Mentoring
Initially, many of our mentors had some fears, which subsided after mentor training and experiencing the power of the initiation weekend. The joys of mentoring teach you many things: How to listen, without giving your own fantastic advice. How to be a better parent to your own children. What it's like to be in the middle of adolescence and how to make a difference in a young man's life.
It is amazing how innocent and tender these young men are. They are eager for this kind of attention and admiration from older men.
Mentoring is fun, it's fulfilling, and it is desperately needed. Here is your opportunity to help one young man down a successful path to adulthood.
Reclaim Your Teenage Fire
This is a stand-alone training recommended for any man who is on his own personal growth and discovery journey; and this training is a pre-requisite to staff a Boys To Men Rites Of Passage Adventure Weekend**
This training is an opportunity for each man to get in touch with who he was as a teenager, and perhaps to better understand and to transform events into experiences that have personal value. During this process, each man will be able to decide to act in the world from the man that he is today – not the boy he was in the past.
Reclaim Your Teenage Fire will provide you with the skills needed to listen, admire, and respond to young men for who they are.
This training is designed to:
• Give mentors better listening, empathy, and attending skills
• Raise the mentors consciousness around their own issues during adolescence and how those issues have affected their lives as men
• Create a bond among the mentors through group discussions and team building exercises
• Teach mentors their roles and responsibilities in the lives of young men
COST: $125
3/16/2013 9am-5pm
Unitarian Fellowship Houston, 1504 Wirt Rd., Houston, TX 77055
3/23/2013 9am-5pm
Austin, TX (Location TBD)
3/30/2013 9am-5pm
Unitarian Fellowship Houston, 1504 Wirt Rd., Houston, TX 77055
Other Ways You Can Help
If you are unable to become a mentor in the Boys To Men Mentoring Network, there are other ways you can help support this vital cause. You can tell a friend about our organization. You can volunteer your time, skills, and energy - we always need help! Or, you can send your fully tax deductible check to Boys To Men Mentoring Network.
Step forward and make a difference. Call us today at (713) 858-8867 for a challenging and inspiring adventure aimed at empowering each man to develop a mission of self, and a mission of service.
Are you afraid you don't have what it takes?
We will help you.
Are you concerned you don't know how to mentor?
We will mentor you.
Is your life so busy that you don't have time for our boys?
Simplify. Live your mission!
Do you know of a man ready to be a mentor?
We also have many volunteer opportunities for men who choose not to mentors. We need your special skill or talent!
If the mature men of the the world don't take care of our boys, who will?
We need men to walk with them, talk with them, and model healthy masculine energies. We need men willing to spend 3 hours every other week to bring these boys to our I group meetings at Crown Point on Mission Bay. We have fun, have a barbecue, and give our young men a place where they can talk about their feelings and what's going on in their lives. This is the only place these young men can sort out what is going on inside them. This is the most important part of our program. Is is wonderful to see the changes in the young men after six months in the groups.This program will not work without your help.
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