

 

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MCDS Series 1 Panelists

Please click on the link below to view the Zoom recording of this event. 

Mentor Community Dialogue Series: Why Mentoring? Creating a Culture of Care and Belonging