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 5: Boundaries, Empathy, and Expectation: Ethical Challenges Through the Mentoring Stages
Thursday, November 20, 2025, 3-4 pm, Zoom (REGISTER HERE)
This panel explores real mentoring stories that reveal the complex choices mentors and mentees face across their academic journeys. In this conversation, three phenomenal 2025 mentor award recipients from the University of Arizona share authentic experiences that illustrate the importance of communication, humanistic mentoring, and mutual respect. The panel will highlight strategies for maintaining boundaries, supporting whole-person development, and revisiting mentoring agreements as mentoring partnerships evolve.
Series 4: Guiding Through the Unknown: Mentoring with Relationality, Reciprocity, and Respect
Thursday, February 27, 2025, 3-4 pm
In series four, you will hear from three remarkable panelists. These University of Arizona mentoring experts will share how they have guided others through systemic or institutional changes and what types of support mentees need during times of uncertainty and instability. We will listen to their meaningful stories and how they faced challenges with integrity while being guided by their values and maintaining their own emotional well-being.
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Guiding Through the Unknown: Mentoring with Relationality, Reciprocity, and Respect
Series 3: Tough Times, Tough Conversations: Mentoring Strategies for When Things Get Challenging
Thursday, November 7, 2024, 3-4pm
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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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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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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Mentor Community Dialogue Series: Why Mentoring? Creating a Culture of Care and Belonging