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WHY MENTORSHIP?
Mentoring involves opening the student’s eye to available opportunities, helping students discover the strengths within themselves, leading students to resources that will help them develop necessary skills, guiding them to design their own pathways to success, and demonstrating to them how they can realize their potential and achieve their dreams. This provides students with resilient skills to stay in school and pursue their education until they achieve their goals. Mentoring goes beyond advising, helping students find ways and means to do what they need and must do to achieve their goals. Mentoring has been proven beneficial in improving achievement and retention rates for students at all educational levels. Mentoring journey entails, the acquisition of abilities for adaptive and positive behavior that enable individual students to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life. Peer mentoring can provide valuable support for students at critical points in their student life; it offers a host of other benefits for both mentor and mentee. Peer mentoring is a mutual way of learning and allowing both participants to develop transferable skills that will help them during their time at school and beyond.
To enhance the healthy development of children and youth through mentoring relationships
and to provide a path to a prospective future.
Self-image is how a student sees him/herself. It is the mental picture that an individual student
has of him/herself that has been created by numerous self-impressions that have built up over
time. It encompasses individual physical attributes as well as personal characteristics, traits, and
abilities.
SESSION TWO: MINDSET
Your mindset is a set of beliefs that shape how you make sense of the world and yourself. It
influences how you think, feel, and behave in any given situation. It means that what you believe
about yourself impacts your success or failure.
When a student has a growth mindset, they tend to have a hunger for learning and a desire to
work hard and discover new things. This often translates into academic achievement.
Life mapping is a personal development tool with a proven goal achievement system for those
who strive for continual growth and are willing to put in the work. It’s based on science and
helps create alignment between our beliefs, ideal behaviours, values and our goals. We’re more
likely to achieve our goals when our actions support our core values.
The Life Map is a tool designed to help you move forward towards a new destination, to help get
you unstuck and to build your self-awareness so you can make choices that feel good. Its purpose
is to bring you clarity on how you’ve ended up on the road you’re currently on, and how
previous experiences, events and people have shaped your belief system, values and self-worth.
A dream is an inspiring picture of the future that energizes your mind, will and emotions,
empowering you to do everything you can to achieve it. A dream worth pursuing is a picture and
blueprint of a person’s purpose and potential. It is the seed of possibility planted in the soul of a
human being, which calls him to pursue a unique path to the realization of his purpose. A dream
is what you desire if anything and everything is possible.
SESSION FIVE: DECISION MAKING
Decision-making is an art, governed by the law of probability. We all have experiences of
making good and bad decisions. We are not saints; we cannot control the outcome. All we can do
is try our best to move towards our goal.
The biggest barrier perhaps comes from ourselves – the critic in our minds, our fear and our
perception of other peoples’ reactions. Those worries prevent us from making the right and the
best decision.
Life mapping is a personal development tool with a proven goal achievement system for those
who strive for continual growth and are willing to put in the work. It’s based on science and
helps create alignment between our beliefs, ideal behaviours, values and our goals. We’re more likely to achieve our goals when our actions support our core values.
The Life Map is a tool designed to help you move forward toward a new destination, Your values are like a compass: a reliable tool that can help you out when you’re trying to figure out which way to go. Your core values are the beliefs you hold about what is most important in your life. Defining and documenting your core values gives you a reliable tool to re-orient with your best self on a daily basis. Finding yourself means that you know who you are, what you have to offer the world, and where your values lie.
A life is made of days. Days are made of moments. And moments are made of decisions. The closer your decisions each day align with the big-picture view of what’s most important to you, the more likely you are to create the future you want for yourself!
SESSION SEVEN: POSITIVE THINKING
Positive thinking is an emotional and mental attitude that focuses on the good and expects results that will benefit you. It’s about anticipating happiness, health and success instead of expecting the worst. help get you unstuck and to build your self-awareness so you can make choices that feel good. Its purpose
is to bring you clarity on how you’ve ended up on the road you’re currently on, and how
previous experiences, events and people have shaped your belief system, values and self-worth.
Prevention Awareness through Core Training (PACT) is a life skills program offered by Ngao and its partners that works to provide the drug resistance, social and personal self-management skills youth need to succeed.
Drug Resistance Skills:Youth learn and understand the consequences of substance use, risk-taking, and the influences of media and marketing.
Social Skills: Youth gain interpersonal and communication skills to meet personal challenges and build healthy relationships.
Personal Self-Management Skills:Youth learn and develop the skills that help them enhance self-esteem, develop problem-solving skills, reduce stress and anxiety, and manage personal emotions.
The Ngao Foundation deeply appreciates the support of its volunteers, mentors and donors! Here are some ways to help: