Mentor Trainings
The YESS Institute offers customized workshops to meet agency needs, executive coaching, leadership training, and mentor/volunteer training.  Our adult workshops are designed to help maximize performance and outcomes despite limited resources.

Burnout FREE Mentoring
Burnout is NOT an option! Rejection, shattered expectations, non cooperation and no visible change define a part of mentoring for many of us. To rashly stop mentoring definitely doesn't serve your youth as research shows it lowers the mentee's self-worth. This workshop will help you to avoid the common traps of burnout. Through this workshop, you will:
      * Ways to re-energize if you are at the verge of walking away as a mentor
      * What is the deeper cause and what you can learn from it
      * Shift from the "wheel of burnout" to the "wheel of caring"

The How-To-Build-Trust Workshop
Trust is the core root of a successful mentoring relationship! This workshop addresses the practical how-to of building trust and the affect it has on your influence as a mentor. Through this workshop, you will:
      * Learn and practice strategies to build and keep a trusting relationship
      * Understand what being trustworthy does to the esteem of your mentee
      * Shift from a "vertical" to a "horizontal" relationship

Setting Boundaries by Mastering Confrontation
Actions speak louder than words. Boundaries are primarily created through behaviors that you allow or do, especially for youth. Confrontation and setting boundaries go hand in hand. Through this workshop, you will:
      * Gain insight into the hierarchy of written, spoken and behavioral agreements
      * Practice language to confront your mentee and set stronger boundaries
      * Shift your perception towards confrontation as "an act of caring"

                   
Raising Your EQ as a Mentor
Frustration, irritation, guilt, shame, anxiety,…..
As experienced mentors know, the relationship with your mentee brings up many, sometime not so good, feelings. Research agrees that the “quality of the relationship” is a core component to successful mentoring. Your emotional intelligence quotient as a mentor and role model determines that quality.
This workshop addresses awareness and provides strategies to deal with the impact of emotions on your and your mentee’s behavior: 
Through this workshop, you will:
      * Learn the “Wheel of Positive Role Modeling” and “Apple Pie Concept”
      * Addressing the importance of accountability as a in a mentoring relationship
      * Practice the Insight Button Technique to improve relationship quality”
      * Explore how the 5 core emotions lead to 8 “Emotional Dwarves"