Peer Mentor Training

What is Heartsupport? What’s our mission? What you need to know about the organization before getting started!

Introduction to the program and how it works.

Learn what it means to be a Mentor at BTS and what type of help you’ll provide.

Learn about the things you’ll do as a Peer Mentor.

Overview of the typical stages of relational development between Mentors and Mentees.

Learn about who’s there to support you and escalate difficult situations.

Write a reply before you watch the next videos so you can see the affect it has on your replies at the end.

Level 1: Show your Mentee you heard what they SAID.

Level 2: Show your Mentee you heard how they FEEL.

Level 3: Reflect unexpressed thoughts and feelings and deepen their understanding of themselves.

Learn new ways to name and describe feelings to deepen your listening skills.

What Unconditional Positive Regard is, and HeartSupport’s Five Pillars Policy

Using logic to develop unconditional positive regards.

Which fundamental beliefs underpin Unconditional Positive Regard.

How to identify when we lose Unconditional Positive Regard and what to do when that happens

What Peer Modeling is, and why it’s important.

Deepening your understanding of your own story so you can use it to relate to others.

How to relate to anyone about anything!

When to relate, when not to relate, and the difference between sharing your story “for” someone and sharing your story “at” someone.

Understanding why we don’t give advice and how to use Peer Modeling instead.

What Reframing is and why it’s important.

Hear Reframing in action and how it applies to Self-Efficacy.

How to know the difference between giving advice and giving a perspective shift.

Complete a background check to get admitted into the program.

Agreements to validate in order to participate in the program.

Write a reply after you take the training to apply what you’ve learned.