News & Events - Workshops

Sustainable Mentoring

Peel Mentoring Network — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:48:00 +0000

Announcing our Spring Workshop

"Sustainable Mentoring" Our fifth and final community workshop is being held on April 22nd, 2008 at the Mississauga Convention Centre, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

At only the cost of lunch $25.00 per person, you will have a chance to enjoy two featured speakers : Andrew Taylor - presenting "Tracking Mentoring Performance", and Sheila Goldgrab - a professional leadership coach - presenting "Taking the Mystery out of Inspiring Mentoring Conversations".

In this information packed day you will learn how to create sustainable mentoring programs and relationships. In the morning learn how to create effective and practical tracking tools for mentoring programs, and how to use tracking to enhance your programs and service delivery.

In the afternoon you will come to understand the growing power of mentoring, what mentors and coaches have in common, and the keys to creating an empowered mentee. You will witness and inspired mentoring conversation.

Register On-Line Now!! Spaces are limited

View Brochure Here
PMNWKS5Brochure.pdf

Fall Workshop

Peel Mentoring Network — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:11:00 +0000

Announcing our Fall Workshop

Don't miss MOMENTUM IN MENTORING, the fourth in our series of community workshops. We are delighted to announce that Dr. Susan Weinberger - also known as Dr. Mentor will be returning to share her knowledge on the workshop topic Finding, Keeping and Strengthening Your Mentors. You will also hear Mentoring Success Stories from the Community given by community leaders, as well as interactive discussion with your colleagues.

Join us on Thursday November 1st, at the Mississauga Convention Centre - 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. All refreshments including a hot lunch and all workshop materials are included in the registration fee of $75.00 per person (and each additional person from the same agency at a reduced cost of 50.00 per person). Space is limited so please register on line now.

Click here for workshop brochure.

Dr. Mentor is Coming Back by Popular Demand

Peel Mentoring Network — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:36:00 +0000

Announcing our Fall Workshop

Don’t miss MOMENTUM IN MENTORING, the fourth in our series of community workshops. We are delighted to announce that Dr. Susan Weinberger - also known as Dr. Mentor will be returning to share her knowledge on the workshop topic Finding, Keeping and Strengthening Your Mentors. You will also hear Mentoring Success Stories from the Community given by community leaders, as well as interactive discussion with your colleagues.

Join us on Thursday November 1st, at the Mississauga Convention Centre - 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. All refreshments including a hot lunch and all workshop materials are included in the registration fee of $75.00 per person (and each additional person from the same agency at a reduced cost of 50.00 per person). Space is limited so please register on line now.

A Day with Dr. Mentor

Peel Mentoring Network — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:54:00 +0000

The third in our series of community workshops - The Topic... Excellence & Quality Practices in Mentoring Programs

Dr. Susan Weinberger is an international consultant on mentoring and is the founder and President of the Mentor Consulting Group. Dr. Weinberger is considered the leading authority on mentoring programs and her work has been published widely. She has traveled extensively, bringing her expertise and passion on mentoring to a diverse audience. We are delighted to bring her to Peel Region. Don't miss out on this opportunity.

Join Us on Tuesday March 20th, 2007
Mississauga Convention Centre
75 Derry Road West, Mississauga, Salon F
$75.00 per person First Two Registrants
$25.00 per person Each Additional Registrant (from same agency)
Registration Deadline March 15th, 2007 (payment must be received in advance)

Morning Program:

8:30 am Registration and Networking
9:00 am Program Begins Promptly

Keynote by Dr. Susan Weinberger - hear "The State of Mentoring Globally"
Participate in a Question and Answer period on the Keynote Address
Facilitated Session - Discuss how we are impacted locally by the global perspective
Presentation by Dr. Susan Weinberger on "Standards of Practice"
Learn about the key elements essential to designing and implementing best practices/excellence in practices for mentoring programs - regardless of the client, type of mentoring or agency
Facilitated Session on "Best Practices" - Interact with fellow colleagues regarding the importance and implementation of this material in your organization
Lunch and Network

Afternoon Program:

Formal Peel Website Launch
Presentation by Dr. Weinberger on "Marketing your Mentoring Program"
A Session on "getting the word out" - Discover how to attract the right participants
"Ask Dr. Mentor" - A special opportunity for you to as "Everything and Anything" you ever wanted to know about Mentoring
Be Inspired by her knowledge and expertise
4:00 p.m. Evaluation, Closure and Next Steps

Speaker Bio

Dr. Susan G. Weinberger, an international consultant on mentoring, is the founder and President of the Mentoring Consulting Group based in Norwalk, Connecticut. Susan was a pioneer in designing and developing a school-based mentoring program, the Norwalk Mentor Program in the early 1980's and served as its Director for 12 years.

Dr. Weinberger has been recognized for her expertise in establishing, maintaining, and evaluating school, corporate and community-based mentoring programs and school-to-work initiatives. These include internal coaching programs within the business environment. Her work has been published widely and the program she designed has been replicated in 48 of the United States, as well as Bermuda and Canada.

Susan received her Bachelor of Science degree in Modern Languages from Carnegie-Mellon University; a master's degree in Elementary and Bilingual Education from Manhattanville College and her doctorate from the College of Business and Public Management at the University of Bridgeport.

