This is a programme to train young people how to be therapeutic mentors to younger children, with mentoring workshop outlines and creative, therapeutic activities to use.
Peer mentoring is mutually beneficial: being a mentor can help young people in conflict situations who may not engage easily with adult intervention, and it also has therapeutic benefits for younger mentees. As well as training sessions for the mentors, the book provides outlines of mentoring workshops on issues such as bullying, conflict with parents, parental separation and change and transition. Creative ideas to use in the sessions, such as games, relaxation techniques, role play, and reframing activities, are provided, with photocopiable materials.
Suitable for use with mentors aged 14-18 and mentees aged 9-13, this is an ideal resource to train peer mentors in therapeutic mentoring and for mentors to use in their sessions.
Table of Content
Introduction: What is Kids Kope and How Does it Work? 1. Why Mentoring? 2. Conflicts Experienced by Children. 3. Why Group Work and the Arts? 4. The Theory Supporting the Activities. 5. The Activities. 6. The Workshops. 7. Evaluation and Sign Off. Appendices. Further Reading. Conclusion.
About the author
Nina Wroe is Co-founder of the Kids Kope project and founder of the Changing Families project, a programme that works with young people who have been through family reorganisation, running in schools in the South West of England. She was previously Deputy Head of a secondary school in Devon.
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