Dr. Weinberger's latest book, Mentoring A Movement: My Personal Journey was released in December 2005. It is an account of her experiences over more than two decades as a pioneer in the field of mentoring. Additional publications include:

My Mentor & Me Series: Elementary School Years; Middle School Years; High School Years
Business Guide to Mentoring
Manual for Mentors
Guidebook to Mentoring
Strengthening Native Community Commitment through Mentoring
The Mentor Handbook
How to Start a Student Mentor Program (Phi Delta Kappa Fastback #333)

Dr. Weinberger served for the past six years as the chair, Public Policy Council, MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership and is a founding member of its Technical Assistance Corps. She is a trainer for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Programs and its National Mentoring Center (JUMP grants); a consultant to the Departments of Labor; Education; Health & Human Services; Housing and Urban Development; Center for Substance Abuse Prevention; Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Canada and the Governor's Prevention Partnership in CT. Her clients include Allstate Insurance Company; EDULINX of Canada; Health Net; Save the Children Federation; Hollywood Education and Literacy Project and U.S. Dream Academy.

In 1993, Susan traveled to the East Room of the White House to receive President Clinton's coveted Volunteer Action Award for her work in mentoring. Among her greatest joys is being a mentor to a twenty year old woman that began when her mentee was in second grade.

Information about Dr. Mentor, as she is affectionately called in the field, can be found on http://www.mentorconsultinggroup.com/ or by contacting her at DrMentor@aol.com

Creating a Culture of Mentoring

Peel Mentoring Network — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 19:55:00 +0000

Wednesday April 26th, 2006
Mississauga Convention Centre

Program Agenda

Registration and Continental Breakfast
Welcome and Housekeeping
Panel Presentations
Theresa Greer - Executive Director, Hospice of Peel
Sandy Milakovic - Executive Director, Canadian Mental Health Association, Peel Branch
Fred Chorley - Executive Director, Victim Services
Nitin Dhora - Program Coordinator, Dixie Bloor Neighbourhood Services
Panel Q & A
Coffee Break and Networking
Keynote Address
Keynote Speaker - Liz O'Neill
Executive Director Big Brothers Big Sisters of Edmonton and Area
Co Chair Alberta Mentoring Partnership
"Planning for Success to Create Mentoring Programs
and a Culture of Mentoring"
Speaker Question and Answer Period 12:15 p.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Next Steps and Evaluation

Peel Mentoring Network's Launch Event

Peel Mentoring Network — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 19:42:00 +0000

Join the Peel Mentoring Network

"Funding Matters I and II" author, Katherine Scott, of the Canadian Council on Social Development speaks out about our voluntary sector crisis!

Collaborate to refine a program for big and small organizations to work together to invest in organizational capacity building with mentoring!

Who Should Come?

If you're an executive director or senior manager of a health or social service organization in Peel Region, and if you're tired of swimming against the sector's tides of distress, you should join us for a day of learning, reflecting and planning!

What Will You Gain?

You will have an opportunity learn about and consider becoming part of a three-year collaborative program that will be customized to support participating organizations to offer formalized mentoring in order to have organizational enhancements such as improved governance and increased community image, service enhancements such as improved service quality and outreach capacity, and human resource development such as higher staff morale and job satisfaction.

When?

Wednesday, December 7, 2005

Where?

Mississauga Convention Centre, 75 Derry Road West (at Hwy 10), Mississauga, Ontario

Preliminary Program

9:30 Register/Network/Coffee
10:00 Welcome, the PMN's History, and Three Years of Funding from the Ontario Trillium Foundation to Invest in Building Mentoring Capacity in Peel from Cathy Denyer, Peel Mentoring Network - Chair
10:30 Keynote Address on the state of our voluntary sector and on the need for change by Katherine Scott, CCSD
11:30 Discussion
12:00 Networking lunch
1:00 Shelley Cleverly, Research Consultant, will present a recent study called 'Mentoring in Peel: The Impact of Mentoring on Health and Social Service Organizations and Factors that Influence Capacity to Mentor'
2:00 With colleagues, reflect on your organizations needs and challenges; and then refine a program for supporting your organization to strengthen its capacity to mentor staff, board members and other volunteers, and/or clients over the next three years.
3:00 Report Back
3:15 Next Steps
3:30 Close

The Peel Mentoring Network Steering Committee Members

Cathy Denyer, Big Brothers Big Sister of Peel
Paul Sherman, Rapport Youth & Family Services
Suzanne Christie, Volunteer Centre of Peel
Nancy Stevenson, Erin Mills United Church
Livingston Brathwaite, United Achievers Community Service
Linda Rothney, ERINOAK Medical Services
Debbie Jones-Snyders, Community Rehab
Heather Hufton, Peel Literacy Guild

The Peel Mentoring Network aims to increase the capacity of health and social service organizations in Peel to provide mentoring to staff, board members and other volunteers, and clients.

Speaker Bio

Katherine Scott, VP Research
Canadian Council on Social Development

Katherine Scott is a much sought after speaker on matters concerning the voluntary sector in Canada. Her publications are about such topics as the impact of welfare restructuring on women and the dynamics of poverty. Among other publications, Katherine authored 'Funding Matters: The Impact of Canada's New Funding Regime on Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Organizations'. She is currently working on a project called A New Social Architecture for Canada.